Ben Martin
@captaindomestic.bsky.social
"Underappreciated" is my word for Grid Legends. I found the story mode was a great way to ease into circuit racing.
February 6, 2026 at 12:08 PM
"Underappreciated" is my word for Grid Legends. I found the story mode was a great way to ease into circuit racing.
Does your brain differentiate between social and parasocial relationships? How many people feel they are friends with Conan O'Brian?
January 31, 2026 at 1:27 PM
Does your brain differentiate between social and parasocial relationships? How many people feel they are friends with Conan O'Brian?
Gotta say it is nice to hear somebody else who is still upset by impoundment. Drives me nuts. Impoundment robs us of representation and diminishes democracy to one representative instead of many competing representatives.
January 31, 2026 at 1:31 AM
Gotta say it is nice to hear somebody else who is still upset by impoundment. Drives me nuts. Impoundment robs us of representation and diminishes democracy to one representative instead of many competing representatives.
That was part of why Leverage was so refreshing. There are plenty of fun crime stories to tell that aren't murder-of-the-week.
January 22, 2026 at 3:32 PM
That was part of why Leverage was so refreshing. There are plenty of fun crime stories to tell that aren't murder-of-the-week.
Gotta measure "share of total weight of vehicles sold". Each F150 counts twice!
January 15, 2026 at 9:22 PM
Gotta measure "share of total weight of vehicles sold". Each F150 counts twice!
That last line is interesting. How can you be accountable for code you did not write or understand?
January 8, 2026 at 5:19 PM
That last line is interesting. How can you be accountable for code you did not write or understand?
Taiji was nice and satisfying. The puzzles were at a fairly nice level of complexity.
January 4, 2026 at 11:20 PM
Taiji was nice and satisfying. The puzzles were at a fairly nice level of complexity.
This is great. I should probably take it as a sign to move my blog from medium.com to a real host. I know my essays will only get a few hundred reads, but they help me think through ideas. It is great saying "I wrote an essay about that" instead of explaining from scratch every time.
January 4, 2026 at 6:12 PM
This is great. I should probably take it as a sign to move my blog from medium.com to a real host. I know my essays will only get a few hundred reads, but they help me think through ideas. It is great saying "I wrote an essay about that" instead of explaining from scratch every time.
The relentless lying was so hard to take as somebody who cares about truth and the press. I'm still feeling deeply offended by impoundment and I have a hard time believing that it wasn't stopped. I just hope on the other side we have a flourishing recommitment to freedom and truth.
December 25, 2025 at 8:08 PM
The relentless lying was so hard to take as somebody who cares about truth and the press. I'm still feeling deeply offended by impoundment and I have a hard time believing that it wasn't stopped. I just hope on the other side we have a flourishing recommitment to freedom and truth.
Sometimes I need to publish an article just so I can link to it in another, more interesting article. This article was an aside in another in-progress article and it just grew too big so it needed to go out first.
December 21, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Sometimes I need to publish an article just so I can link to it in another, more interesting article. This article was an aside in another in-progress article and it just grew too big so it needed to go out first.
As a super fan of The Witness, his journey has been a huge disappointment. A great object lesson in how clever in one domain does not always translate to smart.
December 12, 2025 at 4:27 AM
As a super fan of The Witness, his journey has been a huge disappointment. A great object lesson in how clever in one domain does not always translate to smart.
For me, getting a full electric was a necessary precursor to the hassle of finding an electrician to install a charger. Not sure I would have gotten around to it if I had gone with a plug-in.
December 1, 2025 at 6:48 PM
For me, getting a full electric was a necessary precursor to the hassle of finding an electrician to install a charger. Not sure I would have gotten around to it if I had gone with a plug-in.
Like with cheap chips in cars in 2020, forecasting mistakes can easily cause 2-4 year price surges that can have a wider impact. 2024 could well have gone different if some analysts had gotten the direction (pandemic->more cars) right.
November 26, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Like with cheap chips in cars in 2020, forecasting mistakes can easily cause 2-4 year price surges that can have a wider impact. 2024 could well have gone different if some analysts had gotten the direction (pandemic->more cars) right.
Basically in a very near-term inelastic supply environment, even if demand modestly exceeds supply, it can have outsized impacts on price.
November 26, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Basically in a very near-term inelastic supply environment, even if demand modestly exceeds supply, it can have outsized impacts on price.
I'm really not sure you can take too much from memory prices. Memory goes in generations and the industry makes bets on how many of each generation will be needed. This time, they were hit by the pandemic boom in gaming PCs as well as ai. They then tried to hold down prices too long.
November 26, 2025 at 2:26 PM
I'm really not sure you can take too much from memory prices. Memory goes in generations and the industry makes bets on how many of each generation will be needed. This time, they were hit by the pandemic boom in gaming PCs as well as ai. They then tried to hold down prices too long.
Exciting for my commute home! The moving walkways are the only thing I still remember from Asimov's Foundation books. Bummer they didn't make it to the Apple TV adaptation.
November 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Exciting for my commute home! The moving walkways are the only thing I still remember from Asimov's Foundation books. Bummer they didn't make it to the Apple TV adaptation.
A republican congressman not on the discharge petition suggested it could pass unanimously. A unanimous voice vote would probably be the best way to kill it.
November 13, 2025 at 11:44 AM
A republican congressman not on the discharge petition suggested it could pass unanimously. A unanimous voice vote would probably be the best way to kill it.
I think Boomers grew up reading newspapers. They also watched a lot of WW2 content.
November 9, 2025 at 10:46 PM
I think Boomers grew up reading newspapers. They also watched a lot of WW2 content.
I really wonder if they have a built-in assumption that high production values implies trustworthy contents. Growing up on the big three news, now every loon can produce a slick show and they have no defences.
November 9, 2025 at 6:24 PM
I really wonder if they have a built-in assumption that high production values implies trustworthy contents. Growing up on the big three news, now every loon can produce a slick show and they have no defences.
In planning meetings, there is a struggle to name ongoing work like "fixing build failures". Our processes tend to be feature oriented, so projects that consume dev-hours but don't end are an awkward fit. After many names, we settled on "keeping the lights on" as an analogy everybody gets.
November 8, 2025 at 1:03 PM
In planning meetings, there is a struggle to name ongoing work like "fixing build failures". Our processes tend to be feature oriented, so projects that consume dev-hours but don't end are an awkward fit. After many names, we settled on "keeping the lights on" as an analogy everybody gets.
I see people amazed by how AI can create almost-right boilerplate code. I think they really need to learn to write and use snippets. Somebody needs to teach this generation some good old lifehacker-style "editor tricks" content.
October 25, 2025 at 2:52 PM
I see people amazed by how AI can create almost-right boilerplate code. I think they really need to learn to write and use snippets. Somebody needs to teach this generation some good old lifehacker-style "editor tricks" content.
The key word to me is "exhausting". As a programmer and manager I worry a lot about how my devs will develop taste and skill without the long hours grasping to understand.
October 25, 2025 at 2:46 PM
The key word to me is "exhausting". As a programmer and manager I worry a lot about how my devs will develop taste and skill without the long hours grasping to understand.