somehow @rstephens.me knows exactly how to make me crack up and tear up in the audience of a conference talk #monktoberfest

The tech press are Tim levels of cooked. Absolutely nowhere will you see any mention of web apps and PWAs as an alternative to censorious native app stores (I looked), and that's a bloody scandal.

is there any more classic tech founder fallacy than thinking you don't need a comms person

during @juliaferraioli.com’s talk on agency, I think I realized last year was my year of gaining agency during a time where I wasn’t really feeling a lot of it. really appreciate her for that talk. 💖 #monktoberfest

you can have the best, innovative tech but don't have empathetic leadership you are at a disadvantage 🙌 @gabyberk.bsky.social @monktoberfest.com

show this to anyone else you know who also assumed DHH was just a normal conservative dude rather than a raging white supremacist lunatic

on using soft skills to your advantage in tech, always a good reminder: "people don't remember what you say, but how you made them feel" @gabyberk.bsky.social @monktoberfest.com

oh no, I thought of a monktoberfest talk idea

I love that in the same year there's been a talk that touches on roller derby at @monkigras.com and @monktoberfest.com from @miketheman.com and Amanda Casari

"because of the industrial complex that is pickelball" -Amanda Casari 😂 @monktoberfest.com

it's starting! the best joke, non-joke conference that exists. @monktoberfest.com

I forgot how much I love Maine. I'm wearing my "Real cowboys protect trans folks" shirt and my seatmate on the flight from IAD, an older person, came and found me after the flight to tell they really liked my shirt and noticed it when I was deboarding.

I’ve worked on a lot of launches over the years, so naturally doing it from my home office wasn’t exciting enough. now I’ve deployed things from a plane and an airport lounge. 😅 (yes, I had the appropriate backups in place.)

What a line from the Pope! I am so pleased he is carrying on Pope Francis’ advocacy for immigrants.

wtf they are checking everyone’s IDs at the gate for my flight to IAD. never seen this on a domestic flight.

I hear the President has decreed that it is possibly a crime to refer to Americans as "fascists," but "fascism" is a word that has a relatively clear meaning that's worth understanding. Here's how an official publication of the US Army defined "fascism" in 1945.

I’m really not doing my jetlag any favors by waking up before 5am for my flight to Monktoberfest

No need for a migration, it works seamlessly. Just link your NextJS (or any other framework you have on Vercel) repo to Netlify and it works. If it doesn’t reach out to me directly and I’ll make sure the team will check it

“Good docs are still good docs” 🔥🔥🔥 I chatted with @taylorbar.net, Staff Product Manager at @netlify.com, & Lyle Schemmerling, Senior Software Engineer at @fusionauth.io, about LLMs and Developer Experience for this episode of @redmonk.com's MonkCast. redmonk.com/blog/2025/09...

I hope people who know me have always known this, but I'll say it to be clear: If anyone ever needs help migrating a project to Netlify, I'm always willing to get you help if the standard steps of: connect the repo, update the env vars, change the DNS is not working. (This works for 90% of users.)

I love this anniemueller.com/posts/how-i-...

This administration has again and again revealed itself to be in philosophical agreement with the greatest monsters of the 20th century: the New York Yankees

Apropos of nothing. www.glamour.com/story/the-mi...

I'm excited to be back at @monktoberfest.com this week. I missed last year, and although my timing this year isn't great, I couldn't miss it. I'm not normally the bring your camera to a conf person, but this year I've been getting into using an actual camera, so if you want your photo, let me know!

another day, another day I'm reminded how low the bar is

ever have a travel day that felt like a total blur? I woke up 8am London time and got to bed in Austin at almost 2am the next day. let's see how long I can computer today.

good news: I'm back in Texas bad news: I'm a 2.5hr drive home from IAH the "I could drive home faster when stuck at IAH" joke is now true since we missed our connection also, anyone have tips on how to get a car rental comp'd on united when they offer the hotel instead?

I really didn't want my first United club visit to be because of an extended delay in Heathrow while going home 😭

honest question: who are the good framework creators who aren't leaning toward the fashy side?

I really want a more gay MLB

spent a whole day in Wales with a good amount of park time and never saw a corgi smh

day two on GWR ✌️

I’ve had a lot of amazing meals in London the last couple of years, but holy shit Berenjak was some of the best food I’ve ever had. you know it’s legit when my spouse who has grown up his whole life on homemade Persian food is in shock how good it is. best Persian eggplant dish I’ve ever had.

went a lot further east in London than I usually do and started seeing a lot of St. George’s flags, including spray painted on the cross walks’ white strips. definitely weird vibes.

The Ruby community has a DHH problem tekin.co.uk/2025/09/the-...

Besides the effects on the tech industry, right now there are H-1B holders—people—who built a life in the US. If they are traveling, they have 17 hours to get back to the US, or the life they built will be shattered and taken from them. Can you imagine constantly living with this uncertainty?

it’s probably a bad sign when the captain says maintenance is reading the manual to see if they can defer maintenance on something so the plane can take off over the atlantic ocean

Amazon is a leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for AI code assistants, but Cursor is not. How plausible!

treat yo self 🤣

Today I’m a very proud and happy open standards maintainer: OpenAPI 3.2 is now available! The release notes are a good place to find out what’s new (it’s a lot!) github.com/OAI/OpenAPI-... Huge thanks to our contributor community, you are amazing!!

it feels fitting that I shipped some stuff at work that I had been working on for months and now I’m about to be off next week in London, Bath, and Cardiff to log off for the week. ✌️

The DOJ is initiating an effort to segregate the City of Austin in order to punish its citizens for the grave sin of voting Democrat This investigation is a politically and racially motivated attack on our city and its people

If you’re 65 or older, you may want to get a coronavirus vaccine this week — before the CDC’s vaccine advisers meet on Friday. Health reporter Lena Sun explains: https://wapo.st/46GDWmy

It was a pleasure to tagteam with @jamildavid.bsky.social here. We write about how Houston really does deserve a WNBA team. He writes about how the time is right for Houston expansion. I write about how, despite the league's chicanery, queer fans and women deserve a chance to cheer:

If this were happening in another country, what would you call it?

hell yeah

ceramics class started again! damn this glaze makes my little mediocre thrown bowls look good, and I didn’t even plan to have these stack so nicely.

OH: “I finally bought my first thong” 😂 my spouse upon buying a shorter boxer inseam so the lines don’t show when he wears certain pants

unhinged in the best way possible

I got two really good shirts in the mail