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Ben Bleything

@bleything.net
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pacific northwestern computerist. you may know me from such as he/him

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Ben Bleything @bleything.net · 27/09/2026
it took about 45 minutes on the 220 grit to get the sole mostly flat. Probably good enough for now? I gave the iron 20 seconds on each grit and that got it PLENTY sharp this plane still sucks but at least it cuts now
The bottom of a woodworking plane. It is mostly smooth and lightly polished but there are some rough spots around the perimeter, in the middle of the back, and at the very front
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Ben Bleything @bleything.net · 27/09/2026
time to see if I can fix this $15 harbor freight plane
a small woodworking plane sitting on top of a sheet of purple sandpaper. In the background are smaller squares of black sandpaper labeled with grits 400, 600, 1000, and 2000. They’re all glued to a piece of tile
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Ben Bleything @bleything.net · 26/09/2026
not exaggerating about its reasoning either
a screenshot of a chat with claude code

me: why are you using british spellings for everything?

claude: 
- thought for 2s
- No good reason. I slipped into British spellings without deciding to, and it isn't a convention in your repo. It shows up in:
  - Prose: "millimetres", "colours", "localised", "serialises"
  - Code: the moulding field name, prop and CSS class
  - Comments: "metres"
  The US forms are "millimeters", "colors", "localized", "serializes" and "molding" (you already wrote "millimeters" in your request). Want me to switch everything to American spelling? 

me: yes

claude:
- Finding every British spelling across the new files.
- [bash] Search source files for British spellings
- IN: `grep -rnoiE "[a-z]*(mould|metre|colour|isation|ise[sd]?\b|ising|yse|ognis|b...`
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Ben Bleything @bleything.net · 26/09/2026
I gave the robot a long-running task the ultimate artifact of which was a webpage. I loaded the page and noticed that it has used british spelling for almost everything. I asked why and it said "idk, just happened. want me to change it?" and I said yes so it did this I mean... I guess?
a screenshot of vscode showing the following regular expression

grep -rnoiE "[a-z]*(mould|metre|colour|isation|ise[sd]?\b|ising|yse|ognis|behaviour|favourite|centre|grey|licence|travell|cancell|labell|modell|organis|realis|optimis|customis|recognis|serialis|localis|initialis|normalis|summaris|visualis|finalis|utilis|minimis|maximis|prioritis|standardis|apologis|emphasis|categoris|synchronis|authoris|analys|catalogue|dialogue|programme|tonne|artefact|whilst|amongst|learnt|spelt)[a-z]*"
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Ben Bleything @bleything.net · 12/09/2026
huh weird that shouldn't be backed up... unless...
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Ben Bleything @bleything.net · 12/09/2026
not much longer now
screenshot of the game Sandustry showing the player hovering above a mountain that's filling with liquid gold. there is a large peak on the left and a smaller on the right that are still empty, but you can see that gold is still being delivered
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Ben Bleything @bleything.net · 11/09/2026
a little sandustry update. it will be full soon
screenshot of the game Sandustry showing the player hovering in front of a wavy yellow texture that represents liquid gold. it's covering the entire screen except for 8 tiles of lights in a grid. in the lower right is a minimap showing the entire mountain and a sizable area beneath it in lime green, representing gold storage

in the upper left are some stats, notably that I currently have 497k gold
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Ben Bleything @bleything.net · 10/09/2026
A small black cat laying in my lap on a green blanket. She is resting her head against my knee and has one paw outstretched
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Ben Bleything @bleything.net · 04/09/2026
against all odds, she has made it, this time. her prey has respawned and now we get to witness a very rare sight indeed: the great huntress feasting from her snack plate
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Ben Bleything @bleything.net · 04/09/2026
are you serious my dude
A top down shot of large black cat completely blocking the path past his feeder. You can see my legs and bright yellow crocs standing right next to him
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Ben Bleything @bleything.net · 04/09/2026
*attenborough* it has been almost 2 hours since breakfast and the female cat is exhausted. she returns to her most reliable hunting grounds but the journey has taken the last of her energy. she collapses on her snack tray, conserving what little she has left in a desperate bid to survive until lunch
A small black cat in loaf format, laying on a cork trivet next to an empty feeder. Her ears are in airplane mode, listening to her brother singing just off-camera
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Ben Bleything @bleything.net · 03/09/2026
small cat just gave me one of these when I was having a minor coughing fit on account of too much spicy
Side Eyeing Chloe, the classic meme in which a young blond girl in a car seat gives the camera a devastating side-eye
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Ben Bleything @bleything.net · 02/09/2026
it has taken an heroic amount of fucking around to get to this point and while technically it will work I am not at all happy with how it has come out an hour in CAD would have fixed me but I’m here now and I don’t want to recut 16 frame pieces
A furnace filter being held on three sides by a wooden frame
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Ben Bleything @bleything.net · 02/09/2026
its happening dot gif
screenshot of the game Sandustry showing the character hovering in the middle of the screen above an ocean of liquid gold
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Ben Bleything @bleything.net · 31/08/2026
I slapped together a tenoning jig! It’s not very pleasant to use but it gets the job done
a shop made tenoning jig on a table saw. It’s made of three pieces of plywood that form an upside down “U” that fits over the table saw fence. Clamped to that is a small chunk of 2x4 that has a toggle clamp screwed to it
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Ben Bleything @bleything.net · 29/08/2026
this wood used to be 2x4s
A five gallon bucket full of sawdust and a bunch of shavings left over from surfacing 30ft of 2x4
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Ben Bleything @bleything.net · 29/08/2026
this wood used to be longer
A stack of 16x pieces of 2x4 that have been cut to various lengths. In the background you can see that my shop is very messy
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Ben Bleything @bleything.net · 28/08/2026
it took all morning and I had to fight a bear but the legendary sword finally dropped
a ryoba saw made by Grizzly
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Ben Bleything @bleything.net · 26/08/2026
you can see how this might happen
a large black cat laying on a black hoodie on top of a white carpet. It is difficult to tell at a glance where the hoodie ends and the cat begins
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Ben Bleything @bleything.net · 24/08/2026
the crosscut sled is Good Enough™. I split the back fence on both sides when screwing it in but repair was easy thanks to glue. The clamped side is wood glue, I used CA for the other side I made several test cuts and they’re not perfect but they’re close enough for my needs
a crosscut sled sitting on top of a table saw. It is a piece of 3/4” plywood laying flat with vertical fences at the front and back
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Ben Bleything @bleything.net · 23/08/2026
Today is for finishing projects. First up: this little cart for my shop vac and dust separator. Later I will secure the bucket better but this is good enough for now and gets it off my workbench Next up: making some swatches to try out different side roundover bits
A ridgid shop vac attached to a dustopper cyclone separator on top of a translucent paint bucket. They’re both sitting on top of a low platform made of plywood and 2x4s. There are locking casters on the corners
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Ben Bleything @bleything.net · 17/08/2026
problem solved via the application of money
an 18x24” white plastic cutting board sitting on top of a table saw
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Ben Bleything @bleything.net · 17/08/2026
tfw when ur couch takes a breath
a small black cat laying on a blanket with narrowed eyes and ears halfway back
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Ben Bleything @bleything.net · 14/08/2026
small cat in a shark-shaped bed it’s a small cat in a shark-shaped bed
A small black cat curled up inside a cave-style cat bed that’s styled to look like a shark, complete with fins, button eyes, and teeth
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Ben Bleything @bleything.net · 14/08/2026
big cat in a little bed it’s a big cat in a little bed
a large black cat sleeping in a bed that’s way too small for him. he has one paw sticking out, presumably for thermal regulation purposes
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Ben Bleything @bleything.net · 12/08/2026
alt: a large black cat sleeping in a pink bed. A human hand creeps in from out of frame and lightly touches the cat’s flank, causing him to wake up and emit his activation sound
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Ben Bleything @bleything.net · 07/08/2026
today’s Father Son Fridge Time ended with a drowsy house panther flopping over onto my hand
a large black cat laying in a pink bed on top of a fridge. A person’s hand is trapped under him
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Ben Bleything @bleything.net · 06/08/2026
I'm building a little platform for the kittoons, upgrading Front Door Cat TV to stadium seating. it's basically a box with a small shoulder along one of the bottom long edges so it can scoot over the threshold right up against the screen door
screenshot of blender showing the default cube that has been squished and modified to be a box with a small shoulder along one of the bottom long edges
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Ben Bleything @bleything.net · 05/08/2026
some personal news,
a skil ts6307 table saw on its stand in my driveway
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Ben Bleything @bleything.net · 04/08/2026
good morning from the sky you can smell
the sun rising through trees. the sun and the sky are orange from wildfire smoke
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Ben Bleything @bleything.net · 02/08/2026
big man has developed a new windowsmell technique
A large black cat getting a sniff of fresh air through an open window. with his hind legs on a portable air conditioner and his front legs on top of a bed frame. his head is angled back to get his little nose as high as possible for better sniffin
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Ben Bleything @bleything.net · 02/08/2026
HVACat
A large black cat sitting on top of a portable air conditioner
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Ben Bleything @bleything.net · 01/08/2026
Screenshot of a youtube search result showing a Hank Green video from Jun 11 2018 called “THIS MAGIC SUPPLEMENT WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE”
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Ben Bleything @bleything.net · 30/07/2026
Share a celebrity you find distractingly attractive
A large orange muppet-lookin thing in a Philadelphia Flyers uniform. They call him Gritty and he is my one true love
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Ben Bleything @bleything.net · 27/07/2026
nbd just another european rails developer posting vile, racist shit in support of DHH’s vile, racist shit
Screenshot of two bsky posts from Greg Molnar (@greg.molnar.io):

Where did he mention extermination of people? He asked for deportation of the scum and they happen to be mostly from the same ethnic group. I can move you into a few villages where scum roma people live, we will see if that changes your opinion

But not all of them for sure, I have some friends from that ethnic group, but they got away from the group and have a completely different mentality.
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Ben Bleything @bleything.net · 26/07/2026
happy caturday (observed)
a large black cat sleeping on a green blanket. He’s twimsted around a bit so his front legs are in the air with his little wrists bent 90 degrees and his fuzzy lil belly exposeda large black cat sleeping on a green blanket. he has been tucked in so only his head and shoulder are visible
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Ben Bleything @bleything.net · 23/07/2026
moon looks enshrouded in clouds tonight
a photograph of the waxing gibbous moon against a dark grey sky with even darker grey clouds in front of and around it. thin clouds and haze make the moon seem to have a bit of a corona
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Ben Bleything @bleything.net · 21/07/2026
nailed it
a hole cut into a piece of plywood so you can fit your fingies in there to pick up the box. The hole is … misshapen
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Ben Bleything @bleything.net · 21/07/2026
current box status
a plywood box on top of dry grass, being stood on by someone wearing bright yellow crocs
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Ben Bleything @bleything.net · 11/07/2026
this is another cat who lives at the same house and has similar markings. check out the mackerel on the limbs and face but the mostly ticked body. they're gorgeous cats this one has been more hesitant with me but I got a head bonk on the shin the other day so I think it's going well
a different brown tabby standing in front of some bushes and looking toward the camera. this one has a smaller, whiter face and less pronounced mackerel markings
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Ben Bleything @bleything.net · 10/07/2026
I have a new cat friend in the neighborhood
a brown tabby walking toward the camera. their eyes are a lil bit squinty and their pouch is a lil bit swingin'
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Ben Bleything @bleything.net · 03/07/2026
Screenshot of the bluesky muting UI showing that I am muting “USMNT” forever
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Ben Bleything @bleything.net · 02/07/2026
bc-250 showed up today! I had to hack the case I picked to fit it onto my printer and also I didn't have the right screws so it's not exactly uhh. secure? but it should be good enough for testing
a circuit board mostly covered by a shiny heatsink. there's an io shield on the left edge, an m2 ssd just inside that, and then it's heatsink all the way to the other edge where you'll find a cmos battery and some power headers

it's basically a gpu with a hard drivethe same card mounted inside a black 3d printed case with a large fan. the case is held together by clamps because SOMEONE forgot to buy screws
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Ben Bleything @bleything.net · 30/06/2026
works every time
a raspberry pi 4 model b sitting on top of a cork trivet. There is a micro hdmi cable attached
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Ben Bleything @bleything.net · 28/06/2026
pov: it’s 4:59am and you’ve just been startled awake by a noise you can’t immediately identify
a dark and blurry photo showing the silhouette of a cat’s head peeking above the edge of a mattress. You can’t make out any details but you’re sure the cat is staring at you
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Ben Bleything @bleything.net · 22/06/2026
it’s a fastcap flatback story pole sorry, I don’t make up the product names
a rubber banana labeled “(for scale)” sits next to a white tape measure blade that is sitting flat. On the bottom edge of the tape is a blank space for writing. I have written “BANANA” and drawn lines to indicate a length of ~6-7/8 inches
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Ben Bleything @bleything.net · 13/06/2026
this is the cat from outside, pictured here on a different gate. you can see why small cat has a crush
a tortoiseshell cat on a wooden gate, standing on her hind legs, front legs dangling t-rex style, staring intently at a hole in the arborvitae that she believes contains a bird (it does not)
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Ben Bleything @bleything.net · 12/06/2026
Close selfie of a man with a black cat draped over his shoulder
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Ben Bleything @bleything.net · 07/06/2026
checks out
a hand holding a silicone banana in front of OP’s banana art showing that they are the same size. The silicone banana has “(for scale)” printed on the side
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Ben Bleything @bleything.net · 05/06/2026
guess who’s up and ready for wet food
a large black cat walking towards the camera but not looking at the camera
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