Sean Coates is a person on the Internet

It’s 2026 and I’m running a BBS* like it’s 1991.

I don’t like how we got here.

Short note on here to point at another project I’ve just published: Orval in Dorval 2024 I’ve been collecting a case of Orval (the Belgian Trappist beer) every year since 2010.

Yesterday, we launched Studioworks, the platform that I (and Nick, and Chris, and Jessica) have been working on all year.

A few weeks ago I had to have a conversation with a vendor about credentials.

As of October 1, 2024, I've stepped away from my role as VP of Technology at Matter.

We’ve all heard the adage “perfect is the enemy of good.”

or: How, 25 years ago, I went viral and met King (Prince) Charles Someone has been paying me to work on technology stuff for over 20 years, now.

I’ve owned a Blue Yeti microphone for a little over five years, now.

This post doesn’t exactly fit the normal theme of my blog, but over the past few weeks, several people have asked me about this, so I thought it was worth jotting down a few notes.

TL;DR: got some hardware that didn’t have a driver I could use.

I both love and hate the idea of “smart” devices in my home.

I originally wrote this one to publish on Reddit, but also didn’t want to lose it.

I originally wrote this to help Stoyan out with Web Performance Calendar; republishing here.

On July 31st, Canada’s COVID Alert app was made available for general use, though it does not have support for actually reporting a diagnosis in most provinces, yet.

You’re looking at the new seancoates.com.

Officially, as of the start of the year, I’ve joined Faculty.

December 1st.

The last of the four (see previous posts) big API Gateway limitations is the 30 second integration timeout.

Another of the AWS Lambda + API Gateway limitations is in the size of the response body we can return.

As I’ve mentioned a couple times in the past, I’ve been working with Lambda and API Gateway.

In the previous post, we talked about Python serverless architectures on Amazon Web Services with Zappa.

For the past few months, I’ve been focused primarily on a Python project that we’re deploying without any servers.

Tonight, in Montreal (and many other North American cities), we change from Standard Time to Daylight Time.

I get asked, from time to time, what things I would recommend when visiting Vermont.

Previously we talked about using Vagrant at Fictive Kin and how we typically have many Virtual Machines (VMs) on the go at once.

Let’s take a short break from our discussion of Vagrant to talk about how we use SSH in production at Fictive Kin.

In a previous post, we talked about why we use virtual machines, and Vagrant, at Fictive Kin.

In a previous post, I mentioned that we — at Fictive Kin — over the past several years have managed to build a development environment that works pretty well, and that I’m proud of.

It’s been over three years since I’ve posted anything new to my blog.

There’s a very risky — but important — conversation that takes place in our community from time to time.

Over the weekend, I saw a discussion on Twitter about a particular developer who is worried about his future as PHP becomes less the de facto platform for all web development, and he moves to other technologies.

On Monday of this week, Amazon’s EC2 service suffered a major outage, which they call “performance issues”, which we all know is simply not true.

I think this is the first piece I’ve written on my blog that is tagged only “beer”; apologies to my readers who don’t care about such things ( there are feeds for PHP and Web as well, if you’d prefer to avoid the occasional post on beer geekery ).

Continuous deployment is all the rage right now, and I applaud the use of systems that automate a task that seems way easier than it is.

A very long time ago (three and a half years ago), I wrote a little utility to help us with the 2008 edition of PHP Advent.

We use quite a few technologies to build our products, but Gimme Bar is still primarily a PHP app.

There’s been quite a bit of talk, recently, in PHP-land about templates and the ramifications of enforcing “pure” PHP scripts by preventing scripts from entering HTML mode.

My friend Paul Reinheimer has put together an excellent product/service that is probably of use to many of you.

A year ago, I posted about Ideas of March, which Chris got rolling.

I have a long backlog of things to write about.

As I've mentioned in previous posts, I like beer.

Webshell is a console-based, JavaScripty web client utility that is great for consuming, debugging and interacting with APIs.

I'm happy to report that Gimme Bar has been running very well on MongoDB since early February of this year.

As mentioned in a previous post, we started building Gimme Bar a little over a year ago.

I was once told that "the only reason you're successful is that you were at the right place at the right time."

Around two weeks ago, Chris wrote a blog post that I responded to, and I was reminded of some of the great conversations that helped build our community.

Exactly one year ago, today, Gimme Bar was born.

As I write this on Christmas Eve, Chris is putting the finishing touches on PHP Advent 2010.

I use the command line a lot.