Benjamin Gammage's personal notes on technology, business, AI, data, and other interests https://benjamingammage.com/ 2026-10-06 Benjamin Gammage https://benjamingammage.com/blog/website-4-0/ 2026-10-06 2026-10-06

The site has gone through another redesign.

https://benjamingammage.com/blog/the-focus-paradox/ 2026-09-11 2026-09-11

Why having infinite options turns into the perfect excuse to escape hard work

https://benjamingammage.com/blog/creating-an-online-identity/ 2026-09-10 2026-09-10

Why building an intentional online presence matters and how to approach it.

https://benjamingammage.com/blog/ai-biggest-marketing-scam/ 2026-09-10 2026-09-10

Nobody understands the technology and it shows, as people throw money at a technology that's not what they think it is.

https://benjamingammage.com/blog/research-page-hybrid-approach/ 2026-07-28 2026-07-28

How I turned a collection of standalone report pages into a lightweight single-page research hub using vanilla JavaScript and a redirect-based hybrid architecture.

https://benjamingammage.com/blog/website-3-0/ 2026-07-23 2026-07-23

How I restructured my website from a portfolio into a research and projects platform.

https://benjamingammage.com/blog/building-a-personal-cloud-with-nixos/ 2026-07-15 2026-07-15

Turning a Raspberry Pi into a self-hosted cloud with NixOS, Tailscale, and Gitea — private Git hosting, remote access, and full control over your data.

https://benjamingammage.com/blog/i-built-a-budget-app/ 2026-07-11 2026-07-11

Building gbudget, a personal CLI budget app that tracks income and expenses from the terminal with optional Obsidian vault integration.

https://benjamingammage.com/blog/google-analytics-content-direction/ 2026-07-08 2026-07-08

How I'm using Google Analytics data to decide which reports to write next and understand what actually interests people.

https://benjamingammage.com/blog/learning-barriers-investing-analysis/ 2026-06-25 2026-06-25

Working through the challenges of analysing BTC, gold and S&P 500 data in Excel and what I learned about investing data along the way.

https://benjamingammage.com/blog/my-excel-mini-series-project/ 2026-06-22 2026-06-22

A mini project series exploring data cleaning, analysis, and visualisation using Microsoft Excel.

https://benjamingammage.com/blog/clean-learning-with-ai/ 2026-06-14 2026-06-14

The mental model I use to avoid being spoon-fed by language models and actually learn while using them.

https://benjamingammage.com/blog/devenv-project-environments/ 2026-06-05 2026-06-05

Using devenv and Nix to create reproducible project environments without dependency conflicts or pathing headaches.

https://benjamingammage.com/blog/sql-conditional-aggregation/ 2026-06-03 2026-06-03

Spending a weekend wrestling with conditional aggregation in SQL — what confused me, what finally clicked, and what I wish I'd known from the start.

https://benjamingammage.com/blog/second-data-project/ 2026-06-01 2026-06-01

My second data project exploring the CFPB consumer complaints dataset with SQL queries, conditional aggregation, and interactive visualisations.

https://benjamingammage.com/blog/uv-to-nix-shell-python-nixos/ 2026-05-28 2026-05-28

Why uv virtualenvs don't play well with NixOS system libraries and how per-project nix-shell files fixed it.

https://benjamingammage.com/blog/zettelkasten-modern-note-taking/ 2026-05-27 2026-05-27

How I adapted the Zettelkasten note-taking method for modern note-taking using Obsidian and Neovim.

https://benjamingammage.com/blog/my-biggest-fear-with-ai/ 2026-05-25 2026-05-25

Reflecting on the one thing about AI advancement that keeps me up at night.

https://benjamingammage.com/blog/first-data-project/ 2026-05-21 2026-05-21

A walkthrough of building my first data analysis project — the process, the problems, and what I learned along the way.

https://benjamingammage.com/blog/molten-nvim-for-data-analysis/ 2026-05-18 2026-05-18

Inline data analysis in Neovim using Molten.nvim, Jupyter kernels and NixOS.

https://benjamingammage.com/blog/moving-to-nixOS/ 2026-05-17 2026-05-17

Why I moved from windows to NixOS and why developers should consider a declarative system.

https://benjamingammage.com/blog/website-career-update/ 2026-05-16 2026-05-16

A short update on my shift toward data analysis and building a career in data and systems.