Hi, I’m Ben. I’m a data engineer who has worked professionally with Python, SQL, and Linux for close to a decade. I’m also a writer, and in an earlier phase of my career was a journalist covering law and economic policy. These days, I mostly write technical documentation or here on my blog.
When I’m not hammering away at my Leopold, I can often be found bicycling up and down the many hills around the San Francisco Bay Area where I live. I’m a member of the Grizzly Peak Cyclists, and enjoy the camaraderie of the local cycling community. My main ride is a Fuji Touring.
I really like technical books about programming. My floor has stacks of volumes published by No Starch Press, O’Reilly, and Addison-Wesley, to name a few. Occasionally, I write code in public and push it up to GitHub. I also like reading non-fiction history.
I’m enthusiastic about free/libre software. I currently run Fedora Linux on my daily driver, but have done my share of distro hopping. I’m a GNU Emacs user but if I had to choose another favorite editor, it would probably be Sam.
I’ll never publish anything here that was written by “AI” or otherwise generated by an LLM. I’m writing here to express my thoughts, in my voice. I bear responsibility for all mistakes, typos, and other silliness.
There’s no comments feature on this site, but I love getting email. Feel free to drop me a line, preferably in plain text. Thanks for reading, and I look forward to hearing from you.