? How The Computer Became Personal, by Laine Nooney. I heard an interview with the author on an episode of The Vergecast, saying something I hadn't really heard or considered before – the perso...

Elon Musk would call this a successful failure. ![“assets/uploads/now.ben.ie/2023/07/2023051418584700-CC47F0DEC75C1FD3B1F95FA9F9D57667-1.mov”] ? Currently playing: </p> The Legend of Z...

I’m a sucker for Star Trek video games. Even the lame ones, I don’t care. This one seems pretty decent so far - hokey in the way Star Trek can be overly-earnest and dorky, but it’s amazing to pl...

Hello Darkness, My Old Friend... Tinkering with Wordpress was one of my first experiences of opening code editors, bashing my head against the desk in frustration and then later, sometimes, leapi...

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This post was imported from our old TinyLetter newsletter, which is sadly no more. There will be missing assets and possibly broken links. I will fix these as I can! - Ben Hello friend, Apologie...

This post was imported from our old TinyLetter newsletter, which is sadly no more. There will be missing assets and possibly broken links. I will fix these as I can! - Ben Hello friends, So as w...

This post was imported from our old TinyLetter newsletter, which is sadly no more. There will be missing assets and possibly broken links. I will fix these as I can! - Ben Hello friends, First, ...

So here. I have some news. Nathalie and I are moving to Lisbon in Portugal, and soon. Real soon. Like, three short, packing-packed weeks away. This is happening quite quickly and I’m not getting to...

A lovely little story episode in the Spaaace Faaarm! series of games I worked on at Snozbot. I contributed story ideas and wrote or revised much of the dialogue, as a member on a small team of peop...