Ben Kallus

Hi.

I'm Ben. I'm a PhD student in the Department of Computer Science at Dartmouth College. My advisor is Sean W. Smith. You can usually find me in ECSC 214.

I graduated from Hamilton College in 2021 with a double major in mathematics and computer science. Before that, I went to Loomis Chaffee. I am originally from Montgomery, NY.

Here are my opinions about books I read recently.

Here's the music I'm listening to.

These are my blog posts.

These are some patches I've had merged in various free software projects.

Some things that I'm working on:

• ABI Sanitizer
• Heap Explorer
• The HTTP Garden

This is what I look like.

Some things I like:

• My Himalayan cats, David and Dale
• Finding bugs
• Learning about how computers work
• Teaching
• Memory allocators
• Running new software on old hardware
• Unlocked bootloaders
• Science fiction
• EarthBound
• Longmont Potion Castle
• Tiling window managers
• Cruelty Squad
• Coffee that comes in a box
• Whistling

• Mass surveillance
• Proprietary software
• Locked bootloaders
• Advertisements
• Social media

Some things I believe:

• 99% of apps should be websites.
• If you outsource your thinking to others, your skills will atrophy.
• It is bad to work for a company that mostly makes the world worse.

Some old computers in my care:

• SPARCstation 20
• IBM RS/6000 7013 J40
• Mac Classic II
• Macintosh II
• Macintosh Plus Gifted to Charles!
• Motorola MVME 147SA-2

Webring: (i.e., cool people I know)

• https://www.charles.systems
• https://temidojo.org
• https://jonahweinbaum.github.io
• https://bernsteinbear.com
• https://rishavc.me/

The best way to reach me is in person or through email.