Ben Halpern

A Canadian software developer who thinks he’s funny. He/Him.

New York Joined on Aug 5, 2020

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Jun 8

A new community space for open source maintainers and contributors! 🚀

#newforemlaunch

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🏮Forem Creator Spotlight 💡and AMA: @rayan

Really tremendous read

Apr 14

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I think this can be reported straight to the GitHub as a bug ...

Apr 6

What is your favorite way to reward your community members?

Just getting one tweet often went just as far. That official ...

Mar 3

What is your favorite way to reward your community members?

The opportunity to reach a lot of people, sometimes quickly, ...

Mar 2

How to properly install a forum in two different languages?

With the today version of different subdomains, it would be e...

Feb 10

How to properly install a forum in two different languages?

Yeah, with the subdomain model, I think it would end up being...

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We have some improvements coming down the pike. The tooling w...

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Can these features done with FOREM?

As Michael said, there is a version of "yes" to most of these...

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Ben Halpern for Forem Core Team

Jun 1

Interested in high performance programming on the LLVM? There's a new community for you.

#newforemlaunch

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May 26

This is Exciting: A New Destination for All Things DevOps

#newforemlaunch

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May 19

Interested in getting deeper into Web Components?

#newforemlaunch

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May 12

Call to action for all VS Code users!

#newforemlaunch #meta

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May 5

It is great to see what Wasm Builders is becoming

#newforemlaunch #meta

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Apr 22

Have a Community-Powered Earth Day 🌍

#newforemlaunch #meta

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Apr 13

Interested in the social impact you can have as a developer? Read this post.

#newforemlaunch #meta

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Apr 6

Web3 Enthusiasts Have a Home: MetaPunk

#newforemlaunch #meta

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Mar 30

Curious about content-driven micropayments? You may want to join the Web Monetization Community

#meta #newforemlaunch

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Mar 23

Interested in learning more about Commercial Open Source? There’s a Forem for that.

#meta #newforemlaunch

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Mar 16

If you’re interested in WebAssembly, and don’t get enough depth on DEV, read this…

#meta #newforemlaunch

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Ben Halpern for Forem Core Team

Feb 7

Feed test experiment 5 results: Tag point summing leads to mixed results.

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Jan 24

Feed test experiment 4 results: "Final ordering" helps close the loop on feed quality.

#feedalgorithm #product #growth

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Jan 17

Feed test experiment 3 results: A bit more comment weight results in better retention

#discuss #feedalgorithm #product #growth

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Jan 10

Feed test experiment 2 results: New query strategy has pulled even

#discuss #product #feedalgorithm

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Oct 18 '21

Podcast page improvements

#changelog

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Oct 15 '21

Use bin/untranslated_erb to find hardcoded text that could be moved to i18n files.

#backend #requestforcontribution #i18n

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Oct 13 '21

Deprecation: Removing "Events"

#features #changelog #deprecation

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Oct 1 '21

Forem: Open for Internationalization

#backend #frontend #i18n #テストタグ

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Sep 17 '21

Our pace of UI improvements is picking up... Make sure you keep your Forems regularly updated!

#selfhost #design #features

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Sep 1 '21

Deprecating "Connect" (chat)

#features #connect #changelog

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Aug 12 '21

DigitalOcean: forem-traefik.service: Job forem-traefik.service/start failed with result 'dependency'.

#help #selfhost

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Ben Halpern for Forem Core Team

Jan 19 '21

How Cumulative Layout Shift needs to be considered in Forem development

#frontend

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Jan 4 '21

Happy New Year

#watercooler

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Ben Halpern for Forem Core Team

Dec 22 '20

Forem Browser Extension v0.1.3 is live

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Nov 16 '20

Forem Progress and expectations for the rest of the year and into 2021

#meta

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Oct 29 '20

Results of implementing Puma's nakayoshi_fork on Forem

#optimizations #dev #ruby #rails

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Oct 26 '20

Congrats to the.community.club on being the latest Forem to go live!

#newforemlaunch

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Oct 14 '20

The Forem extension is available in the Chrome store

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Oct 13 '20

Let's close the loop on @ mention autocomplete in comments

#frontend #design

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Oct 13 '20

Community activity box?

#frontend #design

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Oct 12 '20

Forem Browser Extension to allow "unlisted" or "private" Forems onto sidebar....

#ecosystem #browserextension

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Oct 9 '20

Forem "meta tags" have just shipped....

#changelog #ecosystem

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Sep 8 '20

feed_strategy: Coming soon to a forem near you.

#feedalgorithm #admintooling

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Aug 31 '20

Forem visual customization

#design #admintooling

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Aug 30 '20

New "starter state" coming soon

#admintooling

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Aug 24 '20

Explore Poxa as an open Pusher implementation?

#systems #foremcloud #foss #realtime

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Aug 21 '20

How to properly enable multiple call-to-action buttons in nav bar...

#design #admintooling

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Aug 20 '20

Moving from ENV to database-backed config

#systems #backend #foremcloud #admintooling

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Aug 13 '20

One cool thing about private forems.

#feedalgorithm #features #product

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Aug 12 '20

Changes made to forem browser extension.

#changelog #ecosystem

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Aug 12 '20

Is the browser extension working for anyone?

#ecosystem

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Aug 11 '20

What's the state of ApplicationConfig and ENVied, etc?

#help #systems

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Aug 11 '20

"I'm stuck" — should this be a forem.dev #help thread or a GitHub issue?

#meta

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Aug 11 '20

We can run Forem without the Lambda dependency

#foremcloud #systems #feedalgorithm

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Aug 10 '20

Has anyone used the browser extension?

#ecosystem

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Ben Halpern

Aug 7 '20

How should Forem do versioning?

#versioning #foremcloud #selfhost #deployment

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Aug 6 '20

Is the approach to privacy within the forem browser extension valid?

#security #ecosystem

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Aug 6 '20

I'll be adding some "language" docs

#product #documentation #headsup

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Aug 5 '20

Let's do this

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