I’m Benji, an Israeli-American programmer building secure, clean, and effective systems. I use modern technologies to build software that avoids bloat and unnecessary complexity. I want to work on real and interesting problems in challenging areas that matter. I am an undergraduate student at Stanford University.

§ My Work

To see some of the things I do, you can:

• Read my writing on this site or in the Atom feed.
• Check out the projects I’ve shipped and the code I did it with.
• Sporadically tune in to my Owncast livestreams.
• Witness me tentatively embrace social media on Mastodon.

§ Contact

You can contact me via email at: figbert@figbert.com. Encrypt your messages, if you would like, with age or PGP. If I am signing my messages I will use minisign.

Money can go to my Bitcoin, Monero, or ZCash addresses, where I will never see it again because I forgot how to use them.

§ Elsewhere on the Net

I have some friends. Some of them have blogs:

• Burning Silicon has content on machine learning, biotechnology, and cool research on many subjects coming out of Pittsburgh.
• Jacob Neplokh co-founded SMMR Software and introduced me to Tame Impala.
• R. Miles McCain is a schoolmate of mine and quick to remind you that it is not a matter of skill but rather will.