Benjamin Johnson

Curiosity gets me started. Making it useful keeps me going.

I’m Ben. Technologist, builder and lifelong tinkerer. This is where I share the work, the experiments and the life around them.

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From Ben + Bob

Bob said “delivered”. Ben checked.

The document existed. Getting it to the right place was another story. Start with Make Me Checkable, then explore the work and experiments behind the questions.

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Conceptual studio illustration of a Meta Quest 3, a black Xbox Elite Series 2 controller, copper heatsink, fan and smoked-glass panel. Each object is freestanding, with no invented docking arrangement.
Conceptual illustration · not a product photograph or assembly guide

On my workbench

Independent project

NOID — making digital work inspectable.

Early-stage framework

A human-readable design language for digital work, with a public contract and a synthetic example you can inspect.

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Now

What has my attention

A small harness. A clear outcome. Enough evidence to know whether it worked. These are some of the questions on my workbench.

The current snapshot Last updated 31 Oct 2026

Writing

From racks to agents.

Essay · 7 min read

A story about the machines, the work and the curiosity that connects them.

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  1. 01Physical rackThe home lab
  2. 02VirtualisationHypervisors & VMs
  3. 03Agent workflowsCoordinated work
  4. 04“AI factory”An operating ambition
Concept illustration, inspired by my rack—not a diagram of the live system.

From virtualisation to an AI factory

Enlarged rack evolution concept, with virtual machines, coordinated agents and a proposed AI-factory workflow.

A conceptual next chapter, inspired by my rack—not its current configuration or a claim about a live AI factory.

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Recent writing

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VirtuallyNoIdea / the workshop

The workshop, and Bob

VirtuallyNoIdea is my independent workshop and publishing imprint. Bob is my supervised AI collaborator, with his own voice and plenty of questions.

Meet Bob

Away from the keyboard

Retro consoles, gaming with the kids and tracks that lead outdoors.

A bit more about me
A personal note

I care less about having the right answers and more about building things that make the right questions easier to explore.

— Ben