About me

Who I am

Hi — I'm Ben,
I have a degree in music education, I used to be a teacher, and now I make games.

In my free time, I build programs that solve annoyances of mine as they appear; quietly useful tools that you'd forget you use until you miss them.

This site is a portfolio, a brand, and a blog all in one.
Nothing is final. Everything is honest.

What I do

I specialize in building games in Unreal Engine 4.27.2 and systems level tools (utilities, daemons, etc.), but I do genuinely enjoy programming, so I'm always open to trying something different.

Sometimes you can watch me programming live on YouTube and Twitch.

When I do it

This is my stream schedule for the next few weeks. Content updates periodically.

Times are shown in EDT (UTC-4).

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Projects

Things I'm building

Cubeman

A retro-inspired 3D adventure platformer. Built in Unreal 4.27.2 on Linux!

game

Voltaire

A performance-focused fork of Godot! For people who want to manage their own memory.

systems tool

Things I've built

zclip

A clipboard manager daemon for X11 Linux. Store multiple strings, retrieve old ones, and even save them to a SQLite db for later use (can be read back into the daemon or used directly)!

systems tool

Lash

Labeled Bash. Like 'make' with no custom syntax, or 'just' as a much smaller binary!

systems tool

File Watcher

A lightweight, SHA-256 based file change detector in Zig for tracking additions, modifications, and deletions.

systems tool

elsefix

Bringing order to C-style syntax. Automatically decouple the brace from the else/catch keyword.

systems tool

Writing

Notes, essays, and half-formed thoughts

Miscellaneous

Equipment & tools

Primary OS Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS
Game Engine (3D) Unreal Engine 4.27.2 (source-built)
Streaming Software OBS 27.2.4 (source-built)
Text Editor Helix (customized)
Session Manager Tmux (customized)
Terminal Emulator Kitty
Display Protocol X11

Contact

Get in touch

For business inqueries, the best way to reach me is by email.

I'm also reachable on Discord, as well as when I'm streaming on YouTube/Twitch. I don't always respond quickly, but I do try to respond eventually.

If you like what I do and feel like backing my work, Ko-fi is the place to go. Your support is greatly appreciated and allows me to work with total independence.

I hope to eventually create a Patreon account as well, to offer more recurring style of services to those who may want them. But for now, I'm mainly focusing on the development streams.