Sean Roberts

as 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]

[eddie vedder voice] ohhhh oh i'm still online

Settle an argument between my wife and I: How long do you usually wait before taking down your January 6 decorations?

my desire to write documentation has gone up dramatically now that i can force an LLM to read it

The days are long but the fiscal quarters are short

Everyone'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.

the whos in whoville are suffering from Grinch Derangement Syndrome

Sending out the teams for my Saturday night hockey game

five dollars? get outta here

half 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

Mandela effect: my wife remembers there being a lot of cake left in the fridge but there actually was just a tiny little bit

Happy """Thanksgiving""" to my American followers

we don't check compiler output because it's deterministic and covered by a test suite which is also deterministic

Are 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.

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today i found out that one of the biggest misconceptions Americans have about Canadians is they think we like Drake more than Kendrick

Apple's vision for the web is it's just a single link to the App Store and nothing else

i 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

How many exceptions do you tolerate in production? joel.drapper.me/no-exceptions/

"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

They 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.

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Using 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 🙈

Are we human? Or are we computer?

a million JS/TS devs today:

the orbstack is a little old place where we can run containers

up late stressing out about what to wear to my first day at trade war

strategic beanie baby reserve

"Your item has been shipped!" is the biggest lie of the modern era

watching figma as the designer changes everything on the screen i just finished coding

got my work done quickly, call that prompt engineering

if Canada joins the EU can I still eat dinner at 5:45?

don't use ai to write your code? ngmi use too much ai to write your code? believe it or not, also ngmi

i know a useEffect when i see one

if you use cool white lightbulbs please don't invite me to your house

Xmas decorations all put away, now to enjoy 65 days of drab darkness and biting cold

AI 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

Can't believe I'm stuck at the airport just sitting here scrolling my stupid phone. I should be at home. Scrolling my stupid phone.

insane that anyone would play scrabble when boggle exists

It'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.

It's the most wonderful time of the year (when we claw back our daylight 30 god damned seconds at a time)

I'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.