Roy Tang 🇵🇭

Programmer, engineer, scientist, critic, gamer, dreamer, and kid-at-heart. I'm a longtime full-stack web developer. From the #Philippines.

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I'm a mastodon.technology refugee, not a twitter refugee. Mostly here to share blog posts and links

Probably relevant topics: #Tech, #Gaming, #MTG, #Comics

Website: https://roytang.net/
Github: https://github.com/roytang
Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/twitchyroy

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2026-05-28 05:14:55 GMT

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i am on that server and i see your posts

2026-03-28 04:12:32 GMT

Shared: Open Source Gave Me Everything Until I Had Nothing Left to Give - Kenneth Reitz https://kennethreitz.org/essays/2026-03-18-open_source_gave_me_everything_until_i_had_nothing_left_to_give.
> "The house I live in matters more than the code I ship. That's not something I would have written ten years ago. It's the truest thing I can write now."
Honestly, centering your identity around work (whether corp or open source) is probably just never a good idea.
#Burnout #Opensource

2026-02-24 21:26:38 GMT

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"You can only show up" is probably good advice for lot of things outside travel and software design

2026-02-24 21:26:37 GMT

Shared: Design docs considered harmful https://www.lucasfcosta.com/blog/design-docs.
> To put it another way, your travel itinerary should say "we're going to Portugal for two weeks, mostly Lisbon and Porto, and we want to eat a lot of seafood." It should not include a minute-by-minute schedule for day seven. The best meal of the trip will be at a tiny place with no menu that someone at the hostel told you about. You can't plan for that. You can only show up.

2025-11-21 02:35:48 GMT

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this thread was great! id love to have this sort of job where i just help people out with tech issues all day (i basically already do it for my parents!). Sadly public libraries arent really a thing where I am :(

2025-11-05 06:43:02 GMT

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"My hunch: vibe coding is a lot like stock-picking – everyone’s always blabbing about their big wins. Ask what their annual rate of return is above the S&P, and it’s a quieter conversation 🤫"
#Genai

2025-11-05 06:43:01 GMT

Shared: Where’s the AI design renaissance? https://www.learnui.design/blog/wheres-the-ai-design-renaissance.html.
> "Don’t get me wrong. I’ve had some incredibly productive moments with AI design tools. But I’ve had at least as many slogs, where I can’t get it to do some basic thing I should’ve done myself 45 minutes ago. And even those productive moments are generally for less important, less business-critical, less live-in-production design stuff."

2025-08-17 07:58:05 GMT

Shared: Resist AI! https://resist-ai.sh/.
> This website is a citizen's guide to opposing generative AI's harmful effects on our society.
#Genai

2025-08-17 07:38:16 GMT

Shared: Fascism For First Time Founders https://www.techdirt.com/2025/07/17/fascism-for-first-time-founders/.

2025-04-29 11:23:58 GMT

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how is Goon doing now? I hope he is well

2025-04-08 14:19:52 GMT

Shared: Get out of my <head> https://getoutofmyhead.dev/.
Tips for cleaning up your HTML's <head> tag
#html

2024-12-19 02:26:18 GMT

Shared: The Dark Side Of AI: Tracking The Decline Of Human Cognitive Skills https://www.forbes.com/sites/chriswestfall/2024/12/18/the-dark-side-of-ai-tracking-the-decline-of-human-cognitive-skills/.
> "Unlike earlier tools such as calculators and spreadsheets, which made specific tasks easier without fundamentally altering our ability to think, AI is reshaping the way we process information and make decisions, often diminishing our reliance on our own cognitive abilities."
...

2024-10-16 22:45:37 GMT

Shared: How GCash is contributing to the online gambling boom in the Philippines - Rest of World https://restofworld.org/2024/philippines-gcash-online-gambling-addiction/.
Huh, I never knew GCash had those features.
#gcash #philippines

2024-08-17 07:02:42 GMT

New blog post: Afterimage https://roytang.net/2024/08/afterimage/
#gaming #metroidvania #games
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2022-10-12 08:32:15 GMT

New server, new pin #Introductions
What to expect: Gaming, pop culture, tech stuff, current events, puns, anything I find hilarious.
The blog: http://roytang.net/blog
I stream games sometimes (mostly Magic Arena these days): http://twitch.tv/twitchyroy
I doodle/sketch sometimes: https://roytang.net/albums/sketchbook/
Try my triviabot: https://botsin.space/@triviastorm
Show me: your personal blogs/websites, writing, cluttered desktops, half-baked projects
Feel free to message me.