Benjamin Hollon
Blogs
musings
musings
like thoughts, but deeper and sometimes stupider
visions of an embodied internet
april 9, 2026
currency is an abstraction of value
april 3, 2026
2025 in review
december 31, 2025
building an analog week calendar with a deck of cards
november 6, 2025
analyzing subscriptions and budgets
october 1, 2025
my ideal tech setup
september 27, 2025
urlref: website bookmarking for handwritten notes
september 11, 2025
combating consumerism
july 18, 2025
apparently i have readers
june 16, 2025
i need more analog projects
june 12, 2025
how physical objects die
may 22, 2025
listening to less music
may 21, 2025
meditation on nothing
may 20, 2025
life on the edge of an ephiphany
may 16, 2025
the impact of digital authorship
february 21, 2025
thoughts on writing with paper
february 19, 2025
thoughts on social media
january 20, 2025
managing my game saves with environment variables
january 6, 2025
it's time to reinvent the wheel
november 22, 2024
grocery shopping via bicycle
november 13, 2024
we need peaceful forms of border negotiation
september 15, 2024
thoughts on breaking even
september 8, 2024
thoughts on ISO week dates
august 5, 2024
how to hold chopsticks: a photographic guide
june 15, 2024
i redesigned my neovim config for better writing
may 31, 2024
do we discover ourselves or build ourselves???
may 30, 2024
the great paywall
may 25, 2024
what i listen to is private
may 23, 2024
syncing my photos from iOS using ifuse and rsync
may 23, 2024
blogging on a budget
may 18, 2024
comm law and policy extra credit: Eldred v. Ashcroft
may 7, 2024
i am hopelessly inexperienced, culturally-speaking
march 28, 2024
clew reaches alpha
march 27, 2024
ending my scrobbling journey
february 26, 2024
consistency and poetry
february 23, 2024
the minimalism cycle
february 22, 2024
friction
february 22, 2024
tty1 guest article proposals are open!
february 21, 2024
consistency
february 21, 2024
lost treasures (party game)
february 21, 2024
reply via email
february 18, 2024
wireless is a lie
february 16, 2024
tracking my travels
february 15, 2024
in defense of "free" shipping
february 15, 2024
announcing clew: my search engine
february 1, 2024
using grep to increase index quality
january 17, 2024
this should've been a database
january 4, 2024
announcing my blogroll
january 4, 2024
picking the sort order for a web crawler
january 4, 2024
i'm starting work on a search engine
january 3, 2024
personal essay: behind the name
november 29, 2023
photo essay: in memoriam
november 28, 2023
goodbye, see with eyes closed
november 24, 2023
a note on cloning
november 23, 2023
error 404
november 22, 2023
sticky notes are the future (at least for now)
november 21, 2023
is this the end of NaNoWriMo?
november 17, 2023
best pictures of the week (W45/2023)
november 14, 2023
audio postcard: the MSC
october 20, 2023
all hail OSIRIS-REx
september 22, 2023
things i use (september 2023)
september 16, 2023
the prodigal's brother needs to stop
june 6, 2023
reconsidering my reading choices
june 5, 2023
imagining an email-free contact form
january 27, 2023
a semester with the framework laptop
january 4, 2023
2022 in review
january 2, 2023
a nanowrimo pep talk
november 6, 2022
a social experiment on copyright
october 23, 2022
a seven-dimensional universe
april 28, 2022
"non-comprehensive" ≠ "wrong"
february 9, 2022
how to code a blog
january 25, 2022
View Archived Posts
passwords and biometric authentication (archived post)
april 26, 2022
an introduction to passwords (archived post)
april 24, 2022
the learning machine (archived post)
february 9, 2022
recaptcha is dead (archived post)
january 22, 2022
how to choose a web browser (archived post)
january 10, 2022
here's why web privacy matters (archived post)
january 6, 2022
what is trust? (archived post)
january 1, 2022
let's start this over (archived post)
october 18, 2021
my technology manifesto (archived post)
may 22, 2021
stop using chrome. seriously. (archived post)
april 11, 2021
new: emoji reactions (archived post)
april 2, 2021
astrotheology: religion meets space (archived post)
march 26, 2021
where is everybody?: implications of the fermi paradox (archived post)
march 20, 2021
butterfly prophecies (archived post)
march 12, 2021
guns on this morgue ship (archived post)
march 5, 2021
stop and listen to the alarm clock (archived post)
february 26, 2021
grade comparing: the new pillory? (archived post)
october 8, 2020
umify available on the chrome web store (archived post)
august 24, 2020
why read? (archived post)
august 17, 2020
the mayflower compact: a lesson in fragility (archived post)
july 19, 2020
life behind the mask (archived post)
june 12, 2020
it's not selfish to ask for help (archived post)
may 11, 2020
when the sun sets (archived post)
april 26, 2020
how to draw a really bad partybone (archived post)
april 24, 2020
the bookwyrm method (archived post)
april 5, 2020
i'm not a robot (archived post)
march 30, 2020
just write! (archived post)
march 29, 2020
quote analysis: laziness (archived post)
march 22, 2020
forensics tournament and assumptions (archived post)
february 15, 2020
the tyranny of grades (archived post)
february 8, 2020
necessary murder? (archived post)
january 31, 2020
the power of procrastination (archived post)
january 12, 2020
quote analysis: see with eyes closed (archived post)
january 1, 2020