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Ben Johnson

@benjamminj.dev
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software engineer, especially focused on design systems, frontend architecture, and taking things from 0 -> 1

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Atticus Finch (of Georgia) @atticus59914029.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
I think this pope is consistently getting at something about 21st century life that bothers people across the political spectrum. The fact that individual people are of utmost worth. A fact lost on modern society. We can see this in many different arenas.
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Bob Stevenson @bobstevenson.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
We live in an buzz-driven, ephemeral experience-saturated, meme-laden, AI-generated, consumer-fueled world that urges us to think little beyond the next phone ping or lulz or online purchase-induced dopamine hit. But a real world still exists. And the stakes are so high. Let's live accordingly.
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EOC @orcma.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/n... ‘The mayor of Toms River says the church property presented “a great opportunity for parking, for recreation.”’ 🥴
nytimes.com
A Church Wants a Homeless Shelter. The Mayor Wants Space for Pickleball.
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Ben Johnson @benjamminj.dev · 18/05/2025
been playing with Cursor a lot more (yes I know, I'm late to the game) and suddenly it makes a lot more sense to use the integrated terminal. I'm normally a "skip the IDE terminal and use iTerm instead" type of person, but being able to yeet things into chat is super fluid. #cursor
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Ben Johnson @benjamminj.dev · 15/05/2025
I'm writing less these days and that's ok. I just didn't have as much gas in the tank, and life seems more complex than it did at the start of my career benjamminj.dev/writing-less
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Writing less, and that's ok
I'm learning to be easier on myself, slowly prune thoughts into posts, and write in smaller bursts.
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Ben Johnson @benjamminj.dev · 13/05/2025
"we don't like to write comments, because when the code changes the comment doesn't" 🚩🚩🚩 don't variables, classes, methods, and functions all have the same problem? The computer doesn't care if you name it 'a' or 'userFirstName' idk, maybe update the comment when you change the code?
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Ben Johnson @benjamminj.dev · 25/04/2025
This same thought has been bouncing around my head for the past week too. Imagine starting a component local-first ("use service worker") and moving it server side later. Or vice versa. Or interleave server/worker/client based on your needs. ✨
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Ben Johnson @benjamminj.dev · 24/04/2025
Started mentally tossing all the tech that could be learned into 3 buckets 1. Stuff that's interesting to me right now 2. Stuff that's professionally helpful, right now 3. Stuff that's professionally helpful, long-term Helpful to see the intersection bw categories
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Ben Johnson @benjamminj.dev · 19/04/2025
ugh, now the vibe coding lingo is finding its way into job listings
A LinkedIn job listing where the job title says "vibe coder frontend developer"
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Ben Johnson @benjamminj.dev · 17/04/2025
if your product comparison page only shows where you're better than competitors, I don't trust it — regardless of how much you say you're trying to be fair.
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Ben Johnson @benjamminj.dev · 17/04/2025
got a big backlog of software hot takes living in my brain rent-free. just gonna start a evergreen thread and keep skeeting them here sans nuance. who knows, might get around to writing fleshed out versions someday™
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Ben Johnson @benjamminj.dev · 16/04/2025
3yo has been super into WALL-E this last month. banger of a film and feels super relevant for being made 17y ago. I mean, the billionaires just launched everyone into space bc that was easier than fixing their mess 🫠
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Ben Johnson @benjamminj.dev · 13/04/2025
4 weeks into a 12 week parental leave, and it's wild how I have completely lost track of what day it is. both day of week and calendar date that said, so nice to have a bit of time away from work to spend with my family
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Ben Johnson @benjamminj.dev · 21/12/2024
Just crossed the 2y mark at $dayjob. Wild to see out-of-stealth, Series A, and Series B For me 2y is a huge deal, I usually get an itch to leave much earlier but this gig is pretty dran good. ☺️
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Ben Johnson @benjamminj.dev · 13/12/2024
Same year, another round of funding. Excited to finally be able to announce our Series B ✨ Excited to be along for the ride, this team kicks butt. sublime.security/blog/sublime...
sublime.security
Sublime raises Series B to… keep doing what we’ve been doing, but better
We've secured $60M in Series B funding to establish the new standard in email security.
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Ben Johnson @benjamminj.dev · 23/11/2024
woah. sooooo much great stuff here, very excited to kick the tires ✨✨ tailwindcss.com/docs/v4-beta
tailwindcss.com
Tailwind CSS v4.0 Beta - Tailwind CSS
Preview what's coming in the next version of Tailwind CSS.
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Ben Johnson @benjamminj.dev · 22/11/2024
feels like we've thrown conventional wisdom out the window, but have been SO PLEASED with our hand-built form, data table, and filtering libraries at `$dayjob` still trying to find ways to write + share about the approaches taken since they're private.
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Ben Johnson @benjamminj.dev · 15/11/2024
didn't have bricking old phone + buying new phone on the weekly bingo card, but here we are 🫠
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Ben Johnson @benjamminj.dev · 15/11/2024
👋 Loving the vibe over here, feels like a fresh start (and not as cheesy as threads) I don't post a ton (at the moment), but when I do it's usually software + frontend related ✨
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