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Do I know any good freelance technical content editors who love developer tools and hate AI prose with the fire of a thousand suns?

If you love Claude you’ll really love meth

Even if you’re getting more done, are you happier?

I love my kids and wouldn’t trade them but what would it be like if they didn’t consume my best brain cells each morning.

“sloppelgangers”

Nice weather lately but idk why you’d rather be outdoors, I love reviewing this slop

Writing helps clarify thought because the act itself forces you to organize it. […] Design works the same way for me. The value is not only in the output. It is in the gradual understanding that comes through doing the work.

GitHub has been struggling with reliability lately, and they removed their aggregate uptime numbers from their status page. This one adds them back.

atproto and lexicons are cool because they make your personal data portable. It’s trivial to switch to a different app that uses the same lexicon, or you could build your own.

Just published my first review on ATStore. Been using kipclip instead of Pinboard lately and it’s nice. I love that it uses community lexicons for the bookmarks schema.

Nice work Tijs Teulings!

journalists: “here’s what the footgun had to say about the unfortunate incident with the foot”

“You’re absolutely right. I will update my memory to never shoot your foot again.”

—a gun pointed at your foot (source)

claude fact checked this post: it’s actually 80% MLM and 30% genuinely useful

AI is 80% multilevel marketing scheme, 20% genuinely useful technology (source)

AI is 80% multilevel marketing scheme, 20% genuinely useful technology

“You’re absolutely right. I will update my memory to never shoot your foot again.”

—a gun pointed at your foot

asking the gun why it shot them in the foot: “did you just shoot my foot? BE HONEST” (source)

asking the gun why it shot them in the foot: “did you just shoot my foot? BE HONEST”

reading primarily LLM output is a problem. people write like they read

Been feeling overwhelmed at work lately, but just walking away for a few hours often helps. Not everyone can just leave, but if you can I recommend it.

It’s been fun working closely with the team at ClickFunnels to level up their application monitoring. If you’re in a similar position, we’d love to talk.

AI continues to melt brains

Y’all are saying stay off the internet but my kids have been up for hours and I’m afraid to leave my bedroom.

My daughter who just learned about April Fools’ whispers to me “what do you want to do for mom and [brother], I was thinking marshmallows with toothpaste in the middle”

Gotta have just a lil disruption to keep things interesting

Project Hail Mary 💯

They’re a bit young for high fidelity

My kids asked to watch another Jack Black movie so of course we’re watching be kind rewind (source)

My kids asked to watch another Jack Black movie so of course we’re watching be kind rewind

Just finished reading Dark Matter, that was intense. Is the TV show any good?

what if netflix released a claude code plugin

I would definitely watch a Bernie vibe coding video tho

Oh no Bernie Sanders “I spoke to AI agent Claude”

Gave the API stats page in Honeybadger a lil navigation refresh.

I wish folks would stop Bashing on AI

Kyle Shevlin: Who knew AI coding was just a bajillion grep commands in a trench coat? (source)

Me: I want to move just one button but I won’t because your productivity depends on it

Grocery stores: we’ve hidden the natural foods with the other products so you pay us 0.1% more on average

Imagine if SaaS apps constantly rearranged their UX like grocery chains do. Users would run us out of town. (source)

Imagine if SaaS apps constantly rearranged their UX like grocery chains do. Users would run us out of town.

It’s been over a year since I wrote LLMs and Debugging and not much has changed. The models are better but still have the same problems.

Meanwhile at Apple

I added “Copy page” and “View Markdown” actions to our Honeybadger docs. It re-renders the source markdown and converts relative links, images, and inline HTML/MDX/etc. Works well!

Here’s an example.

iykyk

We recently shipped a Honeybadger CLI. It works great for app monitoring workflows in Claude skills, and you can use it to report server/host metrics as a little treat.

“I wonder if anyone has made a music streaming/audio scrobbling app on atproto yet”

Of course they have, there are already several

“Would you rather be right or would you rather be happy?”

8yo, unhesitating: “Right”

Oh buddy.

Me whistling that song from Kill Bill as I stand and do the dishes

Watching what the JavaScript folks are doing over at npmx.dev is making me want to write more JavaScript.

So Zed just updated their Terms of Service to include a minimum age requirement. As a former tween coder, what the actual fuck.

“if you watch grown-up movies you’ll have nightmares”

“I already have nightmares”

I added a little feature to my dashboards TUI for Honeybadger that redraws the layout when the config changes on disk. Now I can have Claude work on the dashboards and watch them update live instead of restarting after making changes.

Instead of watching SOTU you could be watching the greatest blink182 cover of all time

Claude is cool but Kevin is the real wizard here. Creating incident dashboards on the fly is something we do all the time at Honeybadger. It’s a great way to share critical info with your team.

I once consulted for a fortune 100 and 10% of the time was writing software (it was finished). 90% was meetings. And then they scrapped the project and spent 10x on an off the shelf solution.

So no I don’t think most companies are just going to build everything themselves.

Amy Hoy: you can spend your whole career as a tech curmudgeon and be correct. then you face ai and your curmudgeon instinct is to say “i am worth less now” instead of “wow this is going to cause so many crises in quality”?

and corporate code projects don’t fail to ship bc code is slow. it’s people. (source)

There’s this weird thing lately where folks I have known or followed for years start posting obvious AI content, and it’s like a second-level simulation. They were already an avatar, now they’re an avatar filtered through a machine.

Trying to keep up with AI lately