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Ben Schwartz

@lthummus.com
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Software developer who works on video game stuff. PAX Enforcer. You might have seen me defuse (fake) bombs. Hairy ball of anxiety. My posts are mine. Perpetually disappointed Seattle sports fan. He | him.

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Ben Schwartz @lthummus.com · 25/09/2026
This was 2019, but I am 2 for 2 on getting offers when I brought coffee to the interview.
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Ben Schwartz @lthummus.com · 21/09/2026
Just reporting in to say that some of the bosses in the DLC are absolute bangers.
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Ben Schwartz @lthummus.com · 18/09/2026
Pouring one out for all the various iOS app dev teams today that are learning how strange their app behaves on the iPhone Duo
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Ben Schwartz @lthummus.com · 17/09/2026
A copy of the “got hands” meme

On the top is a boxer in a fighting stance with text near him “ok ima fight Lies of P DLC”

On the bottom is the same boxer sitting drinking water with text “damn Lies of P DLC got hands”
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Ben Schwartz @lthummus.com · 09/09/2026
While I can see the use cases, it is fucking WILD to announce this while all the "LG Smart TVs are spying on you by recording" stuff is in the zeitgeist.
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Ben Schwartz @lthummus.com · 09/09/2026
My highlight of PAX was turning in a time of 2.421 seconds in Quick & Crash. Not my PB, but definitely the best time I've done in a long, long while. Thanks to @100yenlife.bsky.social for bringing the machine year after year.
A photo of a Quick & Crash Arcade cabinet. The timer says 2.421 seconds. The display above says "BEST 1 !!"
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Ben Schwartz @lthummus.com · 03/09/2026
BitWarden self-hosting ... yay or nay? Mostly just figuring out how to do backups (I assume I can just dump the DB and shove it up with the rest of my backup scripts?) Also is vaultwarden worth looking at?
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Ben Schwartz @lthummus.com · 31/08/2026
Weird OSS thing I'm not sure how to feel. I built a feature in a fork and posted about it on an issue in the original. No response for months, so I forget it. Someone opens a new issue and links my post. A 3rd person opens a PR with my solution, exactly, w/o credit. Not a huge deal, but feels weird
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Ben Schwartz @lthummus.com · 31/08/2026
Weekend project: I like magic wormhole, but don't need peer discovery (I have a server, double-NAT gets in the way). I want a CLI app that I can give a file and it shares with a random URL and no foreground process. Files auto expire. Sit behind Traefik for TLS. Run in docker for easy containment.
A screenshot showing a command prompt. This is the text (note that the exact domain is censored in the screenshot)

bschwartz@lost-island:~$ fling share sample-100-mb-random.bin
https://fileflinger.<CENSORED>.com/d/whiskey-yankee-delta
Size: 100.0 MiB	Expires: in 59m
bschwartz@lost-island:~$ fling share --ttl 48h /arrow/data/ubuntu-26.04-live-server-amd64.iso
https://fileflinger.<CENSORED>.com/d/alpha-charlie-sierra
Size: 2.7 GiB	Expires: in 47h
bschwartz@lost-island:~$ fling list
CODE                  SIZE       DOWNLOADS  EXPIRES  PATH
alpha-charlie-sierra  2.7 GiB    0          in 47h   /arrow/data/ubuntu-26.04-live-server-amd64.iso
whiskey-yankee-delta  100.0 MiB  0          in 59m   ~/sample-100-mb-random.bin
bschwartz@lost-island:~$ fling revoke whiskey-yankee-delta
whiskey-yankee-delta: revoked
bschwartz@lost-island:~$
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Ben Schwartz @lthummus.com · 29/08/2026
Every time I open Cash App, I am greeted with this message of disapproval. Apparently they do not want to issue a card with the word “STOLEN” scribbled on it
A screenshot showing the Cash App credit card (all black except for the smart chip). There is a message below saying “Card Design Not Approved, Update it it complete your order” with an Update button next to it
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Ben Schwartz @lthummus.com · 26/08/2026
My first software developer job was working on video ingestion and encoding systems. One of the test videos I used was the movie Clue. So that's the best Tim Curry performance.
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Ben Schwartz @lthummus.com · 26/08/2026
A tweet from @robdubbin dated July 28 the text is:

MY MAN: (comes home)
ME: (nervous) how was the store
MY MAN: fine
ME: oh thank g-
MY MAN: ran into jolene
ME: oh no
MY MAN: she mentioned you left kind of an intense voicemail
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Ben Schwartz @lthummus.com · 26/08/2026
I don’t know how true this is, but what I do know is that EVE Online was the best and worst 4 years of my life.
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Ben Schwartz @lthummus.com · 25/08/2026
SimTown fans rejoice!
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Ben Schwartz @lthummus.com · 23/08/2026
Today’s technical annoyance: my Quantum Fiber ONT was disconnected for 50 hours (long story). Reconnecting made it lose provisioning, leaving me stuck in QF’s walled garden. Support has a ticket open...but I want to know as soon as it’s fixed. So today's overengineered BS: github.com/LtHummus/qua...
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GitHub - LtHummus/quantum-check: An exercise in over-engineering because my ISP is bad
An exercise in over-engineering because my ISP is bad - LtHummus/quantum-check
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Ben Schwartz @lthummus.com · 22/08/2026
This has been driving me wild. I have an Oppo Blu-Ray player with a chip in it that allows switching regions to watch imports. Changing regions requires a button sequence. I have a Logitech Harmony remote (rip). Doing the sequence manually works perfectly. Programming it on the remote doesn't. WTF
Instructions on how to switch Blu-Ray regions for my modded Oppo Blu-Ray player. The text is as follows:

Switching Blu-Ray Zones:

Switching Zones is done using the remote control.

- Make sure the player is on and there is no disc in the player.
- Press DIMMER - DIMMER - DIMMER - MUTE
- Select Blu-ray zone as followed [sic]:
    - Zone A: Press 1 on the remote control
    - Zone B: Press 2 on the remote control
    - Zone C: Press 3 on the remote control
- Restart the player (turn it off and then back on)
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Ben Schwartz @lthummus.com · 20/08/2026
I was always excited about The Duskbloods. But now I am even more excited. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rh2X...
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I Played 12 Hours of The Duskbloods
YouTube video by VaatiVidya
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Ben Schwartz @lthummus.com · 13/07/2026
Ok I just learned this so I am passing along the knowledge...but if you're on Linux, you can sudo systemctl reboot --firmware-setup to reboot right in to BIOS setup. No more mashing the delete key for me (especially helpful via PiKVM)
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Ben Schwartz @lthummus.com · 05/07/2026
Watching Brazil vs Norway…
A screenshot of Windows 3.1’s Hotdog Stand theme. The backgrounds of all windows are yellow and there are red accents. It’s a pretty harsh color scheme
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Ben Schwartz @lthummus.com · 30/06/2026
So everyone’s World Cup brackets are just … broken now, right?
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Ben Schwartz @lthummus.com · 20/06/2026
My NAS is now my retirement plan…
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Ben Schwartz @lthummus.com · 19/06/2026
I don’t have any USMNT merch, so this will have to do
A t-shirt spread out. The shirt is white and has the Express Mail logo with the text “United States Postal Service” below.
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Ben Schwartz @lthummus.com · 15/06/2026
The beautiful game
A photo from Seattle Stadium before the Belgium vs Egypt match. The respective country flags are unfurled on the pitch.
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Ben Schwartz @lthummus.com · 15/06/2026
Someone just walked by me with a Belgium kit that said “Ceci n'est pas un maillot” Iconic
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Ben Schwartz @lthummus.com · 01/06/2026
We have gone [ 0 ] days without accidentally showing an API key on a programming stream.
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Ben Schwartz @lthummus.com · 24/05/2026
Reject AI modernity. Embrace tradition.
A screenshot from AOL Instant Messenger. The user is chatting with "smarterchild" and the conversation goes like this:

uberushaximus: Hi!
smarterchild: Hi again, Trevor!
uberushaximus: How are you?
smarterchild: I'm doing great! You?
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Ben Schwartz @lthummus.com · 18/04/2026
We're not even 5 hours in to 90 FM Trivia and I am already frazzled.
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Ben Schwartz @lthummus.com · 12/04/2026
Making friends while playing Final Sentence
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Ben Schwartz @lthummus.com · 10/04/2026
Mustard is a garbage tier condiment
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Ben Schwartz @lthummus.com · 19/03/2026
Post a gif of who you wanted to be as a kid
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Taylor Shuss @drawnonward.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Walkable City is FUNDED everyone! 🎉🎉🎉🎉 But we have some really sweet stretch goals that I'd love to get to! Take a look if making a more walkable, livable city sounds appealing to you and maybe tag your favorite urbanist too! 😉 www.kickstarter.com/projects/fow...
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Walkable City - the Urban Planning Boardgame
Asymmetric Cooperative boardgame about building a city without cars.
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Ben Schwartz @lthummus.com · 10/03/2026
Weekend project idea for anyone: a browser plugin that uses census data to put the Area Median Household Income next to people's posts.
A screenshot of a post from NextDoor. The post's author's name has been censored out. The poster is from Forest Drive and next to "Forest Drive" the following text has been added "(💰Area Median Household Income: $198,150)."

The text of the post is:

More bad policy coming out of the capital from the democrats. The politicians that vote for the income tax should be expelled and charged with failing to uphold the Washington State Constitution. I hope the GOP is preparing a law suit to be filed asap to stop this illegal legislation.
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Ben Schwartz @lthummus.com · 28/02/2026
If you are looking for a character artist, go check out my friend Ky's stuff! They are very cool and very talented
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Ben Schwartz @lthummus.com · 09/02/2026
MIGHT AS WELL WIN THE WHOLE FUCKING THING
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Ben Schwartz @lthummus.com · 11/01/2026
I've been sick the last few days and it turns out you can still get the regular cold in 2026.
A screenshot of health test results. COVID-19, Flu A, Flu B, and RSV were all tested for. All tests are negative.
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Ben Schwartz @lthummus.com · 07/01/2026
I was looking at the instructions for the new Aptitude Covid + Flu test. I'm no UX designer, but why wouldn't you make Flu B positive a blue light!? BLUE FOR B IT'S SO SIMPLE
A clip from instructions on how to read the results of the COVID + Flu test. There is a heading showing "Step 7: Read your results" the instructions are

"The reader lights will display your result."

Below that are 5 possible results:

- Green light indicates negative
- Red light indicates COVID positive
- Blu light indicates Flu A positive
- Yellow light indicates Flu B positive
- Purple light indicates an invalid result
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Ben Schwartz @lthummus.com · 01/01/2026
Averaging one nap per day in 2026 so far
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Ben Schwartz @lthummus.com · 01/01/2026
Modern problems require modern solutions
A screenshot of the iMessage app on iPhone. The message that is set to send is “Happy New Year!” The “send later” feature is enabled and this message is set to be sent at midnight on January 1
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Ben Schwartz @lthummus.com · 30/12/2025
This song randomly popped back in to my head. And then I saw it was posted 19 years ago. Anyway, I hope all of these guys are doing great www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bipv...
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Finite Simple Group (of Order Two)
YouTube video by kleinfour
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Ben Schwartz @lthummus.com · 26/12/2025
What's the hot way to write and host documentation for open source projects? A project I maintain (github.com/LtHummus/aut...) has grown a bit too large to be completely documented by a README file. Are GitHub wikis still good for this or is there something better?
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GitHub - LtHummus/auththingie2: A (NEW!) small, simple authentication layer for home-hosted reverse proxies
A (NEW!) small, simple authentication layer for home-hosted reverse proxies - LtHummus/auththingie2
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Ben Schwartz @lthummus.com · 21/12/2025
Very cool Google. Very nicely done.
A screenshot of the Google results for the query "sunrise"

The AI overview reads as:

Sunrise is the moment the Sun's upper edge appears on the horizon in the morning. The exact time depends on your location and the time of year. For Port Angeles, WA, the sunrise time for today, Sunday, December 21, 2025, is 3:59:33 pm due to the date being the winter solstice.

Right below the AI summary is the correct answer: 8:01 AM
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Ben Schwartz @lthummus.com · 21/12/2025
“First Kraken regulation win since November 20” 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀
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Ben Schwartz @lthummus.com · 19/12/2025
Football bureaucracy is truly something.
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Ben Schwartz @lthummus.com · 17/12/2025
“They’re the same picture”
A photo of a grey cat sitting near a window. The cat has a surprised “I just saw a ghost” look on her faceA photo of the hockey player Brandon Taney. He has a surprised “I just saw a ghost” look on his face.
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Ben Schwartz @lthummus.com · 16/12/2025
Random hypothesis I just had … the folks most likely to turn of AI features in products are also likely the kind of people to turn off product analytics collection, hiding how many people actually turn off AI features. blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/l...
blog.mozilla.org
Mozilla’s next chapter: Building the world’s most trusted software company | The Mozilla Blog
Today, I step into the role of CEO of Mozilla Corporation. It is a privilege to lead an organization with a long history of standing up for people and buil
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Ben Schwartz @lthummus.com · 13/12/2025
And that's it for Advent of Code for me. I liked the new length and I thought the difficult level was good. Thanks to @was.tl for putting it together. This year, I did each day in a new language. I liked this new challenge and I might do it again next year? List of languages in the thread below...
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Ben Schwartz @lthummus.com · 09/12/2025
Unicode is hard
A screenshot of an Apple Watch notification from the Zipcar app. The header says

U+1F3C6 Cha-Ching! You’ve unlocked a USD5 Reward

For the avoidance of doubt, the header has the literal string “U+1F3C6” and not the emoji it’s supposed to be which is 🏆
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Ben Schwartz @lthummus.com · 04/12/2025
I did a PC build about a year ago (November 2024) and I paid $97 for 32 GB of RAM. I looked at that same RAM kit in the same online store today. $274
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Ben Schwartz @lthummus.com · 30/11/2025
Looking over some old Advent of Code in prep for tonight and ... how dare you IntelliJ ... I will keep my run on sentences thank-you-very-much
A popup from IntelliJ telling me that "Long sentences (43 words here) are harder to read, according to the research; consider splitting"
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Ben Schwartz @lthummus.com · 27/11/2025
Never have I been so crushed I couldn’t get a disc to read. What did Ben of 25 years ago find important to back up?
A burned CD with the label “Backup” and the date “7-17-2000”
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