Ben Overmyer
Coder, Artist, Cat Dad, Gamer
Hi, I'm Ben. I make things. Often for the web, but not always.
By day, I apply my skills as a developer to build web applications, monitor them, set up web infrastructure, and automate things. I'm particularly good at domains in what is popularly called "DevOps" or "platform engineering." I most often work with Python and JavaScript.
In my free time I sometimes work on procedural content generation tools for tabletop role-playing games and world-building. You can see my latest works in this area at Iron Arachne.
You can find me on the Fediverse at @skysong@floss.social.
Other places to find me:
Most Recent Blog Posts
- February 22, 2026: Iron Arachne's eighth anniversary
- February 20, 2026: Sandwich Questionnaire
- February 3, 2026: Linux as daily driver, three months in
- January 2, 2026: Tech plans for January 2026
- January 1, 2026: Looking Ahead to 2026
Selected Blog Posts
- Upgrading the star and planet generators on Iron Arachne
- Old School Baroque
- Word generation in Iron Arachne
My stuff
- Books I've read
- Favorite tools
- Movies - movies that I want to see, or particular lists of movies
- People of interest
- Uses - the tools and things I use most