Ben Gauslin
About
Hello, I’m a former Google engineer, a former Chicago architect and design teacher, and forever a New Orleans musician.
This little website is home to some of the web, architecture, and music stuff I’ve made over the years.
Please feel free to look around and thanks for stopping by!
Web Apps
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Personal projects and widgets built with Lit web components
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Good And Cheap
Web app based on the cookbook by Leanne Brown
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Denver Day Hikes
Web app for day hikes near Denver, Colorado
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Powers Of Ten
Adaptation of the film by Charles and Ray Eames
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Luna
Location-based moorise, moonset, and lunar phase
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Clock
A grid of clock faces that reveal patterns over time
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Calorie Calculator
Calculator for determining daily calorie needs
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Compound Interest
Calculator with support for multiple currencies
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bgauslin.com
Personal website made with vanilla JS and plain CSS
Websites
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Web design and development as a Google UXE and as a freelancer
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Google Developers
Developer documentation for Google products and services
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Web.dev
Building a better web, together
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Android Developers
Developer documentation for Android devices
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TensorFlow
An end-to-end platform for machine learning
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Firebase
Unified backend platform for application developers
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Southpaw Creative
A one-man design and branding studio in New Orleans
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Drink and Learn
A unique and wonderful historical tour of New Orleans
Architecture
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Explorations of space and light through material and structure
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Barge Board Shotgun Renovation
Breathing new life into an 1890s shotgun house made of barge boards
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House for an Art Collector
Design and construction of a modern home while employed at Shafer Architects in Chicago
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Vieux Carré Renovation
Modernizing an historic house in New Orleans’ French Quarter
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Travel Sketches
Documenting moments in architecture with pen and pencil
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Travel Collages
Storytelling in fragments via found and discarded objects
Music
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Some groups I’ve performed and recorded with alongside some charts I made
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Song Charts
Transcriptions of basslines and drum parts by session masters
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SomNoSom
Recording isolated drum, bass, and keyboard tracks across timezones
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Thumpdaddy
5-piece Memphis-based party band with an energetic (and exhausting) 4-hour show
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Twelve Modern
5-piece Chicago-based experimental group with a violinist and two drummers
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The Pietasters
Co-founder of 8-piece soul/ska band based in Washington, D.C.