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Ben Patton @benapatton.com · 21/09/2026
Relational Sales is something I have heard. The hard part is I haven't done this work in a professional setting so it feels a bit like another career pivot. If you want someone who will take good care of your customers, make them feel like a badass, and who daydreams about helping people, DM me.
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Ben Patton @benapatton.com · 21/09/2026
After much introspection and career counseling I am looking for a new job. I am looking for Forward Deployed Engineer/Deployment Specialist/Solutions Engineer roles I am great with people, understanding them, seeing opportunity for them and your product/platform.
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Ben Patton @benapatton.com · 09/03/2026
yes! Thank you! Working on a personal site that I want to feel like some games I used to play and that wheel is similar to what is in this. Mix it between destiny and dynasty warriors
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Ben Patton @benapatton.com · 09/03/2026
@nerdy.dev at one point you had a link to different scroll animations. It was a website I think on its own. It was at the 24 second mark of your sizzle-rizzle post - nerdy.dev/sizzle-rizzle Is there a link to that site or repo?
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Sizzle Rizzle · July 4, 2025
A small sample of UI , code , tools , and design from my 20 professional years of webdev.
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Ben Patton @benapatton.com · 16/12/2025
All I want for bluesky Christmas is for DM’s to not cut off the last few lines of the latest message on mobile. So frustrating
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Ben Patton @benapatton.com · 16/12/2025
There is so much here but been to point to it not all being this way a lot of writings from NT Wright help reorient to seeking good of neighbor, community, poor, and truly seeking to make the world a better place by serving people in their need not a means to an end.
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Ben Patton @benapatton.com · 16/12/2025
The more time I spend in these conversations/thinking the more I truly believe most expressions of faith in Christian circles simply have very little to say about hope or good things to devote themselves too that isn't condemning people or the hope of being whisked away to heaven one day.
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Ben Patton @benapatton.com · 16/12/2025
The circles 'christians' will go in to defend the advantaged man who has not been developed is one of the greatest discouragements to me. As someone who follows the way I give many waking hours to thinking and discussing why mainstream evangelical belief rarely expresses itself in the ways it should
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Ben Patton @benapatton.com · 13/12/2025
Wow. Incredibly jealous. part of my inner child wants to have a game store one day just to provide the experience to other kids I had and be surrounded by games 😂
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Ben Patton @benapatton.com · 09/12/2025
And they are very tricky with the buttons to try and make you install the app.
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Ben Patton @benapatton.com · 09/12/2025
two additional patterns I want to be illegal 1. the chrome 'login in with' extension that hijacks any windows you are own until you exit it 2. the stupid popup drawer like on reddit where it asks you if you want the mobile app or continue in browser. Like, my friend, I am on the browser...
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Ben Patton @benapatton.com · 05/12/2025
I'll read it just cause some days I'm like "I don't need serious fiction, there is enough seriousness in life. Give me silly captain underpants" Also cannot read them now without reading George's voice as Kevin Hart from the Captain Underpants Movie 😂
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Ben Patton @benapatton.com · 05/12/2025
I have to imagine that (and I say this not in jest but as a realization) Standards folks right now with the cloudflare outage primarily due to mitigating vulnerability React Server Components is kind of a 🤷‍♂️ moment for standards teams/folks. Article - blog.cloudflare.com/5-december-2...
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Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025
Cloudflare experienced a significant traffic outage on December 5, 2025, starting approximately at 8:47 UTC. The incident lasted approximately 25 minutes before resolution. We are sorry for the impac...
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Ben Patton @benapatton.com · 05/12/2025
I recently bought all the Captain Underpants books I had as a kid. Were truly some of the first fun 'books' I remember reading. Dog man is probably better haha
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Ben Patton @benapatton.com · 30/11/2025
I am so confused by what I am seeing/reading by many over on X. What have people actually seen within AI to think a "singularity" is being approached? What have people actually seen to make them think all that is in the future is humans fighting to survive against AI?
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Ben Patton @benapatton.com · 28/11/2025
I know it can go both ways but if the individual is caught up trying to check if it is AI or not rather than understanding the quality of what is being delivered that should not be an additional burden on the creator to answer
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Ben Patton @benapatton.com · 28/11/2025
Watching someone try to get good at a skill to be mistaken as AI has me reflecting. If you are pursuing craft with tender love and care you DONT OWE ANYONE an explanation if they mistake it for AI
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Andy Bell @bell.bz · 27/11/2025
A bit of a vulnerable post by me but we need your help to get us through what has been a more difficult period than 2020. It would be really appreciated if you could read and share in your networks too 💛 bell.bz/its-been-a-v...
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It’s been a very hard year - Andy Bell
Unlike a lot of places in tech, my company, Set Studio/Piccalilli has no outside funding. Bootstrapped is what the LinkedIn people say, I think. It’s been a hard year this year. A very hard year...
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Ben Patton @benapatton.com · 27/11/2025
I guess today I’m thankful using these things are not a part of my normal vocabulary. One could say they are apart from my vocabulary. Part from me 🫠 Random musings when you have too much time
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Ben Patton @benapatton.com · 27/11/2025
It causes quite the irritation in my that “apart” and “a part” are separated by a space and have complete opposite meanings Also, if “a part” is brought together to “apart” wouldn’t “apart“ more intuitively be understood as joined? And the opposite for “apart” being split to “a part”. #mybrain
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Ben Patton @benapatton.com · 26/11/2025
The expressions make me think something went wrong in santa's workshop or he is going to be delayed. Aaron: "excuse me?" Ian: "I know..."
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Ben Patton @benapatton.com · 24/11/2025
The creator of this microwave was an agent of chaos (Who puts the stop button on the tight?!)
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Ben Patton @benapatton.com · 24/11/2025
AI is a race to the bottom, in the way most ppl are using it. To get the most out of it I feel you do have to be really solid in your field. Sure things that are monotonous and should be automated should. But for craft? Just all my thoughts. Working through the book.
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Ben Patton @benapatton.com · 24/11/2025
AI promises mastery. Its deeply deceptive because it does things which otherwise to you feel like magic IF you do not already have mastery over the subject So then we just chalk it up to AI can do it Im not arguing against using AI at all but as humans we have a deep need to master a skill
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Ben Patton @benapatton.com · 24/11/2025
I’m sure this is a AI realization many others have had The greatest deception I feel I’m seeing is the promise of turning AI users into masters of many crafts @alexhillman.com’s “Tiny MBA” (which you should buy this for a gift this week) recommended Cal Newports “So Good They Can‘t Ignore You”
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Ben Patton @benapatton.com · 24/11/2025
Growing more and more convinced by the day that there is an incredible amount of people making good money by lying to others about their “methods” and “scripts” and “playbooks” Give people a false promise they will pay you and then those same people are used as “evidence” that it works.
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Ben Patton @benapatton.com · 13/11/2025
Turning off cursor tab = zen mode
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Ben Patton @benapatton.com · 13/11/2025
Lastly a community to collaborate on effectively moving to web standards as an industry The narratives around leaving react, ”standards people” and so on are all done mostly it seems in poor faith, little hope, or lack of belief ”the other side will listen” Would love to see it reversed
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Ben Patton @benapatton.com · 13/11/2025
Three community ideas for bluesky people to help me process: A course creators community. Just somewhere to share ups downs, and whats working and not. Thinking developer specific A community to simply inspire and bring to light what’s possible with code. I get so bored with so much
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Ben Patton @benapatton.com · 11/11/2025
So many things I read, particularly from orgs that review books, are things like “I wish the author addressed ___.” Ok but let’s not take away from what is being said. Wishing for everything to be addressed is wishing for someone to say nothing at all
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Ben Patton @benapatton.com · 11/11/2025
My greatest hope for Christian authors and orgs that review books is that they would know the author is under no obligation to address the full extent of biblical doctrines when saying any one thing As a reader, my hope is to hear what is being said and not immediately say “but what about?!”
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Ben Patton @benapatton.com · 10/11/2025
What specifically about Deno Fresh 2.0? I just checked the website and don’t see anything related to PWA’s
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Ben Patton @benapatton.com · 08/11/2025
VitePWA loses me quick 🫣 I've been looking at workbox a good bit today so maybe a journey will begin for me. idk haha
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Ben Patton @benapatton.com · 08/11/2025
this is by far the nicest one I have used. Wish the implementation was just a package as a vite plugin or something. would make things so nice.
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Ben Patton @benapatton.com · 08/11/2025
I look into Capacitor and Ionic again. Just doing some discovery right now. Thanks for suggesting it!
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Ben Patton @benapatton.com · 08/11/2025
Can you explain what you mean more by "writing against the platform"? I like the enhance examples I have seen I am thinking offline too which maybe that's what is being said here. Just explaining for context
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Ben Patton @benapatton.com · 08/11/2025
And some of these I haven't built yet cause the initial experience of setting up a pwa was just so painful for one app I built, a journaling app for a community, I just can't bring myself to do it again 😅
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Ben Patton @benapatton.com · 08/11/2025
It's not so much about sync. I love InstantDB, Automerge, Convex, Dexie and a few others. Mostly just the offline setup for users the dynamic nature of the app still working as expected. Lots of these are small journaling, reflections, little games where being online doesn't need to be there.
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Ben Patton @benapatton.com · 08/11/2025
And not just the generic setup but more so wanting things to work offline as expected (which I realize varies widely depending on the app) The closes thing I think there is to this currently is how sveltekit handles pwa's with its compiler.
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Ben Patton @benapatton.com · 08/11/2025
I feel bluesky may be the only place that has developers who care about this answer Are there any tools out there that radically simplify building PWA's? Wasn't sure if @bell.bz would know of some. I really don't want to go down the expo route and use react native for a mobile app, would love pwa
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Ben Patton @benapatton.com · 08/11/2025
The introduction in “On Writing Well” is one of the most concise encapsulations of so many professions and societal trends. Make a medium easier, good gets better, bad gets worse.
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Ben Patton @benapatton.com · 04/11/2025
👏 May we all aspire to be this way
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Ben Patton @benapatton.com · 03/11/2025
Thank you! Don't mind the advice at all. Patience with myself is something I am also working on and am really bad at. Working on 'self talk' to also try to work through and have some freedom in it! Thanks Jason!
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Ben Patton @benapatton.com · 03/11/2025
Just purchased. Also have recently started adhd meds in hopes it helps me as well. Trying to use all the tools at my disposal cause it is something I am desperate to have some measure of victory in. Thanks for sharing the book recommendation!
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Ben Patton @benapatton.com · 03/11/2025
When they have that kind of "whiplash" moment and ask "wait, how did we get here?" Then you try to follow the train of thought haha
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Ben Patton @benapatton.com · 03/11/2025
Or maybe I could just be the physical one 🤦‍♂️ Holy smokes, who even am I? (physical product does exact thing I say make digital thing for....but its an idea!) 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️ Me to myself right now:
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Ben Patton @benapatton.com · 03/11/2025
I'm gonna build a sales safari chrome extension that is a browser MotivAider for myself Every few seconds, get a gentle visual/auditory nudge to remind myself "Hey, are you thinking about ideas or are you reading people's pain?" "Are you validating a perceived pain or real pain?"
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Ben Patton @benapatton.com · 03/11/2025
I literally found myself today frustrated with a given scenario, and messaged a friend and said, give me a good idea I know better. But it is so so easy to think the right idea brings the desired outcomes.
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Ben Patton @benapatton.com · 03/11/2025
In today's world you don't drift into proven processes, you drift into slop. Cultivating and working the muscles to not drift off track is so, so hard.
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Ben Patton @benapatton.com · 03/11/2025
So much of life is spent approaching it as "if I just had the right idea" only to then realize no one wants the idea but to then have a devil/angel bickering inside over "I just need to make money" to then be led back to "I need a good idea". Must....break....free...
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