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Benjamin Kaiser

Australian Software Engineer, Working for Microsoft from the Gold Coast

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Benjamin @ 30

What's Been Happening? Penelope turned 5 and Ariel came along to her birthday party Then the next day I flew off to the US to spend the week seeing colleagues and old friends. Luckily my team had budget so I got to fly business class, it was just

MCP First Application Development

MCP enables a new way of building applications: the MCP server is the primary interface, and everything else is an afterthought. I tried building an application with this approach and it has some interesting implications for how we think about application development.

AI First Application Development

Beyond desktop-first and mobile-first, we'll begin to see an emerging form of applications built with serving LLM users first and foremost.

The YouTube Kids Experience, Minus the Problems

How to set up a simple, offline video player for kids using your own MP4 files, avoiding the pitfalls of streaming apps.

Big Tech Employee Giving Program Tier List

Which tech companies offer the best employee donation matching programs? I ranked FAANG and other Big Tech firms by their charitable giving benefits to find out which employer helps their employees give the most.

Quest 3 as a Standalone Web Development Machine

TLDR: Tried using the Quest 3 as a web dev machine without streaming from a laptop. Most VR browser apps fail due to lack of devtools and window limitations. Best result: Running a full Linux desktop in UserLand with working Chrome devtools (and VS Code!) Not a great experience for

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Can LLMs Accurately Recall the Bible

I've often found myself uneasy when LLMs (Large Language Models) are asked to quote the Bible. While they can provide insightful discussions about faith, their tendency to hallucinate responses raises concerns when dealing with scripture, which we regard as the inspired Word of God. To explore these concerns,

What Australia can Learn from USA Stock Donations

How does the USA incentivise donating stocks, and how does it compare to Australia?

Resizing Form Images using HTML Attributes

Effortlessly resize form images in your web projects using fileinput-image-resize. Explore how this lightweight JavaScript library, combined with simple HTML attributes, streamlines image processing, saving server resources and simplifying your development workflow. 🚀

Building a ChatGPT APK with React Native and Expo

OpenAI doesn't yet provide an official ChatGPT app, so let's make our own!

Unreal Open Source: Bitwarden

There is a bunch of software online, and some of it is truly unreal. So great, it feels too good to be true. Today I want to take a look at one of these pieces of software, Bitwarden .  Bitwarden is an open source password manager, similar to non-free

Australian Spelling

I'm excited to share an application I've recently published called "Australian Spelling" available for both iOS and Android.

The Read Bible - A Crowd-sourced Audio Bible

Go to TheReadBible.com The latest open source project I've been working on is a crowd-sourced audio Bible. The motivation for this project comes out of two verses from the Bible: So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. - Romans 10:17 (WEBBE)

Banano Find the Key Puzzle

Be the first to find the key to 1,000 Banano!