Notes on Building a Meditation App (Day 11)

We are at the last leg of the development effort for Phase 0. This is a time filled with both fear and excitement. The stakes are high and the possibility of mistakes is significant, yet the opportunity for learning is abundant. In terms of developmental efforts, Core functionalities are defined and implemented Major UX work is complete. The app flow is more or less defined. For whom the app is, What the app will do and how it will work is also defined ...

March 6, 2024 · 2 min · 364 words · Kaushal Bundel

Notes on Building a Meditation App (Day 10)

Today’s Implementation WAITING Nav-Bar improvements State “WAITING” from “IN-PROGRESS” [2024-03-02 Sat 15:39] Flutter needs to be installed on the Device State “IN-PROGRESS” from “TODO” [2024-03-02 Sat 15:23] Flutterflow includes three types of Nav-bar implementations: Flutter Default Nav Bar, Google Nav Bar and Floating Nav Bar. I had initially implemented Flutter Default Nav Bar, the problem with the implementation was that the Nav Bar throws an error if you need a Nav bar on the pages for easy navigation that are not present on the Nav Bar (for eg. I do not have the meditation timer page on the nav bar yet I want the Nav bar to be present on the page for easy user navigation). ...

March 5, 2024 · 3 min · 539 words · Kaushal Bundel

Exercism Programming Advice

Context I am a novice programmer who used to hate programming earlier. Slowly I have started enjoying programming as an activity and exercism.org has played a huge part in it. Exercism is tool to help learn programming, their are numerous language tracks, super interesting problems, absolutely free and the best part, amazing mentors that can mentor you on either a problem specific or a general way. This conversation is one of such conversations that I had with my mentor for a specific problem that I was doing 7 months ago. Through this is for beginners but you never know, ideas and memories are same, one can be used when least expected.🤓 ...

February 29, 2024 · 4 min · 663 words · Kaushal Bundel

My reflections on - Novelist as a Vocation-Haruki Murakami

In the sequence of reading books by writers about writing1 I recently reread the book, “Novelist as a Vocation” by Haruki Murakami. He is one of my favorite writers, and I was fascinated to understand his writing process. This is not the first book where he explains his thoughts about his writing process, his other book “What I Talk About When I Talk About Running” had some brief moments on the topic. ...

February 29, 2024 · 14 min · 2797 words · Kaushal Bundel

Notes on Building a Meditation App (Day 9)

Today’s Implementation DONE Design consistancy should be ensured (eg. in some places “back” is a button while on others it is an Appbar icon) State “DONE” from “IN-PROGRESS” [2024-02-29 Thu 16:11] State “IN-PROGRESS” from “TODO” [2024-02-28 Wed 21:14] ...

February 29, 2024 · 2 min · 402 words · Kaushal Bundel