About - Ben Hoskins

Ben Hoskins

When I’m not programming or knee-deep in a great book, you’ll find me dreaming of sailing the seas, fumbling for sheets and lines. ⛵

I often write about technical things. Largely; Linux, web technologies and technical simplicity.

This website would just be plain-text if I didn’t have designer friends and colleagues to answer to!

I enjoy building and modifying tools to automate or solve problems for people.

This often leads me into Free and Open-Source Software (FOSS), sustainability, the open-web and data privacy and security.

This sort of problem-solving sometimes leads into the physical world of engineering, strategy and even luggage too! 🧳

And, then there’s hacking - but - hacking in the traditional sense of the word.

(computing) Playful solving of technical work that requires deep understanding, especially of a computer system.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hacking

Checkout my blog posts and projects for what I’ve been up to lately. Keep up-to-date with my RSS feeds.

Working Life

At the time of writing I’ve been working in web-development for over thirteen years.

Focusing on the backend.

I’ve worked on the full stack of web-tech at an health and safety EduTech company called IBIS Training. I now consult for their board and work with their e-learning partners managing the company’s technical goals and growth on a freelance basis.

In recent years I’ve been consulting on software engineering, solutions architecture and the business side of tech finance, and digital marketing.

I’ve had the privilege to work with a few successful startups, some great tech agencies and helped push a few established companies forward.

If you’d like to work together, please do get in touch on social media or see my consulting site over at Atilium.

Take a look at my Linkedin for the most up-to-date work info.

Email

Feel free to reply to any of my posts by using the “Reply by Email” link under each post. You can also get in contact here.

🔏 Here’s my PGP encryption pubkey should you want to encrypt your email: