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If it’s an unknown substance, you know Mulder is going to touch it, probably put it in his mouth.

The thing you must remember about the folks building 10 saas apps and gunning for your business is they still gotta sell that shit.

Programming is already (too often) a solitary practice. Lately it feels antisocial.

Retirement is now defined as having the option to ignore AI

I made a terminal dashboard for Honeybadger that lets you visualize your errors, logs, and performance metrics from the command line.

It’s written in Rust and uses YAML dashboards you can export directly from HB.

You can install it with Homebrew — lmk if you try it!

My wife just told me people on Instagram are using Mumford & Sons in their anti-ICE posts and at least they’re speaking up but also lol

“I did TDD before AI”

Production debugging with AI agents has really improved my workflow lately. Here’s how to automate fixing bugs on GitHub.

This approach should work for Claude Code and other agents too, lmk if you want ideas.

I just set up a recurring donation to Wikipedia. As the information environment grows increasingly totalitarian, Wikipedia is more important than ever, and it’s under existential threat. Imagine losing it.

h/t Anil Dash

I wish more parents at my kids’ school would read The Goal so they’d understand how a line works.

I’m currently wrapping up my second build w/ Astro, it is so nice! Highly recommend. This looks like a nice blog template that uses TinaCMS to manage the content.

“Théoden no longer recognizes friend from foe. Not even his own kin. Saruman has poisoned the mind of the king and claimed lordship over these lands.”

I feel you, Éomer

Here’s something I cooked up over the weekend: a terminal user interface (TUI) that renders Honeybadger observability dashboards from our YAML source format (which we recently made public, more to come on that).

Say it with me kids: dad’s coffee time starts now. Dad’s coffee time is sacrosanct. (We’re building vocabulary)

A few from inside

Full set on flickr

I photographed the opening of the Ridgefield Art Gallery, where my wife is a managing member. I like these dark and moody images looking in from outside.

There have been no good reasons for staying on Twitter for years now, but at this point you will have to follow up any of your remaining excuses with “…and I don’t care about the child pornography.” (source)

At this point I’m not sure this is enough to convince anyone who is still there. They all have their excuses locked down.

We’re watching The Hobbit trilogy in December and LOTR in January. I think this will be a new annual tradition.

Might switch from Audible to Libro.fm. I’d occasionally miss Whispersync, but maybe I can live with that?

Checking out kipclip. Something I’ve been wanting for a while is a pinboard alternative built on ATProto. I like that this one is built on a community schema for PDS storage, as opposed to Rito. I wonder if the community lexicon will become standard?

That said, I like Rito’s pinboard-ish UI and that it has search+social features. Trying to decide which approach makes more sense long-term. How much does the schema matter in practice?

kipclip also has built-in tag management, which is essential imo. If you rename a tag, it renames it across all your bookmarks. 👌

Great read as always

Watching the new SpongeBob movie, pray for me. Kid likes it tho (source)

There was an awesome animated ninja turtles short before the movie about how AI sucks and steals everything

Watching the new SpongeBob movie, pray for me. Kid likes it tho

This reminded me it’s been a while since I reviewed my backup plan. This is a horrible situation, and not totally surprising unfortunately (although still shocking). Some of the worst support I’ve ever received was from Apple.

Mood

I’m planning to catch up on the last few seasons of Stranger Things, but decided to restart from the beginning. Currently on Season 2. It’s so good.

I made this tonight, seems useful.

Today I learned about Kanopy, and more people should know this: a whole ad-free streaming app you can access with your library card!

Check to see if your library is a member (mine is, and has a great catalog).

I love this “Mom, my business is fine” chart from Emmett Naughton, just in time for the holidays 🤣

I can’t wait this long for pluribus

High desert landscapes

Some window frames from the road last week

So how much did those turkeys pay for that presidential pardon?

6*7 = 42 (source)

Having just introduced the kids to hitchhiker’s guide for the first time we were recently discussing this. 😆

Finally we’ve arrived at the enshittification of trust 💀

So Oath Keepers who stormed the capitol get pardons but oath keepers who uphold the constitution get gallows. Got it.

I’m in San Francisco for SF Ruby and I’m already making friends

Is it just me or do half of the films available for purchase through Apple TV no longer have trailers

Can we all agree that tapping out emails on your iPad makes you some kind of criminal

PLUR1BUS

Another take on autumn street lamps

A few more street lamps

I love when street lamps illuminate the autumn leaves at dusk.

The cool girls for capitalism must be absolutely gutted

damn dude

Washington is alright I guess.

Chipotle cut its growth projections for the 3rd quarter in a row, citing the fact that it bet big on appealing to younger customers and they’re now broke. The stock is down -22% following earnings. (source)

I’m sure this has nothing to do with the awful food and service. We used to love Chipotle but quit going because it sucks now.

New from me: I wrote about Application Performance Monitoring and why developers should embrace observability tools.

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I like the new unknown senders UI in Apple Messages on iOS. Now if only they had a block + delete + report spam combo.