Benjamin Lannon

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Work

I am currently employed as a software engineer. I particularly have a focus in app deployment (Docker, Kubernetes, etc), service integration development, and application security.

Outside of work, over the last few years, I have been thinking about the ideology around the Attention Economy. Companies are continually trying to make you spend more and more time on their platforms, and I feel due to reccomendation algorithms, that can cause things to be draining on people's mental health.

In order to try resolving this, I have been thinking about intentional consumption and computing, where rather than just consuming what is provided to you, trying to be closer to managing what information you are consuming via things like RSS and continuously curating information sources.

Also, after spending a few years learning cloud platforms like AWS and Azure, their scalability can be good for large companies, but for hobbyists, I feel cloud doesn't always need to be the default. As such, I've been building up a homelab and trying to run software locally on my own systems and reduce the complexity in the personal software I write.

Currently Tinkering With

Solo Roleplaying

As of August 2025

I've started looking into and playing solo roleplaying games over the past few months. Think Dungeons and Dragons but all by yourself. It is a wide genre, but I'm interested in game that are less mechanic heavy and push more towards narrative driven gameplay.

Physical Journalling / Notebooks

As of June 2024

I've used tools like Obsidian & Notion for years now, but I wanted to expiriment and see how using physical notebooks would integrate into my workflow. So far has been good when I want to step away from technology and just be able to write down my thoughts to paper without distraction.

Generative AI

As of late 2022

Generative AI for software development is continuing to become more powerful day by day, but I feel places that need to be kept in mind is how do we steer these tools to not veer off course and not exfiltrate data we don't want sent to nefarious environments. Currently I am looking around at sandboxing techniques for running apps like Claude Code in a more secure environment.