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Yes, I'll be doing this. I'll be the n-th person to write a little recap of 2020. 2020 has been an interesting year 🤨 on a big scale it was a pretty bad year, but for me personally it has been pretty great honestly. So I just want to take a few moments to appreciate what I have, and why 2020 wasn't so bad for me personally 🙃

It's with a heavy heart I tell you that I'm leaving EcoOnline. I've been working there for 3 years in total. They picked me up while I was still in college, and they gave me an amazing mentor named Remi Nyborg. He learned me pretty much everything I know, and learned me how to think pragmatically. EcoOnline have provided me with a stable platform to learn, and they have been an amazing group to work with. They have provided me with a lot trust and freedom. But life goes on!

During the day I write code. During the evenings and nights I do renovation work at home, I play golf and I do mountain biking 🚵‍♀️

Hey! I'm back at my office 😁 I did not want to write anything about Covid but it's too big to not make its way into Alain's every part of your life... this is not a post about the pandemic, but more about what things I'm taking with me when we slowly return back to normal.

About a year ago I wrote an article Flutter I don't hate it, and now after a year I would like to revisit that article.

Last september had a pretty big change to how I work. I moved to Oppdal, but I kept my job in Tønsberg. Tønsberg is a 7hour train ride away and there is not too many trains that are conveinent for that travel, a couple of trains a day. There are more trains, but then you'll be looking at 12+hours 😅 What I'm trying to say is: I'm pretty remote for the main office.

“Yeah right” you might think, I can click cmd + alt + i and see that this is just a bunch of HTML files. And yes you are right. This site consists of several HTML files and css (no Javascript!). And to write this website I used.... Xcode.💁‍♂️

A couple of days ago, I stumbled over this tweet, and I could not stop thinking about it. Soooooo, during lunch today I started to mock it up using Flutter 💙

The title, is a phrase my mentor told me. And to be honest at the time, I did not think to much about it. I was like: “Yeah, that makes sense… (I guess💭)”. But the other day I started to think more about it, and realised how it had manifested it self during the last couple of months.

Previously I posted about my 2.0 update, and today I plan on updating to 2.0.3. I’m still a lone-wolf app developer in my company, and I have now taken the task to push updates every 2 to 3 weeks. These updates can be anything from features to patches and bug squashing.

In the end of april in 2018, I published this article Building Eco Archive, a chemical safety app, with Expo

The first of september this year, my girlfriend and I moved. We bought a house in the town of Oppdal, and moved there from Tønsberg. Tønsberg hosts the main offices for EcoOnline, the company I work for, and you might have guessed it: They don’t have any offices in Oppdal😅 Or, as a matter of fact, they have one small 9m2 cell in a building there now. This is my office. It is in a building with more offices, mostly for remote workers or locals with small businesses. And now, I am one of those remote workers.

I want to build upon previous post. This is where we got to:

So, now it's been almost two weeks since WWDC, and we are currently on the second iteration on betas. Today I got the opportunity to experiment with a lot of stuff I don't know too much about: SwiftUI, Combine, Swift Package Manager and Swift. I have played around with Swift before, but I don’t use it often enough to feel comfortable with it. So I figured I should try it all… My feelings going in: “I have no idea what I’m doing”

Very recently I’ve started to port a existing react native application to Flutter. It’s going really good and I’m very happy with the progress so far.

Now we are a couple of days into DUB DUB (WWDC) — 2019. And one thing got me really exited (Like, I screamed «YEEES!» at the TV), and this on thing was not the Cheese grater Mac Pro, nor the new display; but it was SwiftUI.

Once again it’s been a while. Since my last post, I’ve worked a lot with Flutter and Dart. And I still really enjoy it. Since last time, I’ve joined the Flutter community on Discord and Reddit, and this community is amazing. It is filled with amazing talented people, that like to help others when they are stuck on something. Even I have helped some people along the way, and I have learned so much from trying to solve other peoples problems.

In cross-platform mobile development, we have a couple of alternatives now. My main experience is with React Native, but over the last 4–5 days, I’ve accumulated 17 hours of experience with Flutter (According to Toggl). My inspiration to look more into this technology came from researching Material design, and reading this Medium post.

I’ve been meaning to try TypeScript for awhile now, but I’ve never gotten the opportunity until now. I got some time to work some more on the mobile application I made during my degree.

In the beginning of this month, I enrolled in a Udemy course. It’s a iOS development course, focusing on Swift 4.2. So far I think it’s pretty good. The course is more aimed at new developers, without to much previous experience, but you’ll get asked pretty early on about how much experience you have.

I’m late to the game, I’ve been looking at Swift from a distance, lurking over at /r/swift watching the evolution of the language and the community. This autumn I decided I’d want to learn more of this language, in my previous post I went a bit into why.

The winter and spring of 2018 I wrote an app for work. You can read about my experience here. The app was developed with the help of React Native, it had a nice learning curve and I could be fairly quick on iterations. For those of you who don’t know what React Native is, the TL;DR is: A framework written by facebook, to write JavaScript using the JSX syntax to write native apps.

Hello, my name is Bror. I just landed a contract with a company called EcoOnline (in Tønsberg, Norway) as a junior developer. EcoOnline is an IT company dedicated to develop software to improve and simplify chemical safety. Eco Archive is the mobile adaptation of the web app, intended to make information about different chemicals easily accessible for employees in different companies. This is the story on how this app came to life, and the journey I had developing it.