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Hello there 👋🏻 I'm Jeroen, a UX/Design engineer building things with Ruby on Rails and React. Usually I shitpost about it, but also about mechanical keyboards, Succession, film cameras and video games. Most of my stuff (dotfiles, notes, tools...) is open source, so feel free to check my repos.

Eric Sloane (1905-1985) Pennsylvania Autumn

I wanted a @repebble.com watchface showing my readings from my Nightscout instance. Looks pretty cool 😄 Let's see how it behaves for some days. This is a 13 yo smartwatch, btw. It's peak convenience design. Easy to replace parts and to tinker with it internally.

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Rainy day, chilly, some tea. Gotta love the cozy season. Autumn used to be my least favorite season. I think now it's tied with winter. I still do, and always will, hate summer.

Is there a labeler for people still on X? Motherfuckers I'm going to start unfollowing you here if you still there. Have some decency.

Heh, I was checking microsd packs too. Two years ago, 5 x 32GB costed me 19 euros. Today they cost 45 euros.

A toddler is running @wsocial.eu.

Me as I watch how my wife puts our sleeping baby in his crib, trying to not wake him up in the process.

Why am I entertaining the idea of spending 1600 euros on a mattress? What is going on? I don't like this timeline.

Any self-respecting creator (in this case, musician) using gAI should be embarassed. If it's just for his kids, why does it have a public website with links to Bandcamp, Spotify, etc.?

I killed one of my Lily58 PCBs. To be fair, I was butchering it with the soldering iron. It's well deserved.

"Summer is a place mislaid between expectation and memory." Eavan Boland, from "Moths", In a Time of Violence: Poems Grant Haffner Route 52

Less than two years ago I bought HDDs for 98 euros each. The exact same ones now cost 216 euros. Are we burning buildings already?

Someone decided at some point that the phone's power button should be repurposed as an ingress to the AI slop machine. They took the audio jack away from us and most of the physical buttons, and they're butchering the remaining ones.

Printed a case for my xteink x4. So far so good.

I don't think that having a phone with a camera makes one a photographer. Same as being a hairdresser because of having scissors or being a surgeon because you could open someone's chest. Having the tool is not the same as knowing the trade.

Ah Ed Sheeran. I thought it was bad enough that you were shutting the fuck up, but you spoke and somehow made it worse. Fucking clown.

New record for the smallest font size on a vibe coded UI: 9px. Half of the screen is using `text-[9px]`.

I think they managed to squeeze money from 70s and 80s kids when they became adults. It worked with things like Star Wars, GTA Vice City or Stranger Things. I see they're trying now with 90s kids. Sorry big corpos. Us 90s kids are mostly broke.

The 90s are the new 80s.

The amount of money they're pouring into building data centers everywhere is crazy. But it's great, because they will be able to collect and process a huge amount of data on how the economy collapsed because of it.

Using wago connectors is weirdly fun. Having a 3D printer and see the possibilities is a different level.

All these youtubers, how often stuff they try changes their lives? Goddammit they're lucky.

I just fixed the screen of my original Pebble with a folded piece of paper. This is preposterous.

It's funny that in this month of September there are two movies released, one called "Runner" and the other "The Runner".

Holy crap, I suck at sending audio notes. Luckily I have to do it once a year, tops.

Nobody will remember you for dunking on people on Twitter, being aggressive, or acting like a tough guy. You will be forgotten as an asshole. People will be remembered for being kind and generous. For giving more than they take.

We keep talking about how obsessed and deranged this man is, but what I'm really disappointed is at TJ and Prime. You could notice in their first interview that they were fanboying hard, but dude, at this point still there? Draw a fucking line.

I remember a couple years ago when I said that I loved the Ruby community because it was so chill and had no drama. Boy I was wrong.

in a world of JK Rowlings be a Dolly Parton