Ben Word

I built roots/discourse-to-markdown, a Discourse plugin that does content negotiation on every forum route.

Common Crawl crawls ~3 billion pages every few months and publishes all of it for free: pages, link graph, and ranks.

Bun announced they started serving their documentation as raw Markdown to Claude Code instead of rendered HTML.

Every file Claude Code writes is a file your linter hasn’t seen yet.

The whois command dumps a wall of unformatted text — and even when you decode it, you’ve still only learned about registration.

SomaFM is one of the best internet radio stations out there — 30+ commercial-free, listener-supported channels of underground and alternative music.

Every time I ask an AI coding agent to write a GitHub Actions workflow, it reaches for old versions of actions/checkout, etc., that haven’t been current for a while.

One of my favorite Ghostty features is the quick terminal — a Quake-style drop-down console that slides in from the top of the screen on demand.

Occasionally I still think about this old interaction and finally wanted to write about it.

For over a decade, WPackagist has been the default way to install WordPress plugins and themes with Composer.