Sean Roberts @omgsean.com · 23/01/2026as far back as I can remember I wanted to be a guy who goes on the computer a lot [rags to riches starts playing in the background] 010
Sean Roberts @omgsean.com · 07/01/2026Settle an argument between my wife and I: How long do you usually wait before taking down your January 6 decorations? 010
Sean Roberts @omgsean.com · 05/01/2026my desire to write documentation has gone up dramatically now that i can force an LLM to read it 010
Sean Roberts @omgsean.com · 01/01/2026Everyone's going nuts about Opus 4.5 but I don't really see it. It's a marginal improvement but it still makes a ton of mistakes and requires a fair bit of babysitting to not produce pretty sloppy code. 010
Sean Roberts @omgsean.com · 25/12/2025the whos in whoville are suffering from Grinch Derangement Syndrome 010
Sean Roberts @omgsean.com · 07/12/2025half my reels are in Spanish now so no I didn't just spend an hour doomscrolling I was actually practicing self improvement with target language acquisition exercises 020
Sean Roberts @omgsean.com · 06/12/2025Mandela effect: my wife remembers there being a lot of cake left in the fridge but there actually was just a tiny little bit 150
Sean Roberts @omgsean.com · 25/11/2025we don't check compiler output because it's deterministic and covered by a test suite which is also deterministic 270
Reposted by Sean RobertsMartin Emde @martinemde.com · 06/11/2025Are you writing service classes in Ruby? You need strong_service github.com/shkm/strong_... by @jamie.schembri.me for the best integration with ruby service DSL with zero dependencies and full rails compatibility.github.comGitHub - shkm/strong_service: 💪🏼 The best Service Object Ruby gem.💪🏼 The best Service Object Ruby gem. Contribute to shkm/strong_service development by creating an account on GitHub. 3172
Sean Roberts @omgsean.com · 21/10/2025today i found out that one of the biggest misconceptions Americans have about Canadians is they think we like Drake more than Kendrick 000
Sean Roberts @omgsean.com · 20/10/2025Apple's vision for the web is it's just a single link to the App Store and nothing else 000
Sean Roberts @omgsean.com · 17/10/2025i know it's not news but the floating address bar in Safari in iOS 26 is such a "fuck you" to web app developers and their users 000
Sean Roberts @omgsean.com · 02/10/2025I miss email. Here's why I don't like Slack: 1. Conversations not organized by subject 2. Messages feel ephemeral, so everything feels urgent 3. Not easy to add new participants to an existing private conversation 4. Basically impossible to send someone a message without interrupting them 220
Reposted by Sean RobertsJoel Drapper 🇬🇧❤️🇺🇦 @joel.drapper.me · 29/04/2025How many exceptions do you tolerate in production? joel.drapper.me/no-exceptions/joel.drapper.meNo ExceptionsThere’s no acceptable level of runtime exceptions any of us should be putting up with. 1173
Sean Roberts @omgsean.com · 27/04/2025"Remember how cheap inference was in the 2020s?" is going to be the "remember how cheap Uber was in the 2010s?" of the next decade 120
Sean Roberts @omgsean.com · 03/04/2025They called it the Great Depression, I don't think it was that great. People are saying my depression will be much greater. Some say it could even be the greatest depression. I don't know, we'll see. But it could be. 081
Reposted by Sean RobertsCal Irvine @calirvine.com · 25/03/2025Using AI to help me think of a library name for an idea I’m playing with, and look who pops up in one of its ideas. @omgsean.com 25.8% CoffeeScript 🙈 121
Sean Roberts @omgsean.com · 05/03/2025the orbstack is a little old place where we can run containers 030
Sean Roberts @omgsean.com · 04/03/2025up late stressing out about what to wear to my first day at trade war 040
Sean Roberts @omgsean.com · 24/02/2025"Your item has been shipped!" is the biggest lie of the modern era 110
Sean Roberts @omgsean.com · 21/02/2025watching figma as the designer changes everything on the screen i just finished coding 140
Sean Roberts @omgsean.com · 24/01/2025don't use ai to write your code? ngmi use too much ai to write your code? believe it or not, also ngmi 130
Sean Roberts @omgsean.com · 05/01/2025if you use cool white lightbulbs please don't invite me to your house 2120
Sean Roberts @omgsean.com · 04/01/2025Xmas decorations all put away, now to enjoy 65 days of drab darkness and biting cold 150
Sean Roberts @omgsean.com · 27/12/2024AI is cool and all but I still think it's incredible that we live in a time where you can have breakfast on one side of the continent and dinner on the other 120
Sean Roberts @omgsean.com · 26/12/2024Can't believe I'm stuck at the airport just sitting here scrolling my stupid phone. I should be at home. Scrolling my stupid phone. 030
Sean Roberts @omgsean.com · 24/12/2024It's so weird that Claude asks followup questions now and tries to keep a conversation going. at this point it's becoming a better conversationalist than some people I know. 020
Sean Roberts @omgsean.com · 22/12/2024It's the most wonderful time of the year (when we claw back our daylight 30 god damned seconds at a time) 010
Sean Roberts @omgsean.com · 18/12/2024I've been admiring Gleam from afar since the 1.0 release, finally got around to trying it via Advent of Code this week and wow is it ever different than anything I've ever worked with. Fun to feel like a complete noob again. 180
Sean Roberts @omgsean.com · 18/12/2024It brings me no pleasure to report that going for a walk made me feel better 0121
Sean Roberts @omgsean.com · 14/12/2024no. one of the greatest perks of being over 35 is I no longer have to think about what cut of pants is in style. 140