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Joined September 2007
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May 30
There are three kinds of hotel showers 🚿
1: Rain shower that floods the bathroom
2: Automatically alternating water temperature between “freezing” and “boiled alive”
3: Combination of 1 and 2
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Apr 24
Current status: very much gone overboard with a Zebra ZD421 printing inventory labels. From a Next.js app that remotely connects to the printer over Tailscale through a tiny app that runs on a NUC on the same network.
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Apr 14
If your job was mostly typing code, you were always one productivity improvement away from being redundant. Now there's a tool that types faster than you ever will. 👉🏻 roytomeij.com/articles/typin…
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Mar 25
So @PaddleHQ's chatbot must be the most clueless I've ever interacted with. Please just use humans if you can't get bots right.
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Mar 2
It seems Claude stopped reporting model usage at claude.ai/settings/usage. Did it end up elsewhere, or is it gone entirely?
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Feb 25
Old guy redecorating the office.
ALT Cupboard with TomTom, Gameboy, NES, old phone, and old Apple mice.
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Feb 23
Is it me, or is Claude Code much faster and more accurate (one-shot) when building an app in Next.js vs Rails?
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Feb 21
People who fire their team of 30 and replace them with a swarm of agents running on 70 Mac Minis are in for a rough awakening 😈
linkedin.com/posts/tomeij_pe…
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Feb 10
Recap of my 3-month sabbatical, two months in: currently upgrading from Claude Pro to Max. ✨
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Feb 9
Every framework we rely on was born from pain. AI removes that pain; that's the product. But what if the pain is what drives innovation?
roy.io/ai-might-kill-the-nex…
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Feb 4
There it is! 🛸
ALT Front of LEGO box containing Star Trek TNG set.
ALT Back of LEGO box containing Star Trek TNG set.
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Jan 29
This video reminded me how quickly time flies and how often life passes us by. (Also, Back to the Future is still a masterpiece.) youtube.com/watch?v=CaIfncUt…
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Jan 26
I believed we ran a flat, non-hierarchical organization. I didn’t see myself as “the boss” and everyone else as employees. I saw us as one team. I was wrong. roy.io/youre-not-their-frien…
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15 Dec 2025
Anyone else getting “an internal error has occurred” when using Nano Banana Pro (with API key) in Google AI Studio? Other models seem to work 🤔
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13 Dec 2025
Should have bought that new gaming PC three months ago after all 😅
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31 Oct 2025
Friday night. Nerding out over screws (3D printed a bunch of boxes so I can store twice the volume in one container, and easily move them around).
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29 Sep 2025
Live from the @buzzsprout greenhouse at #RailsWorld 😅
29 Sep 2025
Our very own @roy recently talked to Marty and David at @railsworld Amsterdam, discussing the European Ruby community’s revival and the growing landscape of Ruby conferences. Check it out on the Ruby Gems podcast: buzzsprout.com/2509083/episo…
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9 Sep 2025
Working on a high-precision turntable for diorama display that can rotate continuously, and in 180, 120 and 90 degree increments. Waiting for the belt for this POC (will eventually be made from HDPE with heat insert threads).
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