Rob Dunn

Apple Dev payment is failing on multiple cards, im going to assume it really want me to use a macbook (or apple device) and not be behind a VPN. Going to have to put it on the backburner for a day or so until i get a bit more time to get it done on the iPad.

my first chrome extension landed in production. ModHeader started putting ads in their extension so I created HeaderFlow, a super simple header modifier. chromewebstore.google.com/detail/heade... Check it out and give a quick rating (if it works) or let me know if its busted.

Signed up for apple developer program for the first time. IOS apps here we come. Social network coming a long, just a few tweaks and bugs to go.

Looks like my little ui tweaked are due to my bad dark mode implementation. Really have to sit down and clean it up pretty launch. Apart from that, most things work fine. #expo #superbase #buildinpublic

first build up and running as a beta on the play store. So many issues to fix, but the main story here is just how easy Expo is making things. I have a few app ideas that I'll migrate over from complex build systems to Expo just to save a lot of hassle.

Managed to get a quick landing page up: noalgo.me noalgo.me is a simple social media network, no ranking, no recommendations, no discovery. Just nice, simple and quiet. App should be launched soon (this side of Christmas) but will see how that goes. #buildinpublic #landingpagelaunch

Working on this new #expo app, a social media app with no algorithms, everything time based, 2 way validation for friend attachments. Gemini 3 is powering through the boilerplate which me just doing the checks and wiring. Hopefully ready in a week or so. Landing page I'm hoping goes up today!

Here we go again

#gemini in Zed is such a nice integration, been swapping between it and antigravity and I think I prefer zed (even though I'm paying for ai). Just needs autocomplete support (edit predictions) and I could pop over there full time.

looking at react to build a new app, thinking of avoiding #nextjs simply becuase i don't want to use vercel infra. Is React Router the next logical framework? or use something like Expo even if im not building a mobile app? #frontend #react

Took the time yesterday to do some small updates to affiliate linking through one if my sites. Realised how badly is set things up years ago. Trying to avoid a rewrite but same with all my projects I always feel I need to build from scratch.

#obsidian bases has been awesome, still waiting on filtering and kanban view and then all my dev task management can just be in plain markdown.

Has anyone played with #Windsurf yet? I've just been hearing about rate limiting and thought i might wait until things settle down before giving it a red hot go.

Looks like Gemini 3 is now out, going to give it a red hot go and see if it can convert my currently long AGENTS.md into a working application with React Native and Expo. Hopefully I'll be launching an app in a week if all goes well.

Been a while, but been mucking around with #gemini over the last few weeks, surprised how capable it is making something passable as an app/website. Editing and debugging still required, but a lot of the bootstrapping is gone. Having a comprehensive AGENTS.md is vital though.

Screwing around with Gemini CLI a bit more, got a number of ideas to build out, got a good AGENTS.md I've been working on so im hoping i just need to add in the idea brief and the rest is super straight forward.

Been a while. Life has taken priority but managed to roll out a new there for my retro app. Heaps of apps in progress along with some other exciting stuff Will try and post some statuses and ideas when I get around to it.

Astro is pretty cool. Chucking together a quick demo using htmx as well and it's pretty powerful in how simple it is. Partials and server side rendering make it pretty quick to whip up a webapp.

Just gave the new AI features in @zed.dev a go, so much better than the other apps this morning. Tied really well in, not just a VS Code clone with extensions. Going to throw some harder stuff at it, but so far so good. I might be changing default IDE for the first time in 5ish years.

Just tested out Void Editor. No idea if they qa'd it or not but the prompts don't want to edit in file, just chat response. Autocomplete is same as continue.dev with the same ollama models. Not sure why vscode forks are all the rage, but this could of literally been an extension, not a new app.

Just finished creating my Google Play developer account. Once step closer to launching a new project. only billing and some UI/UX to go now. #buildinpublic

Slowly realising my "fun" css frontend to my Retro project look like crap. I'm no designer but I'll slap some bootstrap on it and see if I can pretty it up. Waiting for the day AI can just design it for me so I can just write code.

Built my last project with Flutter after getting rid of #Nativescript. But checking out #Expo this morning and it looks pretty straight forward. Anyone had any issues/experience with it? I don't want to think its the solution to everything if it has the same issues as #Flutter.

Need to actually come up with a marketing plan as well sometime this week. I'm assuming the recommendation is to just ask AI? Or does someone have a cheat sheet I can look at?

What's up with the requirement to add in a D-U-N-S number to Google play, never published an app but being in Australia it goes through someone else and I need to update it all. What a mess around #buildinpublic #android

Tried to write up a bit on why I built a new retro tool. Give it a read or check out what I built robdunn.dev/posts/a-new-... retro.codewordalpha.com #retro #agile #retrospective #saas #webdev

I finally got around to posting about my new Junior Full Stack Dev onboarding project. Its been sitting in drafts for ages, still a bit rough (I'm not a good writer). But it's good to get this stuff on paper eventually. robdunn.dev/posts/new-ju... #management #webdev #onboarding #engmanagement

Been a while since I've been here. Projects / Code / Blogs took a massive step back whilst I prioritized family stuff. Hopefully more time on my hands now to finish all those projects and get some more stuff written.

Why doesn't @openrouter.bsky.social have image models? would be super handy. I guess you would have to retrieve the output as a blob or something rather then them chucking it in an S3 as the scale would be hard to manage within costs

Ollama seems to be losing its gpu acceleration with amd and falling back to CPU. Or just simply not becoming available after some idle time.

About to start looking into implementing RevenueCat for payments in my flutter app (with NestJS Backend). I'm assuming its good, does anyone else have recommendations? I need the easiest thing possible (because I'm nearing app building burnout) #saas #buildinpublic #flutter

Google login now working in flutter. Now just storing the jwt and attaching it to all requests to the api and we are in a beta. Starting to get excited. #flutter #buildinpublic

Flutter auth ended up being harder than expected. Not using firebase as I've got my own API, between different certs hidden around the place and error messages that say nothing it's safe to say I'll be working on this for a while. #flutter #nestjs

App is feature complete. (in terms of what it needs to do). Next step, #Auth with #Flutter and #NestJS. Seen some good resources around so I'm hoping that its going to be straight forward. Then onto monetization with RevenueCat (i think the best solution) Not long till launch now #buildinpublic

Got new business cards designed by @camilajamescj.bsky.social. Turned out great, new logo and everything. I haven't even thought about a logo for this project in 10 or so years so its always good for a bit of a refresh! Really happy with the result, makes the side project kinda "official"