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Big tall anti-entropy machine
Software engineer + general maker
Always curious about everything

Wisconsin, USA | benholmen.com

...let's go exploring!
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I built a ridiculous 1000 pixel display that takes an hour to draw an image and I'm now asking the internet to draw on it (what could go wrong?)

Please submit some 40×25 pixel art at kilopx.com!
Just donated. Join me:
The needs have intensified x10 since I shared this fundraiser earlier in Dec.

Help us help our neighbors in Minneapolis:
PayPal.me/lyndalepto
Hey guess what, you can help!

We're collecting funds to support our neighborhood elementary school families with basic needs (food, winter gear, etc.).

Donate, repost, share the link with friends/neighbors, etc. Thank you! ❤️

paypal.me/lyndalepto
January 11, 2026 at 7:44 PM
Just donated. Join me:
Pentz Homes will be doing a rolling food drive to support our struggling local businesses and help the families who are afraid to leave their homes. You can help in two ways! Shop at local immigrant-owned stores and donate the goods, or send us your funds and we will do the shopping for you.
January 11, 2026 at 7:44 PM
You should serve up some Doreen videos next
January 10, 2026 at 6:24 PM
Fuck yeah
January 8, 2026 at 8:02 PM
Only 27 more to go, Hen! Keep it up!
January 8, 2026 at 2:40 AM
haha this is good company! Glad to see you here, Matt
January 8, 2026 at 2:38 AM
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January 7, 2026 at 12:59 AM
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I've seen this passed around a bunch and skimmed it and nodded in agreement (because obviously the new mac OS interface design is bad), but I didn't actually sit down and read the whole thing until just now.

God, it's just brutal.

tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-i...
It’s hard to justify Tahoe icons
Looking at the first principles of icon design—and how Apple failed to apply all of them in macOS Tahoe
tonsky.me
January 6, 2026 at 2:26 PM
Oh man the terrible examples just keep going and going...
January 6, 2026 at 4:20 PM
January 5, 2026 at 5:55 PM
Good morning, keyboard warriors
January 5, 2026 at 2:26 PM
I could go for a good thunderstorm right now!
January 4, 2026 at 2:38 PM
We've been on a great streak of cold and clear winter weather. It's so good
January 4, 2026 at 12:25 PM
Tomorrow's sunrise will be a little bit earlier than today. We did it
We've turned the corner on sunset! It's getting later each day, even though sunrises continue to get later.

Next milestones:
Shortest day on Dec 21
Latest sunrise on Jan 3

Pretty charts: benholmen.com/sunlight/
January 4, 2026 at 4:50 AM
This is one of my favorite intrusive facts
our kid “do you ever think about how your bones are always wet?”
January 4, 2026 at 4:27 AM
Sometimes you fart in your snow bibs and don't smell anything, then a minute later you sit down

Poof!
January 3, 2026 at 11:17 PM
This is rad!
January 3, 2026 at 10:41 PM
Reposted by Ben Holmen
Keep tabs on your inner radio brainradio.fm
brainradio.fm
The earworm scrobbler
brainradio.fm
January 3, 2026 at 4:05 PM
The millennial fingers yearn for the haptic feedback
January 3, 2026 at 5:54 AM
Scaling up 👀
January 3, 2026 at 2:38 AM
Buddy I've got a spare for you
January 3, 2026 at 2:02 AM
I have one goal for 2026 and it's to host a paddle up concert on Bean Island
January 2, 2026 at 7:42 PM
Good morning from Wisconsin, Ashley
January 2, 2026 at 2:28 PM
Uh happy new year cj
January 1, 2026 at 6:03 AM
Sooooo that's Mordor I think?
January 1, 2026 at 4:45 AM