Ben's Thoughts
AI
benjamin
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Do the People Who Put AI in Everything Study Philosophy?
Table of Contents Introduction Ive been working on my NPM library and I was going to write about it But then I saw this YouTube video about AI and YouTube and I realized that I wanted to write a blog post about it There seems to be two ideas one that would be for producers
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arrays
dx
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A Little JavaScript Library I Published
Table of Contents Why Would I Do This Lets start with two premises 1 Programmers have to work with lists lot and 2 Newer programming languages tend to have better features for programming Or rather lets go with this premise 1 I like functional programming 2 I like the features of new programming...
Ben's Thoughts
C#
computer science
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The Writer’s IDE, part 3: Researching popular document file formats
Table of Contents Introduction I have had time to relax a little bit after finishing my blog changes By the way I continue to be really happy with them No one will probably enjoy them but I did some really innovative for me stuff on them For example I made the autocomplete no longer be
Ben's Thoughts
hsl
legacy
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Triumph and failure: the long road of this blog’s redesign
Table of Contents Introduction I wrote my blog originally around the end of 2021 shortly before I got hired for my first programming job I was pretty green so I was trying a bunch of things I hadnt done before I had heard a lot about Gatsby and the idea of static site generation seemed
Ben's Thoughts
latex
overleaf
8 others
The Writer’s IDE, part 2: A Latex parser
What Ive been up to If youve been following my blog closely like I know you have its been quite awhile since the last update I shouldnt say that since theres usually at least a month or two gap between timely posts Ive been up to a lot of reading and learning If theres one
Ben's Thoughts
accessibility
redesign
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Where I Have Been – Future changes
Over a month ago I wrote a post about starting the Writers IDE At the end of the post I implied that I would shortly be writing about something else that was upcoming And then I didnt Its been over a month So what has happened I got busy real busy in multiple ways My
Ben's Thoughts
bit
bitwise
12 others
The Writer’s IDE, Part 1: Writing some Git functionality in Rust.
Table of Contents The Larger Project I had an epiphany while working on other things I miss writing But every time I write I dont have the tools I am used to dont exist Programming is colorful but writing the free expression of my wit my ability to write is tangential is not I mean
Ben's Thoughts
arraybuffer
base64
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I have finished encryption on the chat app, and what a journey it was.
Table of Contents Introduction When I first started this project I said that it would involve e2e encryption The basic requirements of it was that I would use web sockets Elixir specifically the Phoenix framework Vue and use the Web Crypto API Id been asked by a friend a long time ago to help build...
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big-o
chat
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Resource Pagination and Sunk Costs
Table of Contents Introduction As I very slowly progress through my project during weekends and free time Ive implemented a lot of features that I only faintly knew about Ive learned and adapted to a lot of new techniques and philosophies and its been quite a delightful phase While I had learned a...
Ben's Thoughts
client
footgun
2 others
How I use cookies for auth
Table of Contents Introduction I know I said Id talk about some of my troubles discoveries with Phoenix but I spent a lot of time working on dealing with issues arising from SSR and I thought Id talk about it while its fresh in my mind To refresh you on where I am I have most