Announcing http://eb1ai.com

I'm building an app to aggregate granular statistics for EB-1A for the cases I know. Yes, it's in Flutter. :)

It was important for me to launch in 2024, so please enjoy the release that can't do a thing. You can see the 11 cases I got a hold of so far. The criteria icons show what was approved and what was not. In a few weeks, you will be able to click the criteria to see the most approved achievements.

If you are anxious, see the raw data file: https://eb1ai.com/assets/assets/data.yaml

To keep updated, follow the dedicated Twitter of https://x.com/eb1ai_com or join my Telegram chat: https://t.me/eb1a_chat

I'm looking for more RFEs and giving consultations for you to respond to an RFE for free.

One day I will make some artificial intelligence features to evaluate your case or suggest what achievements to pursue. Until then, let the 'ai' stand for 'Alexey Inkin'.

In the year 2024, I have:

💰 Earned $20'830.39 and paid $182 in taxes.

🇺🇸 Became a permanent resident of the US.

✍️ Published 15 articles, which were viewed 55'000 times.

📸 Published 46 photos, which were liked 460 times.

🌎 Spent 304 days in Batumi, 36 days in Dallas, 22 days in Farmersville, 3 days in Tbilisi, 1 day in Istanbul.

🕺 Been dancing for 444 hours and 15 minutes, singing for 18 hours, flying for 15 hours, sailing for 2 hours, and swimming for 10 minutes.

🚶‍♂️ Walked 2559 km.

🌮 Ate at 43 cafes.

📚 Read 5 books, 🏆 "My Childhood" by Gorky.

🎬 Watched 37 movies, 🏆 "Shakespeare in Love". Watched 14 series, 🏆 "Slovo Patsana".

🇪🇸 Aprendí 978 palabras en Español.

🗽 Invested $33 to RFK Jr.'s campaign and Trump's victory.

🐦 Been sent 1 photo with tits.

🐈 Petted 4 pussies.

🚀 Launched 1 service.

👥 Hit the following following:
- VK: 4027 (-78)
- Medium: 3688 (+2634)
- LinkedIn: 726 (+441)
- Telegram: 618 (+208)
- Instagram: 507 (+145)
- YouTube: 379 (+16)
- Facebook: 378 (=)
- Telegram RU: 170 (-11)
- Telegram EB-1A: 161 (+161)
- Twitter: 143 (+96)
- Habr: 71 (+31)
- Twitter EB-1A: 5 (+5)

🧔‍♂️ Got older than van Gogh.

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2023: $34'231, https://www.instagram.com/p/C1gjDMyIWMM/
2022: $45'257, https://www.instagram.com/p/Cm1GY4MMGbN/
2021: $6'240, https://www.instagram.com/p/CYJUd7YNNhV/
2020: $24'797, https://www.instagram.com/p/CJemaErJllM/
2019: $15'801, https://www.instagram.com/p/B6udOvmJx4Y/
2018: $1'596.
2017: $4'615.
2016: $20'375.
2015: $46'470, https://vk.com/wall1798445_3633
2014: $19'200, https://vk.com/wall1798445_3147
2013: ~$12'000, https://vk.com/wall1798445_2419

My GDE membership was extended into 2025. :)
Although I've been slacking out lately a bit.
Will be back writing.

One painful thing in AI in coding is that all minor frameworks will die out. They thrive on doing specific things better than a major framework, but having shorter code will soon no longer matter.

Models are way worse at Dart than at JS because of the amount of code to train on, let alone non-mainstream Dart packages.

My most popular package is for alternative routing, and there's zero chance of it being useful in the AI world.

The answer to Level 1 of this game is to stop competing with the mainstream stuff.

My new article, The 3 new lints in Dart 3.5:
https://medium.com/@alexey.inkin/the-3-new-lints-in-dart-3-5-48ef292b3b4e

I know it's Dart 3.8 now, I will catch up soon. 😇

My new article, The 4 new lints in Dart 3.6:
https://medium.com/@alexey.inkin/the-4-new-lints-in-dart-3-6-8a74bb604ba3

Someone asked me about the future of Flutter. The reality of the job market is that you need experience with everything around Flutter as well. Here in Dallas, there are 90 job posts on LinkedIn when you search for Flutter. Out of them, only 4 are for Flutter-only developers. All others require years of native Android and/or iOS experience because there are a lot of things that Flutter just can't do alone. Flutter-only jobs are somewhat more popular overseas because that takes less skill, and so it's easy to outsource. If you aim higher, get native experience. Then your eggs won't be in one basket, and you won't be hurt if Flutter becomes less relevant.

Speaking of Flutter relevance. For years we had stable UIs in operating systems, so it made sense for Flutter team to mimic native look and feel. Now we have Material 3 Expressive and Liquid Glass. They both work with React Native because it defers to native rendering. If things stay as they are, the Flutter team can put some finite effort to mimic those two. But if the looks and animations will evolve with each new OS release--and I'm afraid that race is coming--Flutter will look less and less attractive for the apps that try to keep up with modern UIs.

My new article, the 7 new lints in Dart 3.7:

https://medium.com/@alexey.inkin/the-7-new-lints-in-dart-3-7-2f1f99d2bffe

(Catching up with the Dart versions released earlier this year.)

Flutter 3.35 and Dart 3.9 are out! Run flutter upgrade to get them!

Now the official announcements are published too.
Dart: https://medium.com/dartlang/announcing-dart-3-9-ba49e8f38298
Flutter: https://medium.com/flutter/whats-new-in-flutter-3-35-c58ef72e3766

My new article, The new lint in Dart 3.8:
https://medium.com/flutter-senior/the-new-lint-in-dart-3-8-7e516e59ca14

Yeah, it's only one. But it forces you to use the new null-aware elements in collections, which is great.

My new article, The 2 new lints in Dart 3.9:
https://medium.com/@alexey.inkin/the-2-new-lints-in-dart-3-9-861252556b4b

You can now mark an asynchronous function that does not need to we awaited and drop redundant unawaited() wrappings!

Alright, we are up to date now.

My new article, Recognizing posture in Flutter web with MediaPipe: https://medium.com/@alexey.inkin/recognizing-posture-in-flutter-web-with-mediapipe-0a63e37205e7

MediaPipe is a library from Google for on-device AI stuff. It's been out there for years, but it wasn't wrapped into a flutter plugin, so I did that and explained the whole process.

Here is the live demo to track you on your live webcam video:
https://alexeyinkin.github.io/flutter-mediapipe/ (Chrome only)

Dart 3.10 is out!

UPD: Don't rush to upgrade Flutter. It was accidentally released with Dart 3.10 beta instead of a stable version.

The progress of fixing that is here: https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/178400

UPD 2: Fixed.

My new article, The new lint in Dart 3.10: https://medium.com/@alexey.inkin/the-new-lint-in-dart-3-10-f6ff1eb5071e

In the year 2025, I have:

💰 Earned $18'872.89 and paid $371 in taxes.

🌎 Spent 205 days in Dallas, 156 days in Batumi, 3 days in Farmersville, 1 day in Tbilisi.

🏋️‍♂️ Been exercising for 206.5 hours, dancing for 156.5 hours, singing for 46 hours, shooting for 7 hours, 520 rounds.

✈️ Been flying for 29 hours.

🎤 Published 2 interviews viewed 4078 times.

✍️ Published 7 articles viewed 3400 times.

⚖️ Hit 71 kg (+12 kg).

🏦 Got the credit score of 767 (+66).

😵‍💫 Survived 1 pneumonia, had 4 X-ray scans, 1 CT scan, took 4 antibiotics, 1 steroid, 8 other meds, and 19 supplements.

🚶‍♂️ Walked 3039 km (+480 km).

🌮 Ate in 45 cafes.

🎥 Watched 41 movies, 🏆 "Облако-рай". Watched 6 series, 🏆 "Never Let Me Go".

👥 Hit the following following:
- VK: 3999 (-28)
- Medium: 3770 (+92)
- LinkedIn: 1293 (+567)
- Telegram EB-1A: 841 (+680)
- Telegram IT: 689 (+71)
- Instagram: 574 (+67)
- YouTube: 400 (+21)
- Facebook: 384 (+6)
- Telegram RU: 167 (-3)
- Twitter: 216 (+73)
- Habr: 75 (+4)

⏳ Got older than Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Che Guevara.

2024: $20’830, https://www.instagram.com/p/DEP6TpMJq6a/
2023: $34’231, https://www.instagram.com/p/C1gjDMyIWMM/
2022: $45’257, https://www.instagram.com/p/Cm1GY4MMGbN/
2021: $6’240, https://www.instagram.com/p/CYJUd7YNNhV/
2020: $24’797, https://www.instagram.com/p/CJemaErJllM/
2019: $15’801, https://www.instagram.com/p/B6udOvmJx4Y/
2018: $1’596.
2017: $4’615.
2016: $20’375.
2015: $46’470, https://vk.com/wall1798445_3633
2014: $19’200, https://vk.com/wall1798445_3147
2013: $12’000, https://vk.com/wall1798445_2419

Finally, the 2nd part, Counting exercise repetitions using camera in Flutter:
https://medium.com/@alexey.inkin/counting-exercise-repetitions-using-camera-in-flutter-a02c3275ec51

In this article, we dive into making sense of recognized body parts and write a full exercise tracker.

It detects any repetitive motion and starts counting it for you.

On the way I explain Principal Component Analysis and algorithms for finding when a pattern breaks.

Run the demo: https://alexeyinkin.github.io/flutter-repetition-counter/
Download the source: https://github.com/alexeyinkin/flutter-repetition-counter

And enjoy!

My GDE membership has been extended into 2026!
Looking forward to write more stuff for you. 😇

I will be your assistant in Google's seminar on building AI agents in Dallas, Feb 12-13.

Register here:
https://rsvp.withgoogle.com/events/build-with-ai-dallas-day-1
https://rsvp.withgoogle.com/events/build-with-ai-dallas-day-2

Other cities? Check out the schedule:
https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-practitioners/ship-production-ready-ai-and-survive-the-multimodal-frontier-this-february

I made my exercise repetition counter work on Android and iOS, and the apps are now live:
iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/repco-repetition-counter/id6759937240
Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ainkin.repetition_counter

My package that wraps MediaPipe vision now comes with Android and iOS implementations:
https://pub.dev/packages/flutter_mediapipe_vision
(although it's still a proof of concept with just a few methods)

The source code also updated to build for Android and iOS:
https://github.com/alexeyinkin/flutter-repetition-counter

On April 24, Microsoft will start using your private chats with copilot to train its models.

If you are a good programmer, don't forget to opt out to prevent them from monetizing your work.

If you are a bad programmer, keep teaching them to serve a lesson.

Opt out here: https://github.com/settings/copilot/features