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How to add a search function to your ChatGPT chats

I have quite a few chats in my history now.

Lots and lots more below

Mostly that doesn’t bother me, but sometimes I want to find that image or that code snippet, and… how?

Flood of tears - Processing

Medium to Markdown or Markdown to Medium?

I wrote before on how to convert Medium to Markdown. I showed some nice shortcuts using VSCode. But as I noted in the end, it’s still a tedious process.

One of the people who read the article asked me why I don’t do the opposite - write in Markdown and import it into Medium. And really, why not?

How to test GPS in Flutter using Android emulator

In the app I’m currently developing, I need to save the users’ current location. In addition, I need to check if the user is driving.

The excellent geolocator plugin is easy to use and has extensive documentation and examples. Creating a simple class that returns the current location and checks the current speed is trivial.

Private-Convert: Free private online tool to convert files

It sounds like an oxymoron — if it’s online, it obviously can’t be private, right?

Wrong.

This site does everything on the client’s side, which means everything is done locally on your computer. Your files are not uploaded to a server at any time, they never leave your computer at all. This makes the conversion:

• Private
• Fast

That fast.

How to convert Medium to Markdown using VSCode keybindings

I have my own website (this site!), using GitHub and Jekyll. Originally, I just linked to my Medium articles from my website, but this is not good practice — no one wants to enter a website and see a bunch of links.

As Medium does not yet support my country in the Partner program, I don’t lose money by posting the same article on my site. But copying manually is tedious and boring.

So here is how to copy the article into Markdown in VSCode, using some handy shortcuts.

Adding a curve to animations in Flutter

Chaining transformation matrices

In a previous article, I showed how to do a slide-in animation. Each widget slid into place from below (or the side) using a Transform Widget in an AnimatedBuilder.

But what if you want to add a curve to the slide?

And that is what chaining transformation matrices is for.

If you have knowledge of transformation matrices already, you don’t need this article. Go read a good book with a cup of your beverage of choice next to you :)

Enjoy. [Created using Dall-E]

If not, you’ve come to the right place.

Free screen recorder and gif maker

I’ve been writing on Medium for some time now, and I use gifs extensively in my articles. Some are just cool gifs from Giphy or Tenor, which Medium supports out of the box.

Kermit The Frog Typing GIFfrom Kermit The Frog GIFs

Slide-in animation in a column in Flutter

As we all know, a functional app is great…but it’s not enough. It needs to be easy to use; it needs to be intuitive; and it needs to be cool.

Otto Otto Simpsons GIFfrom Otto GIFs

So it’s not enough to show the data in a column. It would be so much cooler to have it slide in:

But… how to do that?

Like this :)

Pick a file and copy it in Flutter

File URIs and Content URIs, oh my.

I created an app that will recite the traveler’s prayer for you.

Like that.

Part of the point is that you can use your own recording of the traveler’s prayer instead of hearing my voice. So I need:

1. Some way to pick an audio file.
2. Copy it into my app file directory, so that the app can continue to use it even if the original file is moved or deleted.
3. Use it in my app.