Ben Halpern

@bendhalpern benhalpern

Bio

Ben Halpern is co-founder and webmaster of DEV/Forem.

Appearances

Season 1 Episode 1 May 13, 2020

Why Tech's Deadnaming Problem Matters

Season 1 Episode 2 May 20, 2020

How to Make Remote Work, Work

Season 1 Episode 3 May 27, 2020

Unpopular Opinions in Software Development

Season 1 Episode 4 Jun 3, 2020

Should Ruby Still Be a Thing in 2020

Season 1 Episode 5 Jun 10, 2020

How Hobbies Like Powerlifting, Auto Repair, and Music Can Make You a Better Developer

Season 1 Episode 6 Jun 17, 2020

Little-Known Productivity Tools; Big Productivity Gains

Season 1 Episode 8 Jun 24, 2020

Our Least Favorite Things About Our Favorite Languages

Season 1 Episode 9 Jul 1, 2020

How to Develop for Neurodiversity and Universal Design

Season 2 Episode 1 Aug 12, 2020

How to Build Good Habits and be More Productive

Season 2 Episode 2 Aug 19, 2020

You Can Do That With CSS?

Season 2 Episode 3 Aug 26, 2020

The History of IRC and the Evolution of Community Tools

Season 2 Episode 4 Sep 2, 2020

What Are Our Ethical Responsibilities as Developers?

Season 2 Episode 5 Sep 10, 2020

How to Harness Radical Candor in Code Reviews

Season 2 Episode 6 Sep 16, 2020

How to be an Entrepreneur

Season 2 Episode 7 Sep 30, 2020

Serverless and the Cloud 101

Season 2 Episode 8 Oct 7, 2020

What You Need to Know About Site Reliability

Season 3 Episode 1 Nov 11, 2020

Developing in Minecraft and Roblox

Season 3 Episode 2 Nov 18, 2020

Demystifying Architecture

Season 3 Episode 3 Nov 25, 2020

Is Vim Worth Your Time?

Season 3 Episode 4 Dec 1, 2020

Explaining Code Through Analogies and Visualizations

Season 3 Episode 5 Dec 9, 2020

Improving Your Onboarding For Early Career Devs

Season 3 Episode 6 Dec 16, 2020

How to Gamify Coding

Season 3 Episode 7 Dec 23, 2020

What Makes a Good Designer?

Season 3 Episode 8 Dec 30, 2020

The New Normal for Developers with Scott Hanselman

Season 4 Episode 1 Feb 10, 2021

This Is How You Have Effective Meetings

Season 4 Episode 2 Feb 17, 2021

A Critical Look At Distributed Conferences

Season 4 Episode 3 Feb 24, 2021

Code Splitting and the Long List of Things You Need to Know About Writing JavaScript

Season 4 Episode 4 Mar 2, 2021

How to Combine Music and Code

Season 4 Episode 5 Mar 10, 2021

Online Abuse and the Future of Anti-Harassment Tooling

Season 3 Episode 6 Mar 17, 2021

We Bust Some Myths About Linux

Season 4 Episode 7 Mar 24, 2021

What You Need to Know About Accessibility

Season 4 Episode 8 Mar 31, 2021

We Role Play What Good Soft Skills Look Like

Season 5 Episode 1 May 12, 2021

Revealing the Forem 2021 Product Roadmap

Season 5 Episode 2 May 19, 2021

Netlify, Jamstack, and Modern Web Development

Season 5 Episode 3 May 26, 2021

The Future of Automation

Season 5 Episode 4 Jun 2, 2021

Have You Ever Wanted To Create Your Own Language?

Season 5 Episode 5 Jun 9, 2021

Hardware Hacking for Everyone

Season 5 Episode 6 Jun 16, 2021

Home Automation Nerd-Out!

Season 5 Episode 7 Jun 23, 2021

The History of the Cloud

Season 5 Episode 8 Jun 30, 2021

Diving Deep Into DevRel

Season 6 Episode 1 Aug 11, 2021

Engineering: The Human Component

Season 6 Episode 2 Aug 17, 2021

Lambda, Fargate, EC2, Oh My! An AWS Deep Dive

Season 6 Episode 3 Aug 25, 2021

What Makes Ethical Design in Your Product and Your Company

Season 6 Episode 4 Sep 1, 2021

How Will Proof Engineering Affect the Future of Software Development

Season 6 Episode 5 Sep 8, 2021

When You Should Start Thinking About Performance

Season 6 Episode 6 Sep 15, 2021

VS Code and the Extended VS Code Universe

Season 6 Episode 7 Sep 22, 2021

Looking at Software Mistakes and Tradeoffs

Season 6 Episode 8 Sep 28, 2021

Ruby and Rails: From Features to Governance

Season 7 Episode 1 Nov 10, 2021

Deeply Human Stories in Software with The Changelog

Season 7 Episode 2 Nov 17, 2021

The Story of Vue with Evan You

Season 7 Episode 3 Nov 23, 2021

Getting a Read on Tech Publishing

Season 7 Episode 4 Nov 30, 2021

Should we all be thinking about design justice?

Season 7 Episode 5 Dec 9, 2021

How To Be a Successful Whistleblower

Season 7 Episode 6 Dec 15, 2021

What a Quantitative Trader Can Teach You About A/B Testing and Beyond

Season 7 Episode 7 Dec 22, 2021

We Have Tools To Help You With Your Imposter Syndrome

Season 7 Episode 8 Dec 29, 2021

How Cybersecurity Needs To Evolve and How To Get Into It

Season 8 Episode 1 Feb 9, 2022

The Many Benefits of Learning in Public

Season 8 Episode 2 Feb 16, 2022

You Too Can Create Beautiful Data-Driven Essays Like The Pudding

Season 8 Episode 3 Feb 23, 2022

The Importance of Video Game Archival, Preservation, and Curation

Season 8 Episode 4 Mar 2, 2022

How You Can Be Successful Breaking Into Tech Mid-Career

Season 8 Episode 5 Mar 9, 2022

How to Manage Engineering Management

Season 8 Episode 6 Mar 16, 2022

How Physical Pen-Testing Will Expand Your Developer Mind

Season 8 Episode 7 Mar 23, 2022

All Hail jQuery (Or Not)

Season 8 Episode 8 Mar 30, 2022

Take a Look Inside Forem’s Product and Engineering

Season 9 Episode 1 May 11, 2022

Using Design Patterns To Improve How You Architect Web Apps