Ruben Martinez Jr.
@ruben.codes
📱 Staff iOS Engineer
💜 Breaking hearts/code at OkCupid
📸 Occasional photographer (@rmj.portraits on IG)
📚 Bibliophile (@rubencodes on Goodreads)
🐻❄️ Bowdoin ‘15
🐱 Cat dad
📍 Brooklyn
💬 He/Him 🏳️🌈
💜 Breaking hearts/code at OkCupid
📸 Occasional photographer (@rmj.portraits on IG)
📚 Bibliophile (@rubencodes on Goodreads)
🐻❄️ Bowdoin ‘15
🐱 Cat dad
📍 Brooklyn
💬 He/Him 🏳️🌈
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ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
www.seattletimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:35 PM
ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
I did another yak shave and rolled my own GIF view implementation for SwiftUI after being dissatisfied with what was out there. github.com/rubencodes/S...
GitHub - rubencodes/SwiftUIGIF: SwiftUI library for rendering GIFs from data, local assets, or remote URLs, with no external dependencies.
SwiftUI library for rendering GIFs from data, local assets, or remote URLs, with no external dependencies. - rubencodes/SwiftUIGIF
github.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:58 PM
I did another yak shave and rolled my own GIF view implementation for SwiftUI after being dissatisfied with what was out there. github.com/rubencodes/S...
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Time to look into your settings, folks.
Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out
A new Gmail update may allow Google to use your private messages and attachments for AI training. Here's how to turn it off.
www.malwarebytes.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Time to look into your settings, folks.
My side project the last few weeks: I built an app for easily cataloguing your personal library! It’s called readme, and it’s available on iOS and macOS! apps.apple.com/us/app/readm...
August 30, 2025 at 12:04 AM
My side project the last few weeks: I built an app for easily cataloguing your personal library! It’s called readme, and it’s available on iOS and macOS! apps.apple.com/us/app/readm...
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JEOPARDY, APRIL 13th, 2049
KEN JENNINGS: This common euphemism for bribery has its roots in the Mayor Eric Adams administration of the mid 2020's.
CONTESTANT: What is "Slipping the Chips?"
JENNINGS: Still in jail, last I checked. The board is yours.
KEN JENNINGS: This common euphemism for bribery has its roots in the Mayor Eric Adams administration of the mid 2020's.
CONTESTANT: What is "Slipping the Chips?"
JENNINGS: Still in jail, last I checked. The board is yours.
August 21, 2025 at 1:17 AM
JEOPARDY, APRIL 13th, 2049
KEN JENNINGS: This common euphemism for bribery has its roots in the Mayor Eric Adams administration of the mid 2020's.
CONTESTANT: What is "Slipping the Chips?"
JENNINGS: Still in jail, last I checked. The board is yours.
KEN JENNINGS: This common euphemism for bribery has its roots in the Mayor Eric Adams administration of the mid 2020's.
CONTESTANT: What is "Slipping the Chips?"
JENNINGS: Still in jail, last I checked. The board is yours.
Loved this view of Fenway Park at The Lumineers concert this weekend 🤩 Straight off my Leica Q3 #photography
July 20, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Loved this view of Fenway Park at The Lumineers concert this weekend 🤩 Straight off my Leica Q3 #photography
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“We posted a series of screenshots without any alt text of a thread we shared on the site owned by a Nazi to explain why we amplified the words of a Nazi thanks to a freelancer we sought out to bring us the words of that Nazi which he hacked so we could spread meaningless distortions.” Fuck you.
Our assistant managing editor for Standards and Trust, Patrick Healy, posted on X today in response to feedback on our recent reporting on Zohran Mamdani.
July 5, 2025 at 2:54 AM
“We posted a series of screenshots without any alt text of a thread we shared on the site owned by a Nazi to explain why we amplified the words of a Nazi thanks to a freelancer we sought out to bring us the words of that Nazi which he hacked so we could spread meaningless distortions.” Fuck you.
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The NYC primary race is bigger than local politics. It asks the question if the larger democratic base is as repulsed by progressivism as corporate Democrats and pundits try to will.
Anyways, did you know you don't have to have ever been inside NYC to phonebank for Zohran?
www.zohranfornyc.com
Anyways, did you know you don't have to have ever been inside NYC to phonebank for Zohran?
www.zohranfornyc.com
Phonebank for Zohran! - Zohran For NYC
volunteer.zohranfornyc.com
June 20, 2025 at 1:11 AM
The NYC primary race is bigger than local politics. It asks the question if the larger democratic base is as repulsed by progressivism as corporate Democrats and pundits try to will.
Anyways, did you know you don't have to have ever been inside NYC to phonebank for Zohran?
www.zohranfornyc.com
Anyways, did you know you don't have to have ever been inside NYC to phonebank for Zohran?
www.zohranfornyc.com
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This Senate proposal advanced by Sen Cruz would cancel new and existing State laws on any aspect of tech use including civil rights, consumer protection, privacy, fraud, safety for kids, accessibility, and more. In short, we’d lose the few laws we have that ensure responsible AI use. #killthebill
Don’t be confused: The Senate Republican AI language includes the EXACT SAME AI moratorium as the House bill. Almost word-for-word. This is a complete, 10-year ban on state AI regulation. Period.
June 6, 2025 at 4:29 AM
This Senate proposal advanced by Sen Cruz would cancel new and existing State laws on any aspect of tech use including civil rights, consumer protection, privacy, fraud, safety for kids, accessibility, and more. In short, we’d lose the few laws we have that ensure responsible AI use. #killthebill
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The public meltdown happening between the world’s richest man 🙄 and the President of the United States 🙄🙄 once again begs the age-old question: are men simply too emotional to be in positions of power?
June 5, 2025 at 11:04 PM
The public meltdown happening between the world’s richest man 🙄 and the President of the United States 🙄🙄 once again begs the age-old question: are men simply too emotional to be in positions of power?
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Mayor Wu defends calling ICE ‘secret police’ after US ttorney says it a ‘false narrative’
Mayor Wu defends calling ICE ‘secret police’ after US ttorney says it a ‘false narrative’
“The U.S. Attorney is attacking me for saying what Bostonians see with their own eyes," Boston Mayor Michelle Wu said Wednesday after receiving criticism over comments she made about ICE agents.
www.masslive.com
June 5, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Mayor Wu defends calling ICE ‘secret police’ after US ttorney says it a ‘false narrative’
Sometimes I just start my day at 5am and have done two loads of laundry and cleaned my apartment when I go to the grocery store and it’s not open because it opens at 8am 🤦♂️
June 5, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Sometimes I just start my day at 5am and have done two loads of laundry and cleaned my apartment when I go to the grocery store and it’s not open because it opens at 8am 🤦♂️
Genuinely starting to consider whether I should open an Etsy store for all the stickers I make 😂
May 29, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Genuinely starting to consider whether I should open an Etsy store for all the stickers I make 😂
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I know many people my age still have a lot of nostalgia around Harry Potter and might be tempted to watch the new HBO TV series.
Please, I'm begging you, do not tune in.
J.K. Rowling is singularly motivated. The new Harry Potter series is a cash cow intended to fund anti-trans bigotry.
Please, I'm begging you, do not tune in.
J.K. Rowling is singularly motivated. The new Harry Potter series is a cash cow intended to fund anti-trans bigotry.
J.K. Rowling is using her wealth attained from the "Harry Potter" series to create an organization dedicated to removing transgender people's rights "in the workplace, in public life, and in protected female spaces.”
🔗: bit.ly/3ZBRxYk
🔗: bit.ly/3ZBRxYk
May 29, 2025 at 12:06 AM
I know many people my age still have a lot of nostalgia around Harry Potter and might be tempted to watch the new HBO TV series.
Please, I'm begging you, do not tune in.
J.K. Rowling is singularly motivated. The new Harry Potter series is a cash cow intended to fund anti-trans bigotry.
Please, I'm begging you, do not tune in.
J.K. Rowling is singularly motivated. The new Harry Potter series is a cash cow intended to fund anti-trans bigotry.
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It has a cover! THE BEWITCHING is out July 15, 2025. Three women, three time periods, and a lot of witchcraft.
Pre-order now: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/760756...
Pre-order now: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/760756...
December 5, 2024 at 5:42 PM
It has a cover! THE BEWITCHING is out July 15, 2025. Three women, three time periods, and a lot of witchcraft.
Pre-order now: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/760756...
Pre-order now: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/760756...
I love looking at my OkCupid iOS repo commit chart because you can see that one time I cosplayed as an iOS engineer in 2019 vs now when it's my real job.
May 6, 2025 at 1:29 PM
I love looking at my OkCupid iOS repo commit chart because you can see that one time I cosplayed as an iOS engineer in 2019 vs now when it's my real job.
*reads four (4) books in a weekend*
Me: "hmm, I should join a third book club"
Me: "hmm, I should join a third book club"
May 5, 2025 at 9:56 PM
*reads four (4) books in a weekend*
Me: "hmm, I should join a third book club"
Me: "hmm, I should join a third book club"
So we’re all obsessed with Julia Whelan narrations, right?
May 1, 2025 at 2:09 AM
So we’re all obsessed with Julia Whelan narrations, right?
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Good job team America
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
April 21, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Good job team America
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Been a lil while since I sobbed this hard at a Broadway show! A must-see.
April 12, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Been a lil while since I sobbed this hard at a Broadway show! A must-see.
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“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”
What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced
Exclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S.
time.com
March 22, 2025 at 8:52 PM
“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”
Published my first new bit of open source software in a while! Had fun learning to use Swift Package Manager to bundle a CLI script. github.com/rubencodes/U...
GitHub - rubencodes/UnusedCodeTool: Tool for finding unused Swift code using basic text pattern matching.
Tool for finding unused Swift code using basic text pattern matching. - rubencodes/UnusedCodeTool
github.com
March 11, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Published my first new bit of open source software in a while! Had fun learning to use Swift Package Manager to bundle a CLI script. github.com/rubencodes/U...
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In a shocking turn of events, many of the people who said they wanted "free speech" actually just wanted to be the ones in charge of which speech is free.
UPDATE—Mahmoud's attorney says they do NOT know where he is.
They were first told he was sent to an ICE facility in Elizabeth, NJ. But when his 8-month-pregnant wife tried to visit him, she was told he's not there.
They've received reports he may be sent as far away as Louisiana.
They were first told he was sent to an ICE facility in Elizabeth, NJ. But when his 8-month-pregnant wife tried to visit him, she was told he's not there.
They've received reports he may be sent as far away as Louisiana.
March 10, 2025 at 2:44 AM
In a shocking turn of events, many of the people who said they wanted "free speech" actually just wanted to be the ones in charge of which speech is free.
I get so excited when I see the runtime of a movie and it’s only 90m. Any deviation from that should be a crime.
March 8, 2025 at 12:55 PM
I get so excited when I see the runtime of a movie and it’s only 90m. Any deviation from that should be a crime.
