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Author: Ben Halpern

We now allow links in quickies. Any link included will show up in the post. This is the merged PR: https://github.com/forem/forem/pull/22229

Post date August 21, 2025
Post author By Ben Halpern

Let’s see if this works https://dev.to

Post date August 21, 2025
Post author By Ben Halpern

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Post date August 20, 2025
Post author By Ben Halpern
Post categories In ai, discuss, machinelearning, programming

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Post date August 20, 2025
Post author By Ben Halpern
Post categories In ai, discuss, machinelearning, programming

Survey with text input example

Post date August 20, 2025
Post author By Ben Halpern
Post categories In demo

Surveys can now have multiple choice and scale polls — freeform input going in soon.

Post date August 20, 2025
Post author By Ben Halpern

Making progress on subforem editing, just added subforem moderator role.

Post date August 19, 2025
Post author By Ben Halpern

Test Survey

Post date August 6, 2025
Post author By Ben Halpern

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Post date August 5, 2025
Post author By Ben Halpern
Post categories In ai, coding, podcast, vibecoding

Meme Monday

Post date August 4, 2025
Post author By Ben Halpern
Post categories In discuss, jokes, watercooler

We’re removing the new sidebar from the compose flow to preserve the minimalism there.

Post date August 4, 2025
Post author By Ben Halpern

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Post date August 4, 2025
Post author By Ben Halpern
Post categories In ai, aws, ide, kiro

API docs are getting slightly out-of-date, need to make sure all new attributes (videos etc) are added

Post date August 1, 2025
Post author By Ben Halpern

Getting the sidebar live soon for intra-forem navigation

Post date July 30, 2025
Post author By Ben Halpern

me rn

Post date July 21, 2025
Post author By Ben Halpern

Working on the sidebar that connects subforems — close to making this more of a first-class feature.

Post date July 21, 2025
Post author By Ben Halpern

Meme Monday

Post date June 9, 2025
Post author By Ben Halpern
Post categories In discuss, jokes, watercooler

Moving billboard event counting into a background job

Post date June 4, 2025
Post author By Ben Halpern
Post categories In performance

Into the Spider-verse: Maybe the best movie soundtrack of all time?

Post date April 7, 2025
Post author By Ben Halpern
Post categories In hiphop, soundtracks

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Post date April 1, 2025
Post author By Ben Halpern
Post categories In php

Meme Monday

Post date March 31, 2025
Post author By Ben Halpern
Post categories In discuss, jokes, watercooler

Meme Monday

Post date March 3, 2025
Post author By Ben Halpern
Post categories In discuss, jokes, watercooler

GPT 4.5 Release

Post date February 27, 2025
Post author By Ben Halpern
Post categories In ai, chatgpt, openai

Meme Monday

Post date February 24, 2025
Post author By Ben Halpern
Post categories In discuss, jokes, watercooler

“Okay great, now can you briefly summarize why the original problem is mitigated by this overall approach?” — Important when working with AI to make sure you learn about what you’re doing before finishing the project.

Post date February 20, 2025
Post author By Ben Halpern
Post categories In ai

Specialization vs. Generalization in the Age of AI

Post date February 13, 2025
Post author By Ben Halpern
Post categories In ai, career, productivity

You can now embed Bluesky on DEV/Forem

Post date February 6, 2025
Post author By Ben Halpern
Post categories In devto, forem, opensource

Pretty much all the most popular DEV posts this week are DeepSeek-related

Post date January 30, 2025
Post author By Ben Halpern
Post categories In ai, coding, deepseekr1, vscode

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Post date January 29, 2025
Post author By Ben Halpern

Interesting AI prototyping series.

Post date January 28, 2025
Post author By Ben Halpern

Have normal people heard about Deepseek?

Post date January 28, 2025
Post author By Ben Halpern

This is going to be a major discussion.

Post date January 27, 2025
Post author By Ben Halpern

Sharing this to DEV (and to you, showing off a new experimental subforem for talking tech from another perspective)

Post date January 27, 2025
Post author By Ben Halpern

DeepSeek releases new image model family

Post date January 27, 2025
Post author By Ben Halpern
Post categories In ai, deepseek, News

Deepseek Market Impact — Monday Jan 27

Post date January 27, 2025
Post author By Ben Halpern
Post categories In ai, deepseek, nvidia

Oldie but goodie

Post date January 22, 2025
Post author By Ben Halpern
Post categories In discuss, watercooler

Silk Road Founder Ross Ulbricht Pardoned

Post date January 22, 2025
Post author By Ben Halpern
Post categories In bitcoin, News

Welcome Thread – v1

Post date January 14, 2025
Post author By Ben Halpern
Post categories In welcome

Another test :)

Post date January 8, 2025
Post author By Ben Halpern

Another test post

Post date January 8, 2025
Post author By Ben Halpern

Future is near

Post date January 8, 2025
Post author By Ben Halpern

Meme Monday

Post date January 6, 2025
Post author By Ben Halpern
Post categories In discuss, jokes, watercooler

Love the enthusiasm for this one. I think we need to do more writing challenges.

Post date January 2, 2025
Post author By Ben Halpern
Post categories In devchallenge, discuss, newyearchallenge

What was your win this week?

Post date October 25, 2024
Post author By Ben Halpern
Post categories In weeklyretro

Meme Monday

Post date October 21, 2024
Post author By Ben Halpern
Post categories In discuss, jokes, watercooler

AWS S3 appears to be down

Post date October 7, 2024
Post author By Ben Halpern
Post categories In aws

What was your win this week?

Post date October 4, 2024
Post author By Ben Halpern
Post categories In weeklyretro

Meme Monday

Post date September 9, 2024
Post author By Ben Halpern
Post categories In discuss, jokes, watercooler

New DEV++ Deal: 25% Off Scrimba Pro

Post date September 5, 2024
Post author By Ben Halpern
Post categories In career, devplusplus, meta, webdev

New DEV++ Deal: 25% Off Scrimba Pro

Post date September 5, 2024
Post author By Ben Halpern
Post categories In career, devplusplus, meta, webdev

Meme Monday

Post date August 19, 2024
Post author By Ben Halpern
Post categories In discuss, jokes, watercooler

Three Pieces of Advice for DEV Challenges

Post date August 8, 2024
Post author By Ben Halpern
Post categories In devchallenge, nylaschallenge, stellarchallenge

Meme Monday

Post date July 22, 2024
Post author By Ben Halpern
Post categories In discuss, jokes, watercooler

Weekly Watercooler Thread

Post date July 10, 2024
Post author By Ben Halpern
Post categories In discuss, watercooler

Meme Monday

Post date July 8, 2024
Post author By Ben Halpern
Post categories In discuss, jokes, watercooler

Meme Monday

Post date July 8, 2024
Post author By Ben Halpern
Post categories In discuss, jokes, watercooler

What’s your initial reaction to Apple Vision Pro?

Post date June 5, 2023
Post author By Ben Halpern
Post categories In apple, discuss, ios, watercooler

Meme Monday

Post date June 5, 2023
Post author By Ben Halpern
Post categories In discuss, jokes, watercooler

The Coding Language Personality Test: What Would It Look Like?

Post date June 5, 2023
Post author By Ben Halpern
Post categories In beginners, codenewbie, discuss

Agile and Scrum: What Are Your Thoughts?

Post date June 4, 2023
Post author By Ben Halpern
Post categories In beginners, codenewbie, discuss

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