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benbrown

On this day in 2015, my friend Stewart invited me up on stage to announce the availability of Botkit at the official Slack Platform launch event. Who could have guessed back then that chatbots would be such a big thing now…?

Me, that’s who!!

Ben and Stewart Butterfield, former ceo of Slack
15 December at 20:31 | Open on hackers.town
benbrown

@mathowie was there too! And that other guy is the founder of Friendster!

Three geeky white guys standing together at a tech event
15 December at 21:00 | Open on hackers.town
benbrown

If you want a copy of my book by next Tuesday or Wednesday, order in the next hour or so before I ship the next batch of orders :)

shop.benbrown.com/

29 March at 16:38 | Open on hackers.town
benbrown

This spring when I visited Maryland, I went to the NSA's Cryptography Museum where I picked up a copy of the "CryptoKids Fun Book" - a coloring book about cryptography and cyber security _for kids_ that features early '00s portrayals of hackers and spooks as animals.

I finally got around to scanning it in and I just uploaded it to the internet archive for all to enjoy.

archive.org/details/cryptokids

(While prepping the metadata, I also stumbled on the original artist's version which you can find here:

behance.net/gallery/5761673/Cr)

This spring when I visited Maryland, I went to the NSA's Cryptography Museum where I picked up a copy of the "CryptoKids Fun Book" - a coloring book about cryptography and cyber security _for kids_ that features early '00s portrayals of hackers and spooks as animals.

I finally got around to scanning it in and I just uploaded it to the internet archive for all to enjoy.

The cover of CryptoKids Fun book
Crypo Cat - a field hockey playing cat girl who loves to create secret messages
Decipher Dog, a signals intelligence analyst who is also a puka shell wearing dog.
30 Jul 2023 at 18:10 | Open on hackers.town
benbrown

Let's do a Fiction Quest play test, woo!

Come try out the ai-assisted text adventure game I've been building on nights and weekends. It's fun and weird and retro and futuristic all at once!

You can join in for the next few hours for free! If you like it, consider joining the Patreon which gives you access to the game world all the time.

See you in the game! (I'm Zeb)

play.fiction.quest/

an image of hot pink text that says FICTION QUEST with a giant Q
2 Jun 2023 at 2:02 | Open on hackers.town
benbrown

Yall, the Twitter archiver that @darius made is seriously bonkers. You give it the zip file from Twitter, and it generates a magical website that you can host that contains EVERY TWEET you ever twot and you can search them instantly and view them and share them and they show up with previews LIKE A PRO.

tinysubversions.com/twitter-ar

Here is mine that I made it took about 3 seconds:

benbrown.com/twitter/

19 Dec 2022 at 16:16 | Open on hackers.town
benbrown

However it turns out that in 15+ years of tweeting i didn't do one that I can remember

19 Dec 2022 at 16:23 | Open on hackers.town
benbrown

I made a three minute little demo video of my fediverse server. If you are interested in what it looks like, check it out here:

loom.com/share/6badbdc6b45f4bf

This is a stand-alone node app that speaks ActivityPub. It has an ActivityPub API interface, a public profile, and also a browsing interface to interact with people you follow.

6 Dec 2022 at 16:53 | Open on hackers.town
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