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Ben Holmen

benholmen.com

Professional Web Developer in Eau Claire, WI. This is my personal site.

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26 from 2 Dec 2008 to 7 Aug 2026
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now and then (1 in the last year)
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personal blog
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2026 1

  1. Building an interactive instrument for a one-of-a-kind festival

2025 3

  1. The Kilopixel recap - season one
  2. I spent 6 years building a ridiculous wooden pixel display
  3. A photo a day for 30 days

2024 13

  1. Building howtall.is
  2. The Art of Pairing with Strangers - Over Engineered Podcast
  3. Just how old is a 45 year old soup (and would you eat it)
  4. Growing Into a Leadership Role, and Pairing With Strangers - The Business of Laravel Podcast
  5. Timezone Management in Laravel - for Laravel News
  6. Pairing with Strangers (the Pair-amid Scheme)
  7. Migrating from Homebrew MySQL/Meilisearch/Redis to Laravel Herd Pro Services
  8. Fluently removing global scopes with Laravel's new ScopedBy Attribute
  9. Mapping a Hyper key on MacOS with Karabiner Elements (the easy way)
  10. Processing Shopify Webhooks with Laravel Queues
  11. Heating a wood shop with a passive solar heater
  12. Defragment your PHPUnit tests
  13. Backing up to Amazon S3 with Restic

2023 3

  1. The long and winding Kilopixel road
  2. A manifesto on shower temperature control
  3. Building an heirloom custom cribbage board

2022 1

  1. Building With The TALL Stack (and Tighten) - Twenty Percent Time Podcast

2021 3

  1. Set up lsyncd to synchronize files between two or more servers
  2. Running Laravel Horizon in a multi-server environment with Laravel Forge and Envoyer
  3. Load balanced environments with Laravel Forge and Envoyer

2010 1

  1. Create a timelapse video with free and open source tools

2008 1

  1. Adding PNG Watermarks to JPEGs with PHP