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Benjamin Alpert

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Benjamin Alpert

Ben Alpert is a professional engineer from the Great State of New Jersey (they pay me to call it that). If you enjoy his work, you can usually find more of it scrawled haphazardly in a notebook on his nightstand. Good luck getting to it without waking him though.

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