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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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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Ben Halpern

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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Ben Halpern for The DEV Team

Jan 31

Welcome @devintelbyte, the 1 millionth registered DEV!

#watercooler #meta

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Ben Halpern

Jan 30

Meme Monday 👁

#jokes #watercooler #discuss

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Ben Halpern

Jan 23

Meme Monday 🫵

#jokes #watercooler #discuss

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Ben Halpern

Jan 16

Meme Monday 🌻

#jokes #discuss #watercooler

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Ben Halpern

Jan 9

Meme Monday 🐌

#discuss #watercooler #jokes

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Ben Halpern

Jan 2

Meme Monday 👑

#jokes #discuss #watercooler

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Ben Halpern

Dec 26 '22

Meme Monday 🎄

#discuss #watercooler #jokes

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Ben Halpern

Dec 19 '22

Meme Monday 🧠

#jokes #discuss #watercooler

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Ben Halpern

Dec 15 '22

Will Instagram kill photography?

#ai #chatgpt #gpt3 #career

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Ben Halpern

Dec 12 '22

Meme Monday 🎉

#jokes #discuss #watercooler

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Ben Halpern

Dec 6 '22

I asked ChatGPT to refactor the Forem StoriesController

#ai #gpt3 #openai #ruby

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Ben Halpern

Dec 6 '22

Meme Tuesday! 🤨

#discuss #watercooler #jokes

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Ben Halpern

Dec 5 '22

The Difference Between ChatGPT and GPT-3

#ai #gpt3 #openai

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Ben Halpern for The DEV Team

Dec 4 '22

The #openai and #gpt3 tags are now officially "supported" on DEV

#openai #gpt3 #ai #meta

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Ben Halpern

Nov 28 '22

Meme Monday 😬

#jokes #discuss #watercooler

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Ben Halpern

Nov 22 '22

Meme... Tuesday? 🤔

#jokes #discuss #watercooler

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Ben Halpern

Nov 14 '22

Meme Monday 🐝

#watercooler #discuss #jokes

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Ben Halpern

Nov 9 '22

dev.to codes! This is really cool 🤓

#meta #bestofdev #ruby

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Ben Halpern

Nov 7 '22

Meme Monday 🤌

#watercooler #discuss #jokes

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Ben Halpern

Nov 4 '22

Twitter is expected to lay off about half of its workforce

#news #socialmedia #career #discuss

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Ben Halpern

Nov 3 '22

What were some of the toughest technologies and concepts for you to grasp along the way?

#discuss #career

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Ben Halpern for The DEV Team

Nov 2 '22

How to make the most of DEV if you’re over Twitter

#watercooler #meta #twitter #career

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Ben Halpern

Oct 31 '22

Meme Monday 🫡

#discuss #watercooler #jokes

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Ben Halpern

Oct 24 '22

Meme Monday 🎃

#discuss #watercooler #jokes

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Ben Halpern for The DEV Team

Oct 19 '22

This Post is Scheduled for 11:30am US Eastern Time ⏰

#meta #changelog

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Ben Halpern

Oct 17 '22

Meme Monday 🦑

#jokes #discuss #watercooler

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Ben Halpern

Oct 13 '22

Do you track any personal health data? If so, what and how?

#discuss #watercooler #mentalhealth

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Ben Halpern

Oct 10 '22

Meme Monday 🐷

#jokes #watercooler #discuss

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Ben Halpern

Oct 3 '22

Meme Monday 🦊

#jokes #discuss #watercooler

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Ben Halpern for The DEV Team

Oct 1 '22

Hacktoberfest is here — and this is the lowdown

#hacktoberfest #meta #opensource #beginners

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Ben Halpern for The DEV Team

Sep 26 '22

Our Dear Unicorn Friend is Going on Vacation

#meta #design #ux

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Ben Halpern

Sep 26 '22

Meme Monday 🚨

#jokes #watercooler #discuss

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Ben Halpern

Sep 19 '22

Meme Monday 😁

#discuss #watercooler #jokes

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Ben Halpern

Sep 12 '22

Meme Monday 🔥

#watercooler #discuss #jokes

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Ben Halpern

Sep 5 '22

Meme Monday 🌴

#discuss #watercooler #jokes

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Ben Halpern

Aug 29 '22

Meme Monday!! 🥹

#watercooler #discuss #jokes

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Ben Halpern

Aug 22 '22

Meme Monday! (Or Tuesday? 🥲)

#discuss #watercooler #jokes

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Ben Halpern

Aug 18 '22

How do you turn a weakness into a strength?

#discuss

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Ben Halpern

Aug 15 '22

Meme Monday! 🤑

#discuss #watercooler #jokes

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Ben Halpern

Aug 8 '22

Meme Monday!! 🐘

#discuss #watercooler #jokes

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Ben Halpern

Aug 7 '22

Side Project Sunday! How's it going?

#showdev #sideprojects #discuss #watercooler

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Ben Halpern

Aug 4 '22

GitLab will be deleting dormant projects

#news #discuss #gitlab #cloud

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Ben Halpern

Aug 1 '22

Meme Monday! 🤡

#discuss #watercooler #jokes

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Ben Halpern

Jul 31 '22

Side Project Sunday! What's the latest?

#showdev #sideprojects #watercooler #discuss

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Ben Halpern

Jul 25 '22

Meme Monday 😍

#discuss #watercooler #jokes

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Ben Halpern

Jul 20 '22

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

#discuss #healthydebate #codequality #watercooler

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Ben Halpern

Jul 18 '22

Meme Monday? 🤔

#discuss #watercooler #jokes

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Ben Halpern

Jul 17 '22

Side Project Sunday! What do you have going on?

#showdev #sideprojects #watercooler #discuss

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Ben Halpern

Jul 12 '22

Show me your editor theme! 🎨

#discuss #watercooler #vscode #vim

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Ben Halpern

Jul 12 '22

How do you manage multiple projects/codebases at once?

#productivity

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Ben Halpern

Jul 11 '22

Meme Monday!! 🦖

#discuss #watercooler #jokes

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Ben Halpern

Jul 7 '22

What is a wrong turn you took your career?

#discuss #career

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Ben Halpern

Jul 5 '22

What's your best productivity tip?

#discuss #productivity

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Ben Halpern for The DEV Team

Jul 1 '22

Updates on DevDiscuss and DevNews

#discuss #announcement #devnews #podcast

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Ben Halpern for The DEV Team

Jun 29 '22

Kids & Coding

#discuss #beginners #kids #teaching

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Ben Halpern

Jun 27 '22

Meme Monday! 🥸

#discuss #watercooler #jokes

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Ben Halpern

Jun 26 '22

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 '22

How the software we build is used maliciously and abusively 🎙

#podcast #inclusion #security #mobile

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Ben Halpern

Jun 20 '22

Meme Monday!?!

#discuss #watercooler #jokes

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Ben Halpern

Jun 19 '22

Side Project Sunday! What do you have going on?

#discuss #watercooler #showdev #sideprojects

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