Ben Williams with a coffee cup in front of his face

Ben I Williams

biwills.com

Creator and engineer who designs and builds things on the web.

Professional

update coming soon

Writing

I write sporadically on this website and Twitter. See Essays and @biwills.

Open Source Software

I maintain a small set of open source software:

gatsby-plugin-aphrodite: Provides drop-in support for Aphrodite in Gatsby.
17-vscode-theme: A dark blue theme for VS Code
tiny-throttle: A throttle & debounce package in 329 bytes
TypeTac: TypeScript library for Tachyons
vscode-plv8: VS Code support for JavaScript syntax highlighting in PLV8 PostgreSQL code
seal-store: Framework agnostic immutable state store

You can find all my public code on my Github @biw.

Interests

Knowledge graphs and note taking
The 100 and 1000 true fans monetization models
Lowering barriers to creation
Writing world-class software
Chess
Playing and making music
Reading

Most recently, I was a Product Engineer at Ideaflow, helping build the next generation of knowledge tools.

Before that, I was the cofounder of AuxParty, working on building an immersive 3D social music experience. We scaled the product to 50 countries around the world with millions of songs listened to collectively and got a chance to put on events with over a dozen amazing artists/producers. We stopped working on it after hitting financial difficulties associated with music licensing.

I also use to moonlight as a Code Reviewer, perform on-demand code reviews and security audits, for companies all around the world through PullRequest.

Before that, I worked at:

Shone with a small product-focused engineering team working on autonomous technologies for container ships.
Aero which at the time, was working on rethinking business travel. They have since pivoted.
Masterclass which makes online classes with the world's best instructors.
Microsoft as an intern, working on Windows kernel security.
Tensentric as an intern, working on medical device security.

Contact me

My email is [email protected].

You can also contact me via Twitter DMs. My Twitter is @biwills.

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