Former principal engineer/product architect at Slack. Now writing https://buildingslack.com and building https://mathmagic.fun. Used to be on twitter: https://x.com/johnnyrodgersis https://johnnyrodgers.ishttps://bsky.app/profile/johnnyrodgers.ishttps://bsky.app/profile/johnnyrodgers.is/post/3mlmua4hvsk2a1. 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 [contains quote post or other embedded content]12 May 2026 03:34 +0000at://did:plc:3gms4btujj5tmqa2vhds7rbi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlmua4hvsk2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/johnnyrodgers.is/post/3mleqyuvs6s2h08 May 2026 22:15 +0000at://did:plc:3gms4btujj5tmqa2vhds7rbi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mleqyuvs6s2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/johnnyrodgers.is/post/3mlelnjsrpk2hNew Boards of Canada album in less than three weeks: https://open.spotify.com/prerelease/7iUsz235vJWDmFXmQv0Tjy?si=0646ce2364554019 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 amazing08 May 2026 20:40 +0000at://did:plc:3gms4btujj5tmqa2vhds7rbi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlelnjsrpk2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/johnnyrodgers.is/post/3mlaiw4gctc2hI’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 UIKit07 May 2026 05:40 +0000at://did:plc:3gms4btujj5tmqa2vhds7rbi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlaiw4gctc2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/johnnyrodgers.is/post/3ml2pxjhrac2vI'll be at the Frontier Collective's Innovation House gathering next Tuesday May 12th https://thefrontiercollective.com/vancity-innovation-house-2026 Come say hi if you're in town for Web Summit!04 May 2026 22:30 +0000at://did:plc:3gms4btujj5tmqa2vhds7rbi/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml2pxjhrac2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/johnnyrodgers.is/post/3mklcph7ncs232 beta users onboarded 2 showstopper bugs found and fixed the system works!28 Apr 2026 19:23 +0000at://did:plc:3gms4btujj5tmqa2vhds7rbi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mklcph7ncs23https://bsky.app/profile/johnnyrodgers.is/post/3mkj5ixn3nk2uWhen claude says "Excellent research" after doing a round of planning, is it talking to itself?27 Apr 2026 22:45 +0000at://did:plc:3gms4btujj5tmqa2vhds7rbi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkj5ixn3nk2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/johnnyrodgers.is/post/3mk6r26s4sc2tThere's nothing stopping you from listening to Radiohead's entire discography in chronological order today23 Apr 2026 19:35 +0000at://did:plc:3gms4btujj5tmqa2vhds7rbi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk6r26s4sc2thttps://bsky.app/profile/johnnyrodgers.is/post/3mjvj45ektc2dIf your LLM “one-shotted” your app, you didn’t really have any idea what you wanted to build in the first place20 Apr 2026 03:19 +0000at://did:plc:3gms4btujj5tmqa2vhds7rbi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjvj45ektc2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/johnnyrodgers.is/post/3mj25o2qock2bMy AI just hallucinated a restaurant in Kitsilano called The Foggy Noodle and now I want it to exist 🍜09 Apr 2026 06:12 +0000at://did:plc:3gms4btujj5tmqa2vhds7rbi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mj25o2qock2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/johnnyrodgers.is/post/3mibxfhagx22oLove to see it https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/opinion/giving-pledge-philanthropy.html https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/opinion/giving-pledge-philanthropy.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share30 Mar 2026 15:16 +0000at://did:plc:3gms4btujj5tmqa2vhds7rbi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mibxfhagx22ohttps://bsky.app/profile/johnnyrodgers.is/post/3miatqrne6k2hthinking with high effort30 Mar 2026 04:38 +0000at://did:plc:3gms4btujj5tmqa2vhds7rbi/app.bsky.feed.post/3miatqrne6k2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/johnnyrodgers.is/post/3mi6fo3ct3c2lThis movie is perfect https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zl-wAqplQAo29 Mar 2026 05:21 +0000at://did:plc:3gms4btujj5tmqa2vhds7rbi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mi6fo3ct3c2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/johnnyrodgers.is/post/3mhwpflbcmk2eSome days just instantly become core memories26 Mar 2026 03:54 +0000at://did:plc:3gms4btujj5tmqa2vhds7rbi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhwpflbcmk2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/johnnyrodgers.is/post/3mhstwq5u7s25https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2026/jan/29/what-technology-takes-from-us-and-how-to-take-it-back https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2026/jan/29/what-technology-takes-from-us-and-how-to-take-it-back?ref=DenseDiscovery-381&fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQPMTI0MDI0NTc0Mjg3NDE0AAGnPjHZRs3AtgNgSKRg9kKB9yH1QGa-l11bL0qlrsD9GeSrOmovrolh5sdaKGA_aem_dV3--DZ7ifDBbYxcrnJ_Og24 Mar 2026 15:04 +0000at://did:plc:3gms4btujj5tmqa2vhds7rbi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhstwq5u7s25https://bsky.app/profile/johnnyrodgers.is/post/3mhqekmhu4s2tPart one of our two part post about the Salesforce acquisition is now up on Building Slack https://buildingslack.com/salesforce-part-one/23 Mar 2026 15:24 +0000at://did:plc:3gms4btujj5tmqa2vhds7rbi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhqekmhu4s2thttps://bsky.app/profile/johnnyrodgers.is/post/3mhm5gjsgp22zNow that I know this camera exists it's very hard to stop thinking about it. Hasselblad X2D II 100C21 Mar 2026 23:06 +0000at://did:plc:3gms4btujj5tmqa2vhds7rbi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhm5gjsgp22zhttps://bsky.app/profile/johnnyrodgers.is/post/3mhm4be6cz22iAbsolutely love these works by artist Thomas Jackson https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/03/thomas-jackson-fabrics-landscapes-photographs/21 Mar 2026 22:45 +0000at://did:plc:3gms4btujj5tmqa2vhds7rbi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhm4be6cz22ihttps://bsky.app/profile/johnnyrodgers.is/post/3mhhopberqc2pVery into these switches and dials in the Concorde cockpit.20 Mar 2026 04:31 +0000at://did:plc:3gms4btujj5tmqa2vhds7rbi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhhopberqc2phttps://bsky.app/profile/johnnyrodgers.is/post/3mhcjl65tic2jPoetic18 Mar 2026 03:16 +0000at://did:plc:3gms4btujj5tmqa2vhds7rbi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhcjl65tic2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/johnnyrodgers.is/post/3mh2ahmcors2gTrain Dreams is such a beautiful and moving film14 Mar 2026 20:12 +0000at://did:plc:3gms4btujj5tmqa2vhds7rbi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mh2ahmcors2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/johnnyrodgers.is/post/3mgxvgacurs25Loved 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 https://samhenri.gold/blog/20260312-this-is-not-the-computer-for-you/13 Mar 2026 21:49 +0000at://did:plc:3gms4btujj5tmqa2vhds7rbi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgxvgacurs25https://bsky.app/profile/johnnyrodgers.is/post/3mgxbh5fy6c2rRelease 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 https://open.spotify.com/album/6Hh2XrY2Yuse8omAzSabdp?si=M3csaE29RKW_R5RVNGi9gg13 Mar 2026 15:52 +0000at://did:plc:3gms4btujj5tmqa2vhds7rbi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgxbh5fy6c2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/johnnyrodgers.is/post/3mgn5vkg3js2aTeaching 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.09 Mar 2026 15:22 +0000at://did:plc:3gms4btujj5tmqa2vhds7rbi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgn5vkg3js2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/johnnyrodgers.is/post/3mgiany4ats2eToday I learned you can spend $7500 on a phono cartridge I truly had no idea07 Mar 2026 16:28 +0000at://did:plc:3gms4btujj5tmqa2vhds7rbi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgiany4ats2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/johnnyrodgers.is/post/3mgfqobegck2fGood morning https://open.spotify.com/album/4u12wGJmUgleE0z3DdWE3Y?si=SQqrMH_USLCks8XqzMmHww06 Mar 2026 16:36 +0000at://did:plc:3gms4btujj5tmqa2vhds7rbi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgfqobegck2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/johnnyrodgers.is/post/3mgegpjly322kSpring is blooming in Vancouver06 Mar 2026 04:05 +0000at://did:plc:3gms4btujj5tmqa2vhds7rbi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgegpjly322k