onboarding to my new job today, most comprehensive onboarding process i’ve seen. it’s really well thought out.

sometimes when i fly United they’re on the ball, and other times they drop it, kick it and have to find it under the couch. today they’ve been on the ball though. that’s nice!

> I'll tell ya why, because the engineers are not good at talking to the customers I have been personally attacked by a movie from 1999.

> Uh oh, sounds like somebody's got a case of the Mondays. So damn good

fine I'll rewatch Office Space.

Rubordle #22 2/6 🟩⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 afomera.dev/games/rubordle Pretty fun word today!

oh neat, I have something parsing git repos + vectorizing them + make it so I can ask my silly questions

lol wut, "Read 7 more replies" and then I click it and there's no visible replies lol

worst part of my job search + finding a job is it is impossible to unsubscribe to the linkedin job alerts. i mean i unsubbed like a week ago and im still getting them. terrible, where is bernard the unsubscribe mule when i need him to deliver for me.

no tolerance for bad design from the robots.

Rubordle #21 1/6 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 afomera.dev/games/rubordle Damn I got lucky!

hand rolled diff vs using a nice package for it

experimenting with something new for @forked.sh's overview

Introducing Expandly (app): Expandly is a text expansion utility app for macOS, so you can get that slack shortcode style snippets / emojis in other apps too. Free forever + source available since it requires accessibility and input monitoring perms. afomera.dev/posts/2026-0...

Introducing Checkset Checkset is a #ruby gem for repeatable verifications using Playwright. Picture the most critical, common smoke tests you do after deploys or on PRs. Automate that and increase your confidence in your changes. See the post for more information. afomera.dev/posts/2026-0...

give us your feedback on Hanami’s minitest setup please!!

Introducing Checkset Checkset is a #ruby gem for repeatable verifications using Playwright. Picture the most critical, common smoke tests you do after deploys or on PRs. Automate that and increase your confidence in your changes. See the post for more information. afomera.dev/posts/2026-0...

Rubordle #20 3/6 ⬛⬛🟨🟨⬛ 🟨🟨⬛⬛🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 afomera.dev/games/rubordle

A part about being trans no one tells you about: When you're trying to meet people, and you disclose (upfront, no surprises) that you're trans... you'll have a decent conversation and want to meet sometime and then the person will just delete their account.

> No keyboard detected. Press F2 to continue.

UPS: We'll deliver this between 9-11am Me at 10:20a - You sure about that?

you're telling me Claude, I know it's a lot

Listen, in my defense, it sometimes is fine. You can play Deploy or Die on my website -> afomera.dev/games Along with a few other fun games I'm trying out too!

Might be dreaming, renewal offer for my rent is a ~$50 reduction in total monthly cost. Wild.

Did I just book a last minute flight to a state I have zero interest in visiting really just to see gaming friends I've gamed with for over a decade? Yes. Was it a good financial choice? Probably not. Will I have fun? Yes.

in my defense though, you can use 'em to test against live sites too. More of an automated QA system than like system tests.

Oops, I just reinvented system tests with a gem I'm working on.

Ouch, that's rough to see all the GitHub issues in one place. mrshu.github.io/github-statu...

big day for me, announced i landed a job offer AND i got a costco membership

Friday after 28 days post layoff, 30 applications and 23 interviews I received and accepted a job offer. I'll post more when I start, but if you want to "find out where", solve the puzzles on my website! Super excited for the team, role and company. I'm so ready to get to it afomera.dev/decrypt

just had to stop myself from impulse purchasing a flight to another country. Good times.

~30 minutes from opening the laptop after being wiped -> freshly generated rails app hello world. Not bad!

> We enjoyed learning about your background > We've decided to pursue other candidates. Y'alls hiring manager spoke to me for like 10 minutes, she did NOT want to be there clearly lol.

Finally prepping a major overhaul of my dotfiles. It might be time to say goodbye to Oh My Zsh which I've used since the start of my development endeavors.

Just made a lil minigame to reveal some personal news. Getting a few folks to try it out and see what they think :)

I was driving down the road today and saw an accident's aftermath. Looked a little closer as I passed by and someone was having CPR done on them. The motorcycle was ~80ft from where they were doing CPR. It didn't seem good at the quick glance I saw before I looked away. I really hope they make it

After quite a long time of being without, I got a new smart watch today. Promised myself if I made it through the last ~month I would treat myself to one. Well I made it and today I followed through my promise to myself.

> That is without a doubt the worst pirate I've ever seen. *later* > That is the best pirate I've ever seen. > So it would seem.

working on what is essentially my fourth macOS app. - Taddly (productivity focus timer app) - RubyEnv (Ruby development tool) - GitChime (GitHub Notifications Menubar app) - Expandly (utility for text with slack style shortcodes) All of them solve a need I had or still have to this day.

current status

Alea iacta est. one of my favorite quotes and it rings true today.

Me to company who wants to schedule interview: It would be great to aim for early next week, so timing works out better for you in case offers come in so you're given a chance to stand out too. Company: *schedules for Friday next week* me: allllllrighty then.

the pressure of the job search being in the ~4th week is hitting me hard today

> But financially? > You are done. Thank you ominous AI.

lol chatgpt

this website is straight out of the early 2000s. Goodness!

is anyone using the codex cli and know if there's any way to turn off the distracting as heck animation on the current status? It's like _way to fast_ and distracting me lol

none of this would be possible without @indirect.io and team working on `rv`. I got jealous of Laravel Cloud's ~60 second deployments and I was like: "Must get as close as possible to that" for review apps. Like if I could come _remotely_ close to this experience, it'd be a win.

built a lil Go daemon that can take a curl command -> fetch & deploy a rails app in ~3 minutes, including install ruby / gems / setting up DBs / precompiling assets and so forth. Subsequent deployments take 30 seconds. 5 minutes from power on signal to fresh VPS -> opened app in browser

i’m out at lunch and overheard an old guy just say “antarctica is above greenland right?” 🫠