Ben Halpern |

Nothing like waking up to a bot attack. Can’t they at least wait til I’ve had my coffee?

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.

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.

It’s my birthday

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Meme Monday

Cursor telling me “That’s a brilliant idea” seems like a bit much

This is a test!!

Testing!

Testing!

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Sidebar now properly scrolls (important when there are more total forems), and there is a `+` now. Next step will be adding a survey to accept ideas about the next subforems. Eventually members will be able to spin these up themselves.

Survey functionality mostly finalized, will announce soon to the broader community.

Survey functionality mostly finalized, will announce soon to the broader community.

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When is the next Gemini model coming! https://x.com/OfficialLoganK/status/1960114265810997616

102 files changed in this PR, Portuguese i18n files are now integrated into Forem https://github.com/forem/forem/pull/22243 — still some general translation bugs, but making strides!

olá mundo

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test test test

We’ll try to zero out the open pull requests inbox soon to make things more organized and get a fresh start.

Explicit transparent bot accounts will soon be a thing — which will be a small part of moderating out AI slop. Transparently automated content has a place, but it should be clear when it occurs. https://github.com/forem/forem/pull/22232

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

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

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Survey with text input example

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

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

Test Survey

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Meme Monday

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

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API docs are getting slightly out-of-date, need to make sure all new attributes (videos etc) are added

Getting the sidebar live soon for intra-forem navigation

me rn

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

Meme Monday

Moving billboard event counting into a background job

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

php

Meme Monday

Meme Monday

GPT 4.5 Release

Meme Monday

“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.

Specialization vs. Generalization in the Age of AI

You can now embed Bluesky on DEV/Forem

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

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Interesting AI prototyping series.

Have normal people heard about Deepseek?

This is going to be a major discussion.

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

DeepSeek releases new image model family

Deepseek Market Impact — Monday Jan 27