Ben
ben.casita.zone
Ben
@ben.casita.zone
1x software engineer
This graphic is pretty funny to me because you get a sense of what being a cop is all about: driving a big car with flashing lights and putting people in handcuffs.
January 9, 2026 at 6:58 PM
I use mise for Elixir/Erlang world, I should expand it to Ruby as well. Or shop for a new site generator. Moving from one to another might be a good LLM-shaped project though.
January 7, 2026 at 7:40 PM
It seems like every time I want to write a new blog post I have to rebuild ruby + jekyll from scratch.
January 7, 2026 at 7:25 PM
Ah I didn’t know about this feature, very interesting. Reminds me of a more full-featured Ser/De library (marshmallow.readthedocs.io/en/latest/qu... like this)
Quickstart
This guide will walk you through the basics of creating schemas for serializing and deserializing data. Declaring schemas: Let’s start with a basic user “model”. Create a schema by defining a class...
marshmallow.readthedocs.io
December 29, 2025 at 4:45 PM
How far can you get with z.custom? Also this looks a bit like Jackson from the Java world, though maybe you mean something a bit different.
December 29, 2025 at 4:23 PM
December 19, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Toggling your light switch to detect if us-east1 is up or down
December 12, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Oh interesting — I thought the HA auto-discovery would work ahead of any pairing but I guess if the plugin uses cloud connectivity you are stuck.
December 12, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Can you hook everything up through home assistant? I am running it on a raspberry pi with no issues. Typically there are integrations for most smart home things
December 12, 2025 at 9:08 PM
The City/County jurisdictional problems strike again!
December 10, 2025 at 2:53 AM
It is sort of funny that an illustrative photo is of a completely deserted parking lot.
December 3, 2025 at 1:13 AM
it would be nice to Do Something
November 20, 2025 at 1:50 AM
she occasionally tours — we took our kids to see her and it was tremendous.
November 10, 2025 at 12:51 AM
The database locking mechanism referenced earlier will prevent this (you can only have exactly one concurrent writer). In practice this isn’t usually a problem because writes are fast. You can set a busy timeout to have a second process sleep when it encounters a lock: sqlite.org/rescode.html...
Result and Error Codes
sqlite.org
October 28, 2025 at 10:57 AM
I have a different documentation page for you about this! www.sqlite.org/lockingv3.html

What are you trying to do/worried about?
File Locking And Concurrency In SQLite Version 3
www.sqlite.org
October 28, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Hard to beat the SQLite docs on this particular scenario: sqlite.org/wal.html
Write-Ahead Logging
sqlite.org
October 28, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Would be funny to compare X uptime vs AWS uptime since the acquisition.
October 20, 2025 at 1:50 PM
A must have for the everyday minimalist
October 17, 2025 at 12:00 PM
there is uv pip freeze which generates a requirements.txt file
October 15, 2025 at 1:36 PM