Stephen Ball

@sdball.dev

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Software engineer. Can be found trying too hard at Rocket League. I write Elixir when I have the choice. I also release music as sdb-79 on whatever music streaming service you use. (Except Spotify)

A photo of a tree top with every little branch covered in a transparent sheath of thin ice hanging upside down over a paved path.
A screenshot of a Netflix search with the query "What's a good action movie I haven't watched yet?" The search results are "Oh darn. We don't have that." and the suggestion to search for another movie, show, actor, director, or genre.
A screenshot of a donation receipt to Kat Abughazaleh via ActBlue
A screenshot of a digital logic sim showing an 8-bit input going through some chips leading to a three digit display. There are inputs for "ripple blanking" and "two's complement" and a major chip is labeled "double dabble". The three digit displays show "1" "8" and "3" in red. The "two's complement" input is not enabled. The "ripple blanking" input is enabled.
A crowd of people protesting Trump in 2025
Screenshot of Carrot Weather generally explaining the Gulf of Mexico and closing with: “It recently got a stupid new name and the mapping data providers caves and started using the stupid new name, but screw that: it will always be the Gulf of Mexico in my book.”
Screenshot of article text with one section highlighted: Quote Kotis said he appreciates the stated goal of DEI efforts to be sure everyone has an equal opportunity. He does not believe it’s the job of government or public universities to achieve that goal through quotas or promote a certain political view of diversity, he said. End quote. The surrounding text from the article explains and justifies the then impending dismantling of DEI at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in April 2024
Cartoon character Dr Zoidberg has a pained and bewildered expression and clutches the back of his head with both hands.
A screen recording of a game of Rocket League showing a car driving up the wall of the pitch, hitting the ball into the air, rocket boosting to catch back up, catching the ball with all four wheels, and then flipping back into the ball to score a goal.
Mushrooms growing from a mossy tree.
A screenshot of kagi.com configuration showing that web search result links to hexdocs.pm and docs.rs will be custom redirected to the same result in the most recent version.
A screenshot of an Elixir Livebook programming session. There are two code cells: one creates a button labeled "step" and one handles clicks of that button by animating updates to the map. Below the code cells is an emoji rendering of a grid map. There are many empty tiles, some obstacle tiles, and a guard emoji that is trailed by arrows showing the path they have taken so far.
A screenshot of formatted results from the DuckDuckGo smart cell in Elixir Livebook. The results show an answer for the query "Zork I" which starts with a screenshot of the game box art followed by a description of the game with a source and then by a table of information such as release dates, genres, and modes.
A screenshot of a system of logic gates. There are four inputs (8, 4, 2, 1) and four outputs (8, 4, 2, 1). The inputs 4, 2, and 1 are lit and we see their wires illuminated through the logic gates ultimately leading to the outputs. The outputs 8 and 2 are lit. There are nine logic gates in the chip of four types: XOR, NOR, OR, AND.
A game of minesweeper rendered using emoji
A screenshot of a medium article about the pervasive nature of online advertising. The text describes how advertising became integral to the experience of the web. The article text fades out from top to bottom ultimately to be replaced by a call to create a medium account in order to be able to read the story.
A sticker depicting Lowly the worm from Richard Scarry books driving his classic apple car with the words “fear is the mind killer” printed on its side.
Many dozens of overlapping crescent light shadows splayed across the ground.
Many flat mushrooms growing out of a tree trunk.
A photo of a partially completed dragon Lego set in front of its box art depicts a flowing white and blue dragon.