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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
I haven’t open sourced it yet since the code needs a bunch of cleanup. And it also needs config file support, right now most things are hardcoded.
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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 · 25/08/2026
lmao it worked perfectly
A push notification sent at 9:22 AM. The title is “Quantum Fiber Connection Checker” and the contents is “Maybe it’s up!? Got status: 204 No Content”
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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
Ohhh that’s an interesting thought. Unfortunately, I don’t have the original remote since I bought it used on eBay sans remote (which I figured “well I’ve got this Logitech so I’ll be fine”) so I can’t dump all the “official” ones myself.
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Ben Schwartz @lthummus.com · 22/08/2026
Yeah like maybe it’s doing some weird alternate framing of the IR signals when doing a sequence? Hmmmm I wonder if I can capture the actual output and go from there…
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Ben Schwartz @lthummus.com · 22/08/2026
I’ve tried a bunch of combos of delays, but doesn’t help. I’ve even tried sequencing the main part and power cycling using the physical buttons on the front of the player. Annoyingly, I can only do whole numbers of seconds for delays. The app won’t do 500ms delays for whatever reason.
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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 · 14/08/2026
I haven’t seen the movie yet, but my local Seattle video rental non-profit has a display case with the fake, in-universe movies.
A photo of a display case showing mock VHS boxes of the fictional Camp Miasma franchise. There are 14 in all, including Camp Miasma 3D, Miasma 3000, Camp Miasma 5: The Final Chapter and Camp Miasma 6: A New Beginning
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Ben Schwartz @lthummus.com · 06/08/2026
The most important implication … pinball is a sport. Or even a double sport during multiball
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Ben Schwartz @lthummus.com · 19/07/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8F9j... Channeling his inner Scott Sterling
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Top Soccer Shootout Ever With Scott Sterling - Studio C
YouTube video by Studio C
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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 · 11/07/2026
This is still my favorite essay on the topic: www.stilldrinking.org/programming-...
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Programming Sucks
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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 · 10/06/2026
1 is my favorite. Then 3. I am "eh" about the other ones
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Ben Schwartz @lthummus.com · 01/06/2026
But in good news, I have maybe a version of Traefik that supports ACME's ARI protocol for polling LetsEncrypt for cert renewal information?
A screenshot of server logs. The text in the logs say the following:

INF Testing certificate renew... acmeCA=https://acme-staging-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/directory providerName=le.acme
INF Sleeping 407.00 minutes until cert renewal check acmeCA=https://acme-staging-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/directory providerName=le.acme
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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 · 26/05/2026
Do you like your Prusa? I've got an AnkerMake M5 (and still sad at the failed multi-color addon) and looking to upgrade. Given the recent drama with Bambu Labs, I'm looking at alternatives...
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Ben Schwartz @lthummus.com · 24/05/2026
This post brought to you by the following song: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpM4...
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Fragile Bird (Smarterchild Remix)
YouTube video by City and Colour - Topic
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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 · 28/03/2026
Whelp, I guess I know there’s an alien now…
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Ben Schwartz @lthummus.com · 24/03/2026
I used to play laser tag weekly in high school and ... I'm trying to disagree with this but I can't. I just can't.
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Ben Schwartz @lthummus.com · 19/03/2026
My true secret weapon ... Zoom background compositing :D
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Ben Schwartz @lthummus.com · 19/03/2026
My shame is I know enough ffmpeg magic to trim a video quickly, but not the magic to convert it to a GIF at the same time. But I did remove the audio for that ~gif experience~
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Ben Schwartz @lthummus.com · 19/03/2026
And yes, I know this is not technically a gif but whatever
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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 · 12/03/2026
It’s true. See you in 4-6 months :)
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