I do electronic discovery and digital forensics at a law firm in Kansas City. After getting a finance degree from Mizzou, I went to law school at UMKC. I helped start the first hackerspace outside of a big city and am a founding member of SecKC.

About the Site

I really had no aspirations to rebuild my website in 2024, but while working on building a place to house AI links I ended up throwing this together over the course of a few evenings. I started with the Minimal Mistakes Jekyll theme and started customizing the CSS with the help of Claude.

Photos and Images

Photos are all taken by me. I shoot with a Nikon Z6 II and do all my post production with Lightroom Classic. Images and icons were all generated using Claude to create scalable vector images using React. I couldn’t code any react by hand if I had to. Computers are magic.

Contact

twitter: @john_benson
email: john@john-benson.com You can also typically find me via the SecKC Discord server

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