Ben Pfaff
@benpfaff.bsky.social
Co-founder and developer at feldera.com. GNU and former Debian developer. RenFaire enthusiast. He/him.
Just keeping a look out at Stanford Shopping Center
November 10, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Just keeping a look out at Stanford Shopping Center
Reddit sends an email once a day with some links in it. If I try to click on any link in it from my phone I get an error like this. Works fine from a real computer. WTF Reddit.
October 29, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Reddit sends an email once a day with some links in it. If I try to click on any link in it from my phone I get an error like this. Works fine from a real computer. WTF Reddit.
I'm playing Gandalf today
October 25, 2025 at 9:28 PM
I'm playing Gandalf today
I've never been threatened by a CI system before but Slack thinks that I have
October 21, 2025 at 4:35 PM
I've never been threatened by a CI system before but Slack thinks that I have
I made mapo tofu. Mapo isn't supposed to have peas, green beans, mushrooms, and pineapple, but I like them.
October 1, 2025 at 2:48 AM
I made mapo tofu. Mapo isn't supposed to have peas, green beans, mushrooms, and pineapple, but I like them.
I know there's some controversy over the plural of "virus" but I'm confident this one is wrong.
September 25, 2025 at 6:23 PM
I know there's some controversy over the plural of "virus" but I'm confident this one is wrong.
I love getting this kind of email.
September 9, 2025 at 5:01 PM
I love getting this kind of email.
Some of my work at @feldera.bsky.social involves containers. I keep getting spam from some vendor who wants to sell me casters to put on the containers 🤣
September 2, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Some of my work at @feldera.bsky.social involves containers. I keep getting spam from some vendor who wants to sell me casters to put on the containers 🤣
Copilot sure likes to make stupid and useless comments.
August 28, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Copilot sure likes to make stupid and useless comments.
At @feldera.bsky.social I've been doing a lot of performance work. I needed an easy way to watch the Prometheus metrics for a pipeline, so I wrote a simple tool for the Feldera CLI that shows the pipeline metrics. Here's the progress of a pipeline that runs in about 30 seconds.
August 20, 2025 at 12:27 AM
At @feldera.bsky.social I've been doing a lot of performance work. I needed an easy way to watch the Prometheus metrics for a pipeline, so I wrote a simple tool for the Feldera CLI that shows the pipeline metrics. Here's the progress of a pipeline that runs in about 30 seconds.
Same thing in Google Search, fewer details.
August 7, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Same thing in Google Search, fewer details.
Or I can hover over a line number and my mouse cursor turns to something that indicates I should be able to click, but clicking does zilch. Surely there must be some way to see more without going to the file and then scrolling madly until I find the particular lines.
July 30, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Or I can hover over a line number and my mouse cursor turns to something that indicates I should be able to click, but clicking does zilch. Surely there must be some way to see more without going to the file and then scrolling madly until I find the particular lines.
#GitHub question. On the "conversation" pane of a pull request, how do I get more of the code context around a comment that someone made. Here's an example. I can click on the filename, which takes me to the top of the changes to that file but not to the particular change.
July 30, 2025 at 11:38 PM
#GitHub question. On the "conversation" pane of a pull request, how do I get more of the code context around a comment that someone made. Here's an example. I can click on the filename, which takes me to the top of the changes to that file but not to the particular change.
My girlfriend took this candid photo of me while I was working yesterday.
July 11, 2025 at 3:11 PM
My girlfriend took this candid photo of me while I was working yesterday.
Oh also you might want to update this setting.
July 1, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Oh also you might want to update this setting.
Left-click on a folder and you get it, right?
July 1, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Left-click on a folder and you get it, right?
I use the expandable hierarchy along the left side.
July 1, 2025 at 7:20 PM
I use the expandable hierarchy along the left side.
OK, for my current #coffee beans, 1/2 c. weighs 33 g. These beans grind faster: about 20 seconds for the amount I use for a cup.
Further experiments will have to wait until I finish this bag and buy another.
I fully expect that I'll get followup comments criticizing my choice of beans :-)
Further experiments will have to wait until I finish this bag and buy another.
I fully expect that I'll get followup comments criticizing my choice of beans :-)
June 2, 2025 at 6:36 PM
OK, for my current #coffee beans, 1/2 c. weighs 33 g. These beans grind faster: about 20 seconds for the amount I use for a cup.
Further experiments will have to wait until I finish this bag and buy another.
I fully expect that I'll get followup comments criticizing my choice of beans :-)
Further experiments will have to wait until I finish this bag and buy another.
I fully expect that I'll get followup comments criticizing my choice of beans :-)
Someone got this pic of me at the Shasta Renaissance Faire and I *love* it.
May 27, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Someone got this pic of me at the Shasta Renaissance Faire and I *love* it.
My RenFaire group, Guild of St. Margaret of Scotland, served as the court of King James I of England at Shasta Renaissance Faire in Shasta, California last weekend.
May 27, 2025 at 3:41 PM
My RenFaire group, Guild of St. Margaret of Scotland, served as the court of King James I of England at Shasta Renaissance Faire in Shasta, California last weekend.
My partner and I spent the weekend playing Robert and Elizabeth Cecil at the KVMR Celtic Festival in Grass Valley.
May 6, 2025 at 4:17 AM
My partner and I spent the weekend playing Robert and Elizabeth Cecil at the KVMR Celtic Festival in Grass Valley.
Next weekend I'll be participating in the KVMR Celtic Festival with my RenFaire guild, the Guild of St. Margaret of Scotland. We'll be portraying the court of King James VI/I in the year 1603. Also appearing elsewhere in the faire is the Guild of St. Andrew, as the court of Queen Mary in 1562.
April 26, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Next weekend I'll be participating in the KVMR Celtic Festival with my RenFaire guild, the Guild of St. Margaret of Scotland. We'll be portraying the court of King James VI/I in the year 1603. Also appearing elsewhere in the faire is the Guild of St. Andrew, as the court of Queen Mary in 1562.
Drove by VMware's Palo Alto campus today and I guess it is officially dead now.
April 25, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Drove by VMware's Palo Alto campus today and I guess it is officially dead now.