vogt.world

In any organization or company, there are one-hundred things.

Facebook Marketplace first introduce the “ask if this is available” pre-filled message.

I’ve often heard from engineers that it’s not our job to write code, it’s our job to solve business problems.

Maybe I’m just obtuse, but whenever I read an article from a company, or programmer, or really anyone talking about “best practices”, it always seems like the examples are either obvious, and therefore un-illustrative of best-practices, or non-specific, a…

I’m Ben Vogt and I’m a software engineer living in Chicago, IL.

At Replo, I was trying to get a handle on how to explain what we should and shouldn’t do.

Glade is a cross-platform GUI library for Typescript that uses WebGPU to render apps at >60fps, for browsers and native macOS.

A couple days ago I made a simple POC of using Bun and OpenGL to create a native GUI application.

This is a minimal example of using Bun’s FFI module to render a GUI using GLFW and OpenGL2.

Some things seem like a good idea, but really aren’t.

As a way to get back into a language, I like to build spreadsheet engines.

The pattern of using a constants.ts is not a good one.

This is a review of all relevant spreadsheet-like products, services, tools, and technologies, as well as blogs, articles, news, and notes related to spreadsheets.

A while ago I wrote “Building a music making app with Swift (part 1 of N)” and never really followed up.