Benjamin Garvey

I released an album today open.spotify.com/album/2fOwzp...

My favorite band's best album came out 20 years ago this week so I wrote about it. 20 Years of The Blow's Paper Television bengarvey.com/2026/10/20/2... thebl0w.bsky.social

If you really didn't want to use Photoshop you could have used GIMP for the last 25 years.

Hear me out: Microtonal elements in the periodic table

If no one builds this I will.

2000: Don't make me think 2026: Don't make me click

As a teenager I went to one of those live watchings of Rocky Horror Picture Show and came home with my first ever girlfriend. RIP Mr Curry you're a legend.

GitHub should worry less about “dependabot” and focus more on how the internet “depends a lot” on their basic functionality

The saddest job I can think of is the person who emails me that I have access to podcasts on Amazon music.

It is rude how good a hotdog in the air fryer is.

Many thanks to @benkates.com for the invitation to speak and @bengarvey.com for hosting! I shared the stage and learned a lot from Robert Crocker who talked about D3 interaction design in data viz and Luis Cielak who told us all about his data viz heroes 👏

Someone on reddit accused me of being a white knight for James Marshall.

Wrote a chrome extension to improve the contrast between draft and ready pull requests in github. chromewebstore.google.com/detail/githu...

Shout out to my 2017 macbook air that still runs great and works perfectly even though I can no longer update macOS and now chrome?

I can't figure out when you are ever supposed to medium-grind the coffee.

Hi five to whoever made the cmd-k hotkey work for both Slack and Discord.

I know Septa has budget issues but the direction signs on the trains should be correct. The L is more wrong than right now.

I don't order Doordash because of the fees, and I don't order Uber Eats because I imagine my food sitting in the back wearing a seat belt.

Best Meetup in Philadelphia happening July 30 www.meetup.com/philadelphia...

Found one nextpatco.fyi

Ignite Philly is back this month events.ticketleap.com/tickets/igni...

Iowa is just not the same without Kum & Go

This whole time I thought tanstack was Garry Tan.

Yeah Pitchfork isn't what it used to be, but Perfect 10 was a great idea and I will always watch it.

The Far Side is not funny but damn if I'm not going read every single one.

Always concerning to get a firestorm of emails from our hosting provider that they're dilligently working on an issue that we're not seeing yet.

I actually thought Hobbit movies were good.

Star Wars Shows Best: Andor Worst: Book of Boba Fett Overrated: Clone Wars Underrated: Ahsoka Happy @lisadellaporta.bsky.social?

Old good thread on Return of the JEdi #maythefourth #starwars

I feel this way every new year's eve when I see people trying to cram the current numbers into functional year-themed glasses. Once we crossed 2011 it just became awkward.

I know there are a lot of problems but I'm going to lose it with people saying Two Thousand Twenty Six instead of Twenty Twenty Six for any year after 2009.

Septa knows about the Collingswood PATCO stop but assumes I'd have to walk straight to Girard from there

Funniest and most relatable scene in any Chris Nolan movie is in Memento when Guy Pierce breaks into a guy's hotel room to kill him, forgets why he's there and takes a shower

What are you going to do if God's only rule ends up being, "Don't fall for Pascal's Wager?"

Philadelphia Data Visualization meetup is this Wednesday! www.meetup.com/philadelphia...

Holy crap Nine Inch Noize is good

There are three kinds of people 1. No stickers on the laptop 2. Stickers on the laptop 3. Overlapping stickers on the laptop

3 Collingswood teams headed to the Odyssey of the Mind World Finals! Please help offset some of the cost if you can. www.gofundme.com/f/help-colli... OM is a student driven, DIY, creative competition.

Never deleting it

It is unbelievable how completely surrounded young men are in their information environment by the messaging around gambling. It's pretty much constant during every waking hour.

Discover weekly trying to act like I haven't listened to this 1000 times.