Ruben Martinez Jr.
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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 🏳️‍🌈
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
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
Genuinely starting to consider whether I should open an Etsy store for all the stickers I make 😂
May 29, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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
Been a lil while since I sobbed this hard at a Broadway show! A must-see.
April 12, 2025 at 3:18 AM
jj kinda day 🥃
March 4, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Some more of my favorite shots from this set 📸 #photography
March 3, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Using this from now on to respond to PRs I don't love.
March 3, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Idea I prototyped with SwiftUI this morning: a toggle to switch from a card stack to scrollable list of profiles.
February 28, 2025 at 8:51 PM
January 24, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Big year for me + LEGOs so far 👷‍♂️🔧🚧
January 10, 2025 at 12:31 PM
I’m going to go out on a limb here and say “hotter fire bad” and “easier to extinguish fire good” theconversation.com/lithium-ion-...
January 2, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Some recent photos 📸
December 18, 2024 at 3:49 AM
literally who thought this was a good idea
December 6, 2024 at 9:44 PM
Yesterday evening, Eleven Madison Park very graciously offered my dinner party the opportunity to take a tour of the kitchen (I was thrilled), and then had our coats ready for us as we walked out & afterwards we were like wait… did we just get kicked out in the classiest most polite way possible? 😂
November 29, 2024 at 12:12 PM
Might make baking marranitos my own personal thanksgiving tradition 🤤
November 27, 2024 at 6:49 PM
I only take my friends to the nicest of places 😌
November 23, 2024 at 1:59 PM
November 20, 2024 at 1:22 AM
Someone told me they wanted Spotify Wrapped but for Slack emoji... and I took that personally.

✨ Emoji Wrapped ✨

Now on GitHub, coming soon to the Chrome Web Store github.com/rubencodes/E... 📊
November 19, 2024 at 11:05 PM
puffy chonker reporting for duty 🫡
November 19, 2024 at 1:35 PM
arrived at maple-mate.com from a podcast ad, and, wow no notes chef kiss
November 18, 2024 at 4:16 PM
I do not, as a general rule, drink lattes, but I desperately want to master the latte so I guess I drink lattes now.
November 18, 2024 at 3:59 PM
Being sick in bed yesterday reading Liars by Sarah Manguso was honestly impeccable vibes. 10/10 #BookSky 💙📚
November 18, 2024 at 3:25 PM
Best set of lines in a movie ever change my mind 📣
November 18, 2024 at 2:01 AM
“The hottest thing a guy can do is fold a fitted sheet,” I gently mumble to myself while doing laundry 😤
November 17, 2024 at 7:09 PM