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I'm Ben, and I've been an open source advocate since I published my first blogging engine in 2007, which operated on flat files and supported localization, templating, and plugins.

I take an "open by default" stance in everything I write. Starting a GitHub repository is emotionally necessary for me to begin to write software. I have developed zero habits around backing up my code, because it's always already pushed.

If I could give my main projects yearbook class awards, they would be:

I've landed code in rails/rails, written a genetic algorithm in a version of Rust so old that it no longer compiles, and hooked my house lights up to Twitch chat.

Separately from being an author, I'm also sorely interested in the powerful (anti-)economies of open source software and how they compare to those of nonprofits and governments.

Thanks for considering sponsoring me! I really appreciate it.

1 sponsor has funded glacials’s work.

@bakert

Featured work

  1. glacials/splits-io

    a speedrunning data store and analysis engine

    Ruby 133
  2. glacials/whatsinstandard

    a Magic: The Gathering format reference

    JavaScript 130
  3. glacials/friendly_uuid

    Short, stateless URL slugs for UUID-based Rails models

    Ruby 48
  4. glacials/housebot

    a Twitch chat bot that controls your lights

    CoffeeScript 7

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