From the Couch of Ben Johnson

Father, Principal Engineer at Prodigy Education, serial hyperbolist.

Feedbin and Fiery Feeds is a killer combo. RSS, email newsletters, Twitter, and Read Later all in one place.

Goldfish are basically the pugs of fish.

How to know if your child may have watched too much Peppa Pig:

Me: “We might even see some cows.”
Child: “Oh yes. Cows are very cheeky.”

It’s refreshing how good Go’s standard library is. After getting used to JavaScript, and deeply missing the stdlib from Python and Ruby, it’s nice to be able to read a CSV without installing a bunch of packages.

My almost-four-year-old: “Daddy! I want to watch the YouToots Video.”

Pumpkin Spice Latte in August is totally cheating. It’s still summer!

It’s 2019. Why can’t I buy washer fluid at the pump?

If you ever want to see in example of Radical Candour go to a playground. Well, maybe that’s just candour.

Introducing the Ben Mari Three Dimensional Folding Method™. Step 1: pick up shirt, Step 2: roll into ball, Step 3: deposit forcefully but gracefully in bag.

Well, someone is definitely going to need to build Prettier for SwiftUI…

SwiftUI is a fantastic implementation of ideas from React. The mark of success is that the feedback loop is totally fast enough to do design in code.

It’s 4am and the kid isn’t sleeping. When we ask why, he says that what he really wants is to shave the cat.

Trying to explain to my kid why Jello doesn’t start with a G really makes it obvious how dumb English is sometimes.

Popcorn is totally an acceptable side dish right? If chips is definitionally a side dish, it must follow that popcorn is…

Me: “I missed you so much!” Three-year-old: “I missed these candies.”

YouTube Family: Like YouTube Premium but the ads are replaced with messages from your parents.

Who needs a weighted blanket when you have a cat?

A few hours into our trip to America and we’ve discovered that Kraft Mac and Cheese™ is incredibly not the same as Kraft Dinner™.

Brexit is basically a troubled monolith-to-microservices transition.

Why eat normal Bananas like a peasant when you can have Limited Edition Captain Marvel Bananas™.

Why my mother decided to get my child an electronic toy megaphone is beyond me. “I just don’t think the kid is loud enough.” 🤦‍♂️ 📢 👶

My child has discovered that he can filibuster his way out of going to school.

My son is trying to convince me that there’s a universal rule that we should always have chocolate for breakfast. “It’s a rule!” I’m tempted to agree.

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