Benjamin Kaiser

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

Benjamin @ 21

8 years ago 5 min read Birthday Posts

Wow, a whole year has passed, and very little blogging in between. But here is my annual birthday post where I show general what interests I have and where I'm at in life.

Facebook Chat Downloader

8 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

Year 8 to Microsoft in 5 years

8 years ago 7 min read

> TLDR; Started university at the end of year 8, completed a masters degree and was hired into an internship at Microsoft aged 18 (followed by a full-time position a year later). I've had

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

8 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