iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Ben Hong @bencodezen.io · 03/09/2026

Every bit of text on this is satirical genius. 🤣🤣🤣

Image of a parody news article talking about sharing the dystopian world where everything is "compressed" into AI prompts.

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Ben Hong @bencodezen.io · 17/08/2026

Time to get this bad boy up and running…

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Ben Hong @bencodezen.io · 13/07/2026

I've been exploring lots of different approaches to weekly planning. Yesterday, I decided to go full blown mad scientist with good ol' paper & pen creating widgets, goals and trackers. Ideas are brewing y'all...

A slightly organized view of all my paper widgets and goal cards

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Ben Hong @bencodezen.io · 09/02/2026

If you're using an AI agent in the integrated terminal of VS Code and find it a little too cramped for your liking, #TIL you can move the terminal to a new window!

Screenshot of the context menu you get when right-clicking on a terminal session and the ability to move it into a new window.

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Ben Hong @bencodezen.io · 19/01/2026

Just learned that Claude doesn't have the timestamp for when conversations / messages are being sent... only the date. Interesting... 🧐

Screenshot of Claude conversation about how it doesn't have the timestamp for the conversation.

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Ben Hong @bencodezen.io · 18/09/2025

Second 8TB HDD installed in my first NAS setup! 🎉

Photo of my NAS machine from UGREEN with two hard drives installed

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Ben Hong @bencodezen.io · 08/09/2025

I got tired of looking up the syntax for checking what processes are running on the 3000 port, so I created an alias for it:

Screenshot of my alias for finding out what processes are running on port 3000.

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Ben Hong @bencodezen.io · 28/08/2025

Back to reading physical books and I’m stoked to start off with “tiny experiments”!

Photo of the tiny experiments book and a new string bookmark

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Ben Hong @bencodezen.io · 25/08/2025

Now this is the kind of thing I'm happy to farm out to AI all day long. I just had it to help me figure out the regex I needed to search and replace text across thousands of markdown files.

Screenshot of my prompt to AI to generate regex for replacing YAML property patterns

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Ben Hong @bencodezen.io · 26/05/2025

Hope everyone is having a good Memorial Day!

Matcha latte with a mini blue Totoro with a leaf by it and a tablet

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Ben Hong @bencodezen.io · 21/05/2025

I’m always impressed by how good @malgamves.dev is at taking such complex topics like AI development and presenting in such an accessible way. To top it off, his slides are always designed so beautifully! 🖼️ #VueConfUS2025

Daniel presenting on building “honest” AI web apps

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Ben Hong @bencodezen.io · 21/05/2025

Loved the way Laurie illustrated the lessons learned in a case study on GitHub Copilot adoption at #vueconfus2025!

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Ben Hong @bencodezen.io · 21/05/2025

This is exactly the kind of talks we love and need at conferences. @jpschroeder.com knocks it out of the park as he shares practical knowledge on building AI-first Vue apps at #vueconfus2025. A must watch when the recording comes out!

Justin sharing his experience with building AI apps

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Ben Hong @bencodezen.io · 21/05/2025

@danielroe.dev kicking day 2 of #VueConfUS2025 with a bang by publishing a new fontless library which provides the incredible DX of nuxt/fonts to the entire JS ecosystem!!! 🥳 🍾 🎉

Daniel talking about the new package fontless

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Ben Hong @bencodezen.io · 20/05/2025

This meme by Kathryn Grayson is one of many hilarious jokes in her great talk on how we as devs can learn how to properly “ruin” our UIs. 🤣 #vueconfus2025

Kathryn presenting a meme where new and experienced users are presented with the freedom of choice, but really it’s just the one path the devs coded.

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Ben Hong @bencodezen.io · 20/05/2025

Loving the illustration that @thealexlichter.com used to explain the process of hydration. Fantastic content as always! #vueconfus2025

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Ben Hong @bencodezen.io · 20/05/2025

The level of chaos this talk delivered was absolute gold and @dangitalex.wtf delivered an unhinged, but hilariously creative exploration into how props could be defined in Vue. #vueconfus2025

Alex getting ready to unveil his diabolical idea: useMagicProps

Alex demoing his diabolical idea of useMagicProps

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Ben Hong @bencodezen.io · 20/05/2025

Learning about different tips and tricks @danielkelly.io has learned from using AI to enhance his dev workflow! #vueconfus2025

Daniel Kelly presenting “Vue-Doo Magic: AI Development Tricks”

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Ben Hong @bencodezen.io · 20/05/2025

Loved the clean demos for creating comprehensive components by David Nahodyl! #vueconfus2025

David Nahodyl talking about constructing clear, comprehensible components

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Ben Hong @bencodezen.io · 20/05/2025

Mad props to Robby Helms for delivering a great talk on different ways of handling dependency injection in Vue! #vueconfus2025

Robby Helms demonstrating how provide and inject can work with plugins

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Ben Hong @bencodezen.io · 20/05/2025

It’s a little jarring to realize how much has changed over nearly ten years since I joined the community… How time has flown… Bravo to @charlesvillard.co for a great talk on his time traveler talk at #vueconfus2025!!!

Charles Villard taking the audience through the history of Vue

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Ben Hong @bencodezen.io · 20/05/2025

So stoked for people to get a deep dive on Vapor mode from @evanyou.me at @vueconf.us!

Evan You showing the differences between compiler output for VDOM vs Vapor mode

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Ben Hong @bencodezen.io · 14/05/2025

The new embedded Vue DevTools experience is just... 👨‍🍳💋 The fact that you can use the inspector to easily bring up the source code location in your IDE is so smoothhhhhh...

Screenshot of new embedded Vue DevTools experience

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Ben Hong @bencodezen.io · 02/04/2025

✅ Finish my second marathon!

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Ben Hong @bencodezen.io · 24/01/2025

It was a Shrek 2 name meme and I said: "Turns out my name is Shrek 2. Took a second because I used an O(n) search lookup strategy."

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Ben Hong @bencodezen.io · 22/01/2025

I was trying to remember what royalty free music service I used in the past, but as usual my brain was not cooperating. Thankfully @obsidian.md saves the day once again with linked notes! 🎉

Screenshot of how linked notes related royalty free music to the services I used to use!

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Ben Hong @bencodezen.io · 23/12/2024

This is why I pay for the internet. 🤣

Screenshot of Google search results for a website dedicated to telling people they spelled GitHub wrong.

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Ben Hong @bencodezen.io · 08/12/2024

I decided to take the plunge and picked up a DJI Osmo Pocket 3 this weekend. I’ve only been using it a few hours, and y’all I am thoroughly impressed. 🤩

The DJI Osmo Pocket 3 creator bundle box with a 512 mb microSD card from Kingston

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Ben Hong @bencodezen.io · 14/11/2024

Yup. In fact, Windows 98 is around the time I started my web dev journey building my first website in Notepad. That's right. No syntax highlighting. No copilot. Just plain text. 🤪

"You may be old but are you this old" meme with a Windows 98 desktop machine.

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Ben Hong @bencodezen.io · 10/11/2024

ChatGPT thinks I'm a product designer. 😆 "based on what you know about me. draw a picture of what you think my current life looks like"

Illustration of a man at a desk working on a product in an office with various productivity tools, mood boards, etc.

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Ben Hong @bencodezen.io · 08/11/2024

One of the fun things about writing with the Freewrite Traveler in public is the curious look you get from people because it has such a unique form factor.

The Freewrite Traveler opened up on a wooden table with “set your story free” on the display

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Ben Hong @bencodezen.io · 04/11/2024

🗳️ My vote is in. 🗳️ Make sure your voice is heard and vote too!

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Ben Hong @bencodezen.io · 01/11/2024

And that's a wrap on GitHub Universe! Special shoutout to @ashleywillis.bsky.social for making it such a special event. I'll try and do a write-up on it soon, but until then, here's most of my swag / souvenir haul. 💎

GitHub Universe store swag of Octocat plush, hoodie, ugly christmas sweater, and copilot t-shirt

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Ben Hong @bencodezen.io · 30/10/2024

It’s always fascinating hearing people’s stories on how they got into tech. Loved seeing @angiejones.tech in the post-keynote montage video! #GitHubUniverse