Ben's Journal

The Idea I wanted to put some old monitors I had lying around to use. As I contemplated how I could turn them into a sort of digital ...

I finished listening to Jeff VanderMeer's Annihilation: Book 1 of the Southern Reach Trilogy and I'm so confused. I didn'...

While looking for family friendly local hikes, I came across the verbosely named Columbia Air Center Loop Hike through Patuxent Rive...

Combining Tasker and Google Sheets has on more than one occasion been a massive win . Recently the Tasker Spreadsheet Plugin stopp...

I just wrote this long and winding tale about how Windows PowerShell exceeded my expecations. Consider this post a sort of TL;DR for t...

Move over Reacher , Rapp, and Bond there's a new action hero in town named, well, he doesn't have a name. But he calls hims...

A Windows Version, Please A friend wanted to use my ffmpeg video packaging script . But there was a catch: he needed it to run on W...

The Secure Shell Chrome App combined with a remote Linux box, screen and emacs is a game-changer. Among other things, it turns my...

I'm writing this post in emacs. I know that may not seem like a big deal, but trust me, it's a big deal. See: here's a scre...

I recently learned of, and started playing with, emacs' oauth2 support. This library simplifies access to a slew of APIs and has sin...

The Bluetooth Connection Event , which was released as part of Tasker 5.8 , helped me solve two Android annoyances. Here's the deal....

I randomly checked out Martha Well's All Systems Red: The Murderbot Diaries and was hooked after a few minutes of listening. From t...

A few weeks back we gave a friend's kid a birthday gift. We came prepared with the triple-A batteries it needed, but forgot a tool to...