Ben Carlsson

I'm not a doctor.

Given a home with \(n\) unequal rooms and \(n\) roommates with unique preferences, what's the right way to split rent and assign rooms?

I had barely played soulslikes before Elden Ring so when I lost track of time and accidentally dumped 350 hours into it, I figured I should pay my respects to its forebears.

EDIT On October 9, 2024, we announced our shutdown along with this post.

I'm slow to realize biological correlations.

The Fermi paradox is the idea that based on the number of stars in the universe, each's probability of having a habitable planet, each of those planets' odds of developing life, and so on; statistically it's virtually certain some other civilization has b…

Like a programming language, English's purpose is to move ideas.

Photography Every December, I challenge myself to concentrate the harvest of photos I take during the calendar year—each year's more bountiful than the last's—into a dense 13-photo album.

Companies don't make evil decisions.

Summer and I recently stayed a few weeks with her parents in Harbin, China.

I run many Obsidian plugins and they're constantly changing.

There are a small number of products in my life that, in little ways, are life-changing.

Do more things at 90% effort.

We are not rational creatures.

Recipe 6 parts orange juice 2 parts vodka 1 part heavy cream Combine all ingredients in a glass or pitcher half filled with ice.

A grasshopper-adjacent cocktail.

Asynchrony vs. synchrony is a constant struggle.

I love pizza-liquor, but I've never had it New York style.

There's a unique advantage in working on twos.dev over anything I’ve worked on: it has just one developer, me.

I love it when companies call their own bluffs on April Fool's Day.

This is a collection of notes on my multi-year journey of migrating from deep in the Google ecosystem to deep in the Apple ecosystem.

This is a more complete version of a comment I left on Hacker News.

This year, I got a tattoo.

This page describes a method of dealing with one of the missing features of fully remote teams: the pop-in.

A lot of stress is placed on being data-driven.