{
  "id": 2944413,
  "title": "Giving back to my favorite Bookmarks manager - making it better for everyone",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/24/giving-back-to-my-favorite-bookmarks-manager-making-it-better-for",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-08-24T04:37:10.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/iabdsam/giving-back-to-my-favorite-bookmarks-manager-making-it-better-for-everyone-513p"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "This submission is for DEV's Summer Bug Smash: Clear the Lineup powered by Sentry and Smash Stories powered by Sentry. The author explains their experience with the Raindrop bookmark manager, which they had used extensively since college. While Raindrop offered simplicity and speed, the author discovered that as the volume of bookmarks increased, classification became a challenge. Over time, the app was primarily used to save links from Android apps, installed only on their phone.\n\nUpon learning about the bugsmash challenge, the author decided to revisit their long-forgotten projects and look for ways to improve Raindrop. They found that the open-source software had a low-hanging fruit issue that was waiting to be solved. The author focused on the open-source desktop app and decided to categorize all their bookmarks, using self-resolutions to manage the data. After installing the app, they found that the native app was refreshing at every action, making it unusable.\n\nDriven by the desire to organize their images and use the application offline, the author decided to submit a bugsmash submission on dev.to. They opened a pull request (PR) to address the issue and write a compelling story about their experience. To gain a deeper understanding of the codebase, the author utilized Gemini Pro, a language model, to help them navigate the unfamiliar code.",
  "summary": "This is a submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash: Clear the Lineup powered by Sentry . This is a submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash: Smash Stories powered by Sentry . About the Software I had used Raindrop bookmark manager extensively ever since starting college, with the applicaiton eating links and images across my devices. I always loved the simplicity, speed and desktop apps. Now, those who…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}