{"id":25,"date":"2026-04-27T18:24:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T18:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/?page_id=25"},"modified":"2026-08-16T20:51:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T20:51:54","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/syntagma.org\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-content-justification-center is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-82936891 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized is-style-rounded wp-container-content-b04ba3db\" style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);margin-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);margin-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40)\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/34.122.140.73\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_7871_cropped-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Ben Giddens\" class=\"wp-image-67\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1;width:200px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/syntagma.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_7871_cropped-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/syntagma.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_7871_cropped-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/syntagma.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_7871_cropped-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/syntagma.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_7871_cropped-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/syntagma.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_7871_cropped.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-vertical is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-f0d5df8b wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ben Giddens<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/linkedin.com\/in\/bgiddens\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/linkedin.com\/in\/bgiddens\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m Ben &#8211; a software engineer and data scientist based in Austin, Texas. Syntagma is a namespace for my open-source work on projects like convention-over-configuration development tools and most recently, a proof-of-reputation blockchain consensus mechanism for non-commercial decentralized applications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Connect with me on LinkedIn if you&#8217;re interested in my work or would like to contribute. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:49px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Giddens LinkedIn I&#8217;m Ben &#8211; a software engineer and data scientist based in Austin, Texas. Syntagma is a namespace for my open-source work on projects like convention-over-configuration development tools and most recently, a proof-of-reputation blockchain consensus mechanism for non-commercial decentralized applications. Connect with me on LinkedIn if you&#8217;re interested in my work or would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-no-title","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-25","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/syntagma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/syntagma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/syntagma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syntagma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syntagma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/syntagma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72,"href":"https:\/\/syntagma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25\/revisions\/72"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/syntagma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}