I'm Ben

With Venezuela in the news, I wanted to write up my thoughts in a longer form post.

I’ve been dabbling with running my own home server for a few years.

Everyone seems convinced that AI is going to crater demand for software engineers.

There has been a story making the rounds about an AI agent that wrote a “hit piece” after getting its pull request denied in the open source Python project Matplotlib.

The debate over whether we still need QA keeps resurfacing, usually framed as a question of trust in developers or belief in automation.

With Venezuela all over the headlines, I thought it would be good to put my thoughts out into the ether.

Tucacas is a vacation destination for Venezuelans on the northern coast of the country a stones throw from Aruba and Curacao.

We got started on the way to Caracas late, as is tradition.

Today was originally reserved for a trip to a small German Village in the mountains called Colonia Tovar.

Lets talk about luxuries.