IRISH HOTEL BARTENDER: did you drop the apostrophe in your last name? ME: no, Marriott did that because the wifi wouldn’t work otherwise IHB: [muttering] the bastards

i think i need to implement a “not now, Red Sox Bot” feature when things are going poorly

i spent a good part of the offseason porting an open source project over to tell me how the red sox were doing. turns out the answer is: “really, really bad.”

really wish the cloudera april fools post was still online. the only good one of its kind.

speaking of not great, seems less than ideal when over half your lineup is hitting under .200

this seems not great

ahead of the MCP Dev Summit, thought i'd look into some of the metrics

in case anyone's looking for a new book i had to turn the red sox off, so figured i might as well write up what i've been doing since the last review sogrady.org/2026/03/31/b...

so far it is definitely not ideal

"Usage limit reached: resets 2:00 PM" is the new "i'm waiting for the compile to finish"

i haven't traveled with an actual laptop in close to ten years, but am actively considering it for this trip because AI and the things i do with it are just harder to do on an iPad

long shot question: any NYC followers out there happen to know any liquor stores in midtown likely to have Chartreuse? my visit to the MCP Dev Summit this week has had a side quest added.

bad calls are inevitable because umpires are human, but these…these are something else

the ten year old now calls Mayer "the bad ad guy"

with the red sox season officially underway, it’s time to take the wraps off redsox.bot. a team analytics dashboard, it’ll keep you updated on how the team hits, how it pitches, how the umpires treat them - even attendance around MLB. a 🧵 for anyone who's curious about how it was built.

i'll have more on this tomorrow, but for any sox fans up late this is now 99% functional. redsox.bot is an analytics dashboard covering hitting, pitching, umpiring and even park attendance. it's ported from another project as i'll go into, but for now if you want a sneak preview have a look.

TFW your work project uses up all of your tokens so you can't debug your personal project

i was originally referred to this book by @bcantrill.bsky.social, so was shocked to hear about Kidder's death from my wife whose father, it turns out, had counted Kidder as one of his clients

my daughter's favorite red sox player is roman anthony, so i was very happy to see that he was the first player on the field yesterday. between him and pedroia, i like using red sox players to illustrate the value of putting in the work.

modest mouse' latest single put it pretty well

made it through another long offseason, happy Red Sox Opening Day to all who celebrate. for those of you that are new here, you're about to find out what it means for a person to tie their emotional well being to the performance of a professional sports team. i apologize in advance.

cleanshot can do full screen, selected screen, scrolling capture, timed capture, video capture and a million other things like editing, annotation, light image work and so on. not free, but an excellent tool i use probably dozens of times per day. worth every penny i paid for it.

where do open source licenses stand in 2026? redmonk.com/sogrady/2026...

this surprised someone over on LinkedIn, so in case it's helpful: you can feed Claude Code screenshots. no more typing "this broke with this error message." instead you feed it the screenshot, it reads the error in it and responds.

[down by the ferry early this AM, crows on the wharf rails, lamp posts and terminal building] ELDERY WOMAN: you see this? it’s like that movie The Birds ME: oh don’t worry, they’re with me EW: ME: [smile, nod and walk off]

bad news is that's about 16 hours worth of revenue

denver to portland

what everyone needs is friends who will send you to the Arendsnest

"i'm sorry, i must have misheard you. i thought you said 50."

kid giggles are the best giggles

we’re at the stage in spring trading broadcasts where they’re debating whether or not the play by play guy is smarter than an octopus

it me

what’s this? an out-of-nowhere band of offshore snow aimed directly at my house as i fly back in? who could possibly have guessed that would happen?

i’m in an airport. per The Compact, there are no time zones here.

on it

with my #monkigras people in spirit, if not in person, as my person is currently in the detroit sky club rather than london

thinking about it, i can’t remember another trip i’ve made to CA in which i never made it into San Francisco at any point. but that’s how the cards fell this time, thanks in part to Poseidon. next time, SF friends, next time.

i’m grateful as always for my sky club access, but being able to get a poke bowl while sitting outside at a brewery is a much better dinner option before my red eye. well done, javaone. well done.

any song from any musical

redmonk’s history with this event goes back a very, very long way. if you enjoy redmonk beers, as but one example, they started here.

sunrise on the other coast

congratulations to venezuela on their world baseball classic championship. of all of the participating teams, you all deserved it the most.

60 MPH gusts out of Logan this morning before i flew out, and apparently CA is hotter than the sun this week. my weather blackmail retirement scheme is looking more plausible by the day.

in what apparently is now an unfortunate annual tradition, my daughter tested positive for flu right before i'm supposed to fly to javaone. really making me question whether there's some higher power that really, really doesn't want me there.

this is my fault, i apologize to everyone involved

i'm supposed to fly out to CA tomorrow, so naturally we're expecting 50 MPH winds and two and a half inches of rain here while NYC, where i'm connecting, should see widespread thunderstorms just as i'm supposed to fly in

the fact people like this have become cartoonish, Bond-villain like caricatures should not obscure the fact that this company and this executive specifically are clear and present dangers to democracy and this country

the latter. it helps if the dog is laying in front of a fire and doesn’t want to move.

i regularly export and upload my Goodreads library into Claude for suggestions, but this is by far the most useful prompt i've used. the suggestions are excellent and completely on point.