Ben Meier
@ben.bsky.meierhost.com
Principal Software Engineer - distributed systems, go, rust; he/him; Dad; Bristol 🇬🇧, 🇿🇦; Currently Platform Engineering and CNCF Score; previously VMM and FaaS data planes.
Blog: https://bensblog.meierhost.com
Blog: https://bensblog.meierhost.com
Ooo the new gig laptop is a custom 48GB 14" M4 Pro which is pretty nice 😎
December 19, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Ooo the new gig laptop is a custom 48GB 14" M4 Pro which is pretty nice 😎
Quite enjoyed this post www.joanwestenberg.com/thin-desires...
> The person who bakes bread isn't trying to fix the world. They're not making any attempt to either dent or undent the universe.
> They're trying to spend a Sunday afternoon in a way that doesn't leave them feeling emptied out.
> The person who bakes bread isn't trying to fix the world. They're not making any attempt to either dent or undent the universe.
> They're trying to spend a Sunday afternoon in a way that doesn't leave them feeling emptied out.
Thin Desires Are Eating Your Life
The defining experience of our age seems to be hunger.
We're hungry for more, but we have more than we need.
We're hungry for less, while more accumulates and multiplies.
We're hungry and we don'...
www.joanwestenberg.com
December 19, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Quite enjoyed this post www.joanwestenberg.com/thin-desires...
> The person who bakes bread isn't trying to fix the world. They're not making any attempt to either dent or undent the universe.
> They're trying to spend a Sunday afternoon in a way that doesn't leave them feeling emptied out.
> The person who bakes bread isn't trying to fix the world. They're not making any attempt to either dent or undent the universe.
> They're trying to spend a Sunday afternoon in a way that doesn't leave them feeling emptied out.
These last few weeks have been the first time really contributing to a React code base for more than just a few adjustments. And I'm getting it now. I can also see how much discipline you need to keep things tidy. I'd still try and use HTMX first so I can lean more on my backend experience.
November 28, 2025 at 10:49 AM
These last few weeks have been the first time really contributing to a React code base for more than just a few adjustments. And I'm getting it now. I can also see how much discipline you need to keep things tidy. I'd still try and use HTMX first so I can lean more on my backend experience.
Excited for what the new year will bring: a new role!
November 28, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Excited for what the new year will bring: a new role!
Reposted by Ben Meier
If everything is a top priority, then everything gets done quickly. That's basic management
November 25, 2025 at 8:15 PM
If everything is a top priority, then everything gets done quickly. That's basic management
Wonderful weekend mornings. The bad: toddler wants to wake up and play at 4 am. The good: they fall back asleep by 6 and everyone including the dog can have a lie in.
October 19, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Wonderful weekend mornings. The bad: toddler wants to wake up and play at 4 am. The good: they fall back asleep by 6 and everyone including the dog can have a lie in.
Copilot go brrrrrrr
October 4, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Copilot go brrrrrrr
Ooh, that frame.work desktop is very neat. Hopefully next time I've got time and a need for a desktop it'll still be an option 🤞
September 7, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Ooh, that frame.work desktop is very neat. Hopefully next time I've got time and a need for a desktop it'll still be an option 🤞
Managing VPCs and subnets and routing tables feels so old school and cloud 1.0. I wish the industry had moved on further from this by now.
September 5, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Managing VPCs and subnets and routing tables feels so old school and cloud 1.0. I wish the industry had moved on further from this by now.
The days' mission, platform engineering example for a Score → AWS lambda and Valkey setup.
September 5, 2025 at 7:49 AM
The days' mission, platform engineering example for a Score → AWS lambda and Valkey setup.
Reposted by Ben Meier
Remember, kids: A real big goal of "AI" is to entirely sever capital from labor, and no, there will be no universal basic income, you can all just starve and die, thanks
www.axios.com/2025/08/26/a...
www.axios.com/2025/08/26/a...
AI is already taking jobs away from entry-level workers
Software and customer service are most at risk right now and could be the canary in the coal mine.
www.axios.com
August 31, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Remember, kids: A real big goal of "AI" is to entirely sever capital from labor, and no, there will be no universal basic income, you can all just starve and die, thanks
www.axios.com/2025/08/26/a...
www.axios.com/2025/08/26/a...
Reposted by Ben Meier
Manager: "What's this milestone about ..'Living on a prayer'?"
Lead: "That's the documentation deliverable"
Manager: "What's the status of that?"
Lead: "We're halfway there"
Manager: "Why is progress so slow?"
Lead: "You fired Tommy"
Manager: "So?"
Lead: "Tommy used to work on the docs"
Lead: "That's the documentation deliverable"
Manager: "What's the status of that?"
Lead: "We're halfway there"
Manager: "Why is progress so slow?"
Lead: "You fired Tommy"
Manager: "So?"
Lead: "Tommy used to work on the docs"
August 19, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Manager: "What's this milestone about ..'Living on a prayer'?"
Lead: "That's the documentation deliverable"
Manager: "What's the status of that?"
Lead: "We're halfway there"
Manager: "Why is progress so slow?"
Lead: "You fired Tommy"
Manager: "So?"
Lead: "Tommy used to work on the docs"
Lead: "That's the documentation deliverable"
Manager: "What's the status of that?"
Lead: "We're halfway there"
Manager: "Why is progress so slow?"
Lead: "You fired Tommy"
Manager: "So?"
Lead: "Tommy used to work on the docs"
Stumbled upon a signed copy of @benaaronovitch.bsky.social 's Stone and Sky in Bristol today, good start to the PTO week 👍
August 16, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Stumbled upon a signed copy of @benaaronovitch.bsky.social 's Stone and Sky in Bristol today, good start to the PTO week 👍
Grated my finger instead of the cheese today. Nice one.
August 11, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Grated my finger instead of the cheese today. Nice one.
Why do payment processors have such obscure URLs for 3d secure or credit card info. Like, why do I want to put my details into `live.opacy.eu.elavon.com/....` o.o
August 10, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Why do payment processors have such obscure URLs for 3d secure or credit card info. Like, why do I want to put my details into `live.opacy.eu.elavon.com/....` o.o
Reposted by Ben Meier
This is very good from @werd.io werd.io/evaluating-ai/
Evaluating AI
How to think about vendors, technology, and power
werd.io
August 10, 2025 at 12:56 AM
This is very good from @werd.io werd.io/evaluating-ai/
Build stuff you're proud of.
August 9, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Build stuff you're proud of.
LLMs are rapidly normalizing us to just overlook trivial errors and mistakes. And that's treated as a feature.
August 8, 2025 at 12:09 PM
LLMs are rapidly normalizing us to just overlook trivial errors and mistakes. And that's treated as a feature.
I've spent the last week and a bit designing and building an authn+authz stack from scratch with users, oauth, developer tokens, memberships, and invites. Something that's been done thousands of times before but is still fun and fulfilling to implement again.
August 5, 2025 at 6:20 AM
I've spent the last week and a bit designing and building an authn+authz stack from scratch with users, oauth, developer tokens, memberships, and invites. Something that's been done thousands of times before but is still fun and fulfilling to implement again.
Basically impossible to get anything done in Europe between mid-July and September.
August 1, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Basically impossible to get anything done in Europe between mid-July and September.
Implemented user sign up with google oauth, login, logout, and session token based authentication today, and it's a nice comprehensive story to test and demo together. Nice to do it with minimal dependencies too.
July 29, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Implemented user sign up with google oauth, login, logout, and session token based authentication today, and it's a nice comprehensive story to test and demo together. Nice to do it with minimal dependencies too.
The little air conditioner that could.
June 30, 2025 at 4:31 PM
The little air conditioner that could.
DEDUPLICATE (your rabbitmq messages)
a dalek from doctor who is standing in a dark room and says `` externi '' .
Alt: a dalek from doctor who is standing in a dark room and saying exterminate
media.tenor.com
June 28, 2025 at 10:10 AM
DEDUPLICATE (your rabbitmq messages)
This train trip would be much more productive if I had the AI agents running in a remote machine rather than on the laptop where the internet connection keeps dropping due to tunnels, trees, fields, stray sheep, etc. 🤔
June 24, 2025 at 9:06 PM
This train trip would be much more productive if I had the AI agents running in a remote machine rather than on the laptop where the internet connection keeps dropping due to tunnels, trees, fields, stray sheep, etc. 🤔
Nightmare trying to get the baby to sleep in these temperatures 😣
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Nightmare trying to get the baby to sleep in these temperatures 😣