Ben Szymanski

Software Engineer • Umbraco Certified Master • 🇺🇸 & 🐊

Hired Gun

Blog

  1. And then one day, all of a sudden, you're just tired. Real, fucking, tired.

  2. Some thoughts on what we should be building instead.

  3. How does everyone keep up with all of this long-form content?

  4. Why can't Apple's own system automation tools be that productive?

  5. The iPad is in decline, and hardly anyone cares.

  6. A tale of vintage computer shopping and collecting.

  7. A surprisingly millennial movie.

  8. The Mac Studio display has been chided since its release as unnecessary, in both price and components. Could it be that we have been looking at is what the flat-panel Apple TV was supposed to be? A reused design?

  9. Flying has become so miserable that the flight attendants don't even try to paper over the injustice with pleasantness anymore.

  10. Find out what happened to Janet.

Projects

Tidelas.com

Tidelas is a website that serves as a tailored handbook for efoil, kiteboard and wing foil enthusiasts. I built this website using Django, HTMX and TailwindCSS, as well as write and generate content.

I have also built cross-platform companion apps for both iOS and Android using Flutter.

Server Admin 10.6

Are you tired of PaaS startups rehashing old ideas that used to be implemented for free in the open source world? Maybe you just like running your own server(s)? Or, maybe you just miss clicking around Apple's utility applications.

Well you're in luck because we are replicating the late, the great Mac OS X Server Admin application, and we're doing it in classic Mac OS X style with AppKit and Objective-C.

Server Admin - Server administration for what's left of us.

Classic Finder

Everything (mostly) you loved about the original Macintosh Finder, implemented in Objective-C and Cocoa to run on your modern Mac!