Ben Ford
missionctrl.dev
Ben Ford
@missionctrl.dev
CEO of Mission Ctrl - competitive advantage as a service for high growth service businesses with AI automation.

Programmer, dad, agentic AI explorer, OODA nerd, former Royal Marines Commando.

(@commandodev on the other place)
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CRDTs are the data structures that make “Google Docs-style collaboration, but for arbitrary data” possible. I've had a lasting fascination with them for about 11 years.

So, I wrote up a field guide that is hopefully a handy introduction. With interactive examples!

iankduncan.com/engineering/...
The CRDT Dictionary: A Field Guide to Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types - Ian Duncan - Ian Duncan
A comprehensive guide to CRDTs and their tradeoffs, from counters to sequences. Written in the spirit of the Typeclassopedia, exploring how different CRDTs solve the distributed consensus puzzle.
iankduncan.com
November 28, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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This is not a drill: GHC (the #Haskell compiler) now runs in your browser. See the announcement (and please report any bugs) here: discourse.haskell.org/t/ghc-now-ru...
Ghc now runs in your browser
ghc itself can now run purely client-side in the browser, here’s a haskell playground demo. terms and conditions apply, and i’ll write up more detailed explanation some time later, but i thought this ...
discourse.haskell.org
October 25, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Apparently I find cooking quite stressful 🤣🤣
May 4, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Not bad as holiday photos go!
March 11, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Want to get good at using AI?

Borrow some ideas from the military:

www.loom.com/share/e5f38b...
Enhancing AI Prompts with SMEAC
In this video, I walk you through how to use the Military Orders Process, or SMIC, to improve AI prompts effectively. I demonstrate this by using DeepSeek and another LLM to refine prompts for better ...
www.loom.com
February 20, 2025 at 7:50 PM
PSA. Never go to the gym on someone's birthday!
January 19, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Happy New Year!
December 31, 2024 at 9:29 PM
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🤖Command: a new tool for building multi-agent architectures in LangGraph

You can now create ✨edgeless graphs✨ in LangGraph via the new Command type

This allows for more dynamic agent and multi-agent workflows

Blog: blog.langchain.dev/command-a-ne...

YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BJD...
December 10, 2024 at 8:37 PM
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I'm looking for more self-taught or bootcamp trained devs to do interviews for my No CS Degree website

• Interviews go out to 8000 newsletter subscribers
• DA backlink of 41
• You get to plug your product for free 😀
• You can encourage more people to get into coding

tally.so/r/mKYG5z
Apply to be interviewed by No CS Degree
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tally.so
December 10, 2024 at 3:50 PM
I'm going out.

To meet actual people!

Must remember to not bore people to death with AI talk 😅
November 26, 2024 at 1:19 PM
I train like a savage so I can eat like a king 😄
November 21, 2024 at 12:25 PM
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🤖Agentic RAG with VoyageAI, Gemini and LangGraph

Agentic RAG adds intelligent agents that can retrieve, verify, and act on data autonomously.

This a great fit for complex situations like medical diagnoses or customer service

myscale.com/blog/agentic...

#langchain #ai
November 14, 2024 at 2:16 PM