Founder · Operator · Advisor · Investor | roy.io | Board member @AppSignal
The Netherlands
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New landing page, and a renewed attempt at (non-business) blogging: roy.io/
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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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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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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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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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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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Old guy redecorating the office.
ALT Cupboard with TomTom, Gameboy, NES, old phone, and old Apple mice.
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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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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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Recap of my 3-month sabbatical, two months in: currently upgrading from Claude Pro to Max. ✨
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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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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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This video reminded me how quickly time flies and how often life passes us by. (Also, Back to the Future is still a masterpiece.) piped.video/watch?v=CaIfncUt…
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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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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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Goodbye, fine folks at AppSignal 👋🏻 linkedin.com/feed/update/urn…
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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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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…
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