Sean Smith
@seansith.com
DevOps Enthusiast • Occasional Developer • Proud Louisvillian
Husband, Dad of 3
Black lives matter, reproductive and LGBTQ+ rights are human rights, believe women.
Husband, Dad of 3
Black lives matter, reproductive and LGBTQ+ rights are human rights, believe women.
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I've never seen anyone shoplifting food and neither have you.
California police boost patrols at grocery stores as millions set to lose SNAP benefits
California police boost patrols at grocery stores as millions set to lose SNAP benefits
www.foxla.com
October 30, 2025 at 1:43 AM
I've never seen anyone shoplifting food and neither have you.
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📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms).
It’s also concerning. 1/
It’s also concerning. 1/
PSA: we're aware that Signal is down for some people. This appears to be related to a major AWS outage. Stand by.
October 27, 2025 at 10:38 AM
📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms).
It’s also concerning. 1/
It’s also concerning. 1/
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This remains the funniest way to hear about an internet outage, though.
October 20, 2025 at 8:41 AM
This remains the funniest way to hear about an internet outage, though.
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Folks, this isn't to any of you specifically because I've seen more than one person doing it.
SUGGESTING THAT A BROWN WOMAN WON THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE TO REBUKE/TROLL A WHITE MAN
is super duper fucking racist on a pogo stick.
Please do not do that.
Enjoy that it will make Trump mad, sure.
SUGGESTING THAT A BROWN WOMAN WON THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE TO REBUKE/TROLL A WHITE MAN
is super duper fucking racist on a pogo stick.
Please do not do that.
Enjoy that it will make Trump mad, sure.
October 10, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Folks, this isn't to any of you specifically because I've seen more than one person doing it.
SUGGESTING THAT A BROWN WOMAN WON THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE TO REBUKE/TROLL A WHITE MAN
is super duper fucking racist on a pogo stick.
Please do not do that.
Enjoy that it will make Trump mad, sure.
SUGGESTING THAT A BROWN WOMAN WON THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE TO REBUKE/TROLL A WHITE MAN
is super duper fucking racist on a pogo stick.
Please do not do that.
Enjoy that it will make Trump mad, sure.
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I tried to explain why I don't believe the recent accusations toward my former teammates, as well as how the Ruby and Rails Infra team at Shopify operates and why it can be trusted.
byroot.github.io/opensource/r...
byroot.github.io/opensource/r...
Dear Rubyists: Shopify Isn’t Your Enemy
I’ve been meaning to write a post about my perspective on Open Source and corporate entities. I already got the rough outline of it; however, I’m suffering from writer’s block, but more importantly, t...
byroot.github.io
October 9, 2025 at 2:15 PM
I tried to explain why I don't believe the recent accusations toward my former teammates, as well as how the Ruby and Rails Infra team at Shopify operates and why it can be trusted.
byroot.github.io/opensource/r...
byroot.github.io/opensource/r...
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WATCH: Trump’s lawless Ice goons shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper ball. Completely out of control.
October 8, 2025 at 11:23 AM
WATCH: Trump’s lawless Ice goons shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper ball. Completely out of control.
It's weird how complicated and simple migrating my account to a personal PDS server was.
October 7, 2025 at 2:26 AM
It's weird how complicated and simple migrating my account to a personal PDS server was.
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UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES should you give a list of the prescriptions you take to a federal government that has directly targeted people with chronic illness, mental illness, disability, autism, etc, with the eugenic language of elimination and stated outright they’re everything wrong with the country.
Trump announces 'TrumpRx' website for pharmaceutical drugs after Pfizer deal
Trump said the move will help improve healthcare access for low-income Americans.
abcnews.go.com
October 1, 2025 at 7:27 PM
UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES should you give a list of the prescriptions you take to a federal government that has directly targeted people with chronic illness, mental illness, disability, autism, etc, with the eugenic language of elimination and stated outright they’re everything wrong with the country.
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Trump in 2011: "If there is a shutdown, I think it would be a tremendously negative mark on the president of the United States. He's the only who has to get people together!"
October 1, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Trump in 2011: "If there is a shutdown, I think it would be a tremendously negative mark on the president of the United States. He's the only who has to get people together!"
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it's so funny to see America's health insurance companies be like "look. If there's one thing we love it's denying you care. but we ran the numbers - and we cannot BELIEVE we're saying this - and it's cheaper for us to just pay for the vaccines than deal with you going to the ER."
Regardless of the disgraceful nonsense we will likely hear from this administration in the coming days on vaccine “recommendations,” Americas healthcare insurers issued a joint statement tonight saying coverage for Covid and flu shots will remain unchanged from prior years.
Speaks for itself.
Speaks for itself.
September 17, 2025 at 3:03 AM
it's so funny to see America's health insurance companies be like "look. If there's one thing we love it's denying you care. but we ran the numbers - and we cannot BELIEVE we're saying this - and it's cheaper for us to just pay for the vaccines than deal with you going to the ER."
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Apropos of nothing, here's a thread of some Charlie Kirk highlights
September 11, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Apropos of nothing, here's a thread of some Charlie Kirk highlights
The punch line. Seriously. 🤣
It's seven years since we posted on Twitter about how kids kept coming into the library asking if we had any books about FORTNITE. We didn't back then, and we'd never heard of it so we tried asking what it was.
September 3, 2025 at 5:57 PM
The punch line. Seriously. 🤣
As a Xennial, this is a sobering thought. Folks in the thread point out Heroin having a similar effect. Certainly something for later when I have time to think about this more.
people often ask what’s wrong with gen x, and, like, there are a lot of answers, but i think the AIDS epidemic and the specific people it wiped out is probably an under discussed contributor to the bomber with red dots diagram
August 27, 2025 at 2:46 PM
As a Xennial, this is a sobering thought. Folks in the thread point out Heroin having a similar effect. Certainly something for later when I have time to think about this more.
Not sure who needs to hear this other than some coworkers, but...
Not every announcement in Slack needs "@here" and "@channel" should never be used, ever.
Not every announcement in Slack needs "@here" and "@channel" should never be used, ever.
August 8, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Not sure who needs to hear this other than some coworkers, but...
Not every announcement in Slack needs "@here" and "@channel" should never be used, ever.
Not every announcement in Slack needs "@here" and "@channel" should never be used, ever.
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starting to think we should give "strange women lying in ponds distributing swords" a chance as a basis for our system of government
August 1, 2025 at 12:07 AM
starting to think we should give "strange women lying in ponds distributing swords" a chance as a basis for our system of government
Boss move: Coworker just said that he was going to miss the upcoming meeting, but that we should admit his AI notetaker so he can review the transcript/notes.
Ain't gonna lie. I think I've finally found my favorite use case for AI 🤣. Just can't wait for the first meeting with only AI notetakers.
Ain't gonna lie. I think I've finally found my favorite use case for AI 🤣. Just can't wait for the first meeting with only AI notetakers.
July 28, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Boss move: Coworker just said that he was going to miss the upcoming meeting, but that we should admit his AI notetaker so he can review the transcript/notes.
Ain't gonna lie. I think I've finally found my favorite use case for AI 🤣. Just can't wait for the first meeting with only AI notetakers.
Ain't gonna lie. I think I've finally found my favorite use case for AI 🤣. Just can't wait for the first meeting with only AI notetakers.
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All this because y’all hated a successful 2-term Black President & two overqualified Women presidential candidates.🤦🏾♂️
June 22, 2025 at 1:21 AM
All this because y’all hated a successful 2-term Black President & two overqualified Women presidential candidates.🤦🏾♂️
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If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people:
1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money
3) We won’t need a lot of troops
4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq
5) We’ll find WMDs
6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators
7) It will be easy
8) It won’t take long
All lies.
1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money
3) We won’t need a lot of troops
4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq
5) We’ll find WMDs
6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators
7) It will be easy
8) It won’t take long
All lies.
June 22, 2025 at 2:47 AM
If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people:
1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money
3) We won’t need a lot of troops
4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq
5) We’ll find WMDs
6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators
7) It will be easy
8) It won’t take long
All lies.
1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money
3) We won’t need a lot of troops
4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq
5) We’ll find WMDs
6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators
7) It will be easy
8) It won’t take long
All lies.
For some reason Twilio really wants me to link my customers' SendGrid accounts to my Twilio user account, but doesn't provide a way to link _multiple_ SendGrid accounts. I have access to the customer's Twilio account, but I can't get to their SendGrid account now.
June 18, 2025 at 8:46 PM
For some reason Twilio really wants me to link my customers' SendGrid accounts to my Twilio user account, but doesn't provide a way to link _multiple_ SendGrid accounts. I have access to the customer's Twilio account, but I can't get to their SendGrid account now.
Operationalizing Solid Queue in a Capistrano deployment strategy has not been fun. There are no migrations to create the database tables (only db:schema:load:queue). When Cap does a db:migrate, it wipes out db/queue_schema.rb before we have a chance to load the schema.
June 17, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Operationalizing Solid Queue in a Capistrano deployment strategy has not been fun. There are no migrations to create the database tables (only db:schema:load:queue). When Cap does a db:migrate, it wipes out db/queue_schema.rb before we have a chance to load the schema.
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Ever wondered what is a day in the life of a server in an AWS data center ?
@quinnypig.com has it covered for you
www.lastweekinaws.co...
@quinnypig.com has it covered for you
www.lastweekinaws.co...
A Day in the Life of Server #47B-2: An AWS Data Center Memoir
Or: Surprise! I Contain Multitudes and Also Your “Serverless” Functions
www.lastweekinaws.com
June 13, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Ever wondered what is a day in the life of a server in an AWS data center ?
@quinnypig.com has it covered for you
www.lastweekinaws.co...
@quinnypig.com has it covered for you
www.lastweekinaws.co...
It's not urgent if you need an estimate.
June 3, 2025 at 9:50 PM
It's not urgent if you need an estimate.
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AI is doing the coursework.
AI is writing the resume based on the coursework that AI did.
AI is reading the resumes that AI wrote that were based on the coursework that AI did.
AI is doing the jobs gotten by AI reading the resumes that AI wrote that were based on the coursework that AI did.
AI is writing the resume based on the coursework that AI did.
AI is reading the resumes that AI wrote that were based on the coursework that AI did.
AI is doing the jobs gotten by AI reading the resumes that AI wrote that were based on the coursework that AI did.
May 14, 2025 at 4:05 AM
AI is doing the coursework.
AI is writing the resume based on the coursework that AI did.
AI is reading the resumes that AI wrote that were based on the coursework that AI did.
AI is doing the jobs gotten by AI reading the resumes that AI wrote that were based on the coursework that AI did.
AI is writing the resume based on the coursework that AI did.
AI is reading the resumes that AI wrote that were based on the coursework that AI did.
AI is doing the jobs gotten by AI reading the resumes that AI wrote that were based on the coursework that AI did.