Ben Shi

An LLM can write a rate limiter in seconds.

There is a specific kind of trance that sets in when you are working with coding agents.

For the past few years I have been using an alternate keyboard layout as my daily driver.

2025 is the Year of the Snake.

If you are mechanical keyboard user and have been on my /uses page you may have noticed I use Keychron K2 keyboard as my daily driver.

I joined Twitter back in August 2007.

I've been looking for the perfect commenting solution for my blog in the last few weeks.

Where do I even begin?

I did a complete rewrite of my personal website in the last week.

New tools, frameworks and libraries pop up all the time (especially true in javascript), so how do you assess whether they are the right fit for your project or organisation?

This masterpiece by Eiji Yoshikawa is easily one of the best (if not the best) book I have ever read.

Whilst on training abroad last month, I had the opportunity of building an automated rates trading system in Java from scratch to compete with systems built by the other teams.

As developers, I think the biggest mistake we make is to jump straight into coding.

Checking in for first half of 2013.

There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart.