About the author
Ben Halpern
@ben
A Canadian software developer who thinks he’s funny.
NY
Oct 6 '25
Meme Monday
Meme Monday! Today's cover image comes from last week's thread. DEV is an inclusive space! Humor in...
Oct 3 '25
Hindsight at Bethpage: The Principles Keegan Looked Past
The dust has settled on a tough Ryder Cup loss at Bethpage Black, and the finger-pointing has...
Oct 3 '25
I think we're definitely going to want to support inline markdown syntax like backticks for code snippets etc. But we *don't* want to *fully* support markdown as we have full posts for rich content. But doing all this in a non-confusing way is key.
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Oct 3 '25
This was one of several recent performance improvements. Under the hood, we did some interesting memory-first caching as well.
Preloading the DEV (and Forem) home feed...
Oct 3 '25
Preloading the DEV (and Forem) home feed and sidebar for substantial performance benefits
When you visit the homepage of dev.to, the page itself is cached on the edge so that it's delivered...
Oct 2 '25
Congrats everyone, there were some truly epic creations here.
Congrats to the Google AI Multimodal...
Oct 2 '25
Very cute game!
Space Goose: a 2D Pixel Art Pet Project with Unity and Junie ...
Oct 1 '25
It's amazing how quickly you can learn a subject when the servers are on fire and you need to learn it.
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Oct 1 '25
Nothing like waking up to a bot attack. Can't they at least wait til I've had my coffee?
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Sep 30 '25
You can now put line breaks in quickie posts. Just like this.
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Sep 29 '25
I am so not looking forward to the discourse leading up to next Ryder Cup. The tournament itself is great, but the discussion is grating.
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Sep 29 '25
Meme Monday
Meme Monday! Today's cover image comes from last week's thread. DEV is an inclusive space! Humor in...