Ben Bowers

@benrbowers.bsky.social

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Software developer building things I think are cool www.benbowers.net github.com/benrbowers "I have been a hunter of peace, chasing the elusive mayfly known as love." - Vash the Stampede

Pic of two tasks from my bullet journal from Thursday, June 4th. First task says "Add synecdoche to New Words: From mardiroos on bsky." Second task says "Add pulchritudinous to New Words: From aniceburrito on bsky."
Screenshot of momentum dashboard. Background is a picture above a thick layer of clouds, at either sunset or sunrise. The daily mantra is "You can handle this."
Screenshot of AoC day 6: "As you try to find a way out, you are approached by a family of cephalopods! They're pretty sure they can get the door open, but it will take some time. While you wait, they're curious if you can help the youngest cephalopod with her math homework."
CAUGHT emoji
Picture of bullet journal monthly agenda. The top of the page says "NOVEMBER". The date numbers and letters for the days of the week are listed down the left side of the page, perfectly beginning and ending with "SS" for a full weekend.
Screenshot of my momentum dashboard. In bold white letters it displays the time: "10:25", and the day's daily mantra: "Live simply." The background features a stunning nighttime view of the starry sky through tall trees from Lapland, Finland.
Screenshot of https://atproto.com/sdks. It shows both TypeScript and Go listed as official SDKs.
Screenshot of an Excalidraw text block from @t3.gg's video "Vibe coding is a lie". The text reads "You can't be mad at vibe coding AND be mad at left-pad"
Screenshot of YouTube comment that reads: "Rubber ducking with AI is where it's at" The comment has 18 likes.
Me: "Give me an introduction to "Data-Oriented" programming." ChatGPT: "Got it — let’s ease into this step by step. Before I dive in: do you want this introduction framed more from a software-engineering patterns angle (like what you’d see in business apps), or from a game-dev / performance-oriented angle (where it overlaps with "data-oriented design")?"
Me asking cursor about time element: "If my time is in format "MM:SS", can I just go ahead and set that to the datetime attribute?" Cursor: "No, you cannot directly use "MM:SS" format for the datetime attribute. The datetime attribute requires a valid ISO 8601 time format."
Wikipedia snippet: "RETRIEVE is a database management system offered on Tymshare's systems starting in August 1971. It was written in Tymshare's own SUPER FORTRAN on the SDS 940."
Diagram showing data going server to convex db to user, with sse going server to user.
Text from cursor chat: "Let me search for how you're using this binder to see if there are patterns that might suggest better approaches: Grepped OptionalBinder Searched form struct tags binding Based on my analysis of your codebase, reflection is indeed the best approach for your OptionalBinder use case. Here's why:"
Classic scene from Halo Legends: Prototype. The helmet's HUD requests a final voice command in bold, neon pink letters: "BE HUMAN"
Tweet by @sarahradz_ reading: "I want AI to anticipate what groceries I'm running low on, search every flier and website in my city to find the best price, and compile me a weekly list based on best deals per fewest stops. I do not want AI to make a picture of me if I were an astronaut."