Ben Seymour

Ben Seymour

@benseymour.com

You can't live at all, unless you live fully now. Building Be9.ing, Storyus.life, Haktive.com Field Engineering by day. Story Collector. Idealist Teacher @ ♥ benseymour.com Day 301 of 365. 82.2% through 2026. Wednesday, 2026-10-28 04:00

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This era of software is totally liberating. It's turned building into the most immersive weekend pastime. Turned Fable up to 20x Max and am having to time my bursts I've released more Storyus updates the last 3 weeks than the 5 years prior.

I'm adding a unplanned API layer because my son is building his life tracking/note taking/thought capturing/insight steering app, and he wants to push some of it into Storyus. If this was all hand-coded, I couldn't justify prioritising it... but we're having a blast dev'ing into each others apps.

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Sunday intermittently chatting with Fable while watching the British F1, is really satisfying. Fable isn't perfect, and when reviewing diffs, we have had to chat about a few of it's choices, and misunderstandings, but it is very close to slacking with pretty competent mid+ developer.

One of my dreams, if I made it big, I hoped to hire a small group of devs to help me build the software I wished existed. Generally platforms than emphasise meaning and togetherness and reflection and gratitude. i.e. things unlikely to be commercially viable or to receive funding.

Now, in an AI augmented world, I am enjoying a coffee on a Saturday morning, and strolling back and forth to my office to finally start enhancing the Storyus platform once more.

Week 14 of 2026 Year progress: 24.2% ▓▓▓▓░░░░░░░░░░░ "Navigating a boardroom sharpens my strategy; debugging solo hones my grit. Each role gifts the other an edge. Balance isn't the goal—it's the tension that drives growth." #BuildingInPublic #WeeklyProgress

Just took my first ever ‘domestic’ flight (Newark to SF). So wild to be able to just walk straight off the plane and out of the building - no passport or customs stuff. Which would have made more difference if I didn’t have checked luggage

Same spot in Austria at sunset, 7 years apart, almost to the day. We’re heading towards the final leg of this wonderful roadtrip, and feeling incredibly proud of the amazing young adults that Jack and Zoe have become, and extremely privileged that we’ve got to share this journey with them

Waking up to wonderful Austria - and what I think is my favourite place in the world. It was the highlight of our 2018 trip, and still lives up to the memories.

Italy is an interesting mix of extremes This morning: registering for the ‘tollgate-free toll roads’ which were only sign posted once already on it… and requires passport uploads etc Also this morning: eating fresh figs from the tree while looking out over this stunning vineyard filled landscape

We live about 30 miles south of Silverstone. Sitting in the garden room watching the #F1 race is adding a visceral additional dimension. One minute I’m drying the SUPs in glorious sun, then next it’s hoofing it down and I’m scrambling to bring everything and and to close up

Supernote just arrived today, and the ‘feel’ is mightily impressive. Tactile, textured feel and the Lamy EMR is delightful. (Wish Atelier had a smudge feature)

Well, the power outage which just lost the work I was in the middle of on the mac mini .... seems to have fixed the printer that hasn't worked for over a month. I'll actually take that as a win.

Re-reading Snow crash. Amazing writing. Even more amazing considering how luck of it takes please in the ‘Metaverse’ is that is was first published in 1992.