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Hello! 👋️ I'm

Hello! 👋️ I'm

Daniel Benge

Daniel Benge

Developer + Student

Developer + Student

I'm an 18 year old developer in the UK. I'm passionate about cybersecurity, hardware hacking, linux, self-hosting, web design and flutter. I'm always looking for new opportunities, so please don't hesitate to reach out!

// My Experience

// Featured Projects

My Runshaw App
Ongoing
My Runshaw App
My largest project to date in both technical complexity and user adoption. This is a Flutter app I built after starting at college to help students with day-to-day actions like checking for buses and payment balance or sharing timetables. It quickly gained traction and ended up being used by almost every student.
EchoCLI
Complete (Archived)
EchoCLI
A command-line tool for rooting echo dots. Written in python, this builds on the work of many others to provide a simple interface for rooting echo dots. Due to advances in reverse-engineering by the community, this tool is no longer needed, but it was a fun project to work on.
Tizen-HA
Complete
Tizen-HA
A Tizen app for controlling Home Assistant, created using the official flutter SDK variant for tizen with native bindings. This was my first flutter project and was a great way to learn the framework.
CFWatch
Complete
CFWatch
My most advanced electronic engineering project - a custom PCB with a SAMD21 microcontroller and USB-C, designed to run for weeks on a rechargeable lithium coin cell. I plan to revisit this in the future
BadAppleQR
Complete
BadAppleQR
What if you fitted an entire website with bad apple encoded into a single QR code? This project does just that, and is a simple but fun way to learn about QR codes and how they work.
Droplet App
Complete
Droplet App
I started droplet to learn more about how to plan and design UI before starting development, and to expand my flutter skills. Its concept is a simple and fun group for smaller friend groups.

// My Setup

Main Machine

Most things I work on happen on a ThinkPad X1 Yoga Gen 5 running Debian (my favourite distro by far!), but it's also triple-booted with Windows 11 and MacOS, because XCode and Microsoft Office are very fussy but sadly necessary for some things. Why that model specifically? I got it for free!

Music & Reading

I really hate e-waste, and my setup reflects that. I generally have a fair mix between physical books and my kindle, but I dislike the newer touchscreen models - I've settled for a 2011 Kindle Keyboard instead which I bought for £5 on eBay and replaced the battery on, and it's surprisingly hackable too! For music, I use an iPod 5.5 (video) with Rockbox and the adwaitapod theme.

Extras

While this website is hosted on Cloudflare for performance, I generally self host everything I can - you can read more about my setup here.

// Contact me

Email

I'm always open to new opportunities, collaborations or questions! Drop me an email and I'll reply as soon as possible :)

mail [email protected]
Matrix

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