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I’ve been tinkering with my own desktop environment built on Linux. still a long way to go but now it can update itself! gotta decide and commit to rounded or squared off windows and make it all match tho

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Andrea Fomera @afomera.dev · 29/09/2026

❤️❤️ 9 years was not nearly long enough with you but i’m thankful for the time i got. you were always the best chair stealer i knew.

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Andrea Fomera @afomera.dev · 28/09/2026

My talk is done (enough?) -- Ready for my @rmrubyconf.bsky.social talk on Tuesday, a few weeks ago I too built my own slide deck maker + exporter and I just ran through it and it worked great 10/10. Looking forward to the conference after a rough day tomorrow at least Tuesday can be a bright spot!

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Andrea Fomera @afomera.dev · 27/09/2026

cookin' on my own linux distro -- its a fun project I suppose but not even close to being good yet

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Andrea Fomera @afomera.dev · 25/09/2026

A few years ago, I would have to have used some obscure react component to get a date picker to do what I wanted. Now I get my own custom web element exactly the way I want it.

Screenshot of a WIP date picker that has a quick selection on the sidebar

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Andrea Fomera @afomera.dev · 24/09/2026

this is one view i worked out in my Project Manager, that my current job does that i wanted tooling for, to recap exactly what i did each day / plans for the day etc etc. little busy and needs work still but getting somewhere good.

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Andrea Fomera @afomera.dev · 24/09/2026

Ok maybe i lied about waiting to start this project, spun it up tonight and making great progress.

a list of 19 components in a design system for my new project

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Andrea Fomera @afomera.dev · 23/09/2026

me watching the Rails World keynote

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Andrea Fomera @afomera.dev · 23/09/2026

me fixing all the bugs before submitting my first native app for app store reviews

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Andrea Fomera @afomera.dev · 18/09/2026

I don't need it, but I want it. Switchfeed on iPhone Duo would be fun

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Andrea Fomera @afomera.dev · 17/09/2026

Time to get some real users using Switchfeed.

Two email subjects reading “Switchfeed has been approved for beta testing” for macOS and iOS

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Andrea Fomera @afomera.dev · 17/09/2026

And here we goooooo, waiting for the first app store review for Switchfeed to go to testflight folks.

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Andrea Fomera @afomera.dev · 16/09/2026

my first testflight build ❤️

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Andrea Fomera @afomera.dev · 16/09/2026

I've been working on a native macOS (and iOS) app for posting and cross posting to Bluesky and Mastodon. One of my favorite features (besides cross-posting) is a unified timeline across both platforms.

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Andrea Fomera @afomera.dev · 14/09/2026

It's coming together, the native social media app of my dreams so far. I think I might see about getting this up on the app stores. If you're curious this will also be on iOS and iPadOS too when i'm done with it (both of those apps are working too!)

A screenshot of a native macOS app for Bluesky and Mastodon.

A screenshot of the composing a post view for bluesky

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Andrea Fomera @afomera.dev · 14/09/2026

Things are coming along well. More work to do though

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Andrea Fomera @afomera.dev · 10/09/2026

Couple of tasty screenshots. Still very much WIP, no where near perfect. It's so fun to work on my isometric block game engine, I have so many ideas flowing!

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Andrea Fomera @afomera.dev · 09/09/2026

I picked up my Block Game again this weekend, rewriting it in rust due to performance issues I felt with the previous system. Just specced out the prefab json definition and whew this is gonna be powerful! My previous block game v1 was a first-person view, but this go around I'm trying isometric

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Andrea Fomera @afomera.dev · 04/09/2026

my next project is getting closer to being ready for non-me users. A replacement for a tool I use dozens if not hundreds of times a week. Screenshots and screen recordings + a way to share them.

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Andrea Fomera @afomera.dev · 27/08/2026

every programming language needs a web framework and that framework itself needs a blog example, right?

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Andrea Fomera @afomera.dev · 27/08/2026

so much posting is so little time

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Andrea Fomera @afomera.dev · 16/08/2026

One of the areas I wanted to improve with #Hanami was error pages Helpful errors and resolutions are super important for developers to remain productive and happy. ResolvableErrors is one thing your apps can include to keep yourself and your devs happy too. Builds off an all new error page comin

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Andrea Fomera @afomera.dev · 07/08/2026

Working on RubyEverywhere.com still in the background after work, it's coming along. Docs are in progress and then a round of polish and bug testing. BUT the iOS and Android apps for the Jump app are working on my device. It's all coming together

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Andrea Fomera @afomera.dev · 07/08/2026

ya know, this at one point was taking a whole second to run all my tests for this project. added a built in test slowness finder and optimized a few things and we're back to a reasonable (albeit slower) test run than before.

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Andrea Fomera @afomera.dev · 06/08/2026

Last week I started toying with an idea that will probably garner zero users other than me. As part of building this idea out, I needed to make running tests easy. The wild thing is this is one process running the tests.

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Andrea Fomera @afomera.dev · 06/08/2026

where we're going we don't need slowness.

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Andrea Fomera @afomera.dev · 06/08/2026

that's a super fast test suite run

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Andrea Fomera @afomera.dev · 28/07/2026

In both the iOS and Android versions of the Ruby Everywhere Jump app, you can preview your native apps on device, but like what do you do when you have native screens? Error? Be stuck on a constant loading bar because it can't load your native screens from another app? How about a message instead?

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Andrea Fomera @afomera.dev · 26/07/2026

I added a basic tui today for the RubyEverywhere.com CLI. Quick menu to jump to your app in an iOS simulator, Android emulator or a desktop app or even your browser. When you make a change that requires a relaunch of your app you can hit that platform's key and it'll rebuild, install and relaunch.

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Andrea Fomera @afomera.dev · 24/07/2026

Oh, you wanted native screens and to be able to drop into those? I gotchu covered.

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Andrea Fomera @afomera.dev · 23/07/2026

Oh look ma, it's a native iOS app from my Ruby on Rails app with just a yaml file.

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Andrea Fomera @afomera.dev · 19/07/2026

Tonight I finished app updating for the desktop app + publishing with release notes support. You define your own route/view on your rails app (esp if deployed), it communicates with our JS bridge to the native app shell and can trigger updates/install/etc as needed. Can auto-install too if wanted

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Andrea Fomera @afomera.dev · 17/07/2026

dog foodin, I went from no desktop app -> a desktop app with 1 command to install it 1 set of edits to a yaml file 1 command to auth to the Platform 1 command to build the app on the Platform pretty dang cool.

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Andrea Fomera @afomera.dev · 16/07/2026

I've been working on a promise to any users of this new thing I'm working on. A foundational key promise is that the core will always be free. I believe at the foundations that building your apps for all platforms should remain free if you've got the gumption to do the setup work yourself.

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Andrea Fomera @afomera.dev · 16/07/2026

finally. rip my actions budget for the month though

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Andrea Fomera @afomera.dev · 16/07/2026

im having a good time right now

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Andrea Fomera @afomera.dev · 14/07/2026

So I started codin' and here I am a few hours later and I have desktop builds with two modes, local where it compiles your Rails app -> a binary, that can start it up when you launch the .app it builds for you... and a remote which is a shell + bridge for remote deployments to web apps.

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Andrea Fomera @afomera.dev · 14/07/2026

my cholesterol is high enough I don't need LLM's to butter me up too.

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Andrea Fomera @afomera.dev · 13/07/2026

look ma I'm making it happen anyway

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Andrea Fomera @afomera.dev · 13/07/2026

i am so confused at where my attention is supposed to be given to with all these different colors in the top nav also wishing for something like this that didn't cost an arm and leg in Ruby 😭

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Andrea Fomera @afomera.dev · 10/07/2026

hey I know I can download more ram (which is great in this economy), but where can I download more storage??

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Andrea Fomera @afomera.dev · 06/07/2026

got my desk setup again and have my hacked customized firmware running for now until my hardware comes in. work and personal laptop on the left, gaming PC on the right :)

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Andrea Fomera @afomera.dev · 04/07/2026

i figured out i could write my own custom firmware for my TRMNL devices i had laying around not being used while i wait for my electronics to come in

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Andrea Fomera @afomera.dev · 04/07/2026

here's a few WIP shots of the potential dashboard for the first project at least, e-ink, e-ink dark and then a dark mode color for it

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Andrea Fomera @afomera.dev · 04/07/2026

I've been mulling over building this for years for myself for future plans, and wouldn't have done it if I had to do this without letting an LLM handle it for me. This enables my electronic projects to leverage these connections via an API I'll expose later, letting them be super useful.

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Andrea Fomera @afomera.dev · 03/07/2026

I'm having some fun prepping for some electronic parts to get in so I can get crackin on my project. first up will be the boot/wifi situation :D

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Andrea Fomera @afomera.dev · 01/07/2026

ouch this one hurt today

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Andrea Fomera @afomera.dev · 01/07/2026

bruh what are these airline tickets even, all them fees

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Andrea Fomera @afomera.dev · 14/06/2026

It took like 3x longer than I hoped to get to the filament being loaded properly (had to fix a few install issues) but it seems to be printing!

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