Writing

• The Dōjima futures exchange
  The world's first futures exchange, in 17th and 18th century Japan.
• Grading curves are dollar auctions
  What the dollar auction can teach us about grading curves.
• Reasons to be long or short Bitcoin
  More than bullish hope or bearish scorn, your attitude must also account for your inherent non-financial structural position.
• Tenure, academic publishing, and open source software
  Academic publishing is weird, but not unique.
• What commodity futures are all about
  The vicissitudes of fortune are mostly beyond your control, but futures can give an out.

Some cool things I've built

musicd

A music player daemon in Haskell, intended to fit my precise notions of how I prefer to manage the music on my computer.

vue-async-computed

A neat helper library for asynchronous computed properties in Vue. This turned out to meet a very real need in the Vue world, it seems. With over 1K stars on Github and well over 100K downloads per month from NPM, vue-async-computed is far and away the most-used open source library that I've built.

textwrap

Bindings to the Rust textwrap crate as Elixir NIFs. Use it to wrap text to a fixed width in Elixir, or to indent or deindent blocks of text.

velocipede

A vim plugin for cycling between related words, similar in concept to vim-cycle, except that it also works well with vim-speeddating.

Elsewhere

I'm foxbenjaminfox on Github and Twitter. I also mentor on Exercism.

Get in touch

Email me at benjaminfox@hey.com, or message me on Twitter.