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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

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.