Ben E. C. Boyter

So today I release the v4.0.0 version of sloc cloc and code AKA scc . While I was considering going from 3.7.0 to 3.8.0 enough new functionality landed in it that I figured a move to a new major version was worthwhile. It also was large enough to warrant

I recently did a brown bag at work, and as a change covered a non technical topic the subject of fortified wine. This was partly to encourage the team to realize they don't have to discuss in depth how a data structure works, why the hip new programming l

One of the things I added to my code counter scc back when developing it was the COCOMO calculation. It's not a reference to a song by the beach boys but instead the Constructive Cost Model , which is a model for estimating the cost of software developed

The last few years have been pretty wild in the software development space. My passion project searchcode.com was deeply affected and as a result I had to shut it down and figure out what to do with it. The reality is, in 2026 the average user of your sit

TL/DR; Play on itch.io or Plan or download from lexaloffle I previously wrote about making a game using pico-8 . Once done I more or less instantly wanted to make another one and started sketching out some ideas. Years ago I had watched a Youtube video ht

What felt like yesterday but is actually closer to 4 years ago I released the first version of code spelunker (cs) and wrote about it here . I then promptly forgot about everything in it as I was focussed on everything else I had been working on, scc, sea

I was looking through Google Scholar the other day looking for references to scc since I had previously had people reach out to me about how they were using it for their thesis (It's not narcissism, its research I swear!). I was curious to see how it was

I am hoping to get another 5 years out of the machine as it is now. My previous post about my desktop ended with the above. It has been about 5 years and while I was happy with my old desktop I had started looking into agentic workflows using LLM's. After

searchcode HAS been rebooted see https://boyter.org/posts/searchcode-has-been-rebooted/ for details. By the time you are reading this, searchcode.com's DNS should have been updated to point at a placeholder index.html file I created. In short I am shuttin

With the rise of AI LLM technology, I naturally wanted to learn more about using it. Both from a what can it do but also where can I use it in various tasks. Since I am also investing more time in searchcode.com these days I wanted to find a way I could u