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Benjamin Coe @BenjaminCoe

Co-founded Attachments(dot)me, early employee at @npmjs, maintains yargs and Istanbul, created conventionalcommits.org. Product at @getsentry.

Joined March 2009
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argument: dashboards are still applicable in a world where analysis of telemetry is being done with agents. they're just more ephemeral -- perhaps conveying info from a single investigation -- and *way* easier to build. blog.sentry.io/dashboard-upd…

New ways to agentically build and edit dashboards

Create and edit Sentry dashboards with AI agents, the Sentry CLI, or pre-built templates you can clone and customize for your monitoring needs.

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Good sign: we immediately relied on Application Metrics @sentry while building them. They're launching today 👏 Why care? • dead simple to instrument • connected to spans, errors, logs → actually see why something’s off the rails • generous free tier — great for hobby projects blog.sentry.io/introducing-a…

Introducing Application Metrics: Track the signal, see the spike, jump to the trace

We just launched Application Metrics, a new way to track critical signals in your application. It lets you understand your users with context and catch problems before they become errors.

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I'm having far too much fun stress testing @sentry's new Application Metrics product. I can't decide if I like the "scrum_token" or "disruption_id" more.
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scientists prove that deep music is the rhythm of the world (2hz = 120bpm). all those vocal samples in club bangers were right! openaccessgovernment.org/nat…

Nature’s "universal rhythm": Why animals communicate at 2 Hertz

Northwestern University scientists have identified a universal "communication tempo" of roughly 2 hertz across diverse species

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my team @sentry just released a feature that lets you create killer dashboards for your app with an AI agent 🤖 it honestly feels a lot like magic -- see my example screenshots. If you use @sentry , try the feature out! feedback is appreciated 👏 github.com/getsentry/sentry/…
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used @claudeai to help fix cross-platform tests, getting out a fix for a CVE in a transitive dependency. This would have taken me many hours of work in the past spinning up a VM, etc. github.com/istanbuljs/nyc/pu… the future is cool.

fix(deps)!: update dependencies pulling in old glob by bcoe · Pull Request #1612 · istanbuljs/nyc

BREAKING CHANGE: transitive dependencies now require node 20 || >=22.

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made an extremely niche app with @claudeai this weekend for measuring the angle of adjustable climbing walls... I have to admit, a future where you can whip together something like this *in a morning*, for a very specific use case, is pretty compelling.
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working on productionizing your awesome new product? @NikolovLazar and I are putting together a series of posts about using @sentry to identify, and fix, common scaling problems: blog.sentry.io/paginating-la…

Paginating large datasets in production: Why OFFSET fails and cursors win

Offset pagination falls apart at scale. See how indexes and cursor-based pagination fix slow queries and keep production apps fast.

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Not far enough. IMO, you're ngmi if you sleep.
Ivan Burazin
@ivanburazin
20 Dec 2025
If you’re taking a break for the holidays your ngmi.
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Thanking all who came last night's SPDY MEETUP 004, as I had the distinct pleasure of having very timely presentations: 🔸 @RickByers discussed how to ask your boss to work on performance, sharing how he helped launch Core Web Vitals 🔸 @sergical demo'd @Sentry's webvitals.com which is now OSS! A great night . See you all in 2026!
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just shipped a feature at @Sentry that notifies you of web vitals performance issues... and, more importantly, it can root cause and fix 'em for you. as a self proclaimed terrible frontend developer, I find this pretty cool. blog.sentry.io/meet-web-vita…

Meet Web Vitals Performance Issues

Sentry now flags poor Web Vitals on your highest opportunity pages and helps you fix them with Seer. Spot slowdowns early and ship a faster, more stable experience.

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can anyone recommend software for remote administrating a parent's laptop. I'm looking for the best cheapest option.
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Thanks, I can afford an airport bottle of water and chocolate bar now.
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someone explain to me how this TV pilot didn't get picked up. youtu.be/lFKqr5GhcxQ

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I built a retro adventure game for @getsentry hack week. You should try it out: telemetry-quest.vercel.app/ Note, it doesn't work great on mobile yet.
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had the realization this weekend that LLMs have gotten good enough for me to rapidly prototype snarky Sierra-style games.
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I was thinking of this incident at @npmjs when I helped build Sentry's cache monitoring.
Sentry
@sentry
25 Jul 2025
Our latest blog post highlights a real-world incident that almost brought down @npmjs servers in 2016, as recounted by our very own Ben Coe. Then, @nikolovlazar walks us through how this could've been caught fixed faster with cache monitoring on Sentry 🧠 Link in next tweet
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once a week I begin pouring myself some "water tea", and that's when I know I'm a bit tired.
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I love checking my dashboard, but it's rad. Jokes aside, I'm really excited to see my team's work at @getsentry coming together. If you build software, you should check it out.
Sentry
@sentry
25 Jun 2025
"I love manually checking 7 dashboards every morning" — said no one ever 🧵 we just shipped a faster way to go from observation to action with new updates to Sentry Insights
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