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Steven Bennett

Writing

Recent posts

Notes on software, design, and things worth trying.

All
  1. Software engineering

    System design, one failure at a time

    Follow failed writes, overloaded feeds, stale caches, and interrupted jobs through practical recovery scenarios, with an interactive order pipeline to break and replay.

  2. Creative coding

    How I built this landscape

    Inside the ASCII forest: procedural terrain, Portland weather, a calculated sky, and a rendering pipeline you can explore.

  3. Ideas & technology

    30 Niche Software Ideas Worth Investigating

    Specific problems in restoration, repair shops, collections, and business handoffs—with a first version, likely buyer, and a test of demand for each.

Building

Projects

Useful tools, new ideas, and ongoing curiosities.

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AppLab Studio

A visual application workbench for composing interfaces, exploring components, and exporting code. The desktop app brings the canvas, component library, and property editors into one connected workspace.

Gimme Job

A job-search workspace for saved roles, application history, résumé revisions, and interview preparation. Its desktop companion keeps job-board browsing and application assistance alongside a tracker that records the evidence behind each outcome.

Snoopi

A desktop meeting assistant for capturing conversations and working with their context. It brings transcripts, summaries, follow-up drafts, and searchable meeting history into an Electron interface.

Experience

Résumé / CV

15+ years building web applications and helping teams deliver.

Full
  • ChatterworksConsulting Senior Frontend Engineer
    May 2025 – August 2026
  • FunkoConsulting Senior Frontend Engineer
    Sep 2025 – May 2026
  • The Motley FoolTechnical Lead
    Jun 2025 – Oct 2025
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