Founder · Operator · Advisor · Investor | https://xitter.cf/t.co/UG8g3y87eC | Board member @AppSignal
The Netherlands
Joined September 2007
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New landing page, and a renewed attempt at (non-business) blogging: roy.io/
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
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.
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…
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.
It seems Claude stopped reporting model usage at claude.ai/settings/usage. Did it end up elsewhere, or is it gone entirely?
Old guy redecorating the office.
ALT Cupboard with TomTom, Gameboy, NES, old phone, and old Apple mice.
Is it me, or is Claude Code much faster and more accurate (one-shot) when building an app in Next.js vs Rails?
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…
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…
There it is! 🛸
ALT Front of LEGO box containing Star Trek TNG set.
ALT Back of LEGO box containing Star Trek TNG set.
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…
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…
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 🤔
Goodbye, fine folks at AppSignal 👋🏻 linkedin.com/feed/update/urn…
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).
Live from the @buzzsprout greenhouse at #RailsWorld 😅
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…
