Personal Wiki & Digital Shelf

Hi, I’m Ben Alloway. Welcome to my corner of the web.

I’m a software builder based in Virginia. This site is my personal wiki and living notebook — a place to catalog the physical movies we own (structured for our future Plex server), share ranked lists like my all-time favorite films, and publish notes and life updates along the way.

Browse Movies We Own (12) → Read: My Top 20 Favorite Movies GitHub

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Starting Content · Wiki & Articles

My Favorite Movies: The Living Canon

October 15, 2026Movies

A running essay and ranked list of the films I return to most — from reference-grade 4K UHD sci-fi epics to quiet character studies.

How This Wiki & Movie Library Works

October 15, 2026Wiki

Architecture notes on benalloway.com — Astro 7 SSR on Cloudflare Workers, Tailwind Plus Spotlight & Catalyst, and Plex-portable movie metadata.

Movies We Own

12 Titles

Physical media collection indexed with Plex-compatible metadata (sortTitle, editionTitle, IMDb/TMDb GUIDs).

4K UHD Discs

10

Blu-ray Discs

2

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