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Ben Overmyer
Personal blog · benovermyer.com/post · on HN as bovermyerprogrammingculturegames
Ben Overmyer's personal blog at benovermyer.com covers programming, culture and games. Since 2014, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 30 times, most often “Star Wars: Galaxies Crafting”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.
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2014–2026first – last linked?
The personal website of Ben Overmyer
Most-linked posts?
- Star Wars: Galaxies Crafting2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-02-19
What Hacker News says?
I have two, my main blog and Iron Arachne's blog, the latter of which is probably more interesting to HN. My main blog is just a journal of sorts. There are a handful of interesting posts, which you can find here: https://benovermyer.com/post/my-breakfast-a-recipe-and-a-rit... https://benovermyer.com/post/star-wars-galaxies-crafting/ The Iron Arachne blog is about procedurally generating content for tabletop role-pl…
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on “Ask HN: What is your blog and why should I read it?”Submitted What heraldry and Japanese mon can teach about visual-identity generators as a story · 85 points
HN discussionhttps://benovermyer.com/ My site hearkens back to the spirit of the old days. Except for a custom web font, it doesn't have many visual frills. No CSS framework, almost no JS. Lots of random content; it's not just a blog or a resume, though it has those too.
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on “Ask HN: Share your personal site”Submitted Star Wars: Galaxies Crafting as a story · 3 points
HN discussionWell, the site that houses tools-in-progress towards this end is Iron Arachne: https://ironarachne.com . The writing on the subject that I've done - what little there is, anyway - is on my personal website, https://benovermyer.com . As it turns out, a lot of the articles I wrote about it seem to have broken images or links. Looks like I need to go back and clean that up.
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on “Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?)”Submitted Linux as daily driver, three months in as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThis doesn't help your wider problem, but here's the recipe section of my website. I believe it has more of a content style that you're looking for. https://www.benovermyer.com/recipe/
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on “Show HN: Parsnip – Duolingo for Cooking”Submitted Make the World Small Again as a story · 2 points
HN discussionMy own website is starting to "revert" to this concept. A few years ago, it was primarily an about page and a resume. Now it has a blog, a links page, and a "knowledge base" that's mostly just notes for myself. I'm too burnt out on web "best practices" to care about that for my personal sites anymore. If you're curious: https://benovermyer.com
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on “Rediscovering the Small Web”Submitted Transcribing the Accedence of Armorie as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI do the same thing here: https://benovermyer.com/recipe/
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on “Based Cooking”Submitted Recovering Windows Live Writer Files as a story · 1 points
HN discussionMy thoughts on this were a little too long for a comment, so I posted them on my blog: https://benovermyer.com/blog/building-things-slowly/
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on “Move Slow and Make Things”Submitted Heraldry Generation Pt. 1: Basics as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI played SWG from its release until its final shutdown, though I had several months-long breaks during the run. I posted a few articles on my blog after it was shut down in 2011. Here's one of them, going into the crafting system: https://benovermyer.com/post/2012/star-wars-galaxies-craftin...
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on “Ultima VIII – How to destroy a gaming franchise in one easy step”Submitted The Craft of Code as a story · 1 points
HN discussionMy personal site is text only [1]. There is a tiny amount of JavaScript from Plausible, but there are no web fonts and no images. [1] https://benovermyer.com
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on “Text-Only Websites”https://benovermyer.com is mine, though I also maintain a "tilde" site - https://tilde.town/~sithlord
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on “Into the Personal-Website-Verse (2019)”I do the same thing, though my site doesn't look as polished as yours: https://www.benovermyer.com But yes, you should really write something new!
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on “I miss blogrolls”For me, this is too much effort. Instead I have a page on my site that tracks my books read. https://www.benovermyer.com/kb/books/
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on “Bookwyrm – the federated social network for reading books”Here's my recipe for eggnog: https://benovermyer.com/recipe/eggnog/ I think I might try aging it. That sounds like a fun idea.
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on “Drinking year-old eggnog to put science to the test (2014)”https://benovermyer.com/ Just a little bit of everything. Some tabletop RPGs on there, notes on various subjects, some artwork, etc.
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?”Location: Wilmington, NC (but moving to Canada) Remote: Yes Willing to Relocate: Yes, as long as it's in Atlantic Canada Technologies: AWS, Docker, K8s, most "DevOps" tech really. Also Go, TypeScript, Python, and a smattering of other languages in a back-end, front-end, and infrastructure context. Résumé/CV: LinkedIn ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/benovermyer/ ) or my site ( https://www.benovermyer.com/resume/ ) Emai…
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on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2023)”I was curious, so I tried it out. I ran `apt install offpunk` on my Debian laptop. Then, I ran "offpunk" and got a new terminal prefixed "ON>". Curious, I entered "help" and got a list of topics. A few stood out as immediately interesting, so I tried "open https://benovermyer.com " to open my site. It said I needed to "go" somewhere first. So, I tried "go https://benovermyer.com " instead. That showed me a text prev…
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on “Offpunk 3.0”I think I might try and join in on one of the virtual meetups. I'm in North Carolina, so hard to find something in my time zone, but eh. My site is one of those that modern folks call "virtual gardens" sometimes. Love to have new visitors, and I'm allergic to SEO for my personal stuff, haha. https://benovermyer.com is my site.
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on “Homebrew Website Club”https://benovermyer.com/blog There is a wide variety of random content on my site. This is my blog. I tend to write more often about gaming and life in general, and tech only sporadically.
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”If you're talking about my personal site https://benovermyer.com , no, I have not heard of problems rendering the RSS for it. If you are having issues I would like as much detail as you can provide.
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on “Omg.lol: An Oasis on the Internet”I do this, too. My site https://benovermyer.com has a blog, but the more interesting stuff is all the _other_ pages. The most frequently updated page is the list of books I've read. Do you have a "digital garden" site?
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on “How Blogs Broke the Web”