Ricky Romero

Hi! I’m a designer (visual, interaction) and developer (web, React, some Swift). He/him.

When I’m not working, I’m playing video games, learning something cool, or tinkering with hobby projects. Log on and check out my rad e-posts

Ricky Romero boosted:
2025-12-25

if you got a lump of coal for christmas you can use it to power your local data center

Ricky Romero boosted:
2025-12-23

SPA that emulates the steam storefront, but only shows you unplayed games from your own library and lets you "purchase" them for a dopemine hit

2025-12-21

All this time I thought “make fetch happen” was a webdev joke that broke containment

Ricky Romero boosted:
2025-12-20

been having a blast watching Genmoji fall face-first making it generate “s’mores”

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Koen van Hovekoenvh@mastodon.nl
2025-12-17

Because I felt bad for all the DNS people having to miss out on the joy of working with rsync, I started on a DNS resolver over rsync. It should be mostly functional already.

Feel free to try it out. The records appear as files, and the time is set to when the TTL will expire.

A terminal window showing "DNS over Rsync" in ASCII art as a response to the query "rsync rsync://thuis.koenvanhove.nl/AAAA/nlnetlabs.nl/". The output lists a file called "2a01:4f8:c0c:cdfa::1"
2025-12-17

Putting this here for posterity because it *keeps happening:* Something not working right when you plug it in? TRY ANOTHER CABLE. IT'S ALWAYS THE CABLE

2025-12-14

Someone: What's this? 👀 Looks like you got a quaint little envelope – the address looks hand-written and it even has a real stamp! 🤭 There's no name, wonder who it could be? 😇

USPS Informed Delivery: it's AT&T

A screenshot of an email from USPS Informed Delivery. The attached image of the envelope is designed to look like it could be from an individual at a glance, but USPS reveals the sender to be AT&T due to incompetence on the part of their marketing department.
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Kieran Healykjhealy
2025-12-11

Absolutely. No problem. Let’s just keep it rolling. instagram.com/reel/DRd2ldWkQYr/

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undead enby of the apocalypseenby_of_the_apocalypse@kolektiva.social
2025-12-11
Comic showing someone excitedly say “awright here we go today I’m totally gonna” and lying face down on the floor in the next panel
2025-12-09

This one was about 30 years ahead of its time
social.erambert.me/@macthemes/

Ricky Romero boosted:
2025-12-04

Gonna start calling these notification dots “zits” and hope it catches on

A screenshot of the home icon in Threads’ logged-out web interface. A small, bright red dot is displayed above a much lower-contrast abstract house icon.
2025-12-04

Have you hosted your web app? It’s on Nodion. It’s literally on Kloudbean. It’s on Zeabur with ads. It’s literally on Cloudzy. You can probably run it on Railway. Dude it’s on Elest.io. It’s a Northflank original. It’s on PikaPods. You can run it on PikaPods. You can go to PikaPods and run it. Log onto PikaPods right now. Go to PikaPods. Dive into PikaPods. You can PikaPods it. It’s on PikaPods. PikaPods has it for you. PikaPods has it for you.

A screenshot of a webpage with a headline and several buttons:

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2025-12-03

@samhenrigold Let us know if you figure out how to liberate that money from its prison

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cassie cane 🎄aronia@tech.lgbt
2025-12-03

ah here it is

tumblr post from meow-moment

Me: So yeah, casual english has completely changed since then. Nowadays instead of 'There was a crying baby on the bus today' you would say 'Me when I'm in a being loud and annoying competition and my opponent is crying baby on bus.' And then you'd post this picture of Squidward. Oh, uh, Squidward is a guy from a cartoon-"

Reanimated Corpse of John Wilkes Booth: *Has been staring angrily at a penny for the last 15 minutes and not listened to a word l've said*
Ricky Romero boosted:
2025-11-22

I had a lot of fun modifying a Game Boy Advance tylersticka.com/journal/game-b

#gba #modding #metroid

2025-11-17

You Are A Chat App FYI

A large modal sheet overlaying the Discord mobile app that says “ORBS ARE NOW ON MOBILE / Earn from Quests. Spend in Shop. Reward your Play.” The options are Start Earning Orbs and Maybe Later.
Ricky Romero boosted:
2025-11-15
Ricky Romero boosted:
2025-11-14

I don't think a SteamOS landslide is inevitable or even likely but I definitely think MS doesn't realize how much they're playing with fire making Win11, their flagship and historic unbreakable monopoly, the "turning a big dial taht says 'user hostility' on it and constantly looking back at shareholders for approval like a contestant on the price is right" OS.

2025-11-12

Excited to replace my CPU-bottlenecked HTPC with the new Steam Machine next year. (Loving the product shots in the announcement video too - no 3D renders here!) youtu.be/OmKrKTwtukE

2025-11-12

Also yes I know you can do it without unlocking your phone. If you’re standing in line in an airport you’re probably already using your phone - in that case double-clicking the side button to get to the wallet isn’t going to save you. Requiring a passcode to exit that view is a common-sense security measure

Snippet from Apple’s press release:

Only the information needed for a transaction is presented, and the user has the opportunity to review and authorize the information being requested with Face ID or Touch ID before it is shared. Users do not need to unlock, show, or hand over their device to present their ID.

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