Ben Hyrman

Hi.

My name is Ben Hyrman. I'm a software developer with a passion for shipping products.

I love working with others. For me, development is a team sport. We go further when we go together.

I write here; mostly about what I'm learning or working on. I occasionally write about personal things as well.

Spotlight
Some of my favorite posts
Kayaking on Lake Superior
14 Years

Fourteen years ago, we stood in front of a judge and made a promise to each other.

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Bandit the Dog
On Pets

Reflections on 14 years with our furry companion

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Polly WaitAndRetry

Patterns and practices for wrapping .NET code in wait-and-retry blocks when making remote calls

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Living with your creations

Lessons learned from a long-lived product

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BenchmarkDotNet

Let's profile some code! And see if we can figure out some great options for things that might matter

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Recent
My newest blog entries

Host your static 11ty site on Google Cloud

A walk-through of the steps you need to follow in order to get your site working nicely on Google Cloud

Let's Make Some Art - Part 1

Let's make our computer draw stuff

Multi-stage Docker builds for ASP.NET Core 5

We'll cover how to build a multi-stage Dockerfile with the Node and Dotnet base images so we don't need to apt-get Node