Rob Dodson

I made a little iPhone app that uses the on-device model to sort your shopping list by aisle. Paste in a big list, add stores, tweak aisles to match your store’s layout, and share lists with your household. Nice for starting at one end and working your way across :) apps.apple.com/us/app/lettu...

I just—like, sure, being a trillionaire is cool I guess but what’s it all for if you haven’t even seen the wreckage of the titanic firsthand

This week's Web Weekly is about to hit all the inboxes in just a moment! 🫣 If you're into web dev news close to the platform (you know, browser features, specs, and all the good stuff), you should check it out! webweekly.email/archive/web-...

Firefox will start supporting `ariaNotify` in release 150. 🎉 `ariaNotify` allows you to provide text that should be announced by a screen reader if available and activated. No more fiddling with live regions. No more fiddling with live regions! 💪 Ticket: bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi...

Great write up. I was very excited to use dialog but quickly hit many of the issues mentioned here, especially with third party dependencies (dropdown menus, tooltips, toasts) breaking and no ability to animate. Eventually had to throw in the towel and switch back to portals 😕

Wrote up how I got Obsidian Sync + Claude Code running on a VPS so I can access my notes from my phone. It's like my little mobile second brain 🧠 I'd love if Obsidian came out with a headless version that worked with sync so the setup could be simplified 🙏 robdodson.me/posts/how-i-...

Lately I've been using Claude Code with Obsidian as a thinking partner and I've found the experience really rewarding. It's helped get me back into writing and get excited about capturing ideas again. Did a little write up on my setup. robdodson.me/posts/i-gave...

Kind of interesting to watch this Clawdbot thing evolve from a lobster mascot to a crab. Carcinisation in action.

Mozilla, or someone like them, should come out with an open source model trained on actual public domain and voluntary data, to compete against OpenAI/Anthropic/Google/xAI. There is a huge prevailing sense of malaise at the concentration of power in a handful of private AI companies.

“That’s what I love about these enigmas, man. I get older, they stay the same age.”

The Senate version of GOP's budget bill dropped in the middle of the night. Astonishingly, it got EVEN WORSE. It raises energy costs, kills $100s of billions of investment in manufacturing, makes grids less reliable, increases pollution & constrains our ability to compete w/China on AI. Loser stuff.

The best part of having a large dog is that you don’t have to clean your toddler’s booster seat

I may have just had the best on call experience. Someone signed our Twilio number up for a bakery's rewards point system and we were alerting because an unknown number was texting us every time someone bought a croissant.

this haptic display absolutely rocks. basketball is for everyone.

introducing atcute, a collection of lightweight TypeScript packages for AT Protocol API client, OAuth client, utility packages for various data formats, Bluesky-specific utility packages for rich text and posting they're all covered!

Intent to ship for the upgraded customizable select element in Blink! It's happening! I2S: groups.google.com/a/chromium.o... Learn more: una.im/select-updat...

Found some unnecessary twitter metadata still sitting around on my web site and it’s always a good time to delete code (*especially* now). Might be worth checking your web sites to see if you can delete it too?

Also sharing what is probably my favorite blog post of all time today (authored by @apenwarr.bsky.social) because it's something I constantly find myself referring back to and is a great read for anyone who builds systems for a living. apenwarr.ca/log/20201227

@addyosmani.bsky.social where’s my follow at???

Earnest post, but: a thing I like here is it’s okay to have moments of happiness in public without being broadly scolded, and I believe that sustaining this kind of humanity will be very important as we resist fascism. We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive

Turns out, it wasn’t Twitter/X we loved, it was each other. I can’t wait to see that platform collapse.

Always 💖 Don't make me tap the sign

y'know astro is better than next.js because it doesn't dump a cargo plane's worth of js on every page netlify is far better too

Is it just me or have images completely stopped loading on bsky? On mobile (Android) and web I just get blank squares.

If anyone's wondering how things are going on the hellsite: This setting was just turned on by default for everyone. if you still have an account with content, go log in and disable this so Grok can't use your tweets as training data. Direct link: twitter.com/settings/gro...

Cuz everyone's stuck and can't fly anywhere

Crowdstrike? More like Crowdstuck! amirite?!

The climate news this week has been pretty scary and disheartening. If you're feeling anxious, set aside an hour or two to take a look at https://climatebase.org It's how I found my current job, and let me tell you, it feels good to take action.