Ben Shi

On being almost there The seduction of near misses with AI coding agents. Why 'almost there' is more exciting than finished, and the addictive nature of imperfect AI assistance.

I think Im somewhat addicted. hbish.com/on-being-alm...

Reflecting on 2025 Navigating burnout, AI fatigue, and organisational cycles during the Year of the Snake. Reflections on six years at a scale-up, principles for using AI without losing critical thinking skills, and exp...

I decided to just post this reflection... Otherwise I find myself wanting to keep add to it.

hbish.com/2025/reflect...

Workman My 5-year journey learning the Workman keyboard layout. After 20+ hours of practice, here's my honest review and why I'm now learning Colemak-DH.

First blog post in yoinks!

hbish.com/2026/workman/

Yeah, it sure is, but I'm just working with it. There are apps like @openvibe.social that aggregate the feeds and also allow you to x-post multiple sites.

Colemak-DH yo!

Openvibe 🥳

I don't know why, but I just can't get into any social networks these days.

Attempting 10km next week. 🫡

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Is outage from not paying your bills common?

Hit the 10th letter U. 😅

This is the hardest thing, I've had to do.... For the second time.

Streamlabs does multistreams.

YouTube? For reach!

Welcome to a saner world.

Thanks! I know that exact feeling! I've lost quite a few plants from it as well, those thrips know exactly where to hide!

Anthurium CxM. Inflo circa 3 months old.

Bluesky 💙 with the doggo

👏👏👏👏👏 going to check it out!

this entire app was meant to be a quick hack while we finish the protocol, lol. oops

How do I find all the people I follow on Twitter?

Just changed my handle to my domain. I wished the original bsky username I registered with can still be aliased to the account though!

Hello World.