Benjamin Doyle

I'm building an open-source Claude Code plugin called The Enforcer. Not because I fancy writing more rules, but because asking a coding agent nicely to behave is clearly not enough.

If something must happen, I don't want to cross my fingers and hope the model remembers. I...

A long way from Melbourne, in my local library in North Queensland, I read Underground by Suelette Dreyfus, and it has captivated me ever since. It came out in 1997 and tells the true story of the hackers of the late 80s and early 90s. Mostly teenagers, a lot of them in Melbourne, sitting...

I do a lot of making. I like to use 3D printing and other tools to create solutions to everyday problems, and I am a huge fan of the open-source nature of the 3D printing community. I have started creating more models to give back in this spirit.

But today what I am sharing with...

I had a mate who's still finding their feet with English ask me last week what I meant by something I'd said. Can't even remember the sentence now. Something throwaway. But watching them try to parse it, then watching myself try to explain it, was the thing that stuck with me. Because the words...

Your brain is terrible at storage. It's brilliant at connections, patterns, creativity, ideas in the shower at 2am. But ask it to reliably hold onto that article you read three weeks ago, or that insight from a meeting you definitely meant to write down? Forget it. For me it's especially acute. I...

I wrote this while working in Australia's fastest growing startup, and I shared it to the product and engineering teams. We had been adding more and more defined roles and many of them wanted to implement processes to our workflow, and I was starting to feel like every time someone was trying to...