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benbrougher.tech

A software developer from the PNW. I work in the telecom industry. I garden, spend time outdoors, and write code for fun. Check out my blog here: https://benbrougher.tech Twitch: https://twitch.tv/mSyke

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we write code in code, we write infrastructure in code, why do we still define CI/CD in yaml?

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

I wonder if the future of development is just building MCP servers for AIs to use....

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

my wife said a political post would really blow up right now....

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

it's like pulling teeth to get local models to call tools isn't it?

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

new powershell is actually pretty good, old powershell is such a pain

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

living in a powershell daydream today

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

LLM: Large Larping Model

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

woke up late. chickens were out. dumped my tea all over the counter. work computer rebooted itself overnight. ama

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

my new strategy for spreadsheets:

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

markdown is the escape hatch from office app hell

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

to whoever thought there should be a non-printing space character in the unicode spec... I have some words for you

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

I really love vimmium... i just need it to be faster...

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

i want a landscape keyboard attachement for my phone, with all the keys so ctrl, alt, etc

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

ai as search is just doordash for the internet

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

the pragmatist in me says SQL is fine. the dreamer in me knows better is possible

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

Why do even our desktops need docks now?

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

whoever uses bitcoin style encryption: i wish you good luck and what's the URL of your app?

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

How many nested if statements is too many?

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

I don't think you all understand... I don't need a fancy browser... I need some hotkeys and I need something that doesn't track me, keeps up on web standards and lets me run whatever plugins I want. I don't want another Chrome fork. Is that too much to ask?

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

rack em stack em servers

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

time for some spring cleaning

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

blinkenlights in a home server rack has to be some sort of milestone as a software dev

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

junior: this thing is awesome I love it! mid level: this thing is ok it sorta works senior: this thing is garbage

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

how has powerpoint just gotten so bad?

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

I'm sorry, I'm just a Large Language Model. You haven't paid me enough tokens to deal with PowerPoint yet

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

I think I might have a drinking problem

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

Meet the newest member of the family. Her name is Honey

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

my new washer/dryer can play youtube videos. AMA

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

what do you hate about slack/discord/teams?

submitted 39 days ago • 2 comments

Windows peaked with 8.1

submitted 41 days ago • 3 comments

\(.*\) is goated. iykyk

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

the more I work in no-code the more i'm convinced it's a bad idea

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

I like C#, but I could do without try/catch error handling being the standard convention

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

tfw you actually get to code today

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

set up a cron job to delete your Downloads folder. you can thank me later

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

why do we not have the erlang vm but for other languages?

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments