Working on Litestream at @flydotio to help developers run SQLite in production and at scale.
Joined March 2008
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Ben Johnson retweeted
Taking control of the #sqlite WAL - a deep dive into how rqlite lifts the lid on SQLite. And a h/t to @benbjohnson whose work on Litestream showed it was possible.
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Annie really did do a killer job distilling Litestream down. I don’t even think I can explain Litestream in four minutes.
Feb 17
One of the better Annie videos (which is saying something), condensing Litestream down to 4 minutes.
youtube.com/watch?v=O0iG4HSs…
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Ben Johnson retweeted
Feb 17
I just got opt-in, per-transaction synchronous replication working for litestream. I haven't written c in 25 years. The whole LLM thing is pretty neat
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Ben Johnson retweeted
Feb 5
Wrote up about my personal journey from AI skeptic to someone who finds a lot of value in it daily. My goal is to share a more measured approach to finding value in AI rather than the typical overly dramatic, hyped bait out there. mitchellh.com/writing/my-ai-…
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Jan 23
I’m tempted to make a Chrome extension that hides all blog posts and YouTube videos that have the phrase “this changes everything” in it.
Is everyone just asking Claude to make up their titles these days and that’s why they’re all the same?
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I've been harassing my friend @corylanou to start recording his workflow with Claude Code. He's taught me so much on AI in the last few months and he finally released his first video! Check it out and give him some feedback. 🙏 youtube.com/watch?v=-GKBBMBP…
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Jan 20
He's also the person that got me into writing Go more than 12 years ago. He's someone I look to for understanding upcoming trends more than anyone else.
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Jan 16
Many organizations mandate a separate reviewer on a PR from the person who wrote the code. But if Claude's writing all our code, can we now approve our own PRs? 🤔
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Ben Johnson retweeted
In fact, now that codegen has been automated away, it frees up a lot of time to read more code than ever.
Not just work projects, but also open source projects known for high code quality (like SQLite).
You’ll come away with a lot of ideas you can incorporate in your own work.
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Ben Johnson retweeted
Jan 15
Crucial reading for sandbox obsessive like me
Jan 15
I wrote a thing. fly.io/blog/design-and-imple…
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Jan 15
People bragging about how many simultaneous Claude agents they’re running is such a weird flex. It’s touting the effort rather than the results.
It’s like boasting that I run all my CPU cores at 100%. Ok, are they doing anything useful?
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Ben Johnson retweeted
Jan 10
Sprites is a very cool new thing: it solves two of my pet problems at once, developer sandbox environments for coding agents and a JSON API for executing untrusted code
I wrote more here: simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/9…
We made a thing called Sprites that lets you run AI code safely. Watch Chris create sandboxes in seconds, let agents install packages freely, then restore to checkpoints when things go sideways.
🔗 ➡️ 🧵
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14 Sep 2025
My friend recently bought a WISP (wireless internet service provider) and needs to hire a network engineer to help with routing & switching. Anybody know anyone that does that sort of thing on a contract basis? He's in Austin, TX but open to hiring someone remotely.
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8 Apr 2025
Anyone looking to hire Go contractors? I have a friend who's a great Go dev that is coming off a contract soon.
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Ben Johnson retweeted
19 Sep 2024
LiteFS from the great @benbjohnson was one of our inspirations to start @tursodatabase. We are saddened that @flydotio's LiteFS Cloud is going away.
For users migrating away, we have a special offer for you: $5/mo on the first 6 months on our hobby plan. Link 👇
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Ben Johnson retweeted
9 Aug 2024
🔥 New episode of Changelog & Friends!
💬 Picking a database should be simple
🌟 featuring @benbjohnson
🫡 hosted by @jerodsanto
🎧 changelog.com/friends/56
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Ben Johnson retweeted
19 Jun 2024
High Performance SQLite launches next week! Come see what all the fuss is about.
Y'all go sign up for the waiting list at HighPerformanceSQLite.com to hear when it launches get a discount!
Super excited for y'all to see it!
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Anybody have recommendations for well done, open source TypeScript libraries? I just ported a repo and it’s my first TS project. I’m sure I’m getting a lot wrong so I’d love to find examples to learn from.
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