Ben Halpern

A Canadian software developer who thinks he’s funny. He/Him.

NY Joined on Dec 27, 2015 ben@dev.to http://benhalpern.com

Education

Mount Allison University

Work

Co-founder at Forem

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Dabbling in all the technology needed to scale our site, on the human side and the computer side.

I mostly do web development in Ruby and JavaScript, but I'm curious about a lot of other languages and tools. Experiment with lots.

I'm working on this website that you're reading. It's fun.

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Feb 23 '21

My Public Inbox

#ama #publicinbox

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Ben Halpern for The DEV Team

May 28 '20

For Empowering Community

#meta #opensource

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Ben Halpern for The DEV Team

Jun 3 '19

Medium Was Never Meant to Be a Part of the Developer Ecosystem

#meta

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Feb 17 '18

It's perfectly fine to only code at work, don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

#career #productivity

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Aug 18

How do you turn a weakness into a strength?

#discuss

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Can you make a bug report on github.com/forem/forem and I'll ...

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Ignored. Got it.

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testing post

Neat :)

Aug 16

Tabbing Tactfully

Great post

Aug 8

What is an example of how an application can anticipate user behavior?

Depending on what we mean... A lot of applications have a ha...

Aug 8

Is it time to replace Hello World?

I'd be cool if the program was a Let's gooooooooooooo app. Al...

Aug 4

Welcome Thread - v184

Greetings David!

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Welcome Thread - v184

Welcome everyone!

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Aug 15

Meme Monday! 🤑

#discuss #watercooler #jokes

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Aug 8

Meme Monday!! 🐘

#discuss #watercooler #jokes

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Aug 7

Side Project Sunday! How's it going?

#showdev #sideprojects #discuss #watercooler

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Aug 4

GitLab will be deleting dormant projects

#news #discuss #gitlab #cloud

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Aug 1

Meme Monday! 🤡

#discuss #watercooler #jokes

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Jul 31

Side Project Sunday! What's the latest?

#showdev #sideprojects #watercooler #discuss

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Jul 25

Meme Monday 😍

#discuss #watercooler #jokes

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Jul 20

Where do you stand on "magic" within languages and frameworks?

#discuss #healthydebate #codequality #watercooler

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Jul 18

Meme Monday? 🤔

#discuss #watercooler #jokes

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Jul 17

Side Project Sunday! What do you have going on?

#showdev #sideprojects #watercooler #discuss

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Jul 12

Show me your editor theme! 🎨

#discuss #watercooler #vscode #vim

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Jul 12

How do you manage multiple projects/codebases at once?

#productivity

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Jul 11

Meme Monday!! 🦖

#discuss #watercooler #jokes

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Jul 7

What is a wrong turn you took your career?

#discuss #career

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Jul 5

What's your best productivity tip?

#discuss #productivity

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Ben Halpern for The DEV Team

Jul 1

Updates on DevDiscuss and DevNews

#discuss #announcement #devnews #podcast

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Ben Halpern for The DEV Team

Jun 29

Kids & Coding

#discuss #beginners #kids #teaching

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Jun 27

Meme Monday! 🥸

#discuss #watercooler #jokes

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Jun 26

Side Project Sunday! What do you have going on?

#showdev #sideprojects #discuss #watercooler

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Ben Halpern for The DEV Team

Jun 22

How the software we build is used maliciously and abusively 🎙

#podcast #inclusion #security #mobile

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Jun 20

Meme Monday!?!

#discuss #watercooler #jokes

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Jun 19

Side Project Sunday! What do you have going on?

#discuss #watercooler #showdev #sideprojects

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Jun 17

What's the difference between a library and a framework?

#discuss #healthydebate

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Ben Halpern for CodeNewbie

Jun 15

CodeLand is special, and I'm not just saying that.

#codeland #codenewbie

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Ben Halpern for The DEV Team

Jun 15

SQL Has Evolved a Lot In Order To Meet New Challenges — But The Fundamentals Have Remained 🎙

#podcast #sql #database #cloud

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Ben Halpern for The DEV Team

Jun 15

People rarely use complicated git commands on the weekend, and I have the data to prove it.

#git

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Jun 13

Meme Monday!

#discuss #watercooler #jokes

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Jun 12

Side Project Sunday! What do you have going on?

#discuss #watercooler #showdev #sideprojects

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Ben Halpern for The DEV Team

Jun 9

DevNews: Talking About The Recent Wave of Tech Layoffs 🎙

#news #podcast #career #gamedev

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Jun 8

A new community space for open source maintainers and contributors! 🚀

#tidelift #forem #opensource

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Jun 8

Getting Your Conference Talk Proposal Accepted 🎙

#podcast #career #devrel #productivity

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Jun 6

Meme Monday!

#discuss #watercooler #jokes

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Jun 5

Side Project Sunday! Share your progress.

#discuss #showdev #sideprojects #watercooler

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Ben Halpern for The DEV Team

Jun 2

What stood out to you from the Mayfield + DEV Discussion Series?

#discuss #productivity #startup #career

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Jun 2

Can Open-Source Exist in China? 🎙

#news #opensource #ios #a11y

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Jun 1

Interested in high performance programming on the LLVM? There's a new community for you.

#forem #julialang #llvm #opensource

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Jun 1

Getting Along with Your Co-workers... All of Them 🎙

#podcast #career #productivity

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Jun 1

What are your debugging tips?

#discuss #productivity

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May 31

Have you done anything interesting with AI/ML?

#discuss #machinelearning #ai

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May 30

Meme Monday!

#discuss #watercooler #jokes

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May 29

Side Project Sunday! Hacking on anything?

#discuss #sideprojects #watercooler #showdev

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May 27

How does flimsy code affect your mental health?

#discuss #mentalhealth #career

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Ben Halpern for The DEV Team

May 27

When Companies Fake Diversity Initiatives 🎙

#news #inclusion #ruby #python

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Ben Halpern for The DEV Team

May 26

This is Exciting: A New Destination for All Things DevOps

#devops #forem #kubernetes #aws

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May 25

The Most Fun We've Ever Had Coding! 🎙

#watercooler #career #productivity #podcast

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May 25

Pitch me on Swift

#discuss #swift #ios #pitchme

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May 25

Describe the best teacher you've ever had

#discuss #watercooler

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May 24

Which day of the week do you get your best coding work done?

#discuss #productivity

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May 23

Meme Monday

#discuss #watercooler #jokes

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Ben Halpern for CodeNewbie

May 23

S20:E3 — How to think like a CTO 🎙

#discuss #podcast #career

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May 23

What makes for a good meeting?

#discuss #productivity #management

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May 22

Pitch me on C++

#discuss #cpp #pitchme

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Ben Halpern for The DEV Team

May 20

What new technologies do you most want to learn?

#discuss #career

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May 20

Pitch me on C#

#discuss #csharp

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Ben Halpern for The DEV Team

May 19

Name your top 3 favorite software products that you use

#discuss #productivity

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May 19

Pitch me on Java

#discuss #java #pitchme

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Ben Halpern for The DEV Team

May 19

Interested in getting deeper into Web Components?

#webcomponents #webdev #javascript #forem

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Ben Halpern for The DEV Team

May 19

Have you considered starting a company?

#discuss #career

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Ben Halpern for The DEV Team

May 18

How the DEV {% embed %} codes were created 🎙

#podcast #forem #meta

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