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Someone who works in the parts department of a car dealership in Wisconsin saw one of our Honeybadger t-shirts and liked it so much he tracked down our 800 number and left a message. Shipping him one for free. This is what I love about my job.

It is impressive (if unsurprising) how fast Joe Kent—the Trumpist who unsuccessfully ran for congress twice in my district—failed his way into a national security scandal.

Look at this fantastic speaker lineup for Brighton Ruby in June. I am such a fan of Andy Croll!

You can just like go for a walk or a run and not track it. Crazy.

Gonna close my bank account, keep my savings in Robinhood. Live off the land (the grocery store doesn’t take crypto yet unfortunately).

Can’t a guy just enjoy some heroes in a half shell

Wife walks in to living room, “are you watching teen age mutant ninja turtles?”

And now she thinks I’m “cute” (source)

Wife walks in to living room, “are you watching teen age mutant ninja turtles?”

And now she thinks I’m “cute”

I feel like “the US President followed everyone on social media” will be one of those stories we tell our grandkids that captures the zeitgeist of the aughts but they won’t believe us.

You are genuinely describing the 2008 Obama campaign on Twitter, it followed anyone that followed him for a while. Millions of accounts (source)

I installed this mod in our realm server and it’s pretty fun/terrifying. We’ve been searching for it in caves and so far it has only stalked us. Probably gonna give the kids nightmares. 😂

It’s time for the U.S. tech and business community to drop the decorum around “politics” and start opposing this administration’s policies before they destroy our ability to do business entirely. It’s not political, it’s existential.

Is it a bad sign when you’ve pissed off the staff of Dunder Mifflin

Sat next to an older guy on a plane yesterday. Not a liberal type. A regional salesman with 42 years in the packaging industry. He said his clients are in chaos over the tariffs, and he’s traversing the U.S. to deal with the fallout. (source)

Sat next to an older guy on a plane yesterday. Not a liberal type. A regional salesman with 42 years in the packaging industry. He said his clients are in chaos over the tariffs, and he’s traversing the U.S. to deal with the fallout.

Great to see thoughtbot join Honeybadger and Transistor.fm in leaving X and Meta!

Rails is great for rapid prototyping, like when you need to replace all the US-based apps!

As a bootstrapped software founder much of my angst is just wanting to do too much with too little. And we do A LOT for our size. Gotta constantly remember that.

Public service announcement

https://youtu.be/bFl_sP231wY

Besides the personal concerns, it’s bad for tech and business. Our communities and businesses will suffer. It measurably makes everyone’s lives harder.

I’m surprised that business communities aren’t discussing this more tbh. Seems like a real threat.

It is fucking ludicrous that our friends and neighbors in Mexico and Canada must worry about safe travel to and from the U.S. (source)

It is fucking ludicrous that our friends and neighbors in Mexico and Canada must worry about safe travel to and from the U.S.

Just saw the trailer for Drop (2025). The killer is clearly the date.

Tbh this is why it’s so important to get the UX right for apps like Bluesky. Because this network needs to attract normies, and “decentralization” is confusing af. This is why no one wants to use Mastodon.

Part of the problem for writers migrating from Substack is losing platform benefits and network effects. A real alternative must be more than just a publishing platform. It needs networks and communities too. (source)

Part of the problem for writers migrating from Substack is losing platform benefits and network effects. A real alternative must be more than just a publishing platform. It needs networks and communities too.

I’m going to continue to talk about building (and migrating to) infrastructure to counter the right wing bullshit machine. Here’s another piece of that. We need good (better?) alternatives to Substack and we need to take our content and eyeballs over to them. (source: Kate Starbird on Bluesky)

Woke up to the kids practicing their recorders so naturally assumed I’m a contestant on squid game

Standing up from a seated position sure is harder than it used to be

Watching Fargo (the series) for the first time. Can’t believe it took me this long.

Yes things are bad, but also each day is a gift and it’s a marvel that any of this works at all.

We just launched a Honeybadger region in Europe. For all your performance monitoring and error tracking needs — now with EU data residency.

Tell your friends!

There is no such thing as AI art. It’s all spam.

Just called my US representative.

https://5calls.org/

Finally watched Snowpiercer. Now I know for sure what I wasn’t missing all those years.

Here’s an excellent video that explains why AI does not exist.

This is a wild story with a really cool DIY project at the end.

I swear Safari’s CSS rendering is gaslighting me

I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately. This is so well articulated.

Andy Vitek:

I think what I find so repellent about the far-right is the sheer nihilism at its core. For all the talk of culture and identity, they are just flimsy masks strapped over, in Arendt’s words “the intoxication of destruction as an actual experience, dreaming the stupid dream of producing the void.”

Hundreds of Beavers did not disappoint.

Finally watched The Bear. So good. We excited for Season 4 in June?

Proud of my friend Marc-André for writing a book. Can’t wait to read!

QAnon “From Conspiracy Theory to New Religious Movement” will be published by Routledge on August 13, 2025, available to preorder in July.

Double pneumonia is no joke. Day 10 of antibiotics and I can almost take a deep breath.

Mike Monteiro’s newsletters have been a bright spot in the week this year. Even when they’re kinda depressing. Also I just ordered all the shitty pulp editions of his and Erika Hall’s books.

So is the U.S. Government “Too big to fail?”

turning 40:

“I’m drunk with apathy”

The first rule of social media is that you don’t read the article

I’ve been thinking more since ditching my tools for thought

Washington state’s SB 5400 “would support local journalism by creating a tax surcharge to be paid by large international technology companies.”

“It would provide $20 million per year to split among existing newspapers, news websites and broadcasters.”

Great read

I have so much caffeine planned for today. It’s gonna be great.

The former White House Press Office distribution list is now forwarding Trump’s TRUTH Social posts, and has been renamed to “The Office of Communications”

I hate that my brain works so much better on nicotine.

(I haven’t smoked regularly in 15 years and still don’t feel the same without it.)

The narrative that J6 was “not an insurrection” is a pervasive lie and those who fall for it are falling for far-right propaganda. And now the convicted seditionists have been pardoned, vindicated.

The success of the seditious conspiracy charges a couple of years ago was a really important moment because the government had made up for the mistakes that they made in 1988. For the first time, arguably since the Civil War, the United States government had proven without question that groups that organize against the government on behalf of white supremacist and anti-government ideologies were attempting to overthrow the government. And that was a significant deal, not just legally, but also in terms of deterrence and building a democratic norm against violence. All of that has now been destroyed.

The sun is out today, following a week of cold, gray mist. Coming from California it took me over a decade in the Pacific Northwest to appreciate the winters here. While I still love the sunshine, I’m happy to report that I’m fully acclimated.