Issue 50 - My 25 Rants From 2025

My 25 Rants. Zip in Git. Dart Dot Shorthands. Vibing a Non-Trivial Ghostly Feature. Writing a Blog Nobody Reads. Dart Build Hooks. Speed Matters. Inside M5 Chip. 10 Ideas for 2026.Universal BLE & more

Happy new Year 2026 everyone🎉 and I am proud to publish my 50th issue🎊.

Although 2026 went really well for me, I am ending my newsletter with some Rants😃. So below are my 25 Rants from 2025.

Career & Work

1. As you move up the career ladder, you’ll realize nobody knows anything. Everyone is just making their best guess.

2. Hiring is broken. The best two ways to get hired are through your network or by building something useful.

3. Work your ass off for the first 2-3 months of any project or job. People want someone trustworthy and reliable who can deliver. You need to establish that early on to secure long-term work.

4. Job security is a myth. I wake up every morning thinking this is my last day at work.

AI & Technology

5. People who say “skill issue” when you struggle with AI are just pretending they know everything.

6. AI is a tool, and a fool with a tool is still a fool. It’s like a hammer. Give it to the wrong person and they’ll break windows instead of building houses.

7. To get the best out of AI, you must read, write, and draw extensively yourself. These are the very important things most people delegate to AI, which is exactly what we shouldn’t do.

8. Producing content using AI doesn’t make you smart. It’s like wearing good looking clothes which doesn’t make you intelligent.

9. With AI, people sit at extremes. Those who think it’s just a fancy autocomplete are underestimating its power, and those who think it will replace developers are overestimating it.

Business

10. Students who enroll in computer science aren’t interested in computers. They just want to make money from home.

11. A person with mediocre business skills with mediocre technical skills is far superior to someone with high technical skills with less business skills.

12. Business people live with very high expectation, that if their competitor can do something, we should be able to do it easily. “If they can build WhatsApp and ChatGPT, why can’t we?”

13. Coding was never the problem. Understanding “What problem are we solving?” was.

Productivity

14. Slack is a productivity killer.

15. Tech people procrastinate by solving technical debt that isn’t aligned with business goals.

16. WhatsApp’s audio feature is an example of feature abuse. People describe a problem in a one-minute audio that could be explained in a one-line text.

17. To beat procrastination, you need to push through the first 300 seconds of any hard task.

Mindset & Psychology

18. All problems are emotional problems. Fix the emotion and you fix the problem.

19. People know their problems and the solutions, but they lack the guts and will to act.

20. People don’t like simple solutions because they’re too simple to be believable, and they don’t attract attention. People like complex solution just so that they can brag about it.

21. The less I care about outcomes, the better things get. Finding a job, writing a blog, making videos, all of it.

Life & Well-being

22. You can’t be successful alone. You need people around you starting with family, partner, friends, and your professional network.

23. Having kids is a classic example of the Pareto principle. You suffer 80% of the time to get 20% happiness. However, that 20% happiness makes your life 80% better.

24. Exercise is the best drug to improve both the quality and quantity (in terms of days) of your life.

25. You become whatever you consume. Junk food makes your body junk, and junk content makes your mind junk.

Note : There are always be exceptional people. However, finding those exceptional people is like finding a needle in a haystack. But if you do find them, never leave them.

So, what’s your rant from 2025?

Flutter with AI Workshop

AI won’t replace you. But a person who knows how to use AI will. If you are a Flutter developer and want to leverage AI in your day-to-day workflow, I am planning to run a workshop.

Checkout more details on flutterwithai.com

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💡Flutter/AI Tips:

1. Export Zip in Git

2. Dot Shorthands in Dart

✍🏽Articles to read:

1. On 10 Years of Writing a Blog Nobody Reads by flowtwo.io

But is there still value in human produced writing? Subjectively, yes. Objectively? I’m not sure. I think there’s a lot of personal value in writing though.

2. Vibing a Non-Trivial Ghostty Feature by Mitchell Hashimoto

It is great to witness a practical AI usage in there day to day work by pioneers in programming field. Understanding the what you want to build with AI and the necessity of manual code review for AI-generated code is crucial.

3. Speed Matters- Why Working Quickly Is More Important Than It Seems by James Somers

The obvious benefit to working quickly is that you’ll finish more stuff per unit time. But there’s more to it than that. If you work quickly, the cost of doing something new will seem lower in your mind. So you’ll be inclined to do more.

4. The 26 Most Important Ideas for 2026 by Derek Thompson

The teen who reads daily is on track to become an endangered species.

📺 Videos to Watch:

1. Build Hooks - Flutter Build Show

Dart Hook before flutter build allows you to...

• Link a system library

• Download a pre-compiled asset

• Compile our own asset

2. I Shrunk Down Into an M5 Chip

Always wondered how chips have become so powerful and what’s going on inside them? It’s stunning to visually see how small transistors have become (at the level of bacteria), with Photolithography being the biggest contributor to this factor, i.e., building transistors using light.

3. How to ACTUALLY Use Apple Reminders

Reminder in iOS is one of the most underrated apps. The features I like are:

1. The new Urgent option, which turns key tasks into alarms.

2. Callback reminders from the Phone app, so I don’t forget to return important calls.

3. Templates save me a ton of time for repeatable checklists, for example, my Travel bag item list.

4. The Kanban-style column view on iPad and Mac is where everything comes together—my tasks move visually from “Today” to “This Week” to “Done.”

📦 Code from Packages

1. Universal BLE

A cross-platform (Android/iOS/macOS/Windows/Linux/Web) Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) plugin for Flutter.

2. ZenRouter

ZenRouter is the only router you’ll ever need - supporting three distinct paradigms to handle any routing scenario. From simple mobile apps to complex web applications with deep linking, ZenRouter adapts to your needs.

3. Whatsmeow

Whatsmeow is a Go library for the WhatsApp web multidevice API.

• Sending messages to private chats and groups (both text and media)

• Receiving all messages

• Managing groups and receiving group change events

• Joining via invite messages, using and creating invite links

• Sending and receiving typing notifications

• Sending and receiving delivery and read receipts

• Reading and writing app state (contact list, chat pin/mute status, etc)

• Sending and handling retry receipts if message decryption fails

• Sending status messages (experimental, may not work for large contact lists)

📚 Quote from Books

🔖Post I Found Useful

1. Ask HN- Senior People, How Did Your Career Evolve?

2. Ask HN- How Can I Get Better at Using AI for Programming?

3. 10 Ideas for Greater Clarity in 2026

🛠️ Tool I Found Useful

1. claude-code-transcripts

Convert Claude Code session files (JSON or JSONL) to clean, mobile-friendly HTML pages with pagination.

Example transcript produced using this tool.

2. There’s An AI For That® — Find The Right AI Tool For Any Task

😂 Fun and Memes

1. SQL Case Files

2. Took me 2 hours in Higgsfield. Are we cooked?

👋🏻 That’s it, Folks

I am currently open for consultation part-time/full-time, specialized in mobile development with Android and Flutter. So if you are looking for someone to:

1. Build product architecture from scratch

2. Train existing developers to level up

3. Fix major bottlenecks in legacy codebase

4. Improve code quality

5. And most importantly, ship things faster

then reach out to me at info@burhanrashid52.com.