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Ben Halpern

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A Canadian software developer who thinks he’s funny.

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Apr 7 '20

Describe the best manager you've ever had

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Apr 6 '20

What library/language/tool wowed you with its developer experience?

What thing really raised the bar for your expectations of developer experience when you first went to...

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Apr 6 '20

Introducing our April 2020 sponsors

Our wonderful sponsors are vital to the health of dev.to and it is great to work with companies contributing so much to the ecosystem.

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Apr 5 '20

How does deployment work at your organization?

What is the process to get code into prod?

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Apr 5 '20

Are newer developers pushed too exclusively towards web development?

I get the impression that web development is the overwhelming path of choice for bootcamps, etc. But...

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Apr 4 '20

Are you coding more in your spare time due to COVID—19?

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Apr 3 '20

How much time should you spend looking something up before asking a question?

What's your overall approach here?

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Apr 1 '20

April Fools and the Broken Promises of One-off Hacks

It's April Fool's, a special day more detested than not. I still have vivid memories of eating an Ore...

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Mar 29 '20

What is your Monday morning routine?

What do you do to get your work week off to a good start?

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Mar 25 '20

Moment of appreciation for the small design change GitHub made a little while back around "Changes requested"

This icon used to be a big red "X", which was very aggressive in design—Really the opposite of what w...

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Mar 18 '20

How do you pronounce strftime?

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Mar 16 '20

GitHub has acquired npm

Nat Friedman @natfriedma...

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