January 12, 2026
Rest in peace, Bobby Weir
I'm heartbroken over the loss of Bobby Weir over the weekend. His music has been a part of my life ever since I was 16 or 17. I'm not sure…
Notes
The public output of my "second brain". I'm trying to practice sharing early and often to increase my luck surface area.
January 9, 2026
What to aim for after enough
I'm realizing that I'm struggling a bit know what to do and focus on work-wise going into this new year. About…
January 6, 2026
Invest in experiments and systems.
When I think about what to spend time on for my business, I try to think in terms of making an investment…
January 6, 2026
Total Prayer vs Total Work
Reading through Awakening to — And Escaping From — Total Work Through Non-Doing and starting on Chop Wood, Carry…
January 2, 2026
New Year, New Layout
Trying out a new layout to kick off the new year. Key updates are a new "Library" section to motivate to track my 202…
January 2, 2026
2026 Reading List
I didn't hit my reading goal in 2025 (Read 24 books in 2025), but the goal was honestly just for me to keep track of, I…
November 3, 2025
How to add the Ahrefs MCP Server to Cursor
I've been testing out using the Ahrefs MCP server inside of the Claude desktop app, but honestly…
October 7, 2025
Using Netlify's AI Agent Runner
for ColorBliss The Netlify team reached out to me a few weeks ago to be a beta tester for their new AI Agent…
September 19, 2025
You have to look for the good news
Something I've learned over the past couple years working on ColorBliss, and something I experienced also…
September 18, 2025
ColorBliss is two years old!
The first commit to the ColorBliss repo was September 13, 2023: At that point, I really didn't think I'd still…
August 29, 2025
A perfect example of backlink spam
I opened my email to a fun google news alert today (I have google alerts set up to send me mentions of…
August 29, 2025
Yesterday I made a candle with my daughters
and today i am burning it in the office. the sweet sweet smell of apple cinammon :)
August 28, 2025
Is there anybody out there?
The more time I spend learning about SEO, the more I'm convinced that the dead internet theory is real…
August 28, 2025
My Philosophy on Spoilers
Here it is: If a work of literature, film, etc is only good insofar as you don't know how it's going to end, it is…
August 27, 2025
Introducing gatsby-plugin-pretty-link-card
A few days ago, I published an article on dev.to about my process debugging and resolving a…
August 1, 2025
Prepping for a new baby as a solo founder
We welcomed our fourth child into the world in June! It feels like a big accomplishment to me…
January 1, 2025
Read 24 Books in 2025
I ended the year with 14 books and 2 audio books. Even less than I expected to be honest. Here's what's up for 202…
July 17, 2024
Building Backlinks
Tags: Build in Public I've learned a lot about SEO over the past year working on ColorBliss (my tool for making AI…
January 6, 2024
Ben's Favorite Sour Dough Recipe
My Favorite Sourdough Recipe This is the sourdough recipe I've been using for the past couple months. It's based on this recipe, though I've…
January 4, 2024
Read 24 Books in 2024
In 2023, I read 25 books and 3 audio books (Read 24 Books in 2023). I'm aiming for 24 books in 2024 again - it's about…