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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Ben Halpern

Feb 23 '21

My Public Inbox

#ama #publicinbox

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May 28 '20

For Empowering Community

#meta #opensource

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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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Jun 27

Meme Monday! 🥸

#discuss #watercooler #jokes

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What Situations trigger your Imposter Syndrome the most?

For me it was always people physically standing around in a c...

Jun 27

Side Project Sunday! What do you have going on?

Ambitious! Very exciting.

Jun 26

Happy 110th Birthday, Alan Turing!

After my mom watched The Imitation Game, she told me if there...

Jun 23

Coding and ADHD - Where We Excel

Really appreciate this series, and this is a great post.

Jun 22

Meme Monday!?!

Awww

Jun 22

What is HTTP 103?

Really informative post, thank you!

Jun 22

Continue using GitHub Copilot?

If Copilot is truly useful, $10 is really nothing in terms of...

Jun 22

Side Project Sunday! What do you have going on?

That's awesome. Really great reason to learn Rust 😆

Jun 19

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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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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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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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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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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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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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May 18

Pitch me on Rust

#discuss #rust #pitchme

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Ben Halpern for The DEV Team

May 17

What developer products/tools should exist, but don't?

#discuss #productivity

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Ben Halpern for CodeNewbie

May 17

What you need to be prepared for any job interview 🎙

#codenewbie #podcast #career #interview

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May 17

Pitch me on Go

#discuss #go #pitchme

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Ben Halpern for The DEV Team

May 16

What’s the most annoying part of your job?

#discuss #career

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May 16

Pitch me on TypeScript

#discuss #typescript #javascript #pitchme

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May 15

Pitch me on Ruby

#discuss #ruby #pitchme

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May 14

Pitch me on PHP

#discuss #php #pitchme

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Ben Halpern for The DEV Team

May 13

What is the most rewarding part of your job?

#discuss #career

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May 12

Based on what you know: Name the 3 best companies to work for as a developer

#discuss #career

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Ben Halpern for The DEV Team

May 12

Call to action for all VS Code users!

#forem #vscode #webdev

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May 11

Season 9 of DevDiscuss is here! Let's talk about design patterns...

#discuss #webdev #javascript

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Ben Halpern for The DEV Team

May 11

What are your top three everyday pain points as a developer?

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May 11

Pitch me on Python

#discuss #python #pitchme

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Ben Halpern for The DEV Team

May 10

What do you spend the most time on as a developer? ⏳

#discuss #productivity

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May 10

Remember to Hydrate

#watercooler

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May 9

What is your top priority as a developer in 2022?

#discuss #career

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Ben Halpern for The DEV Team

May 9

Introducing the Mayfield + DEV discussion series

#discuss #productivity #startup #career

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