Ben Kraft
benkraft.org
Ben Kraft
@benkraft.org
Nonsense Engineer, Infrastructure
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I wrote a blog post sophiebits.com/2025/07/21/t...
TODOs aren’t for doing
sophiebits.com
July 22, 2025 at 12:57 AM
me sowing: I'm gonna do this in a hacky way because idk how many people will use this thing
me reaping: why is everyone just adding to my hacky nonsense
March 21, 2025 at 2:32 AM
MY TEAM is once again hiring for SOFTWARE ENGINEERS

Pros:
- you get to work with ME
- a giant typescript codebase with some pretty cool tooling and problems to solve ✨at scale✨

Cons:
- you will work with ME
- a giant typescript codebase at the bleeding edge of TS scale
March 20, 2025 at 6:28 PM
becoming an a.i. safety guy specifically for ski lifts where the bar locks in place. this is how they get us!!
March 4, 2025 at 2:34 AM
O N T O L O G Y
January 24, 2025 at 7:09 PM
so, did anyone ever figure out how to explain to someone that they should care about other people? asking for a friend
January 8, 2025 at 4:15 AM
need someone to write an overly-researched piece on the history of trout roe on latkes and what it means about the evolution of Jewish food culture in the United States
December 7, 2024 at 6:12 PM
regrettably it seems it is yet again time for one of my codegen tools to grow an IR
November 22, 2024 at 12:02 AM
Hello friends it is once again time for you to join MY TEAM

Pros:
- you get to work with ME
- working on ~ typescript at scale ~ is pretty cool sometimes

Cons:
- you will work with ME
- working on ~ typescript at scale ~ is pretty mystifying sometimes

job-boards.greenhouse.io/notion/jobs/...
Job Application for Software Engineer, Developer Experience at Notion
job-boards.greenhouse.io
October 23, 2024 at 9:37 PM
can't stop thinking about how all my coworkers are suddenly using Cursor, while Robert Caro writes on a Smith-Corona Electra 210 typewriter
October 20, 2024 at 6:21 PM
Reposted by Ben Kraft
big day, going to hit post on this new essay "why commit signatures will fix everything" but first i'm going to check the news and take a big sip out of my mug
March 29, 2024 at 8:49 PM
lies, damned lies, and terraform files
July 29, 2023 at 2:23 AM
Reposted by Ben Kraft
the clearest evidence that america is a manifestation of god’s will is that the fourth of july always occurs on july 4th. every. single. time. at which point does something cease to be a coincidence and start to become a miracle
July 4, 2023 at 4:46 PM
Everyone has a friend who you know is gonna become a NIMBY the minute they turn 40. Look around; if you're not sure who that is, it's you.
July 3, 2023 at 2:27 AM
Guy who thinks software should be slower so you get that extra 400ms to rethink your choices before the app loads
June 1, 2023 at 5:56 AM
I regret to inform you that the rumors are true: the people who made the new Google Authenticator icon indeed never read Breakfast of Champions
May 25, 2023 at 4:48 PM
Need someone to start a "roast me" thread but it's for all the anons and their Twitter names
May 18, 2023 at 6:31 AM
He's not my king, I'm more of a Charles I kind of a guy
May 6, 2023 at 4:59 PM
The older I get, the less patience I have for people who think code is an asset
May 5, 2023 at 4:09 PM
Turns out "everything in moderation" was a low interest rate phenomenon. Now the Fed is maxxing and
May 3, 2023 at 4:09 PM
Nothing like a little nonsense to start the morning
May 2, 2023 at 5:08 PM