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Ben Holmen › Eau Claire, Wisconsin, USA › Web Developer & Artist

https://benholmen.com/

Professional Web Developer in Eau Claire, WI. This is my personal site.

Building an interactive instrument for a one-of-a-kind festival

https://benholmen.com/blog/halfmoon-chimes/

I built an instrument/art installation for the best music + art festival around

I spent 6 years building a ridiculous wooden pixel display

https://benholmen.com/blog/kilopixel/

The world's most impractical 1000-pixel display and anyone in the world can draw on it

The Kilopixel recap - season one

https://benholmen.com/blog/kilopixel-season-1/

... popular pixels changed: My personal blog on benholmen.com received the largest share of the traffic - a ...

Pairing with Strangers (the Pair-amid Scheme)

https://benholmen.com/blog/pairing-magic/

Take a chance on an internet stranger and see what happens

Mapping a Hyper key on MacOS with Karabiner Elements (the easy way)

https://benholmen.com/blog/hyper-key-with-karabiner-elements-raycast/

I was just helping someone set up a hyper key and was surprised at how confusing most of the guides were. So here's my very simple version! A hyper key is mapping a single key to <code><shift> + <control> + <option> +...

A photo a day for 30 days

https://benholmen.com/blog/a-photo-a-day/

Inspired by my friend Zuzana and her #30in30 experiment, I decided to make a photograph each day for 30 days. I found it very challenging! I'd fight to come up with one good image, post it at the end of the day, and then wake up and have to do it again...

Building howtall.is

https://benholmen.com/blog/howtall.is/

Yet again, Joe provided the spark: I immediately knew I needed to build an app to let internet friends guess your height and find out just how much they were under- or over-estimating how tall you are. Justin Jackson's a great example: he gives off...

The Art of Pairing with Strangers - Over Engineered Podcast

https://benholmen.com/blog/overengineered-podcast-the-art-of-pairing-with-strangers/

My buddy Chris Morrell was kind enough to have me on his extremely chill podcast, Over Engineered, to talk about my Pair-amid Scheme. We nerded out over making - Chris has an obsession with sewing pants, and I shared my Kilopixel project. I honestly...

Just how old is a 45 year old soup (and would you eat it)

https://benholmen.com/blog/how-old-is-a-45-year-old-soup/

On my absurd podcast Cheese & Weather we covered a topic Jason Beggs has been requesting: what do we think of this soup that has been continuously simmering for 45 years? Since that article was written in 2019 it's actually a 50 year old soup! I'll...

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