Ben Curtis

If you're a regular user of Claude Code, you may have noticed that it likes to use certain phrases, like "load bearing", that you don't encounter very often in everyday conversation.

Recently I've been blown away with how good the AI models have become at helping me with my work.

With the rise of Bluesky and setting my profile to point to my domain here, I was motivated to write a blog post for the first time in 6 years. 😀 In that time I picked up motorcycle riding as a hobby, I started a podcast with my business partners, and I've

At Honeybadger we have standard retention periods for data from which our customers can choose.

I can't recall having done a year-in-review type of blog post before, but when Patrick suggested it recently, it seemed like a great idea, so I thought I'd give it a shot.

A while back I changed the stack I used for publishing this blog with the hope that I would write more because it would be easier to publish.

At Honeybadger this morning we had a failure of our SolrCloud cluster (of three servers).

Rob Walling wrote a great post yesterday about building up your bootstrapped business over time by taking on smaller projects before diving into big ones.

At Honeybadger we use Help Scout to manage our customer support, and that has worked out well for us.

If you want to have a Postgres column (aside from created_at) that you want to be populated with the current date if no other date is specified, you may be tempted to create a migration like this: add_column :invoices, :paid_on, :date, default: 'now()' T…

I'm currently working on a client project where site adminstrators use the same UI that site users do, so there are permissions checks in the views and controllers to ensure the current user has the right to do or see certain things.