Johnny Rodgers

Invest yourself, your time, and your resources in things with intrinsic value: people, places, art, tools.

Crazy the degree to which Spotify mishandled this app icon. Your app’s icon is a huge part of your brand, but also how your users find your app on their phone. I have consistently stumbled trying to open Spotify because my brain is looking for the bright green circle. variety.com/2026/digital...

1. BC is a good place for data centres because of plentiful zero carbon hydro power 2. This will create jobs here 3. This isn’t what a data centre looks like 4. I don’t like seeing our PM use SV/Andreessen catch phrases

New Boards of Canada album in less than three weeks: open.spotify.com/prerelease/7... I have been completely captivated by BoC since my brother played me Music Has the Right to Children in '98. It sounded like nothing else I had ever heard. Their patience and singular focus since then is amazing

I’ve reached the point in my young iOS dev career where I have to admit all the SwiftUI haters were right. The performance price you pay for all the syntactic sugar catches up to you Wonderful for rapid prototyping and good enough for secondary flows. But the core still needs to be UIKit

I'll be at the Frontier Collective's Innovation House gathering next Tuesday May 12th thefrontiercollective.com/vancity-inno... Come say hi if you're in town for Web Summit!

2 beta users onboarded 2 showstopper bugs found and fixed the system works!

When claude says "Excellent research" after doing a round of planning, is it talking to itself?

There's nothing stopping you from listening to Radiohead's entire discography in chronological order today

If your LLM “one-shotted” your app, you didn’t really have any idea what you wanted to build in the first place

My AI just hallucinated a restaurant in Kitsilano called The Foggy Noodle and now I want it to exist 🍜

Love to see it www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/o...

thinking with high effort

This movie is perfect www.youtube.com/watch?v=zl-w...

Some days just instantly become core memories

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Part one of our two part post about the Salesforce acquisition is now up on Building Slack buildingslack.com/salesforce-p...

Now that I know this camera exists it's very hard to stop thinking about it. Hasselblad X2D II 100C

Absolutely love these works by artist Thomas Jackson www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/03/thom...

Very into these switches and dials in the Concorde cockpit.

Poetic

"The results are astonishingly clear. On rewilded land, biodiversity surged across the board, with the number of bird species up 261%. The variety of bumblebee and butterfly species more than doubled, their abundance increased over 10x." The cure for nature loss exists. share.google/w30RUdw1902W...

If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.

"The 'great mystery' that the opening narration of TRAIN DREAMS gestures toward is, perhaps, love. Specifically, the kind of love that survives damage, guilt, and time—a love that forgives and persists without guarantees, that remains present even after the people who inspired it are gone."

Train Dreams is such a beautiful and moving film

Loved this essay from @samhenri.gold ❤️ This was me as a kid in the 90s sneaking time on my sister’s 486 until she gave it to me, installing Bryce3D and Doom and trying to make Visual Basic do something interesting Now it’s my kid with GarageBand and Arduino samhenri.gold/blog/2026031...

Release the Pressure came up in a Sasha & Digweed mix this morning. So now I'm rediscovering Leftfield's incredible 1995 album Leftism. This had dropped off my radar some time in the 2000s and it's so nice to revisit open.spotify.com/album/6Hh2Xr...

Teaching my son how to build and program hardware. He’s having so much fun. Presently working out melodies to program into his little piezo speaker circuit. The @sparkfun.bsky.social inventor’s kit has been a great platform for teaching him.

Today I learned you can spend $7500 on a phono cartridge I truly had no idea

Good morning open.spotify.com/album/4u12wG...

Spring is blooming in Vancouver

Wild differential between USA and Canada in this research.

just another day at the office

Watching claude rubber duck the problems you give it is endlessly fascinating

My dog

A wonderful dream of an album full of warmth and solace open.spotify.com/album/3DxHQ1...

These Holo digicams from Manual are really cool shop.manualphoto.com/en-ca/produc...

New post up on Building Slack about launching our redesign just as Covid hit North America buildingslack.com/the-week-the...

Every day I look at iOS and MacOS liquid glass and am just continually shocked that platforms that have been maturing for decades took a giant step backward in visual polish and legibility because ... some designer likes transparency? And now there are a bunch of prefs to fix it? Who's to blame?

Discovered Björk's Live in Cambridge recordings of her Homogenic era are on YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=msv6... and Spotify open.spotify.com/album/6wrQxT... I had this concert on DVD in the early 00s and watched it dozens of times. Her performance is incredible and Mark Bell's beats are sublime

Made a shallow bowl with a burnt wood finish today

It really pays to remind ourselves frequently that this whole immigration "crisis" is made up out of whole cloth. There was no emergency,danger or problem, only a demagogue stirring up racist grievances for political advantage.

Days since I was pleasantly surprised by a Claude Code solution: 0 (Today, it wrote a temp python script to generate the necessary IDs for the .pbxproj file to fix Xcode's refusal to recognize new project files – something I've been bitten by and had to fix manually in the past)

Started reading LeGuin’s short story collection The Wind’s Twelve Quarters. The opener Semley’s Necklace is such a beautiful tragic parable. I loved the imagery and the light-handed account of interaction between space-faring and planet-bound species.

You can get replacement parts for missing Lego pieces for free on their website. My son lost the sticker sheet for his Artemis rocket set. Now a new one is coming in the mail. You get used to companies just doing the absolute bare minimum. It is so wonderful to experience the opposite ❤️

Keep the axe handy

New post up on Building Slack. Shortly after going public, we embarked on our first major redesign. We needed to rationalize 7 years of rapid product growth and set ourselves up for the next 7 years. buildingslack.com/rethinking-s...

Found this in my early Claude conversations, when I learned Anthropic didn't have a real image generation model.

Defenceless under the night Our world in stupor lies; Yet, dotted everywhere, Ironic points of light Flash out wherever the Just Exchange their messages: May I, composed like them Of Eros and of dust, Beleaguered by the same Negation and despair, Show an affirming flame. — W.H. Auden, Sept. 1, 1939

I think about this image a lot