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Ben Bachem @bezbac.dev · 10/09/2026

As I've been thinking more about maintaining AI-written code, I've taken some time to write down some of my thoughts on my favorite React pattern. www.benbachem.de/blog/connect...

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Connected and presentational components

My favorite way of organizing React codebases

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Ben Bachem @bezbac.dev · 29/08/2026

Had a conversation about this yesterday and I find it crazy how little is actually happening to improve code readability and audibility. Sure, there is A LOT going on and things like x.com/rough__sea/s... are interesting but I feel the topic is dwarfed in comparison to just generating more code.

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Ryan Dahl (@rough__sea) on X

Experimenting with celld in increasingly pathological situations. After merging the replicated write-behind log, this experiment had 4 instances of celld, each on its own machine, and round-robin kill...

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Ben Bachem @bezbac.dev · 26/08/2026

When cursor cloud agents work, they are really nice, but they are so unreliable...

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Ben Bachem @bezbac.dev · 21/08/2026

Late summer is the best 🤩

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Ben Bachem @bezbac.dev · 16/08/2026

I just stumbled upon a quote that I wrote down in my notes when I watched the end of This Is Us back in January. And while it’s cliche and melodramatic, I needed to hear this today so I thought I’d share the original clip. Maybe someone else likes it too: youtu.be/J9geEY276-8?...

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This Is Us 6x17 - William’s Speech to Rebecca

YouTube video by Team Pearson

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Nicholas C. Zakas @humanwhocodes.com · 28/07/2026

LLMs are good at making things work when they're broken. I've yet to find a model that will step back and look for ways to avoid similar problems in the future.

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Ben Bachem @bezbac.dev · 28/07/2026

I think shadcn's / Radix's trigger elements are a *really* bad design, especially with agentic coding. Agents will gladly create Frankenstein components that render 4 visually unique trigger buttons conditionally to reuse a dialog instead of creating a HOC and wrapping the callsites.

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Ben Bachem @bezbac.dev · 25/07/2026

I love that there‘s a vote for the new EU currency designs. I just completed the survey, here’s the link: surveys.ecb.europa.eu/10b/neweuro/

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Survey | surveys.ecb.europa.eu

I’ve just had my say on our future banknotes. Have your say too!

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Ben Bachem @bezbac.dev · 01/07/2026

Zellij v0.44.0 finally fixed a long standing bug I had to fight in the past [1]. I also think the "Click-to-Open File Paths" functionality looks great (haven't tried it yet). zellij.dev/news/remote-... [1]: github.com/zellij-org/z...

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Zellij 0.44.0: Remote Sessions, Windows Support, CLI Automation

Attach to remote sessions over HTTPS, native Windows support, workspace automation with command sequences and new CLI primitives, click-to-open file paths and much more.

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Ben Bachem @bezbac.dev · 15/06/2026

I'm constantly amazed by how difficult it is to get coding agents to write good React code. I have to constantly fight codex to not add useEffect and refs everywhere.

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Ben Bachem @bezbac.dev · 30/05/2026

I took some time to write down my experience switching from Backblaze Personal Backup to resticprofile with a Hetzner Storage Box as a backend. www.benbachem.de/blog/backbla...

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Switching from Backblaze to resticprofile

My experience switching backup providers

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Ben Bachem @bezbac.dev · 20/05/2026

I've been test driving grepika and tilth MCP servers today based on reading blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2026/05/ai-t... and so far I'm pretty happy with them

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My Thoughts on AI, Part 2: Agent Setup, Workflow, and Tools

My own personal AI development setup, workflow, and tooling

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Martin Kleppmann @martin.kleppmann.com · 17/04/2026

As someone who is contributing to both local-first and atproto I am delighted to see these communities moving closer together. We have a lot of principles and values in common

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Ben Bachem @bezbac.dev · 16/04/2026

Looks like a bunch of the anti-AI posts on Bluesky are bots themselves? What is happening lol.

Screenshot showing multiple anti-AI posts on Bluesky that use the same exact message.

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Ben Bachem @bezbac.dev · 08/04/2026

I thought this was common knowledge, but with so much new React code being vibe coded I think there is room to reiterate some fundamentals. Therefore, I wrote this small blog post a few days ago: www.benbachem.de/blog/classna...

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Ben Bachem

Hey there! I'm Ben. I build all kinds of digital things.

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Ben Bachem @bezbac.dev · 02/04/2026

I started a new job this week and so far the experience has been great! The experience of diving into a _huge_ unknown React codebase, that does a lot of things differently from how I am used to, is a bit of a challenge though.

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Ben Bachem @bezbac.dev · 27/03/2026

After 5 1/2 years and ~5,000 commits, today is my last day at @ superchat.com. I joined when we had 0 customers and an empty office. We grew to 9,000+ and became the DACH market leader. Incredibly proud of what we built. Excited for what's next — more on that soon. 🎢

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Ben Bachem @bezbac.dev · 17/02/2026

Since ESLint 10 is out, I decided to finally reserve some time to migrate from ESLint 8 to 9 @work. This definitely is a whole lot of work...

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Ben Bachem @bezbac.dev · 15/02/2026

Just finished the audiobook. Really enjoyed it, especially the earlier chapters.

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Ben Bachem @bezbac.dev · 12/02/2026

Custom notification sounds for claude code / opencode are fun! I just quickly configured opencode to use some voice lines from the StarCraft Adjutant grabbed from here: youtu.be/YD2aq2MbboE

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Ben Bachem @bezbac.dev · 05/02/2026

Seriously, who needs a caps lock key?

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Ben Bachem @bezbac.dev · 29/01/2026

I'm a little puzzled to what is happening on Spotify right now. Yesterday, I was doomscrolling on Instagram and got an ad with a link to this playlist: open.spotify.com/playlist/1RC... Is it all AI?

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Engaging in mental gymnastics to justify what's convenient but unevidenced, unjust but personally beneficial, 'rewires your neural map' in ways that degrade your overall ability to understand and analyze the world around you, which is a precondition for intelligence and creativity.

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Armin Ronacher @mitsuhiko.at · 18/01/2026

Capitalism to me implies antitrust and strong regulators. It also does not imply anti labor rights, but equity for employees and workers. I am however strongly against dividing employers and employees in groups that should fight against each other. Nothing good comes from that.

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Ben Bachem @bezbac.dev · 16/01/2026

I spent way to much time yesterday fighting the borrow checker over something I _knew_ shouldn’t work. Safe so say, it won.

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Ben Bachem @bezbac.dev · 31/12/2025

I know it's a vanity metric and doesn't mean anything, still proud of 4k+ GitHub contributions in 2025.

Screenshot from GitHub showing 4016 contributions in 2025.

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Ben Bachem @bezbac.dev · 22/12/2025

Copilot one-shotted a custom ESLint rule for me a few days ago and then one-shotted the fix command with a second prompt, I just had to write the test cases. IMO lowering the effort / cost of custom ESLint functions could lead to much more consistent code, so I'm very exited about it!

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Ben Bachem @bezbac.dev · 15/11/2025

I think I‘m going to give aerospace a shot again

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Ben Bachem @bezbac.dev · 05/11/2025

I feel stupid for only realizing yesterday that you can run git clone and git push against any machine addressable via SSH without any custom software running on it 🤯

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Shriram Krishnamurthi @shriram.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Have expertise with functional programming, interpreters, and Web technology? Like Rust, wasm, etc.? Looking for a job with a great team (like @adamchalmers.com )? Please see this job ad, and share with others you might know! zoo.dev/jobs/4619187...

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Zoo: Software Engineer, Language Development

A remote position now hiring at Zoo

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Chris @chris.blue · 03/11/2025

ai.. automated intern

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apenwarr @apenwarr.ca · 21/09/2025

We should make more stuff that’s not crap

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Ben Bachem @bezbac.dev · 20/09/2025

I think upgrading to IOS 26 was a mistake 🥲

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Ben Bachem @bezbac.dev · 26/08/2025

Just wrote a parameterized test in Kotlin for the first time. Being able to simply reference a method to generate all the test cases is quite handy 👌

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Ben Bachem @bezbac.dev · 19/08/2025

You actually don't need neovim for this. The vidir command from the moreutils package supports this flow while respecting your $EDITOR environment var. This means you could also use vscode, helix or any editor of your liking. It can also be installed on macOS. manpages.debian.org/testing/more...

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vidir(1) — moreutils — Debian testing — Debian Manpages

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Ben Bachem @bezbac.dev · 14/08/2025

I just forced myself to use yazi + helix + zellij instead of vscode for a two hour coding session and it felt surprisingly productive. With some configuration and some tweaks I could imagine switching full time.

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Ben Bachem @bezbac.dev · 09/08/2025

I wish Typescript had Kotlins scope functions. They are so handy. kotlinlang.org/docs/scope-f...

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Scope functions | Kotlin

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Ben Bachem @bezbac.dev · 24/07/2025

I have a love-hate relationship with this feeling when you inline some code that was encapsulated and typescript immediately notices that there are unreachable states and you can delete substantial amounts of code. Less code *yay*! It was there since forever and never relevant *ah shit*.

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Ben Bachem @bezbac.dev · 07/07/2025

Everyone is always complaining about Rust compile times. We are using Kotlin at work which I have to touch every now and then and in my experience it's at least as bad.

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Ben Bachem @bezbac.dev · 20/06/2025

I really enjoyed this short video introduction to the DBSP research paper youtu.be/J4uqlG1mtbU. It's only 12 minutes long and has some nice accessible definitions and mental models for stream processing in general.

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DBSP: Automatic Incremental View Maintenance for Rich Query Languages

YouTube video by DBSP

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Ben Bachem @bezbac.dev · 18/06/2025

I forgot how good of an album Mosaik from 2017 is. The sounds are still so crisp and powerful. open.spotify.com/album/0SBPH1...

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Mosaik

Camo & Krooked · Album · 2017 · 17 songs

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Ben Bachem @bezbac.dev · 27/05/2025

To me, this slide from @aaronboodman.com's talk today was the most interesting one from the first day of #localfirstconf. Running differential dataflow backwards for initial hydration seems like such an interesting idea.

A slide from a conference talk about Incremental View Maintenance in the zero library by Rocicorp.

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Ben Bachem @bezbac.dev · 27/05/2025

What I really liked about all the talks today at #localfirstconf was the honesty about tradeoffs. It felt like almost every talk mentioned the topic. We should want multiple solutions to exist, because there's never _really_ a one size fits all solution.

Conference slide titled "Disclaimer: Tradeoffs" with a meme image beneath.

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