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Rob Bogie
@robbogie.nl
Tech Lead (EdTech) & Builder. Skilled in Kotlin, Java, JS/TS. Passionate about electronics & home automation. Currently building Lode, a tool to fix local HTTPS and host files. 🚀 Join the waitlist: getlode.app
The disadvantage of building tools besides a regular job, sometimes I don't have to time to continue...

Today, this is not the case, allowing me to continue with Lode, and what a productive day it is... Got a first MVP for mac working 🎉

#buildinpublic #developer #devtools #tools
November 19, 2025 at 1:06 PM
We give our servers preventative maintenance so they don't crash. Our brains deserve the same.

Taking a wellness day today to keep the 'main system' (me) running smoothly.

When's your next 'maintenance' day?

#buildinpublic #indiedev #founderlife #selfcare
October 29, 2025 at 7:31 AM
After some disappointing debug sessions yesterday, today is working better. Sometimes you just need some good sleep (The extra hour was a nice extra 👌🏻).

Finally got my wails (Golang) app working with a macos privileged helper 🎉

#buildinpublic #indiehacker
October 26, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Spent the whole morning debugging why my Helper tool in a mac app cannot be registered. Not the best of debugging sessions...

On a positive note, I already have way more waitlist signups for getlode.app than I had users on previous tools🎉

#buildinpublic #development
Lode | Orchestrate Your Local Dev
Stop fighting with SSL and host files. Lode is a zero-config app that puts all your local services on secure .test domains.
getlode.app
October 25, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Just received mail that my first medium article is published 🎉

Let me know what you think: medium.com/p/8aa41f279e6f #buildinpublic #blogging #development #devtools
Stop using localhost: bugs it creates and how to prevent them
How switching to realistic domains with SSL enabled can eliminate an entire class of production and integration bugs
medium.com
October 22, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Not all days are as productive as you hope. After some failures in designin an opengraph image for my landing page, I paused and instead updated my reddit, medium and bsky bio texts.

Still progress I guess... #buildinpublic #devtools
October 21, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Today I'm working on a landing page for an idea I have for a new tool: Lode. The design is quite standard, but just for checking demand it should suffice I think #buildinpublic #devtools
October 19, 2025 at 11:11 AM
A slow Saturday morning, the perfect time to continue writing my first blog post. #blogging #buildinpublic
October 18, 2025 at 9:20 AM
I'm thinking on how I could validate demand for a developer tool before even building something like a landing page. I'm considering writing a blog about a problem and see how people react on this. #buildinpublic #blogging

👇🏻 Let me know in the comments what you think about this idea!
October 15, 2025 at 7:02 AM
So, I'm always full of ideas for little tools and projects, and always start building them too quickly. Maybe it's time to try marketing a solution for a problem before building it. How do you guys validate your ideas before building? #buildinpublic
October 14, 2025 at 3:57 PM
After a long break on social media I'm going to try and start posting regularly again
October 13, 2025 at 7:43 PM
I'm wondering on whether it's too soon to start promoting this more widely. Part of me wants to sit on it until it's done, but to get feedback I do need some exposure.

Do you have some pointers to the best places to market this?

#buildinpublic #opensource #developer #tools
Added more commands and improved the command selector

Snip is starting to feel really useful, even though it's still a WIP! 🚀 I've already been using it in my day-to-day programming, and it's making things so much easier.

Give it a try and let me know what you think! 👇
🔗 github.com/SnipEditor/s...
February 24, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Added more commands and improved the command selector

Snip is starting to feel really useful, even though it's still a WIP! 🚀 I've already been using it in my day-to-day programming, and it's making things so much easier.

Give it a try and let me know what you think! 👇
🔗 github.com/SnipEditor/s...
February 23, 2025 at 1:10 PM
After having experimented a bit with Tauri, I was still longing to some 'native' ui handling.

After many libraries, today I ran into freyaui.dev and wow, I wish I found this earlier.

It really feels like react, but then native
#rustlang #gui #programming
Freya GUI Library for Rust
Freya is a Rust library to build Native GUI apps.
freyaui.dev
January 29, 2025 at 5:50 PM
When I'm working on projects, I always have new ideas for potential projects/products.

What do you use to keep track of these ideas? Ideally, I would like a tool that keeps track of these ideas, and possible help with market research later on

#buildinpublic #indiehackers
January 28, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Just watched the latest Severance episode, and it reminded me of this post. Staying stuck in the same spot is definitely not a mood or creativity booster, needed for coding.

It's also a nice reference on how companies not always take the best approach for productivity. e.g. #WFH
Health > Hustle.

Building apps is great, but don’t forget to maintain the developer -> you. Long hours, no sleep, and too much caffeine won’t make your app succeed faster. Take breaks, move around, and prioritize your health. A healthy dev builds better apps!

#indiedev #buildinpublic #indiehackers
January 27, 2025 at 7:02 PM
I did a thing! The scripts I run in the editor I'm building can now interact with selections, even with multiple selections at once!

Next up, allowing imports within scripts to allow DRY code
#buildinpublic #tools #programming
January 26, 2025 at 10:42 AM
#buildinpublic
Which one do you use when possible:

1️⃣ Light mode
2️⃣ Dark mode

Let me know in the comments👇
January 25, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Today I'm implementing the ability to run commands on selections instead of on the full contents of my editor

#buildinpublic #indiehackers #devtools
January 25, 2025 at 8:26 AM
I still love the A* algorithm more even though it can't be used in all types of graphs
💡 Today's word of the day is Dijkstra's algorithm!

An algorithm for finding the shortest paths between nodes in a graph, which may represent, for example, road networks.

#coding #developers #buildinpublic
What is Dijkstra's algorithm?
An algorithm for finding the shortest paths between nodes in a graph, which may represent, for example, road networks.
devterms.io
January 25, 2025 at 7:01 AM
The worst feeling of development is spending half a day of debugging on an issue where a text editor would not allow undo actions, only to find out your development tools were steeling focus
#NotABug
January 23, 2025 at 7:20 PM
It's a shame that there are no feature complete GUI libraries for #rust that do their own rendering. Don't get me wrong, I like using Tauri, but it kinda feels wrong to use a WebView for your UI rendering when building a native app
January 22, 2025 at 9:46 PM