When the ranchers start to turn on you
“I’m no fan of big government,” Wilkins at the East Foundation said. “But a problem like this is what the government is for. We should have the government we need to handle this moment, and we don’t.”
“It’s against my programming to impersonate a deity”
C-3PO
Here’s what we’ve been mixing up at Honeybadger this past quarter. (that’s a pun)
Excited to ship this one!
I guess I’ll just be awake now
It’s apple fritter o’clock
Love getting The Onion in the mail.
I was recently interviewed for a Ruby Central company spotlight. I’d like it say it’s been a wild ride at Honeybadger, but it’s actually been pretty calm, relatively speaking. 😁
Thanks for writing about us!
Sinners is one to see
“Order is being processed, please don’t close this window”
Below that a big orange “Close” button. Do they do this on purpose?
Every time I see a K Line shipping container I think of IRC, am I a nerd
It’s alright
It’s okay
There’s something to live for
Jesus told me so
I am le tired
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
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.
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.
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.