Benjamin Curtis

Today I added a one-shot script to install the Honeybadger CLI and a systemd service to get host metrics (CPU, RAM, and disk) sent to Insights: #install-script" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">github.com/honeybadger-io… If you're as cool as @excid3 and using @hatchboxio, then I think you'll like it. ;)

I have an ongoing Claude Code session for tracking my sales activities, helping with research, etc. I told it to self-organize, keeping info by project/prospect and keeping a daily log of my activities. It's a better UI than any CRM I've used. :)

Kevin’s dropping the knowledge bombs on using Honeybadger Insights from Claude.

@derrickreimer Every time 🙌

Claude for building, Codex for reviewing.

@Shpigford @conductor_build I'm rocking this same setup — love it

the killer AI coding combo for me: opus 4.6 w/ max 20x ($200/mo) — primary workhorse gpt 5.3 codex w/ plus ($20/mo) — review pipeline + weird bugs all via CLI and @conductor_build

@obie I was thinking the same thing... And I *just* got done having Claude implement the Tool Search Tool on our MCP server, too. ;) github.com/honeybadger-io…

Code mode for everything.

@Shpigford @replysocial If you decide to offer a for-pay self-hosted option, you could give my app Breakwater a try for distribution. ;) breakwaterapp.com

as the dutch auction for @replysocial dwindled down to a tiny amount of money, i decided i'd just keep it for myself and grow it! i've been using it all day exclusively to reply + interact with 100+ replies as well as do all of my actual posting. along with that came LOTS of improvements: - image attachments in replies — upload and attach images when replying to tweets - retweet & quote retweet — retweet and quote retweet posts directly from the inbox - mute authors — mute specific authors to hide their posts from monitors - undo actions — optimistic updates with an undo toast for actions (3-second delay) - expanded t.⁠co links & media rendering — original tweets now show full urls and embedded media - full tweet text for long posts — extracts complete text from twitter’s note_tweet field - gif picker shortcut — press g to open the gif picker when replying - keyboard shortcut improvements — ⌘k for shortcuts modal, esc to close modals and empty reply textarea, auto-focus reply textarea on click - dozens of ui improvements felt good to ship a bunch of stuff on a tool i get a ton of value out of 🎉

"Everything looks healthy - all jobs are executing on schedule with consistent durations and no errors in the last 24 hours.” So cool :)

It showed the last 20 job executions from the past 24 hours and then summarized: “Three jobs are running on a regular schedule: - LicenseStatusTransitionJob - runs hourly on the :00, typically 70-145ms - ..."

I’m tracking events in Breakwater with Honeybadger Insights, and I wanted to know how my background jobs were doing, so I used the Honeybadger MCP server in Claude Code with this prompt: Can you show me the last few job executions from Honeybadger Insights for this project? ...

This post about "Respectful Open Source" by @teabass inspired me to have Claude build forkwatch, a tool that analyzes forks of any repo and highlights where multiple forks converge on the same fix. nesbitt.io/2026/02/13/res… github.com/stympy/forkwatc

@jacksondecampos That would be awesome! And thanks for letting me know I'm not blind/crazy. ;)

@stympy That's the best way right now. We should probably have the reviewer write to a file so you can @ it in the main chat

@jacksondecampos I'm loving Conductor! I have a question... I don't see an obvious way to share the results in the AI Review tab (1) with the main tab (2), so I've been copying and pasting the output from one into the other. Am I missing something?

It’s fun to tell Claude, "ship it", and watch it commit, push, and open a PR. I just did that for my latest blog post about using AI to build Breakwater, an app for managing licensing and access control for Docker container distribution: bencurtis.com/2026/01/buildi…

@kieranklaassen Do use pgbouncer if you aren’t already using it

@stympy how do yall manage your insane loads?

Who should I talk to? I’m running millions of background jobs and use GoodJob but the connection pool for Postgres is currently my bottle neck, not CPU, Memory, just waiting on LLMs and APIs. I don’t think I can really increase the connections that much more. Should I use Sidekiq, something else? Or a dedicated database? Seems like expensive and overkill. Who should I talk to? Appreciate it!

I'm moving to Bluesky. I'm @bencurtis.com over there.

@scottw Yup! go.bsky.app/EGczjGA

Does anyone have good starter packs for Ruby on Rails or Bootstrappers on the Blue site?

@jnunemaker @rails 🙌

Also I’m rocking my OG 0.x @rails shirt today. Who else is 0.x on here?

@jnunemaker That’s awesome 😎

My daughter asked me to use AI to generate a story for her about #RailsWorld. It was so good I had to share. "Ruby [...] now helps programmers everywhere to make the internet a magical place." "In a way, every time I use Ruby on Rails, I'm making friends with dragons, turning code into magic." 🤣