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Ben Curtis @bencurtis.com · 04/09/2026

My wife and I may not agree on everything, but we agree on the important things… like which way the TP roll is oriented. 😉

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Ben Curtis @bencurtis.com · 26/08/2026

Giving Claude access to production logs sent to Insights is *so handy*

Screenshot of Claude Code session with this text:

(user input) Have codex check your changes

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Ran 1 shell command

Finding 1 would silently break everything, so let me verify it rather than take it at face value.

Called honeybadger-eu 3 times

Codex's top finding is wrong — I checked it against live data.

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Ben Curtis @bencurtis.com · 05/08/2026

Claude + Honeybadger is like peanut butter and chocolate. I got a Honeybadger alert, and asked Claude, "find out what's going on with [HB error URL]". It did its MCP thing, figured out and fixed the problem, and included this tidbit in the analysis:

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Ben Curtis @bencurtis.com · 28/07/2026

Prairie Dog is getting more and more handy... now I'm using it to clean up long-neglected PRs in addition to managing the flurry of PRs that Claude is creating.

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Ben Curtis @bencurtis.com · 21/07/2026

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

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Prairie Dog — the lookout for your team’s pull requests

One dashboard that answers “what needs my attention?” — reviews waiting on you, approved PRs ready to merge, stale branches. Installs as a GitHub App.

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Ben Curtis @bencurtis.com · 17/07/2026

With the Honeybadger MCP, resolving bugs is as simple as asking Claude to resolve fault X. The next thing you know, you have a PR. Love it. :)

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Ben Curtis @bencurtis.com · 13/07/2026

I'm wondering whether I'll leave the building even once while I'm at RubyConf this week due to the heat. :) Either way, I'm looking forward to it!

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Ben Curtis @bencurtis.com · 07/07/2026

New Honeybadger feature just dropped... and I'm pretty excited about it: Anomaly detection! docs.honeybadger.io/guides/integ...

docs.honeybadger.io

Integrations

Send Honeybadger data to other services.

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Ben Curtis @bencurtis.com · 22/05/2026

I'm wondering how to contact my helpdesk provider about their helpdesk product not working (and yes, their status page is all green) ... how's your Friday? :)

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Ben Curtis @bencurtis.com · 02/05/2026

I just flipped a feature flag for Honeybadger... see if you can find the new feature. :)

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Ben Curtis @bencurtis.com · 01/05/2026

Absolutely loving using feature flags (Flipper) to get feedback from beta customers on new features in Honeybadger. And it's easy to sync the "launch" of a feature with an update to the docs. :)

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Ben Curtis @bencurtis.com · 15/04/2026

PDX ➡️ SEA … when the taxiing time exceeds the flight time. 😏

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Ben Curtis @bencurtis.com · 14/04/2026

I’m super happy I made it to @microconf.com … the content, the conversations, and the connections have been fantastic!

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Ben Curtis @bencurtis.com · 14/04/2026

@robwalling.com we have a good number of MCP users … and CLI. 😉

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Ben Curtis @bencurtis.com · 13/04/2026

Excited to be @microconf.com this week … looking forward to connecting with peeps!

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Ben Curtis @bencurtis.com · 05/04/2026

The grave has no victory, and death has no sting. Happy Easter!

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Ben Curtis @bencurtis.com · 26/03/2026

I have opened 3 PRs so far this morning without using Claude. AMA 😉

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vrunt @vrunt.social · 19/03/2026

perfect, no notes. -- my review of 4'33" by john cage

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Ben Curtis @bencurtis.com · 18/03/2026

Do I know anybody going to SREcon next week? I’d love to meet up if you’re going to be there.

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Ben Curtis @bencurtis.com · 16/03/2026

The superpowers Claude plugin is pretty great.

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Ben Curtis @bencurtis.com · 11/03/2026

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-...

github.com

GitHub - honeybadger-io/cli: Official CLI for interacting with the Honeybadger API

Official CLI for interacting with the Honeybadger API - honeybadger-io/cli

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Ben Curtis @bencurtis.com · 09/03/2026

For everybody who's missing FounderQuest, here's a guest pod appearance for you. ;)

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Ben Curtis @bencurtis.com · 27/02/2026

My favorite safari trick: opening a bunch of tabs, shift clicking to select them all, then dragging them all off to make a new window.

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Ben Curtis @bencurtis.com · 25/02/2026

You gotta watch this… it’s cool

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Ben Curtis @bencurtis.com · 18/02/2026

I’m tracking events in Breakwater with Honeybadger Insights, and I wanted to know how my periodic 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? ...

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Jeremy Morrell @jeremymorrell.dev · 17/02/2026

Why not just use capnweb then? Isn't it really nifty?

Cap'n Web is an object-capabilities RPC library from Kenton Varda. Beyond its support for object-capabilities, it is designed to integrate very nicely with TypeScript and Cloudflare Workers. I couldn't find a JSON-RPC library that worked as nicely, so I stole its design used Cap'n Web as inspiration for a JSON-RPC implementation.

Cap'n Web has a number of benefits over JSON-RPC

Object capabilities. You can pass functions and classes by reference. This is more than a feature, it completely changes how expressive your API can be, and enables patterns that are not possible with a more limited RPC protocol.
Pipelining. Invoke two methods and then pass their results into a third in one round-trip.
Support for non-JSON data types: ReadableStream, bigint, Date
So why would you ever want to use JSON-RPC instead?

Mainly it's boring (link to Choose Boring Technology by McFunley) and has been around for longer than a few months. The JSON-RPC 2.0 Spec was last updated in 2013. Even more impressive, you can sit down with a cup of coffee and read the whole thing. Your coffee might not even be cool enough to drink when you've finished.

A few more points:

Widely used in the Language Server Protocol which drives code-editing basically everywhere
Used in MCP spec
Easy to invoke with plain curl commands
Works well with browser dev tools
Many client implementations in many languages
Cap'n Web is strictly more powerful, and I look forward to seeing it grow and mature, but for many projects today JSON-RPC is a great fit.

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Ben Curtis @bencurtis.com · 13/02/2026

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

nesbitt.io

Respectful Open Source

Maintainer attention as a finite resource.

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Ben Curtis @bencurtis.com · 30/01/2026

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...

bencurtis.com

Building Breakwater with AI - Ben Curtis

What used to take weeks now takes hours. I used ChatGPT and Claude Code to design and build Breakwater, and the results have changed how I think about shipping software.

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Ben Curtis @bencurtis.com · 28/01/2026

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...

honeybadger.io

Check-in payloads: know how your jobs ran, not just that they ran on time

Basic check-ins tell you when your cron jobs and background tasks don't run on schedule. But what happens when a job runs and fails? Or takes twice as long as...

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Josh from Honeybadger @joshuawood.honeybadger.io · 27/01/2026

Production debugging with AI agents has really improved my workflow lately. Here's how to automate fixing bugs on @github.com. This approach should work for Claude Code and other agents too, lmk if you want ideas. www.honeybadger.io/blog/copilot...

honeybadger.io

How to Build a Copilot Agent That Debugs Production Errors

Learn how to build a Copilot agent that connects to your error tracking tool, fetches stack traces automatically, and proposes fixes with tests.

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Ben Curtis @bencurtis.com · 17/01/2026

I don't trust AI enough to let it loose managing my infrastructure, but ChatGPT and Claude sure are helping in creating runbooks and modifying terraform configurations in response to a an incident!

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Ben Curtis @bencurtis.com · 16/01/2026

It's pretty wild to be looking at code that I haven't touched in ten years, especially when this app is getting updated every day.

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Ben Curtis @bencurtis.com · 15/01/2026

Some details on how AI helped… * Product name: workshopped with AI * Color scheme, HTML, CSS: generated by AI * Homepage content: workshopped with AI * Early access form: suggested by AI * OpenGraph image: created/iterated with prompts * Terms and privacy policy: *not* generated by AI ;)

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Ben Curtis @bencurtis.com · 15/01/2026

I’m amazed at how good Claude has gotten recently. It accelerates my work so much that I launched a new product to over the Christmas break: www.breakwaterapp.com It went from an idea to launched with less than 20 hours of my time. 2026 is going to be wild for B2B SaaS, y’all.

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Ben Curtis @bencurtis.com · 06/01/2026

One of the perks of using Fastmail: easy setup for outbound email for your side projects. Set up your new domain with Fastmail, then create an app password in Fastmail (limited to just SMTP access), then use that password and Fastmail's SMTP server in your app's mail configuration.

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

And see, even in that post I let out yet more context: I didn't see any condensation around my exterior doors, including on latches and hardware. What little I saw in those rooms was due to the air trapped between the blinds and the glass. Just hard to explain my whole reasoning concisely.

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 31/12/2025

There are a few people that do realize that racism was wrong, and those people are welcomed with open arms.♥️👍🏿 But what usually happens, is people conflate "Leopards are my face!🤡" with true reconciliation. Eg, as people are trying so hard to do right now with MTG. No. Rejected. Stay on that side.

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Ben Curtis @bencurtis.com · 09/12/2025

Kafka pro tip: If you're having performance issues, try increasing your batch size. It's magical! :)

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Ben Curtis @bencurtis.com · 26/11/2025

Today I launched a big (back-end, infrastructure) thing and not one customer noticed. 💯 🎉 Just the way I like it. 😉

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