Ben Szymanski

Software Engineer • Vlogging about efoils, tech and music • πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ & 🐊

Blog

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

  2. The Mac Studio display has been chided since it's 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?

  3. Flying has become so miserable that the flight attendants don't even try to paper over it with pleasantness anymore. Cattle in, cattle out. Next stop!

  4. Find out what happened to Janet.

  5. Found a website dedicated to one of my favorites.

  6. One of the worst annoyances of MacOS today is window focus.

  7. As boring as these aluminum Macs are, they're going to age so much better.

  8. I love Macs, but not every Mac.

  9. Everyone needs to get FreeBSD-pilled that FreeBSD is better than Linux.

  10. No one would complain about the daylights savings changeover/spring forward if it happened during the workday.

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.

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.

Server Admin 10.3

Relive the magic of Mac OS X Server, and it's Server Admin application, right in your browser! Step back into 2003 and click through all the services and panels that shipped with 10.3 Server.

Classic Finder

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

Work With Me

Protype Software Ltd.

Protype Software is an independent practice that I founded to act as a vessel for freelance work. I can build websites, web apps, Mac apps. I can also help with automation, CI/CD and general systems administration.

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