From the Couch of Ben Johnson

Father, Principal Engineer at Prodigy Education, serial hyperbolist.

✴ circles

✴ american

✴ Long Post Test

Senator Ted Cruz aggressively worked one ballroom, taking selfies and staying for handshakes with donors and activists for so long the linens had already been cleared.

Mike Pompeo, Donald Trump’s former secretary of state, distanced himself further from his old boss, saying that “personality, celebrity, just aren’t going to get it done.” And Gov. Larry Hogan of Maryland, a longtime Trump critic, welcomed other Republicans now calling out Mr. Trump as an electoral “loser.”

The first auditions for the role of leading Trump alternative consumed the Venetian hotel over the weekend, onstage and…

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Some people like to make fun of Elon by calling him Elmo. I think that’s unfair - to Elmo.

Ask yourself, what would Elmo do in that situation? He would ask questions.

Like a comedian trying lines at an open-mic night, I like to use social media (first Twitter, now here) to try out ideas - and abandon them or adjust them according to responses.

✴ Code Test

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I bought an AirTag to put in my backpack, but I’ve lost my backpack to put the AirTag in…

A short post. This one is really short.

✴ Test Long Post

I’m a big fan of larger frameworks like Django or Rails. I know there’s a bit of a war between the folks who like the out-of-the-box kitchen sink frameworks and those who want to mash together their own framework from a series of libraries. I find that most projects (even in the microservices world) approach a size and scale quickly that makes the larger frameworks worth it. Otherwise, I often end up reinventing stuff that has been done better by people way smarter than I am.

However, I recently got a reminder that sometimes small tools built from libraries can be elegant.

I just moved this…

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