Benjie Kibblewhite
@benjie.ca
Front-end developer, amateur photographer, cat lover, nerd, and all around sweet li'l guy. 🏳️🌈 https://benjie.ca
Horrified to learn that we don't have dedicated engineers working on our design system at work anymore. Teams get to approve & merge in their own changes, updates, and additions, with, as far as I can tell, no oversight or governance. Coolcoolcool, this is fine.
November 25, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Horrified to learn that we don't have dedicated engineers working on our design system at work anymore. Teams get to approve & merge in their own changes, updates, and additions, with, as far as I can tell, no oversight or governance. Coolcoolcool, this is fine.
Really proud of this shot I took this weekend walking around on a drizzly day.
November 18, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Really proud of this shot I took this weekend walking around on a drizzly day.
I'm *thrilled*, my Pebble finally arrived! I'm playing Final Fantasy Tactics, I have a watch from 2015. It's retro city over here. @ericmigi.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:08 PM
I'm *thrilled*, my Pebble finally arrived! I'm playing Final Fantasy Tactics, I have a watch from 2015. It's retro city over here. @ericmigi.com
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"What should poor people be allowed to eat?" seems to be a burning question for those who aren't poor, have never been poor, and can afford to eat what they like, but want to keep poor people from eating anything that tastes really good. "No fresh meat," said Iowa, a few years ago.
November 4, 2025 at 3:02 AM
"What should poor people be allowed to eat?" seems to be a burning question for those who aren't poor, have never been poor, and can afford to eat what they like, but want to keep poor people from eating anything that tastes really good. "No fresh meat," said Iowa, a few years ago.
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This 1911 book shows that taking photos of cats and furnishing them with an amusing caption was a thing long before the internet... https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/kittens-and-cats-a-first-reader-1911-cats-and-captions-before-the-internet-age #InternationalCatDay
August 8, 2025 at 11:47 AM
This 1911 book shows that taking photos of cats and furnishing them with an amusing caption was a thing long before the internet... https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/kittens-and-cats-a-first-reader-1911-cats-and-captions-before-the-internet-age #InternationalCatDay
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It’s a great day to pick out a bunch of THINGS for your loved ones! Here’s Johnny with his THINGS print. Maybe I should add “excellent beard” to the THINGS database.
Www.lucyknisley.com/things
Www.lucyknisley.com/things
October 19, 2025 at 6:58 PM
It’s a great day to pick out a bunch of THINGS for your loved ones! Here’s Johnny with his THINGS print. Maybe I should add “excellent beard” to the THINGS database.
Www.lucyknisley.com/things
Www.lucyknisley.com/things
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like it feels to me that the longer we have to live with bots eating through all of the trash that was never important in the first place, it just becomes ever clearer that real, deep writing about human experience has always been a profound and *extraordinary* gift
October 17, 2025 at 4:47 PM
like it feels to me that the longer we have to live with bots eating through all of the trash that was never important in the first place, it just becomes ever clearer that real, deep writing about human experience has always been a profound and *extraordinary* gift
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sure wilhelm screamed but did he laugh — did he cry — did he love
October 17, 2025 at 7:36 PM
sure wilhelm screamed but did he laugh — did he cry — did he love
Cats are just so good.
October 9, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Cats are just so good.
When did Deviantart become just a pile of AI slop? Whatta shame.
October 6, 2025 at 6:47 PM
When did Deviantart become just a pile of AI slop? Whatta shame.
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"Again and again, accessibility as a topic in web standards is treated as simultaneously too trivial for specialists' technical opinions to be given weight, but also too difficult to get right without a specialist volunteering to tackle the tricky details." alice.boxhall.au/articles/a-t...
A threat model for accessibility on the web - Alice
A explanation of the primary threat to accessibility on the web, and a call to action for the web standards community
alice.boxhall.au
October 2, 2025 at 5:03 PM
"Again and again, accessibility as a topic in web standards is treated as simultaneously too trivial for specialists' technical opinions to be given weight, but also too difficult to get right without a specialist volunteering to tackle the tricky details." alice.boxhall.au/articles/a-t...
Fall at last! I've updated my code editor and terminal theme for the season 🍂🍂🍂
October 1, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Fall at last! I've updated my code editor and terminal theme for the season 🍂🍂🍂
I returned my first car to the dealership today! It was a lease, we had four months left on it, but our insurance is sky high, my partner is going back to school, and that extra money goes a long way. I almost never drove it myself, but it's a little sad! Thanks for the adventures, Gladys.
September 30, 2025 at 4:39 PM
I returned my first car to the dealership today! It was a lease, we had four months left on it, but our insurance is sky high, my partner is going back to school, and that extra money goes a long way. I almost never drove it myself, but it's a little sad! Thanks for the adventures, Gladys.
About a year ago I bought a tiny, cheap little linux box with the intention of setting up a local web server, Just For Fun. I finally got it working! I won't share the link, the page is just a doodle, but still. It's such a small thing, but it's so cool this site lives 1' away from me in meat space.
September 22, 2025 at 7:39 PM
About a year ago I bought a tiny, cheap little linux box with the intention of setting up a local web server, Just For Fun. I finally got it working! I won't share the link, the page is just a doodle, but still. It's such a small thing, but it's so cool this site lives 1' away from me in meat space.
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September 18, 2025 at 1:58 PM
I finally finished McKenzie Wark's book "Raving" this morning. What a great read. So visceral. She really captured so many things I've felt but couldn't say. I'm diving back into raves/dance in a more intentional way after many years of bopping at Gay Boy Parties,
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www.dukeupress.edu/raving
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www.dukeupress.edu/raving
Raving
www.dukeupress.edu
September 18, 2025 at 3:19 PM
I finally finished McKenzie Wark's book "Raving" this morning. What a great read. So visceral. She really captured so many things I've felt but couldn't say. I'm diving back into raves/dance in a more intentional way after many years of bopping at Gay Boy Parties,
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www.dukeupress.edu/raving
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www.dukeupress.edu/raving
TIL about responsive viewport units!
Also this is, like, the fourth time I've seen something cool about/on the internet posted somewhere else, and saw that it was done by this delightful human.
If you haven't seen lyra.horse/antonymph/ yet, do - it's my favourite piece of web-art.
Also this is, like, the fourth time I've seen something cool about/on the internet posted somewhere else, and saw that it was done by this delightful human.
If you haven't seen lyra.horse/antonymph/ yet, do - it's my favourite piece of web-art.
September 16, 2025 at 5:39 PM
TIL about responsive viewport units!
Also this is, like, the fourth time I've seen something cool about/on the internet posted somewhere else, and saw that it was done by this delightful human.
If you haven't seen lyra.horse/antonymph/ yet, do - it's my favourite piece of web-art.
Also this is, like, the fourth time I've seen something cool about/on the internet posted somewhere else, and saw that it was done by this delightful human.
If you haven't seen lyra.horse/antonymph/ yet, do - it's my favourite piece of web-art.
Hats off to the etsy witches!
September 10, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Hats off to the etsy witches!
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Every single person who thinks a trans person should just pipe down until we restore democracy is, in my view, an enemy of democracy.
I’m not doing it.
I’m not doing it.
August 21, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Every single person who thinks a trans person should just pipe down until we restore democracy is, in my view, an enemy of democracy.
I’m not doing it.
I’m not doing it.
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If something's beyond two lines, align left that shit.
July 9, 2025 at 3:05 AM
If something's beyond two lines, align left that shit.
Using craigslist for the first time in a long time, and I'm just so thrilled at how *fast* everything is. Turns out not having tonnes of ads, javascript, and f e a t u r e s results in a site that just works, and works very well.
June 25, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Using craigslist for the first time in a long time, and I'm just so thrilled at how *fast* everything is. Turns out not having tonnes of ads, javascript, and f e a t u r e s results in a site that just works, and works very well.
Sure I'm really proud of the a11y work I do, but this? Getting people to call buttons buttons instead of always CTAs? This is my real impact, my pride and joy.
May 15, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Sure I'm really proud of the a11y work I do, but this? Getting people to call buttons buttons instead of always CTAs? This is my real impact, my pride and joy.
I wrote a blog post about this: benjie.ca/blog/2025/05...
Inspired by some similar thoughts by Clayton Ramsey: claytonwramsey.com/blog/prompt/
Inspired by some similar thoughts by Clayton Ramsey: claytonwramsey.com/blog/prompt/
May 6, 2025 at 2:54 PM
I wrote a blog post about this: benjie.ca/blog/2025/05...
Inspired by some similar thoughts by Clayton Ramsey: claytonwramsey.com/blog/prompt/
Inspired by some similar thoughts by Clayton Ramsey: claytonwramsey.com/blog/prompt/