Ben McKay
@BenMcKayDev
Husband. Father of 2. Musician. Mediocre Developer. Follower of Christ.
Thanks @wesbos now my whole algorithm is screwed up.
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Hey @enunomaduro, I have a situation where I need to have some tests run in sequence, while others can run in parallel after those first ones finish. How would you recommend doing this?
Just wrote a post on dealing with bottlenecks in your systems and how to optimize for max throughput. benmckay.com/2025/06/02/you…
Hey @kentcdodds and @rasmickyy , you are both in SF and should get coffee.
Been struggling with reCAPTCHA lately...gonna have to start using AI to prove I'm not AI.
Hey @simonhamp, I just had a thought, but will the efforts you put on @nativephp translate to tvOS at some point? I can think of a million things I’ve wanted to build for tvs that have been unreachable so far for me.
Ok...just spent over an hour giving the kids cryptic messages and them trying to figure them out. Whole lot of "My dad is the best dad in the world" messages followed by eye rolls. Highly recommend.

My daughter just built her very first website and deployed to a server! remingtonmckay.com
So.....maybe I've been using AI backwards. I just dropped in an actual @pestphp test to Claude and asked it to generate the code to make the tests pass and it was spot on. I guess I'm a TDD guy now...
Does it seem like GitHub has been down quite a bit lately? All our CI/CD pipelines are tied to GA so maybe just noticing more than before.
Ordered @terminaldotshop coffee and wondering why they didn't accept my starbucks gift card I got from Christmas???