Hello!

My name is Ben Packer and I am a Brooklyn based software engineer and socialist passionate about the upcoming PostgreSQL release and surviving the 21st century.

In 2019, I was a co-founder of Rewired Coop, a technology coop building software for organizers with roots in the Bernie 2020 campaign and the Democratic Socialist left.

In 2024, I began my current role working on the technology for communications and organizing systems for the United Auto Workers.

Featured

• Salience, Identity Formation, Field Tactics, and Political Strategy

  Published: 12 Nov, 2024 |  at  07:00 AM

  A coherent theory of political campaigning effects through identity preservation and cognitive dissonance minimization

• Kysely Access Control

  Published: 18 Jan, 2024 |  at  07:00 AM

  A Kysely plugin implementing permissions at the query builder layer with both high-level grants and low-level allow/deny APIs

• Software Design and The Structure of Political Organization

  Published: 13 Nov, 2023 |  at  07:00 AM

  A talk exploring the influence of organizing software architecture and the resulting political organization

Recent Posts

• Marimo + DuckDB is a Reactive SQL Joy

  Published: 2 Feb, 2024 |  at  07:00 AM

  A detailed exploration of using Marimo notebooks with DuckDB's Relational API for reactive SQL workflows

• Using Codegen Targeting Postgres with Redshift

  Published: 5 Jan, 2024 |  at  07:00 AM

  A workaround for using kysely-codegen with Redshift by dumping schema to local Postgres

• Seeking Collaborators: Better Local Voice Document Editing

  Published: 19 Dec, 2023 |  at  07:00 AM

  Using LLMs to extract document edits from chunks of speech for better voice-to-text workflows

• Easy Optimistic Updates with Jotai and Immer

  Published: 21 Nov, 2023 |  at  07:00 AM

  A comprehensive solution for implementing optimistic updates using the useAtomImmerSaga hook