Ben Curtis
Ben Curtis
@bencurtis.com
Christian, husband, dad, co-founder of Honeybadger.io, fan of Ruby, creator of the faker gem, EV nut (1, 2, and 4-wheel), LSU football fan, and cycling enthusiast in the PNW.
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Ok, Prairie Dog (prairiedog.app) is officially cool now... it has found a place in my browser's favorite bookmarks. :)
TUIs like Hunk are bring back good memories of Turbo Pascal apps. :) www.hunk.dev
We've had a significant uptick in the number of pull requests needing to be reviewed at Honeybadger in the past few months, thanks to Claude. It's cool to be shipping more stuff, but it can also be a lot sometimes. So I had Claude build an app to help keep tabs on all of them 😁 prairiedog.app
New Honeybadger feature just dropped... and I'm pretty excited about it: Anomaly detection! docs.honeybadger.io/guides/integ...
I just used crit.md for the first time while working on a PRD. Very cool!
I’m super happy I made it to @microconf.com … the content, the conversations, and the connections have been fantastic!
Excited to be @microconf.com this week … looking forward to connecting with peeps!
@simonwillison.net I liked the Cleanup Claude Code Paste tool you published.. thanks for making that! I made it into a PopClip extension: github.com/pilotmoon/Po...
I had a great time chatting with @justinjackson.ca and @briancasel.com today on The Panel: panelpodcast.com/39
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I just 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: github.com/honeybadger-...
You gotta watch this… it’s cool
Your metrics are green. No errors, no downtime, latency looks fine. Except 22 carts got abandoned last week because checkouts were slow for some users. Kevin used Claude + Honeybadger's MCP server to find the pattern. Watch it in action: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWGk... #observability #devtools
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This post about "Respectful Open Source" by @andrewnez.bsky.social 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/respectful-open-source.html github.com/stympy/forkwatch
I like the term "Automatic programming" from @antirez.bsky.social I think it fits for the process I was describing in www.bencurtis.com/2026/01/buil...
New blog post: Automatic Programming -> antirez.com/news/159
For the afternoon folks: I shipped a thing, I had fun, and I blogged about it. ;) www.bencurtis.com/2026/01/buil...
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: www.bencurtis.com/2026/01/buil...
I recently shipped something fun for Honeybadger: You can keep closer tabs on your cron jobs now, and even use them to get data into Insights for querying, charts, and alarms. :) www.honeybadger.io/changelog/ch...