Roy Tomeij

Do you know what peak middle-aged looks like? Using your new blog to review a shredder (and what a nice one it is)!

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/typ...

Time for a walk 🤷🏻‍♂️

It seems Claude stopped reporting model usage at claude.ai/settings/usage. Did it end up elsewhere, or is it gone entirely?

Redecorating the office. What can I say? I’m an old guy.

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 😈 www.linkedin.com/posts/tomeij...

Recap of my 3-month sabbatical, two months in: currently upgrading from Claude Pro to Max. ✨

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-kil...

There it is! 🛸

This video reminded me how quickly time flies and how often life passes us by. (Also, Back to the Future is still a masterpiece.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaIf...

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-th...

Should have bought that new gaming PC three months ago after all 😅

Goodbye, fine folks at AppSignal 👋🏻 www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

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 😅

Working on a high-precision turntable for diorama display that can rotate continuously, and in 180, 120 and 90 degree increments. Waiting for the belt for this POC (will eventually be made from HDPE with heat insert threads).

#RailsWorld booth setup today!

And off we go! 🚀

It’s @appsignal.com’s first ever Launch Week next week, and we’ve got some cool stuff lined up. Oh, and we’re at Rails World, too. Stay tuned!

We're excited to officially launch our OpenTelemetry instrumentation! 🎉 blog.appsignal.com/2025/08/07/g...

I can’t read every résumé. Whether I read yours is based on the answer to a single question. It’s the cheat code. It’s the high-leverage moment where 98% of people quietly disqualify themselves. roy.io/want-to-wor...

"Why do you want to work at AppSignal?" The answer to this question is the cheat code that can move you to the top of the pile. I'm pulling a somewhat random number, but out of a thousand applicants, no more than 2% recognize this. www.linkedin.com/feed/update...

Dutch word of the day: “bestuurdersaansprakelijkheidsverzekering”

Come join my Customer Success team at @appsignal.com! 🥳

Bootstrapping Was My Identity. Then We Raised a Round. 😵‍💫 roy.io/bootstrappi...

Do I Have a Boss for the First Time Ever? (I’m 44…) roy.io/do-i-have-a...

Why a Dutch Company Raised $22M in the US Instead of the EU roy.io/why-a-dutch-...

AppSignal for PHP: help us test! 🔥 We're currently working on our PHP integration and would love for you to test it and provide early feedback. Will barter for stroopwafels and credits. Let me know if you're interested!

I'm doing sort of an AMA on "whatever you wanted to know about (how it feels) raising funding, and why" on LinkedIn, but will take questions here, too :) www.linkedin.com/posts/tomeij...

Running a bootstrapped company in a highly competitive market meant generating enough operating income to stay profitable, but not enough to challenge the status quo. That’s about to change… 🚀

Someone called unparsed mail merge tags in some email an “AI failure” today. In the middle of the Venn diagram of “computer” and “something I don’t understand,” it doesn’t say “AI.”

Asking AI to make an image of a toy version of yourself + accessories is one thing, making a physical version is something else. This guy does it (and I love his energy): youtu.be/MBjiiPC8rdE

One of my favorite macOS apps: MonitorControl! Controlling my external monitor's brightness and built-in speakers using the native Apple keyboard buttons ✨ roy.io/monitorcontr...

I'm back! 👋🏻

If you understand Dutch and are into SaaS: I was a guest on the "We Love SaaS" podcast! 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/5sp5...

Alright, I need to go to The Devonshire in Soho, London. The place and food look absolutely amazing: www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjG...

I'm covering a bit of Customer Success today, and I love that we created a place where the below is an acceptable reply 😅 "Yes, you should be all good! If "the system" keeps bugging you, please let me know so we can use some blunt tools to try to make it behave better."

It's crazy how a corporation like Disney – not shy of copyright infringement lawsuits themselves – uses a CC-licensed 3D model to sell as a physical souvenir at their parks, ignoring the CC license 🤯 Too big to get sued, and they know it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylK...

My wife and I bought each other tickets for Maria Mena's concert in Utrecht, NL, tonight. Double surprise! So now we have two tickets left over... Anyone who'd like to go tonight? Pay it forward later.

Stuff you could do in 2025 that will increase your luck surface area:
 - Podcast - Give a talk - Take a course - Go to meetups - Promote your work - Go to a conference - Publish on YouTube - Create a side-project - Write a blog/newsletter - Attend a founder retreat - Build something in public 💻🌱

Found my (very old) bulletproof vest while cleaning out the attic. Uncomfortably hot to wear in a club, and fortunately never really needed it. I threw it away, but not the memories of “the good old days.” 😎

If you want to write more in 2025, check out my free guide on how to start a writing habit. It has helped a bunch of people! writinghabit.com

So, best iOS app with proper Apple Watch support for tracking runs? Extra points for training plans and tracking walks and other activities. I used to use RunKeeper until they shittified their Watch app, Nike Run Club since, but open to suggestions. Paid is no problem.

People saying “all that preparation and nothing happened” clearly have no clue. Nothing happened because of all that preparation.

“We don’t want to pay €X for APM; that’s more than Y% of our hosting costs!” Could be. Now calculate how much your checkout process not properly working going undetected will cost you. False economy. 💸

🔍 Case Study AppSignal AppSignal is a powerful Application Performance Monitoring (APM) tool designed to help developers build scalable and reliable applications. This case study explores AppSignal’s entry into the Elixir ecosystem. erlef.org/blog/sponsor... #Elixirlang