Ben

I'm a software engineer of 15+ years. You can often find me building new projects, spending time with family, or running.

[Ben @ben_engineers]

If anyone knows someone at Snapchat or can help me to report an account impersonating me (using my email account), let me know. @Snapchat

[Ben @ben_engineers]

I’ve been getting Arabic emails and updates from Snapchat lately. I didn’t have Snapchat.
Someone in Saudi Arabia decided to use my personal email account with their Snapchat. Weird…

[Ben @ben_engineers]

I create a new account with Snapchat to report the problem with someone using my email. Partway through writing my help center message, without posting anything to the account, my account is automatically locked for “violating the community guidelines.” Unfortunate…

[Ben @ben_engineers]

@altium, I would have opened a ticket, but the support system gets stuck in an infinite loop:
https://t.co/h80u7vm7R7
This is a pretty important project to me. Perhaps I could get some assistance? Thanks!

[Ben Meer @SystemSunday]

21 one-time decisions that’ll save you hundreds of hours of your life:

[Darvio Morrow @DTheKingpin]

🧵I have to share this with yall. I’m with my mother & I go into the gas station and I see this real old white man walk in. Walking slow and gingerly. I happen to look up at his hat and it said “World War 2 veteran”. I’m like wow. Normally when I see people with veteran hats on

[Kirk Borne @KirkDBorne]

800 free #ComputerScience classes you can take online right now, with video lectures: https://t.co/gI4ckSenph
————
#BigData #DataScience #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning #DeepLearning #ComputerVision #Robotics #QuantumComputing #WebDevelopment #Databases #Algorithms

[Ben @ben_engineers]

@ffoverhead Wife just drove past. It’s a truck on fire.

[Jibran @asadjibranahmed]

@GergelyOrosz I saw this photo (and many inspired by it) a couple of years ago and that is when the concept of MVP finally clicked for me. It’s such a clear way of communicating what is an MVP and what isn’t.

Source: https://t.co/CP4FV5aZeh

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

I was looking forward to hearing a practical, real-world crypto use case from a prominent web3 investor who explained how borrowing against your house as an NFT would work in the future.

4 minutes later, it turns out it would never work any different than it already does today.

[Ben @ben_engineers]

@lukeshiru @frontstuff_io @stephenwil @remix_run Yeah. It will be great when it arrives and is no longer merely a proposal… but until then, my point still stands.

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

"Several devs quit the company the past months. Management decided to hire an agency instead of backfilling. They found one & raved on how this amazing agency would solve all problems.

We weren't so sure.

In the first four weeks, the devs at the agency shipped nothing at all."

[Ben @ben_engineers]

@drewm QuickSilver
Sublime
iTerm 2
SourceTree or GitKraken
Chrome
Adobe Cloud
SetApp (subscription for their app library):
- Timing
- StepTwo
- SQLStudio Pro
- iStatMenus
- TripMode
- Mosaic

[Ben @ben_engineers]

@frontstuff_io @stephenwil @remix_run Let me give you one example of something that’s impossible to do simply in javascript backends but has been supported by PHP for a very long time:
``` $date = new DateTime(“February 20, 2022, 8 am UTC”);
$date.setTimezone(“America/Los_Angeles”);```

[Ben @ben_engineers]

@frontstuff_io @stephenwil @remix_run I have to agree. It’s very common because some of us didn’t start coding last year and we’ve watched this whole web experience mature. I’m working on a Node project and wishing for standard library features from PHP while enjoying the fluency of communication front to back.

[Dr. Kitze ❤️ healthmaxx.app @thekitze]

this. this comment.

[Ben @ben_engineers]

@GergelyOrosz The Road Less Stupid. Probably a top 3 business book I’ve read in the last 2 years. Chock-full of good management and leadership advice.

[Ben @ben_engineers]

@asabbas98 Dm me. I know an AMAZING team.