Block Game reached an important milestone tonight: I got one of my friends to download the game + play it for a bit. Tons of hilarious bugs uncovered, but I feel happy with my technology choice that less than two weeks in and I have a Windows / Mac build that works (albeit with bugs).

The biggest thing I'm so curious about is how the heck code goes out in a timely manner at orgs bigger than ~40 engineers?!? Just a deploy queue alone is always hopping with that many engineers, I can't imagine 10x that 🤯

Block Game is comin' along, there's a super basic adventure (survival) game play loop starting to form. (ignore the random planks, small bug that happened when I delete + created a world in the same slot) www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRMl...

Working on a block game is fun, because I get to have code that tells itself to save the universe.

EU doin' some things right for sure. beats the news from the US lately in regards to trans rights.

I used to think 30 open PRs on the work repo was a lot of open PRs. Then I got this job and there's around 200 open PRs. I mean the engineering team is 4x the size of other teams I've been on, so there's that, probably has something to do with it.

first deploy at the new job in the books 🙌

nothing warms my insides as much as seeing crying maga people on tiktok complaining that other countries aren’t being nice to them when they won’t tell who they voted for when out of the US. i have never once been uncomfortable telling someone who I voted for. funny how that works.

gas was 2.14 a gallon here a few weeks ago. it is now 3.49 a gallon.

👀 "Mom, can we get Minecraft?" "No Andrea, we have block game at home"

Onboarding at a new role is like sipping from a firehose. You want more and more, but damn if you get too eager you get blasted in the face.

Three weeks ago: > After reviewing your application, we've decided to pursue other candidates for this role. All the best. Three weeks later: *company posts the same job posting two more times* Good luck with that one folks.

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.