Ben Link

DevRel Enthusiast, DevEx Advocate, Dev Empath, Human Router, Digital Adventurer. Here because tech sparks joy! Ex: Twilio Segment

Columbia, South Carolina Joined on May 9, 2022 https://www.linkedin.com/in/benjamindlink/

Education

Lander University

Work

BlueCross BlueShield of SC

adventofcode2024

Python

theAdventuresOfBlinkS2-hangman

The Adventures of Blink Season 2 Code Guide

Python

Swiss-army-dev. I'm not an expert in any specific tech, but if I need to learn it, I do.

Python, OpenShift Container Platform, Godot

This Blog (and accompanying Youtube channel!)

DevOps, Agility, Organizational Culture, DevRel

49 posts published

37 comments written

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Dec 26

Advent of Code 2024 Retro: What could you do if you didn't care whether you failed?

#adventofcode #careerdevelopment #learning #beginners

6 min read

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Ben Link

Dec 12

Uncle Owen, This R2 Unit Has a Bad Motivator!

#leadership #developers #devrel #productivity

6 min read

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Dec 6

Fix Your Foundation: Developer Experience

#devex #devrel #management #productivity

6 min read

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Dec 2

The Adventures of Blink: Advent of Code 2024

#adventofcode #python #programming #learning

1 min read

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Nov 14

The Adventures of Blink S2e10: Artificially Intelligent Hangman (Season Finale!)

#ai #docker #opensource #python

8 min read

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Nov 7

The Adventures of Blink S2e9: Gathering Metrics with Prometheus and Grafana

#monitoring #flask #python #devops

5 min read

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Oct 31

The Adventures of Blink S2e8: Fast-Forward to a Working Game (with Snyk Integration!)

#python #tkinter #beginners #buildinpublic

5 min read

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Oct 24

The Adventures of Blink S2e7: A GUI Screen in Python

#python #buildinpublic #beginners #ui

6 min read

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Oct 17

The Adventures of Blink S2e6: Integrating All the Things

#python #buildinpublic #mongodb #api

4 min read

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Oct 10

The Adventures of Blink S2e5: Source Control with GitHub

#buildinpublic #github #beginners #devops

8 min read

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Oct 3

An Unexpected "Party"

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Sep 26

The Adventures of Blink S2e4: TDD

#python #buildinpublic #beginners #testing

9 min read

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Sep 19

The Adventures of Blink S2e3: Designing Hangman... and a Flask API

#buildinpublic #database #design #softwareengineering

11 min read

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Sep 12

The Adventures of Blink S2e2: Database, Contained

#docker #mongodb #devops #buildinpublic

8 min read

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Sep 5

The Adventures of Blink S2e1: Docker for Devs

#docker #coding

4 min read

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Aug 22

Announcing: The Adventures of Blink Season 2! (Coming Soon)

#devops #buildinpublic #fullstack #learning

2 min read

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Jul 25

The Adventures of Blink Hiatus Post: Join me at the Dev Marketing Alliance!

#developer #marketing #devrel

1 min read

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Jul 18

The Adventures of Blink #32: Outcomes, NOT Intentions

#careerdevelopment #systemsthinking #devops #leadership

4 min read

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Jul 11

The Adventures of Blink #31: The PhilBott

#ai #python #socialmedia #opensource

5 min read

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Jul 4

The Adventures of Blink #30: Change Agents

#developers #management #careerdevelopment #productivity

8 min read

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Jun 27

The Adventures of Blink #29: How to Unalive Your Company

#devex #devrel #productivity #management

8 min read

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Jun 20

The Adventures of Blink #28: RAGs to Riches!

#rag #python #ai #beginners

5 min read

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Jun 13

The Adventures of Blink #27: LLMs in Code

#ai #python #beginners #llm

6 min read

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Jun 6

The Adventures of Blink #26: GPT4All! (and All4GPT!)

#ai #beginners #programming #development

8 min read

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May 30

The Adventures of Blink #25: Building Excitement

#devrel #management #productivity #community

8 min read

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May 23

The Adventures of Blink #24: Javascript? Ain't Nobody Got Time Fo Dat

#vaadin #webdev #java #tooling

7 min read

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May 16

The Adventures of Blink #23: Outcome-Based Measurement

#leadership #management #productivity #metrics

8 min read

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May 9

The Adventures of Blink #22: Hidden Messages

#management #leadership #developers #devrel

8 min read

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May 2

The Adventures of Blink #21: Start with Empathy

#management #leadership #developers #devrel

8 min read

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Apr 25

The Adventures of Blink #20: Facial Recognition with Python

#python #deepface #beginners #ai

5 min read

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Apr 18

The Adventures of Blink #19: So you wanna be a DevOp? A Practical Guide

#devops #leadership #careerdevelopment #reading

8 min read

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Apr 11

The Adventures of Blink #18: Thunkable Reloaded

#nocode #mobile #thunkable #buildinpublic

2 min read

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Apr 4

The Adventures of Blink #17: Continuous Security... DevSecOps!

#devops #security #beginners #collaboration

5 min read

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Mar 28

The Adventures of Blink #16: Continuous Testing

#devops #testing #beginners #learning

7 min read

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Mar 20

The Adventures of Blink #15: Continuous Delivery? Deployment? Both???

#beginners #devops #learning #cicd

5 min read

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Mar 14

The Adventures of Blink #14: Continuous Integration

#beginners #devops #cicd #productivity

6 min read

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Mar 7

The Adventures of Blink #13: Agility

#learning #agile #ci #devops

5 min read

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Feb 29

The Adventures of Blink #12: How To Start A Project

#beginners #softwaredevelopment #howto #codenewbie

5 min read

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Feb 22

The Adventures of Blink #11: Let's Become a DevOps! (Or Something)

#careerdevelopment #devrel #devops

5 min read

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Jan 3

The Adventures of Blink #10: Boys with Toys!

#layoff #devrel #mobile #nocode

5 min read

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Sep 25 '22

The Adventures of Blink #9: The Secret Shortcut to Create Culture

#culture #leadership #devrel #community

6 min read

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Aug 21 '22

The Adventures of Blink #8: McDonald's, Facebook, Magic Tricks, and being Batman

#privacy #personalization #zeropartydata

5 min read

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Aug 11 '22

The Adventures of Blink #7: You Must Unlearn What You Have Learned

#habits #waysofworking #worklifebalance #productivity

4 min read

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Jul 23 '22

The Adventures of Blink #6: None of Us is as Dumb as All of Us

#meetings #culture #productivity

4 min read

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Jul 13 '22

The Adventures of Blink #5: Distrust of Authority

#empowerment #leadership

5 min read

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Jun 15 '22

The Adventures of Blink #4: I Win When You Win

#empowerment #devrel

2 min read

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Jun 7 '22

The Adventures of Blink #3: Winter is Coming

#recession #strategy #survival

5 min read

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Jun 5 '22

The Adventures of Blink #2: What is it you DO here?

#devrel

5 min read

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Jun 3 '22

The Adventures of Blink #1: What You Allow Is What Will Continue

#culture #burnout #management

5 min read

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