Sean Smith

That ADHD feeling when you know you have something important AND urgent to do, but you just can't bring yourself to do it.

@samkhawase.com's post on email should be required reading for anyone sending transactional emails in 2026

*screams into the void*

TFW you realize you've eaten all 3 meals today at your desk, and you're still not done.

So Ubuntu publishes a new version of Nginx for 24.04 and 22.04 today, breaks ABI compatibility (we use Phusion Passenger), and thus I am introduced to snapshot.ubuntu.com.

Sometimes things happen and you find out that no matter how much you thought you fit in, you just don't. I'd love to say it is something that I can shrug off, but this one hurts. Worst part was that I had been having an excellent night otherwise.

We are not fighting over policy or political party. We are fighting over whether we are going to be a civilization rooted in empathy and kindness—or cruelty and rage. Choose your side.

Dear Justice Kavanaugh: it doesn't matter if it's going to be "messy". Your job is to interpret law, not policy. Do your damn job.

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I have no problem with virtue signaling. Hate has been given a megaphone and they have no problem amplifying those voices. There should be no shame in amplifying ours.

Some Louisville coffee shops insist that ICE be served with a smile. Others, like Safai at Logan Street Market have whistles behind the bar. Also at the alcohol bar at the market too. Caffeinate accordingly.

A heavily redacted cartoon. My @smh cartoon.

Blumenthal: "I'm a no vote on that spending bill unless there are conditions that require ICE to go to a judge, to get a warrant, as well as other kinds of constraints -- the use of masks, the non-identification, the unmarked cars. These secret police, totalitarian tactics need to be stopped."

Dear politicians, if you're not running on a platform of "we will undo all of this chaos" this election season, I will do everything I can to ensure you are primaried.

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” —George Orwell, 1984

I don't want to hear a damn thing about what anyone said about Charlie Kirk. This is vile coming from anyone, let alone the supposed leader of a country.

I've never seen anyone shoplifting food and neither have you.

📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms). It’s also concerning. 1/

I tried to explain why I don't believe the recent accusations toward my former teammates, as well as how the Ruby and Rails Infra team at Shopify operates and why it can be trusted. byroot.github.io/opensource/r...

WATCH: Trump’s lawless Ice goons shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper ball. Completely out of control.

It's weird how complicated and simple migrating my account to a personal PDS server was.

Trump in 2011: "If there is a shutdown, I think it would be a tremendously negative mark on the president of the United States. He's the only who has to get people together!"

So exhausting..

it's so funny to see America's health insurance companies be like "look. If there's one thing we love it's denying you care. but we ran the numbers - and we cannot BELIEVE we're saying this - and it's cheaper for us to just pay for the vaccines than deal with you going to the ER."

The punch line. Seriously. 🤣

As a Xennial, this is a sobering thought. Folks in the thread point out Heroin having a similar effect. Certainly something for later when I have time to think about this more.

Not sure who needs to hear this other than some coworkers, but... Not every announcement in Slack needs "@here" and "@channel" should never be used, ever.

starting to think we should give "strange women lying in ponds distributing swords" a chance as a basis for our system of government

Boss move: Coworker just said that he was going to miss the upcoming meeting, but that we should admit his AI notetaker so he can review the transcript/notes. Ain't gonna lie. I think I've finally found my favorite use case for AI 🤣. Just can't wait for the first meeting with only AI notetakers.

If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people: 1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money 3) We won’t need a lot of troops 4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq 5) We’ll find WMDs 6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators 7) It will be easy 8) It won’t take long All lies.

For some reason Twilio really wants me to link my customers' SendGrid accounts to my Twilio user account, but doesn't provide a way to link _multiple_ SendGrid accounts. I have access to the customer's Twilio account, but I can't get to their SendGrid account now.

Operationalizing Solid Queue in a Capistrano deployment strategy has not been fun. There are no migrations to create the database tables (only db:schema:load:queue). When Cap does a db:migrate, it wipes out db/queue_schema.rb before we have a chance to load the schema.

Ever wondered what is a day in the life of a server in an AWS data center ? @quinnypig.com has it covered for you www.lastweekinaws.co...

It's not urgent if you need an estimate.

C'mon, Apple. All I want is a standalone Touch ID sensor so I can use my mechanical keyboard instead.

Well, I had an interesting Sunday night, how 'bout you?

Illegal ideas.

@microsoft.com: Please fix M365. Y'all are sending emails from IP blocks not listed in spf.protection.outlook.com and I have customers with different DKIM keys between selector1 and selector2 on the same domain. It really affects deliverability when you're getting things wrong.

An underrated part of this video is you can watch the Dow go down in real time in the bottom right

Is Donald Trump going to respond to Musk’s email and report on what he did last week? To help, I’ve gone ahead and done it for him. A thread:

This thread, but this in particular. It's easier to alienate, hate, whatever a group when we make jokes about them.

@microsoft.com decided to drop me a popup to let us know that Azure Data Studio has been deprecated, to be shuttered in Feb 2026 in favor of the VSCode extension. Yeah, try better, y'all. That thing is a trash fire. learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure-...