Benji Visser

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I'm Benji, a founder and infrastructure-focused software engineer. Terminally online. Interested in doing hard things, pushing myself, and working on things that matter. Based in lovely Prince Edward County, Ontario.
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Posts

December 15, 2025Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World by Tom Hollandbook review

Books

Cover of Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
Tom Holland
★★★★☆December 15, 2025
Cover of Something to Do with Paying Attention
Something to Do with Paying Attention
David Foster Wallace
★★★☆☆June 9, 2025
Cover of The Unsettling of America
The Unsettling of America
Wendell Berry
★★★★☆January 12, 2025
Cover of The Brothers Karamazov
The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoevsky
★★★★★October 15, 2024
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Projects

2025CLEOpen standard for communicating lifecycle events for software and hardware componentsstandard, lifecycle
2025reverbMake Spotify playlists based on your birth yearspotify, music
2024bumpgenTUI for upgrading packages using LLMs, ASTs for code relationships, and DAGs for task dependenciesllm, ast, upgrades
2023xeolEnd of Life (EOL) detection for container images and filesystemssecurity, containers
2018pull-request-sizeGitHub Action to label PRs based on their sizegithub, automation
2016gucciTemplating on the command line with spriggolang, templating