ben cook

b@bencook.ca

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We could do it like this

Modern darkness is productive and finely crafted.

Tridirectional sync
Connect all your dimensions. Flip the silo inside-out. Transcend and transmute.
Local-first
Work when you want. When you’re back online, we’ll sync. No CRDTs—just Nicest Write Wins.
Strongly-typed
The compiler is our friend. In fact, tsc has proven that our total addressable market is unbounded.
New! ✨ Wow! 🚀 Ok! 🙏 Wow! 🤠 Nice! 👀 New! ✨ Wow! 🚀 Ok! 🙏 Wow! 🤠 Nice! 👀 New! ✨ Wow! 🚀 Ok! 🙏 Wow! 🤠 Nice! 👀 New! ✨ Wow! 🚀 Ok! 🙏 Wow! 🤠 Nice! 👀

Or something bright!

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Nice humane serifs.

Hyper-triangular
§ Ambient mesh contrafunctors
æ Elegiac checksums

Fixed Nav

Or this layout beloved by FASHION and ARCHITECTURE BOOKS. 1–3 big lines of subheading, then body.

Lisa Spanakopita is calling for more sriracha. We’ve got the corner booth in a hole-in-the-wall up sidetown, in the fleeting lull before dinner service. She’s not real, but we need to fill space somehow.

It’s only been seven months since the launch of Micromacrohex, her genre-defying, time-traveling, and fantastically successful brand of ready-to-wear cloud infrastructure, but “it feels like a lifetime!” She laughs. “I remember early on we tried leaving the elixir out in the rain, we wanted to test its stream processing. But the next day it was totally covered in rust. We had to nix that idea and go back to the lab.”

Boxed in
Box dyn

The article continues down here. It’s still not real but we need more text. More. Content. For the hungry text-wrapping layout engine.

The lab, it turns out, is in a turn-of-the-century walkup in the Village. Turn of the seventeenth century, that is. The building has five floors, twelve units, twenty-four windows, and one chimney (defunct). We enter the lab and face the keen eyes of Kliesli, resident cat and assistant theorem muncher.