---
title: "Flutter"
excerpt: "My second book!."
sidebar:
  - title: "A wild ?????? has appeared!"
    image: https://placekittens.com/450/350
    image_alt: "placeholder image"
    text: "This image used to be a kitten, and the text used to say \"Meow\", but then the kitten-generator broke. The image still might be a kitten, but it's no longer a guarantee."
gallery:
  - image_path: /assets/uh223/flutter/side.jpg
    url: /assets/uh223/flutter/side.jpg # Full-size
    alt: "Side View of the Flutter Book"
    title: "Side Profile"
  - image_path: /assets/uh223/flutter/cover.jpg
    url: /assets/uh223/flutter/cover.jpg # Full-size
    alt: "The book stood upright"
    title: "Full Book"
  - image_path: /assets/uh223/flutter/open.jpg
    url: /assets/uh223/flutter/open.jpg # Full-size
    alt: "The book stood upright with pages visible"
    title: "Full Book (Page Spread)"
  - image_path: /assets/uh223/flutter/page.jpg
    url: /assets/uh223/flutter/page.jpg # Full-size
    alt: "The book opened to a random page"
    title: "Page Spread"
---

This is my flutter book - my second ever book binding!

{% include gallery caption="My Flutter Book" %}

Again, in no particular order, I learned the following:

- My x-acto knife will gladly take slivers off of my metal ruler when given the chance
- My professor has a first-aid kit in the building (though it thankfully went unused)
- It is nearly impossible for me to get anything to end up flush without giving myself a 5mm tolerance to each edge
- To cut through paper, use pressure with the knife, or else it won't cut fully
- Adhesive can warp the paper in the most annoying ways
- Going through each step with all the paper at once is great, until you misinterpret a step and all your work is scrapped instead of one or two folios
- Conversely, having to shuffle a pile of tools around is annoying, and re-doing your work may be faster and safer than risking a grab into the toolbag when your x-acto knife's cover may have come loose (though with experience, this becomes less of an issue)