I have decided to rewrite the Assistant in Kotlin Multiplatform. Why? Flutter gave me great results, but I could never quite justify becoming a Dart expert just to write this one application. I’ve been using Kotlin more and more at work, and have a genuine affection for the language, and now it seems that KMP is mature enough that I can write some pretty functional web and android applications with it.

I’m hoping this doesn’t slow me down, but rather makes me go faster, since I’ll no longer become frustrated with Dart and the interesting ways that language works. I’m also going to start with a more streamlined, simple version of the application, so it’ll have a gentler learning curve and (hopefully) be more useful more quickly.

Stay tuned.

-Ben

I’ve decided that working on this thing without releasing it to the world is silly, and so I have finally gotten the courage (and momentum) to publish my Squishy’s Assistant application.

https://assistant.squishy.dev

What is Squishy’s Assistant?

This is my first attempt at making some kind of digital aid for BattleTech. The goal is to avoid spending so much time digging up tables, remembering what things to count, and spend more time rolling dice and having fun.