benbrown

old internet. grew up on gopher and irc, never wanted to leave. made a bunch of weird stuff. corpo drone day job. adult goth. austin, tx. my pronouns are he/him.

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2024-06-19 23:46:44 UTC

Look what I just found! Whoa!! Remember when this seemed cutting edge? I imported this from Japan!!
https://hackers.town/system/media_attachments/files/112/645/947/275/025/111/original/950ebca62c2a1374.jpeg

2024-06-09 02:40:08 UTC

Y'all it is shockingly easy to build a web app with vanilla javascript and no frameworks that accepts file drag/drops, paste files and images from clipboard, device photo capture, and support for apple "stickers" that get pasted in from the keyboard.
The people selling you these frameworks and dependency trees with 100000 files don't want you to know how easy it is to do without them.

2024-05-21 01:00:44 UTC

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From now on instead of a phone, I just have a raspberry pi strapped to my belt buckle with a giant battery pack in my backpack and a keyboard on my arm

2024-05-21 01:00:05 UTC

Just read an article about how Apple is going to incorporate openAI into the next iOS and it made me realize I need to maybe get a pine phone

2024-05-15 13:44:45 UTC

Early in my career people fought and died so that we would use paragraph tags to indicate a paragraph in an HTML document instead of fucking BR tags blasted all over the place but now the best developers in the world just slap a react element on the page with a CSS JavaScript class name assigned at random and we call this modern technology, i fucking hate it.

2024-04-06 21:01:49 UTC

Another fine addition to my collection.
https://hackers.town/system/media_attachments/files/112/226/287/841/071/483/original/0384d04aa2d629e6.mp4

2024-04-05 18:55:12 UTC

Beautiful
https://hackers.town/system/media_attachments/files/112/220/128/745/500/008/original/4ca0e340e162d18d.jpeg

2024-04-05 14:11:03 UTC

When the total eclipse passes over central Texas and its majesty is obscured by rain clouds, a crack is going to open up in the earth and demons are going to pour out and begin turning people into zombies. It will be the beginning of the first age of chaos that will last until the infinite space raven eats the universe.
You heard it from me first.

2024-03-29 16:38:01 UTC

If you want a copy of my book by next Tuesday or Wednesday, order in the next hour or so before I ship the next batch of orders :)
https://shop.benbrown.com/

2024-03-24 17:54:48 UTC

The books are here and they are beautiful!
https://hackers.town/system/media_attachments/files/112/151/945/080/361/827/original/a7bb63853f223ea7.jpeg

2024-03-23 19:26:50 UTC

Brought the kids to a skate rink. The entrance is armored up and looks like a pawn shop. There is a door with a buzzer on it. But once you go through it is like 1984 in here.

2024-03-22 21:25:19 UTC

There are 10 of these. Each disk has a copy of the story as a text file as well as the PDF I sent to the printer and a tiny low res version of the book cover.
https://hackers.town/system/media_attachments/files/112/141/440/218/404/835/original/a0c0333461ec53d6.jpeg

2024-03-12 15:08:04 UTC

Max Headroom concept art, part 2.
Up close design of the Network 23 building. This is the original pencil drawing. The shading and details on the rooftop antenna and helicopter are so cool.
https://hackers.town/system/media_attachments/files/112/083/340/223/082/176/original/33a9ec7c05b1a368.jpeg

2024-03-12 15:06:07 UTC

Max Headroom concept art, part 1.
Network 23 building in the middle of the city. Max appearing on a giant screen on the side of another building.
https://hackers.town/system/media_attachments/files/112/083/326/939/178/056/original/a6676b1ca4793e9b.jpeg