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Ben C

@bwc9876.dev

48 followers 142 following 179 posts

Software development, programming, and IT. Big fan of Nix :) Also you should play Outer Wilds

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Ben C @bwc9876.dev · 14/07/2026

It's giving that one screenshot of the Croods app asking to make and manage phone calls.

Tranquil OAuth permissions page for logging into "Cheeseburger Database". The app is requesting transition access.

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Ben C @bwc9876.dev · 25/06/2026

Oh Windows Internals... If only you knew...

ReadyBoost

hese days, RAM is easily available and relatively cheap compared to a decade ago. Still, it doesn’t beat...

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Ben C @bwc9876.dev · 08/06/2026

That relationship? container ID = LCN**2 + AI

Excerpt from the Windows Internals Part 2 book stating: "The container ID is derived from the LCN, through a mathematical relationship."

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Ben C @bwc9876.dev · 22/05/2026

This is a cat picture spam account now

Tuxedo cat poking his head out from a stairway

Tuxedo cat lunging at the camera from a stairway

Tuxedo cat laying down and looking at the camera with large eyes

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Ben C @bwc9876.dev · 22/05/2026

My stupid son will die of thirst

A tuxedo cat trying to drink from a faucet. The water stream is bouncing off his forehead away from him, but he's still trying to lick it.

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Ben C @bwc9876.dev · 15/05/2026

Guh???

White/tabby cat laying down and staring at the camera

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Ben C @bwc9876.dev · 14/05/2026

I still cannot get over how fucking stupid this email is. This is an actual graduate from our university. Really cementing my regret in coming here if this is the type of person it produces. (this is in response to a meeting announcement about beginner web dev btw)

Email that reads:

You guys are building websites for personal portfolios? That is rather quaint don't you think? Not trying to be rude so I think I should be helpful. Are any of you using frameworks?

Bootstrap 5 or earlier plus a framework like flask, django, laravel(php <- dunno who uses it, I like php), Springboot(java <- everyone is so obsessed with Python but to really get into programming I feel you need to learn with java or some c language, I really like java, java is good), makes creating a website really easy. This is because any css for styling should be in large part handled by bootstrap's library. Similarly you can avoid coding a lot of javascript if you take advantage of bootstrap's library.

The reason for using a framework is because on a computer the fewer lines of code you can run the better you can utilize the computer's system resources as memory or RAM is always a problem. This is why they the faculty go on and on about optimization and doing things in less time.

Hope you guys make some cool sites. Also media queries or resizing for desktop, tablet and mobile screens all comes down to sizing of the screen, bootstrap 5 docs has information on that.

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Ben C @bwc9876.dev · 13/05/2026

Mad because I won't let him into the room that lets him crawl into the ceiling

An angry looking tuxedo cat staring at the camera next to a closed door

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Ben C @bwc9876.dev · 10/05/2026

The gooberer

A very silly tuxedo cat staring at the camera

A tuxedo cat standing on his back legs to jump onto a bed

A tuxedo cat with his mouth open to yawn

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Ben C @bwc9876.dev · 30/04/2026

la la la I can't hear youuuu

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Ben C @bwc9876.dev · 19/04/2026

THEY MANUALLY TYPE IT TOO

List of prerequisites each prefixed with "Successful completion of". One line says "Sucessful"

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Ben C @bwc9876.dev · 16/04/2026

This university is already really bad with web dev stuff but c'mon man

Course catalog description:

CSC 418. Modern Web Applications Using Server-Side Technologies. 3 Credits.

This course provides training in the area of building web applications using Node.js (with Express, and MongoDB) for the back-end and EJS for the front-end user interface. JavaScript has been a client-side script programming language until later in 2009 when Google combined its *V8 search engine* with Node.JS. Since then, JavaScript has become a full-stack scripting language from the client-side to the server-side. Starting from building a web site without programming, students will be guided with hands-on labs and develop a website using Node.JS and EJS for the front-end.

CSC 418 Prerequisite: Successful completion of CSC 240.

Distance education offering may be available.

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Ben C @bwc9876.dev · 31/03/2026

I wonder what the red box on the `?` means

Nix code snippet with a red box around a question mark.

{
lib ? import <nixpkgs/lib>,
}:

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Ben C @bwc9876.dev · 27/03/2026

Can I share my cat anyway

A VERY CUTE tuxedo cat with his mouth open.

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Ben C @bwc9876.dev · 18/03/2026

8 word horror story

Diagnostic message with output from the Rust compiler saying "let's call the lifetime of this reference '1"

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Ben C @bwc9876.dev · 04/03/2026

Is it stupid to have my PDS favicon the same as my profile picture

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Ben C @bwc9876.dev · 20/02/2026

I'm a Progressive

Flo from Progressive, the insurance company, smiling and waving to the camera.

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Ben C @bwc9876.dev · 05/02/2026

Being able to write a Typst function that takes markup and outputs columns with that markup and the resulting render is so unbelievably based.

$Slide showing Typst code that edits all instances of "Heart" to be "♥ Heart" using a #show rule. To the right a column shows the outputted render. Code: #show \"Heart\": it => text( \"♥ \" + it, fill: red ) Click the Heart Output: Click the ♥ Heart$

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