Benjamin Rae

Hey! I'm Ben. I'm a full-stack developer, tinkerer and life-long learner. Welcome to my blog! Whether you’re just starting out or you’re a seasoned pro, this blog is for anyone who is passionate about development, side projects, and technology.

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Featured

• The Joy of Tinkering

  Published:Jun 23, 2024 |  at 11:59 PM

  Discover the joy of tinkering. Inspired by a post I read on the habits of great software engineers, I try to explore what I think it means to be a tinkerer and why I think you should be one too.

• Creating A Portable Git Config (.gitconfig)

  Published:Jan 12, 2024 |  at 11:59 PM

  I got sick of having to change my Git configuration regularly for different machines, depending if I was working on a personal or a professional project, so I decided to sit down and create a portable Git config file.

• No More Noisy Type Assertions

  Published:Dec 3, 2023 |  at 08:00 PM

  Are you sick of filling your TypeScript code with noisy type assertions? Maybe with this you can remove them from your code completely.

• Building My First Browser Extension

  Published:Nov 27, 2023 |  at 11:59 PM

  Join me as a try to build my first browser extension, "Hacker News Scroller". Nothing too fancy, just a casual walkthrough of the process and the hiccups I faced along the way.

Recent Posts

• Make your Node package executable

  Published:Dec 4, 2023 |  at 07:59 PM

  As I was working on a kata, as I do in my spare time, yeah, I'm a loser. I realised that I didn't know how to make my Node applications executable. So I decided to find out how and share it with you.