Around the table
Stay a little longer.
Where could one good question take your next conversation?
Try a conversation starterMaker. Teacher. Storyteller.
What we make,
shapes who
we become
I’m Ben. I build things that I hope will encourage meaning, gratitude, compassion, and purposeful living.
Making, teaching, and telling stories are threads that run through my work and my life.
Small things to try
All experimentsSolar & battery
Making the most of the sunshine.
A day in every ray. See what powers our home and what we share with the grid.
Explore the solar experimentA journey with Storyus
Hillfort to Hillfort.
A walk between two hills, gathered in Storyus. Scroll through the photographs and follow the path.
Walk the storySelected writing.
More from the collectionFollowing the sun with Laravel
How my solar experiment collects readings, saves them in Valkey and shares updates through Laravel Cloud, Reverb and React.
Home Photography Workflow
Curation is an act of love
Getting Kids Into Coding
It's never too early to start
Photography / paying attentionCuration is
Curation is
an act of love
Most weeks, I go through the photographs the four of us have taken and gather them into albums. It’s a family chore I’ve kept since our children were born, and it means we can look back on a whole year together in an hour.
Choosing what to keep is also choosing what we remember. At the end of each year, I choose nine.
From the archive / January 2024Day One Browse my photographsthe stories we tell about our life, become the story of our life
From This Everyday Life / April 2022On Harlech beachFive hours walking with my son, and the stories we might one day tell each other.Maker. Teacher. Storyteller.
My timeline since 1981, told in Storyus.
Gathering a few moments…
Storyus
These ideas come together in Storyus, a family storytelling platform I’m building. A place to gather photographs, add the words around them, and give each person room to tell their part of the story.
The choices in the product follow that purpose: reflection, shared memories, and time spent with our own stories.
Explore StoryusA handful of moments. Your perspective.
A Reflection gathers up to nine images. The same year can look different through each person’s eyes.
A moment, a journey, a longer story.
Postcards, essays, journeys, and magazines offer different ways to tell what happened and what it meant.
Something to return to, together.
A family space without adverts, likes, or follower counts.
From the workbench
All projects Other things I’ve been making.
Be9.ing
A project exploring intentional living, and making room for what matters.
Explore the projectPractical Responsive Images
A small book about a big part of the web: helping images work better for everyone.
About the bookTraivel Guide
Following curiosity beyond the main road. A project for finding the stories along the way.
Take a lookUnderstanding
is something
we build together.
I started out teaching physics. These days, I work with customers and teams to make sense of technical possibilities, test ideas, and find a useful next step.
Making room for understandingA career spent helping people build · Vercel · Cloudinary · Amplience · Adobe / Scene7The story so far