Ben Sima

I'm a staff-level software engineer, currently available for hire. Here is my resume as HTML, or as PDF.

I self-publish some code, and I try to be active in open source at github/bsima.

See what I'm up to now, or read my writings below, mostly about software

Contact

My PGP public key is bsima.asc. If you wanna chat, feel free to schedule a time at cal.com/bensima.

Speedrunning ML Ops (2025-01-08)
Beginner's Mind in Engineering (2020-11-25)
Git Good (2019-02-04)
How I finally learned what a "monad" is (2018-06-25)
Designing open standards with the minority rule (2018-05-15)
Cardinal rule of internet comments (2018-04-20)
Paul Graham, Wealth, and Skin in the Game (2018-04-02)
Back to the Blog (2018-03-23)
How do you respond when told something is impossible? (2018-03-10)
Interview with McKenzie Wark of A Hacker Manifesto (2018-01-07)
Collective decision making defaults toward stasis (2018-01-04)
Naval (2018-01-03)
The Austrians and the Swan: Birds of a Different Feather by Mark Spitznagel (2017-12-28)
The Big Short by Michael Lewis (2017-12-27)
Ignac Semmelweiss (2017-12-20)
DFTM: Don't Fear the Manual (2017-11-14)
3 Tools I Use On Every Server (2017-05-16)
A Perl Script to Tell You The Sunrise and Sunset (2017-05-02)
Robust Clojure: The best way to handle nil (2017-04-17)
Pattern matching as a tool for refactoring (2017-03-31)
Clojure learning resources (2014-01-07)