Ben Holmes
Bio
Ben is a software engineer and content creator helping everyone make the world better with code. You may have seen him around the internet with a whiteboard explaining web development concepts and coding agent tips. You also may know him from livestreams on Warp, or as a core maintainer of Astro.build. If you're interested in Markdown, HTML, or Japanese City Pop, go talk to him.
Session (1)
Ben Holmes is Warp's DevEx lead and a longtime Astro core maintainer, known for clear, build-it-from-scratch explanations of hard web topics; his work spans local-first sync engines and the agentic development environment behind Warp 2.0, making his session a practical look at architecting coding agents and developer tooling.
Recent talks (1)
GitHub
@bholmesdev- simple-rsc★ 754A simple React Server Components implementation that you can build yourself
- simple-stack★ 453Web apps made simple (a set of Astro-focused tools/integrations)
- bholmesdev★ 154The whiteboard guy homepage (his personal site repo)
- simple-sync-engine★ 126A SQLite-backed sync engine you can build yourself
Recent writing (2)
- Hubble Note · blog · Sep 2025
- Response to DHH on the gift of open source · blog · Jul 2025
Public activity researched automatically · as of Jun 2026