Flutter roots, full-stack curiosity.
Flying High with Flutter uses casual long-form interviews to connect mobile development with the wider software stack. Alan Wyma often speaks with technical authors, turning books on Postgres, generative AI, Zig, RAG, app security, and interviewing into practical shop talk.
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Flying High with Flutter is a software interview show led by Alan Wyma. The name points to Flutter, but the recent run of episodes shows a much wider technical appetite. Mobile app development remains the home base. From there, the show moves into databases, generative AI, security, systems programming, RAG, product development, and interview communication. Many conversations are built around Manning books. That gives the episodes a practical structure: a guest arrives with a topic, a book, and a set of ideas they have had to organize clearly. Wyma tends to ask from the standpoint of a working developer trying to separate useful concepts from hype. He is comfortable admitting what he does not know. He is also comfortable pushing on vague claims, especially around AI and tools that promise too much. The Postgres episode treats the database as powerful but not magical. The generative AI conversations spend time on scale, verification, transformers, context windows, and the gap between demos and production. The security discussion turns authentication, hardware keys, biometrics, and cryptographic signing into practical developer concerns. The Zig episode explores memory tools, safety modes, and why a language can reflect a set of values. Career-focused material appears too, especially in the discussion of interview preparation and speaking without sounding scripted. The show’s rhythm is loose, direct, and sometimes messy in a human way. It sounds like a developer thinking aloud with people who have written deeply about a subject. That makes it useful for listeners who want conceptual grounding rather than a compressed tutorial. It is especially strong when a topic is fashionable and needs a calmer engineering read.
Made for: This show is for app developers and software engineers who want practical context around mobile development, AI, databases, security, systems programming, and technical career skills. It especially suits listeners who like author interviews with room for detail.
What sets it apart: Flying High with Flutter stands out by using Flutter as a launch point rather than a boundary. Recent episodes turn technical books into candid engineering conversations that mix curiosity, skepticism, and implementation-level examples.
Welcome to the Flying High with Flutter Podcast! This podcast has new episodes coming out every week! We talk about anything and everything Flutter! From real-world problems you faced while using Flutter to daydream-challenged ideas, Flying High with Flutter has got you covered. Guests visit the show from time to time to share their background, experience, thoughts, and insights into the engaging Flutter world!Hi! I am Allen Wyma, aka Big C, and I am your podcast host. I have great passion in using Flutter to build apps; I embraced the beauty of Flutter, the unlimited potential it offers to the world, and I am particularly excited about the revolutionary changes Flutter 2.0 brings!
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A grounded review of Postgres's broad utility, with useful limits around queues, streaming, search, and AI work.
Just Use Postgres with Dennis Magda considers how much application work one database can reasonably absorb. The episode keeps the question grounded in familiar choices: queues, pub/sub communication, JSONB documents, vector search, and full-text search, while also drawing a…
A grounded tour from LSTM compression to transformer context, with Emmanuel Maggiori keeping the AI architecture readable.
Flying High with Flutter frames a large AI subject through one practical question: what changes when a model cannot keep all context in view the same way?
A grounded look at why AI prototypes can impress quickly and still take real work to become trusted products.
The episode frames AI product development less as a prompt trick and more as a judgment call. Its strongest thread is the gap between a quick prototype and the slower work of production, adoption, data feedback, and team trust.
Power Platform news with practical static.
Alan Wyma and Denis Magda use Flying High with Flutter to discuss Just Use Postgres, a book about checking Postgres first before adding specialized databases.
The second edition of Intro to Gen AI adds prompt engineering and AI agents, and Alan Wyma brings Maggie Endler and Numa Damani onto Flying High with Flutter to explain why the field shifted so fast.
Alan Wyma hosts Flying High with Flutter and interviews Emmanuel Maggiori, the Manning author of the AI Pocketbook.
Alan Wyma talks with Garrison Hinson-Hasty, the Manning author of Systems Programming with Zig, about why Zig is still one of the few books on the language.
Flying High with Flutter hosts Alan Wyma and Dr.
Flying High with Flutter host Alan Wyma interviews software-security consultant and author Laurentiu Spilka about reducing application-security mistakes without treating security as an afterthought.
On Flying High with Flutter, Alan Wyma asks Abhinav Kimothi how retrieval-augmented generation makes large language model applications more factually grounded.
Flying High with Flutter host Alan Wyma interviews Laura Brown and Barbara Lemmer about their book Interview Speak, which translates what interviewers really want to know.
Alan Wyma interviews Piotr Sarna, co-author of Writing for Developers, about turning technical knowledge into blog posts, presentations, podcasts, and books.
Alan Wyma interviews Eric Seidel, creator of Flutter and founder of Shorebird, about Dart, Flutter's origins, and mobile CodePush updates.
Flying High with Flutter host Alan Wyma interviews Mariana Maté, vice president of cybersecurity and AI solutions at Azure Group and author of Security Metrics.
Flying High with Flutter host Alain interviews Arnold Loray, known as API Handyman, about designing secure, interoperable, efficient web APIs for Flutter applications.
Alan Wyma interviews Dominik Tornow, author of Think Distributed Systems, about why an API server paired with a database already forms a distributed system.
Adrienne Berganza-Tecke, author of Looks Good to Me, explains how code reviews can support knowledge transfer, bug detection, and deployment safety.
Flying High with Flutter host Alan Wyma interviews Arek Borucki, author of MongoDB in Action 8.0, about MongoDB architecture, operations, and use cases.
Flying High with Flutter's "Django in Action with Christopher Trudeau" examines Django as a backend option for Flutter applications and existing websites.
Flying High with Flutter host Alan Weimer interviews Cornell University computer science professor Immanuel Trummer about his Manning book LLMs in Action.
Alan Wyma asks Renaldi Gondosubroto to clarify AI, machine learning, generative AI, prompting, fine-tuning, retrieval-augmented generation, Bedrock, and SageMaker for developers.
Vadim Grin discusses his book Emotional Digital Design with Alan Wyma on Flying High with Flutter, focusing on how digital products can solve problems while creating positive user experiences.
Alan Wyma interviews Shelley Benhoff, a 25-year technology professional and author of a lead developer career guide, about moving from coding into technical leadership.
Mike Rosing tells Alan Wyma how the Illinois Marijuana Initiative led him from privacy activism to elliptic curve cryptography and two books published through Manning.
At GoSim Conference 2024 in Beijing, Alan Weimer interviews Kevin Moore, a Google product manager responsible for Flutter and Dart web strategy, including JavaScript compilers, WebAssembly, browser APIs, and JavaScript interop.
Flying High with Flutter features Alan Wyma interviewing Serverpod founder Victor and Jaspr creator Killian about their Dart integration.
Alan interviews Lucas from Widgetbook about Widgetbook 3 and the public launch of Widgetbook Cloud after a closed beta with paying customers.
Dylan Neese, after three years working on AWS Amplify Flutter, describes Celeste as a backend-as-a-service platform written entirely in Dart for Flutter developers.
Flying High with Flutter interviews Viktor Lidholt, creator of ServerPod, about the ServerPod 1.2 release and its type-safe ORM, relational support, migrations, and 2,000-plus tests.
Alan Wyma and Matt use their annual Thanksgiving catch-up to examine the departure of Eric Seidel, Tim Sneath, and Ian Hicks from Flutter-related leadership roles.
Andy Partenhausen explains how MediaMarkt Saturn moved from separate Android and iOS teams to Flutter after feature differences created customer and management problems.
Flying High with Flutter host Alan Weimer interviews Jonas, a Flutter developer at MediaMarkt, about measuring app quality before and after release.
Alan Weimer interviews Ma Bin, who supports Flutter developers in China, Singapore, and Malaysia through integration debugging and technical guidance.
Flying High with Flutter features host Alan Wyma interviewing Man Gerdas Kazauskas about FlutterDeck, a lightweight framework for building presentations with Flutter.
Flying High with Flutter examines how to hack and protect Flutter apps through host Alan Wyma's interview with Tomas, a Telsec security consultant.
Alan Weimer interviews Manuela about her FlutterCon presentation on making apps accessible through user-centered development.
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Flying High with Flutter examines WoltModalSheet, a Wolt component that becomes a bottom sheet on small screens and a dialog on large screens.
Alan Wyma interviews Alec, Done’s co-founder and Chief Product and Technology Officer, about Flutter, Flutter Web, and the company’s home-services marketplace.
Alan Wyma interviews Julian Kunschoff, creator of Dart’s UUID package, about why non-sequential identifiers avoid predictable records and database exhaustion concerns.
Alan Wyma interviews Saad and Birju, authors of Flutter Box Transform, about the package's origins in Coldacy's editor and its repeated need for reliable resizing mechanics.
Steve Hamblett explains MQTT to Alan Wyma as an industrial protocol for lightweight message exchange between constrained devices and central systems.
Flying High with Flutter host Alan Wyma interviews Dimitri Jafarski, creator of DCM, a Dart and Flutter static analysis toolkit with roughly 180 custom rules.
Flying High with Flutter #116 features Alan Wyma interviewing Alexey Karapetov about CIDR, a Dart CLI tool for changelog maintenance and release automation.
Alan Wyma interviews Randall Schwartz, an original Dart and Flutter Google Developer Expert, about Dart 3's patterns, records, sealed classes, and changing developer workflows.
Alan Wyma interviews Omar Janane, creator of the Dart package Models, about value objects, entities, sealed classes, and compile-time validation.
Alan Wyma interviews Kilian Schulte about Dart Mappable, a Dart package for data classes and JSON serialization that supports inheritance, generics, hooks, and custom mappers.
Alan Wyma interviews Kevin Brendel, an owner of Canino, about QuickFlow, a Flutter-built macOS app that combines mind-map editing with arbitrary graph structures and automatic layout.
Alan Wyma interviews Jerome Saltmarshan about GameStream, a browser-based multiplayer platform currently launched with one zombie game originally called Bleed.
Alan Wyma interviews Stefan Zalas, creator of Wishfly, a developer tool where app users submit and vote on feature requests.
Flying High with Flutter host Alan Wyma interviews Tibu about Sherpa, a Flutter app that runs Llama.cpp models locally on mobile devices.
Flying High with Flutter #108 features host Alan Wyma interviewing senior developer Marcin Robowski about Montreal’s Flutter teams, open-source work, and cross-platform engineering choices.
Flying High with Flutter host Alan Wyma interviews API Dash co-founder Ankit Mahato about a Flutter desktop API client that visualizes multimedia responses and generates Dart code.