Ben Schwartz

It was delightful to hear them together again

I have updated the binary that runs every morning to render the HTML for isthereaseattlehomegametoday.com For even small hobby projects are not immune to compromised certificates. You know ... in case anyone was planning on stealing my Ticketmaster API key

hunter4

iOS 28 feature request: the ability to mute an app so it can never take the iOS audio system (ESPECIALLY never take it exclusively) I will never care what noises the AT&T app makes. (More likely it’s their logo splash screen done as a video which takes the system audio session)

My therapist (who I have been seeing for almost a decade) is going out-of-network with my insurance starting in 2027. What a very cool system we have here. A+ work everyone

friendship ended with OCTOBER BASEBALL now OCTOBER HOCKEY is my best friend

This was 2019, but I am 2 for 2 on getting offers when I brought coffee to the interview.

Just reporting in to say that some of the bosses in the DLC are absolute bangers.

Pouring one out for all the various iOS app dev teams today that are learning how strange their app behaves on the iPhone Duo

While I can see the use cases, it is fucking WILD to announce this while all the "LG Smart TVs are spying on you by recording" stuff is in the zeitgeist.

My highlight of PAX was turning in a time of 2.421 seconds in Quick & Crash. Not my PB, but definitely the best time I've done in a long, long while. Thanks to @100yenlife.bsky.social for bringing the machine year after year.

BitWarden self-hosting ... yay or nay? Mostly just figuring out how to do backups (I assume I can just dump the DB and shove it up with the rest of my backup scripts?) Also is vaultwarden worth looking at?

Weird OSS thing I'm not sure how to feel. I built a feature in a fork and posted about it on an issue in the original. No response for months, so I forget it. Someone opens a new issue and links my post. A 3rd person opens a PR with my solution, exactly, w/o credit. Not a huge deal, but feels weird

Every time I open Cash App, I am greeted with this message of disapproval. Apparently they do not want to issue a card with the word “STOLEN” scribbled on it

My first software developer job was working on video ingestion and encoding systems. One of the test videos I used was the movie Clue. So that's the best Tim Curry performance.

I don’t know how true this is, but what I do know is that EVE Online was the best and worst 4 years of my life.

SimTown fans rejoice!

This has been driving me wild. I have an Oppo Blu-Ray player with a chip in it that allows switching regions to watch imports. Changing regions requires a button sequence. I have a Logitech Harmony remote (rip). Doing the sequence manually works perfectly. Programming it on the remote doesn't. WTF

I was always excited about The Duskbloods. But now I am even more excited. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rh2X...

Ok I just learned this so I am passing along the knowledge...but if you're on Linux, you can sudo systemctl reboot --firmware-setup to reboot right in to BIOS setup. No more mashing the delete key for me (especially helpful via PiKVM)

Watching Brazil vs Norway…

So everyone’s World Cup brackets are just … broken now, right?

My NAS is now my retirement plan…

I don’t have any USMNT merch, so this will have to do

The beautiful game

Someone just walked by me with a Belgium kit that said “Ceci n'est pas un maillot” Iconic

We're not even 5 hours in to 90 FM Trivia and I am already frazzled.

Making friends while playing Final Sentence

Mustard is a garbage tier condiment

Walkable City is FUNDED everyone! 🎉🎉🎉🎉 But we have some really sweet stretch goals that I'd love to get to! Take a look if making a more walkable, livable city sounds appealing to you and maybe tag your favorite urbanist too! 😉 www.kickstarter.com/projects/fow...

Weekend project idea for anyone: a browser plugin that uses census data to put the Area Median Household Income next to people's posts.

If you are looking for a character artist, go check out my friend Ky's stuff! They are very cool and very talented

MIGHT AS WELL WIN THE WHOLE FUCKING THING

I've been sick the last few days and it turns out you can still get the regular cold in 2026.

I was looking at the instructions for the new Aptitude Covid + Flu test. I'm no UX designer, but why wouldn't you make Flu B positive a blue light!? BLUE FOR B IT'S SO SIMPLE