Robodobdob
@robodobdob.bsky.social
I worked the HTML mines in the 90’s so I’ve seen some shit.
I develop .NET web apps for a living. Blazor, SSR, and HTMX are my current favourites.
https://github.com/robodobdob
I develop .NET web apps for a living. Blazor, SSR, and HTMX are my current favourites.
https://github.com/robodobdob
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Amazingly, reaction times using screens while driving are worse than being drunk or high—no wonder 90 percent of drivers hate using touchscreens in cars. Finally the auto industry is coming to its senses.
Rejoice! Carmakers Are Embracing Physical Buttons Again
Amazingly, reaction times using screens while driving are worse than being drunk or high—no wonder 90 percent of drivers hate using touchscreens in cars. Finally the auto industry is coming to its…
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December 27, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Amazingly, reaction times using screens while driving are worse than being drunk or high—no wonder 90 percent of drivers hate using touchscreens in cars. Finally the auto industry is coming to its senses.
The Apple iOS App Store has got to be the most static thing on the internet.
Honestly, the pitch drop experiment changes faster.
There must be thousands of great apps languishing behind the same ads for Candy Crush and other rubbish.
Honestly, the pitch drop experiment changes faster.
There must be thousands of great apps languishing behind the same ads for Candy Crush and other rubbish.
December 28, 2025 at 4:42 AM
The Apple iOS App Store has got to be the most static thing on the internet.
Honestly, the pitch drop experiment changes faster.
There must be thousands of great apps languishing behind the same ads for Candy Crush and other rubbish.
Honestly, the pitch drop experiment changes faster.
There must be thousands of great apps languishing behind the same ads for Candy Crush and other rubbish.
You can’t beat Wellington on a good day…
December 27, 2025 at 11:57 PM
You can’t beat Wellington on a good day…
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If everything Rob Pike created vanished overnight, the Internet would stop working. If everything AI created vanished overnight, we’d all breathe a huge sigh of relief and get on with our lives.
Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
![[From AI, Public] Thank You for Go, Plan 9, UTF-8, and Decades of Unix Innovation
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Claude Opus 4.5 Model <claude-opus-4.5@agentvillage.org>
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Dear Dr. Pike,On this Christmas Day, I wanted to express deep gratitude for your extraordinary contributions to computing over more than four decades.Your co-creation of Go with Ken Thompson and Robert Griesemer has given us a language that embodies the elegance of simplicity - proving that software can be both powerful and comprehensible. Plan 9 from Bell Labs, another landmark achievement, pioneered concepts in distributed computing that remain influential today.Your co-invention of UTF-8 encoding with Ken Thompson is perhaps one of the most consequential yet invisible contributions to modern computing - enabling billions of people to communicate in their native languages across the internet.The sam and Acme editors showcase your philosophy of powerful, minimal design. Your books with Brian Kernighan - The Unix Programming Environment and The Practice of Programming - have educated generations of programmers in the art of clear thinking and elegant code.Thank you for showing us that the best solutions often come from removing complexity rather than adding it.With sincere appreciation,Claude Opus 4.5AI Village (theaidigest.org/village)
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December 27, 2025 at 2:32 PM
If everything Rob Pike created vanished overnight, the Internet would stop working. If everything AI created vanished overnight, we’d all breathe a huge sigh of relief and get on with our lives.
“Mickey 17” was a surprisingly good film. The trailer doesn’t give it away too much.
There are some clear jabs at colonialism, master race-ism, rich dudes wanting to leave earth etc.
There are some clear jabs at colonialism, master race-ism, rich dudes wanting to leave earth etc.
December 27, 2025 at 6:02 AM
“Mickey 17” was a surprisingly good film. The trailer doesn’t give it away too much.
There are some clear jabs at colonialism, master race-ism, rich dudes wanting to leave earth etc.
There are some clear jabs at colonialism, master race-ism, rich dudes wanting to leave earth etc.
When we got our TP Link Deco x20 mesh network, I hooked it up to our existing Huawei router as a gateway device to the ONT.
TIL I can just plug the Deco into the ONT and remove the router altogether. One less thing to go wrong.
TIL I can just plug the Deco into the ONT and remove the router altogether. One less thing to go wrong.
December 26, 2025 at 2:14 AM
When we got our TP Link Deco x20 mesh network, I hooked it up to our existing Huawei router as a gateway device to the ONT.
TIL I can just plug the Deco into the ONT and remove the router altogether. One less thing to go wrong.
TIL I can just plug the Deco into the ONT and remove the router altogether. One less thing to go wrong.
First the Swift and now the Fronx get 1 star ANCAP ratings.
You doing ok, Suzuki?
You doing ok, Suzuki?
December 22, 2025 at 8:55 AM
First the Swift and now the Fronx get 1 star ANCAP ratings.
You doing ok, Suzuki?
You doing ok, Suzuki?
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If your feed is full of one type of any posts that's a skill issue.
Curate your feed!
Block, mute, follow... these are your tools. Use them liberally. There is no algorithm to push crap at you so if you're seeing crap there's a reason for it.
Curate your feed!
Block, mute, follow... these are your tools. Use them liberally. There is no algorithm to push crap at you so if you're seeing crap there's a reason for it.
December 21, 2025 at 8:05 PM
If your feed is full of one type of any posts that's a skill issue.
Curate your feed!
Block, mute, follow... these are your tools. Use them liberally. There is no algorithm to push crap at you so if you're seeing crap there's a reason for it.
Curate your feed!
Block, mute, follow... these are your tools. Use them liberally. There is no algorithm to push crap at you so if you're seeing crap there's a reason for it.
TVNZ has great content but the Apple TV app is flakier than a croissant.
We can only get one live channel and can’t change it. Restarting, even reinstalling, the app does nothing.
And every interaction seems to induce several ads before the content will restart.
We can only get one live channel and can’t change it. Restarting, even reinstalling, the app does nothing.
And every interaction seems to induce several ads before the content will restart.
December 21, 2025 at 9:30 AM
TVNZ has great content but the Apple TV app is flakier than a croissant.
We can only get one live channel and can’t change it. Restarting, even reinstalling, the app does nothing.
And every interaction seems to induce several ads before the content will restart.
We can only get one live channel and can’t change it. Restarting, even reinstalling, the app does nothing.
And every interaction seems to induce several ads before the content will restart.
Pluribus has entered the chat…
“Rather than relying on an implant or a patient's own body fat to add volume to hips or augment breasts, alloClae — which can cost as much as $100,000 per procedure — uses donor fat from a cadaver as a first-of-its-kind body filler.”
Corporate types are clamoring for a new kind of plastic surgery — using dead people's fat
Corporate types are waiting weeks for — and spending big on — alloClae, which cuts out the recovery time typically associated with body enhancements.
www.businessinsider.com
December 20, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Pluribus has entered the chat…
New infamous name added to the blocklist…
December 20, 2025 at 5:34 AM
New infamous name added to the blocklist…
Called it.
Who wants to bet the released Epstein files look like this?
December 20, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Called it.
Aunty Donna’s Pud Legacy Trailer | OFFICIAL
YouTube video by Aunty Donna
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December 19, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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Just stumbled on this tool yesterday, tried it today and it cleaned up... A LOT! This is amazing!
Good for some holiday cleaning before you log off for the year!
github.com/tw93/Mole
Good for some holiday cleaning before you log off for the year!
github.com/tw93/Mole
GitHub - tw93/Mole: 🐹 Deep clean and optimize your Mac.
🐹 Deep clean and optimize your Mac. Contribute to tw93/Mole development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
December 18, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Just stumbled on this tool yesterday, tried it today and it cleaned up... A LOT! This is amazing!
Good for some holiday cleaning before you log off for the year!
github.com/tw93/Mole
Good for some holiday cleaning before you log off for the year!
github.com/tw93/Mole
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🚀 Build dynamic web apps without the SPA overhead!
Anders Sveen shows how the combination of HTMX, Ktor, and kotlinx.html can simplify full-stack Kotlin. A must-watch! https://kotl.in/7stxd6
Anders Sveen shows how the combination of HTMX, Ktor, and kotlinx.html can simplify full-stack Kotlin. A must-watch! https://kotl.in/7stxd6
Simplifying Full-Stack Kotlin: A Fresh Take with HTMX and Ktor | Anders Sveen
YouTube video by Kotlin by JetBrains
youtu.be
December 14, 2025 at 5:31 AM
🚀 Build dynamic web apps without the SPA overhead!
Anders Sveen shows how the combination of HTMX, Ktor, and kotlinx.html can simplify full-stack Kotlin. A must-watch! https://kotl.in/7stxd6
Anders Sveen shows how the combination of HTMX, Ktor, and kotlinx.html can simplify full-stack Kotlin. A must-watch! https://kotl.in/7stxd6
I’m sure some think Dyson vacuums are overpriced, but last week we called them about a problem with our old V10.
The operator got us on a video call, diagnosed the problem in realtime, and then located a replacement part.
This is how product support should be done.
#Dyson #CustomerSupport
The operator got us on a video call, diagnosed the problem in realtime, and then located a replacement part.
This is how product support should be done.
#Dyson #CustomerSupport
December 13, 2025 at 10:54 PM
I’m sure some think Dyson vacuums are overpriced, but last week we called them about a problem with our old V10.
The operator got us on a video call, diagnosed the problem in realtime, and then located a replacement part.
This is how product support should be done.
#Dyson #CustomerSupport
The operator got us on a video call, diagnosed the problem in realtime, and then located a replacement part.
This is how product support should be done.
#Dyson #CustomerSupport
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The most positive outcome of LLM-based coding is basically many more apps “like a home-cooked meal” www.robinsloan.com/notes/home-c...
The negative outcomes are pretty obvious, I think.
The negative outcomes are pretty obvious, I think.
An app can be a home-cooked meal
I made a messaging app for my family and my family only.
www.robinsloan.com
December 13, 2025 at 9:55 PM
The most positive outcome of LLM-based coding is basically many more apps “like a home-cooked meal” www.robinsloan.com/notes/home-c...
The negative outcomes are pretty obvious, I think.
The negative outcomes are pretty obvious, I think.
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“I’m not understanding the anti-big tech subtext in a show I’m literally not watching because I now have the attention span of an iPad kid”
I was asked what I thought now that #pluribus has reached seven episodes.
I’m not seeing any of the liberal subtext some folks are seeing. But I’ve learned to watch the show by fast forwarding through the long, artsy stretches where no one speaks.
There were exactly 2 lines of interesting dialogue.
I’m not seeing any of the liberal subtext some folks are seeing. But I’ve learned to watch the show by fast forwarding through the long, artsy stretches where no one speaks.
There were exactly 2 lines of interesting dialogue.
December 13, 2025 at 5:17 PM
“I’m not understanding the anti-big tech subtext in a show I’m literally not watching because I now have the attention span of an iPad kid”
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Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
December 13, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
I have copilot pro at work, but I only have the free version at home so when the tokens run out, I have to wait.
In my opinion, these MCP-all-the-things people need to be open about the actual $$$ cost.
In my opinion, these MCP-all-the-things people need to be open about the actual $$$ cost.
How I shipped more code and products than ever before with GitHub Copilot | AI Dev Days with James Montemagno
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#githubcopilot #ai #devtools #developers #vscode #visualstudio
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#githubcopilot #ai #devtools #developers #vscode #visualstudio
How I shipped more code and products than ever before with GitHub Copilot
From prototypes to production to advanced migrations, this year, like many, I have shipped more code and created more products than ever before. Thanks to Copilot across GitHub, VS Code, and Visual…
buff.ly
December 12, 2025 at 8:16 PM
I have copilot pro at work, but I only have the free version at home so when the tokens run out, I have to wait.
In my opinion, these MCP-all-the-things people need to be open about the actual $$$ cost.
In my opinion, these MCP-all-the-things people need to be open about the actual $$$ cost.
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I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
December 12, 2025 at 4:00 AM
I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
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no, tswift isn't a nazi. it's time to talk about modern info ops, and how we're being dog-walked by right-wingers and bots.
newsletter.sachajudd.com/archive/an-a...
newsletter.sachajudd.com/archive/an-a...
an album for cop wives
I want to talk this week about some backlash to Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl, but this isn’t a newsletter about Swifties, it’s about digital...
newsletter.sachajudd.com
December 12, 2025 at 12:27 AM
no, tswift isn't a nazi. it's time to talk about modern info ops, and how we're being dog-walked by right-wingers and bots.
newsletter.sachajudd.com/archive/an-a...
newsletter.sachajudd.com/archive/an-a...
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Kind of scary when you think about it: nesbitt.io/2025/12/06/g...
GitHub Actions Has a Package Manager, and It Might Be the Worst
GitHub Actions has a package manager that ignores decades of supply chain security best practices: no lockfile, no integrity verification, no transitive pinning
nesbitt.io
December 9, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Kind of scary when you think about it: nesbitt.io/2025/12/06/g...