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iambateman.com
Laravel developer, husband, dad. My interests… building better cities and making web dev side projects. Fun fact…I’m pretty good at ping pong.
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Claude really can answer any question with a React component. 😂

The take I am most certain of that gets me in the most trouble is just "The reason homes are so expensive is because there are not enough of them, so we really really really need to build more of them."

the hard part of entrepreneurship is solving the problems I have, not the ones I want to have.

It's the 9:00 a.m. hug of death.

weekend project

I wrote a quick post on building a viral bluesky toy: working with the API, optimizing for viral traffic, generating snazzy open graph images, and more benholmen.com/blog/howtall...

Best game dev advice I have (which applies to developing anything): keep it in a playable state 100% of the time. You're not allowed to spend 6 months in the mind palace. Prototype on day 1. You should be playing it constantly. And if someone asks what you're working on, you have a link ready.

This goes both directions!

Most new follows are spam…it’s people who are following 77.9k people just to get follow backs. Is there a way to filter those?

This won't win photo of the year, but it should.

@tomaslau.com just checked out your profile and craftled looks really cool. Nice to meet you!