Benjamin Kaiser

Software Engineer working on the SharePoint team at Microsoft. I'm passionate about open source, slurpees, and Jesus.

Facebook Chat Downloader

9 years ago 1 min read

I enjoy using my personal data to create cool applications, and one of the richest data sets many people have are their online conversations. Most of mine are through Facebook Messenger. In the

TLDR; https://geohash.kaiserapps.com I've started a project to scratch yet another itch of mine, it's a geohash [https://xkcd.com/426/] notification service. For the unacquainted, this is how geohashing works:

$12 laptop stand from Bunnings components

9 years ago 3 min read

When surveying the options for laptop stands out there, they ranged from anywhere between $50 and over $100. My requirements weren't hard, I just needed to elevate my laptop to the height of

Socket.io + Nginx results in 502 bad gateway

11 years ago 1 min read

So I was debugging one of my servers today and I was trying to work out for the subdomain I had setup it just didn't want to load the websockets over the websocket

Unimelb VPN using OpenConnect on Arch Linux

11 years ago 1 min read

Tonight I had to download some data from the unimelb servers for an assignment, however from home you have to connect via vpn to access the "nutmeg" unix server I needed (you can't