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1 Feb 2023
There are a lot of problems in the world but we're not talking about a huge one: how much your shower control just plain sucks
So I wrote a short manifesto...
benholmen.com/blog/shower-te…
ALT Graph demonstrating how much your shower control lever sucks
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23 Aug 2025
Season one of my Kilopixel art project is complete! I wrote about what a surreal ride it was:
benholmen.com/blog/kilopixel…
4 Aug 2025
I built a ridiculous 1000 pixel display that takes an hour to draw an image and I'm now asking the internet to draw on it (what could go wrong?)
Please submit some 40×25 pixel art at kilopx.com!
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4 Aug 2025
I've had the good fortune to be #1 on HN all day and it's been driving traffic to my article and to kilopx dot com. The article has 5x the traffic as the app, but traffic to the article is slowing while the app traffic is increasing.
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4 Aug 2025
I suspect the article will start to fall off pretty quickly once it drops off HN, and I'm hopeful that the app itself will kee climbing as it's spread more places.
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4 Aug 2025
Meanwhile, someone drew a HN logo and ol' Kilopixel is happily flipping the pixels
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4 Aug 2025
I built a ridiculous 1000 pixel display that takes an hour to draw an image and I'm now asking the internet to draw on it (what could go wrong?)
Please submit some 40×25 pixel art at kilopx.com!
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4 Aug 2025
This has been a real passion project for me for six years. It's nuts. I shouldn't have done it, but I did. So please reward me, and go play with it!
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4 Aug 2025
If you want to read much more, I did a writeup on my blog that goes into a lot of the details.
benholmen.com/blog/kilopixel…
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30 Oct 2024
So long, and thanks for all the fish
✌🏻 see you on Bluesky
bsky.app/profile/benholmen.c…
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26 Oct 2024
Do I know anyone who's made a Socialite provider and wants to hack on a new (redacted) provider with me?
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Ben Holmen retweeted
24 Oct 2024
What it's like on Вӏսеskу right now…
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24 Oct 2024
Zuzana fan club reporting for duty!
She always delivers
24 Oct 2024
📢 Speaker Announcement
👏 Please welcome @zuzana_kunckova.
And she'll explore the strange and unusual PHP functions you've likely never used before.
Grab your ↓ ticket here
→ laracon.eu/tickets ←
ALT Zuzana Kunckova – Founder of Larabelles // Laracon.EU Amstertam, 3-4 February, 2025
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Ben Holmen retweeted
21 Oct 2024
Everyone has a bookshelf and a mood-light, but none of you have a REAL workstation
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Ben Holmen retweeted
21 Oct 2024
Early in 2024 I partnered with another dev to build a product for privately hosting WP plugins. Support for themes will be added this week.
If you've been kicked off of .org or are interested in moving your plugins/themes off of .org, I'd love for you to beta test our product.
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21 Oct 2024
Took the boys on an overnight backpacking trip on the Ice Age Trail / Chequamegon nat'l forest. Absolutely perfect fall weather
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19 Oct 2024
My kid just ate an unknown amount of chocolate exlax as a "snack", so I guess I know what we're doing this weekend
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