Ben Holmes

bholmes.dev

21 July 2025 09:30

(⚠️ For Brandon Sanderson fans only) I swear Claude is based on Taravangian. Some days he's absolutely brilliant, and the next... well he's an emotional basketcase

Piotr Zaborowski

piotr.zaborowski.dev

16 June 2025 13:53

Better org for notes. I missed backlinks but they added it. Oh and I need it to be open. I use Apple “ecosystem” but I truly believe in system agnostic software. (That’s what brought me to Notion.) I am also heavily using web interfaces not apps which for Apple Notes is terrible.

Ben Holmes

bholmes.dev

05 March 2025 11:18

💡 Annoyed when your iPhone sends an HEIC file? Macs have a built-in conversion tool called sips: sips -s format jpeg input.heic --out output.jpg No need to install image magick even

Gergely Orosz

gergely.pragmaticengineer.com

27 February 2025 15:41

Is there any company that publishes more self-critical and as-transparent-as-can-be postmortems than Cloudflare... within 24 hours of major incidents, should I say? They've been doing it forever. I personally trust them more for it. Eg from a few weeks ago:

Ben Holmes

bholmes.dev

20 February 2025 23:47

💡 Reminder to add this git setting to your bash rc file: git config --global branch.sort -committerdate `git branch -l` lists alphabetically by default, so it's hard to find recent branches. This sorts by date instead!