Hi I’m ben.
I’m a computer person. I write code and do stuff on the internet.
I grew up in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, received a bachelor’s in computer science from Northern Michigan University, and now work professionally as a software developer in Traverse City, Michigan.
I like building software and community through code and sysadmin tools. My current day job involves writing C# for desktop applications. My primary hobby project is tilde.team, a non-commercial public access unix system focused on teaching, learning, and building community.
Offline, I play a lot of pinball and also organize two weekly tournaments. I managed to make this a computer thing too and have set up a little website for our local pinball scene.
Contact
Chat
The best way to get in touch with me is IRC (if I’m not around, I’ll see it soon™). I’m ben on libera.chat and tilde.chat
I’m also on xmpp as ben@hmm.st.
If you don’t have an xmpp account, you’re welcome to register one on my server. It runs on a thinkpad my former desktop in my living room basement!
I have too many email addresses, but I mainly use ben@tilde.team or mail@benharr.is. I’m not very good at email.
Social media?
I’m on twitter and mastodon, but I try not to check them all that much.
I am on bluesky and it’s been very fun so far. Feeling cautiously optimistic for its future.
Résumé
If you’re curious, here’s my résumé.