Blog - Ben Tsai

2025
Oct 30 It’s Okay ↗
Oct 29 Thinking modes ↗
Oct 19 The simulation of judgment in LLMs ↗
Oct 10 Text Is Best
Sep 2 It’s a Trap
Aug 19 Democratizing Knowledge
Jun 26 You Think?
Jun 26 Do the Work
Apr 28 Who is more foolish...
Feb 24 [#TheCompoChallenge]
2024
Dec 9 Analog
Oct 16 Scratchpad
Sep 13 Prototype for Whom?
Sep 3 Will AI go the way of the Concorde? ↗
Jun 24 Not Another Chatbot!
Jun 11 Disdain for AI
Jun 7 WeblogPoMo2024
May 17 My Coffee Workflow
May 14 Why I Write
May 8 Love & Pain
May 3 For Good Measure
May 2 Mmm…Coffee
May 1 Juicy Apps
Apr 23 Multidimensional Prototyping
Apr 8 Who Knows?
Apr 7 My Recommendation Engine
Apr 5 Cool Knee Scooter, Dude!
Mar 23 Blogging Retrospection
Mar 22 I’ve moved my blog back to bentsai.org...
Mar 14 Developers in the Double-Diamond
Jan 25 Craft Versus Convenience
Jan 18 The Power of the Input Field
Jan 16 Words Can’t Espresso
2023
Dec 29 My App Defaults
Dec 22 Pourquoi Pika?
Dec 22 Friction
Dec 19 Working with Designers
Dec 4 Current Thoughts on Blogging
Nov 30 My Bicycle
Nov 29 Effort
Aug 10 Career Advice
Jul 7 Le Jazz
Jun 22 In Person
Jun 16 Vision Con
May 15 AI: Has the Horse Left the Barn?
Apr 27 Wow and Meh for AI
Mar 30 The Power of Prototypes
Mar 14 I was posting the other week about this tension with the format...
2022
Dec 15 Raycast Wrapped 2022
Dec 12 Change Default Card Size in Kinopio
Dec 1 Analog
Dec 1 The Future
Nov 21 Even More Minimal Coffee Recipe
Nov 7 Team Planning with Kinopio
Nov 7 A Usability Conference
Sep 8 Public Jrnl
Aug 19 Tech Debt → Maintenance Load
Aug 18 Intentional but Reluctant
Aug 15 Developers Doing Discovery
Aug 2 Styling Prose
Jun 16 Bible at Your Fingertips
Jun 15 New Mac New Stuff
Apr 8 Career Talk
Mar 3 Please Don't @all
Jan 3 On Being Scrum Master
2021
Jul 29 How to Anonymize a Kinopio Space
Apr 13 Kinopio Select
Mar 12 Kinopio → Markdown
Feb 23 I Got My First mac
2020
Sep 8 My Daily Utilities
Aug 6 I Joined the Kinopio Club
Jun 11 I Moved My Blog
2018
May 18 Cold Brew Mocktail
2017
Apr 6 Lowering the Bar
Feb 22 Fixed Lens Fun
2016
Oct 24 Keyboard Hacks in macOS Sierra
Jun 27 Git Log for "What I did today"
2015
Jul 6 App Idea: "Buzz Clock" for Apple Watch
2014
Mar 13 Dream Calendar App (Sketch)
Mar 13 Dream Calendar App: Visualizing Time
Feb 22 My Perfect Calendar App
2013
Dec 18 YouVersion Bible URL Scheme
2012
Sep 28 My First Course(ra)
Sep 19 Our First Retrospective
Sep 17 Retrospectivizing
Jul 26 The Art of Lean Software Development
Jul 25 Sheet Music, DNA, and Source Code
Apr 26 Why Is Estimating So Hard?
Feb 27 Agile Reboot: Putting the Man Back in Manifesto
Feb 9 Why and How We Use Campfire
Feb 2 Lessons Learned: The Hacker Way
Feb 1 Taking Automated Tests Off the Pedestal
Jan 23 Markdown and Blogging and Dropbox, Oh My!
Jan 23 Reducing friction and Scriptogram's new text editor
2011
Dec 23 Flaky iPhone Home Button Workaround
Dec 18 Vim Tip: Swap Parameters
Dec 18 Intro to Calepin
Dec 13 Posting to Wordpress from Calepin
Nov 7 Let Computer Do It
Sep 14 DVCS Big Wins
Aug 17 Review: User Interface Design for Programmers
Jun 17 Trust Your Developers?
Jun 15 Atlassian's 20% time policy
Jun 15 The Surprising Science of Motivation
Jun 10 Side Projects Project
May 23 Standing Desk
Feb 21 General Theory of Resources
Feb 21 IDisposable: The Contentious Dispose Pattern
Feb 16 IDisposable: IPayAttention
Feb 11 Disposing: "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
Feb 11 Implementing IDisposable?
2010
Mar 22 An .hgignore File for Visual Studio 2008 and ReSharper
2009
May 8 Making the Windows Command Prompt a Little More Humane
2008
Jun 20 Campfire Tray Notifier Application
Jun 17 Collaborating with Mercurial
Jun 6 Sparklines
Jun 3 Enso Lives On
May 30 Using Mercurial as Ad-Hoc Local Version Control
May 28 Enso dead, back to Launchy?