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@bendhalpern

Creator of , co-founder and webmaster of the wacky company it spawned. Mount Allison grad, coder, buddhist, feminist, Batman.

Brooklyn, NY
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Joined June 2010
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    20 Mar 2015

    Sometimes when I'm writing Javascript I want to throw up my hands and say "this is bullshit!" but I can never remember what "this" refers to

    168 replies 11,761 retweets 11,517 likes
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  3. Retweeted
    2 hours ago

    Yay! Stickers from I thought this day would never come!

    1 reply 1 retweet 17 likes
  4. 2 hours ago

    When NYC says they'll uphold the Paris Agreement even if the USA itself backs out.

    I'm so glad I live in New York City and not in the United States.
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  5. Retweeted
    5 hours ago

    Excited to announce our collaboration with & . Ensuring stories will be heard by more readers

    3 replies 3 retweets 17 likes
  6. 8 hours ago

    Trump would have pulled out of the last week, but he was afraid do it in front of the world leaders.

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  7. Retweeted
    20 hours ago

    Live in NYC and passionate about healthcare? This is for you! Programmers, product managers, and creatives needed!

    4 retweets 7 likes
  8. 21 hours ago

    I think it's a useful exercise to try building projects with other peoples' tools or without software and see how far you can go

    1 reply 9 likes
  9. 21 hours ago

    This is one of the coolest side projects I've seen

    1 reply 6 retweets 26 likes
  10. 21 hours ago

    I think chatbots are a great interface for politically oriented "reminder" apps. Like ones that encourage registration/voting

    1 reply 1 retweet 7 likes
  11. 21 hours ago
    Replying to

    It would hook up with Trello, GitHub, etc. APIs and allow you to visualize your tasks along the matrix

    2 replies 21 likes
  12. 21 hours ago

    I have this idea for an Eisenhower Decision Matrix for drag-n-drop self-organizing of your tasks/tickets/issues/TODO

    25 replies 167 retweets 498 likes
  13. 21 hours ago

    This is one of the things we're trying to accomplish with . Any input on the matter is super appreciated

    Replying to @lbalson @ChiSenires
    [serious question] is there a social networking site a-la-linkedin that allows devs to get to know others with similar skills?
    3 replies 15 likes
  14. 22 hours ago

    Exposure to new libraries and APIs always gets my mind racing with project ideas, but I'm not sure that's a good approach

    3 replies 12 likes
  15. 22 hours ago

    I wrote a post about my keys to growing a successful side project (Surely laiden with survivorship bias)

    3 replies 28 retweets 137 likes
  16. 22 hours ago
    Replying to

    I once built a really useful special-purpose search app that grew in scope until I was basically trying to recreate Google. 😳

    3 replies 1 retweet 11 likes
  17. 22 hours ago

    Oh my goodness, this is everything. I'd say you need to CONTINUOUSLY MONITOR for feature creep and be self-critical with it

    How does one avoid feature creep and stay on your original idea?
    1 reply 2 retweets 11 likes
  18. May 30

    Great quote about Trump

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  19. Retweeted
    May 30

    Great interview 👏👏👏

    1 reply 7 retweets 52 likes
  20. May 30

    The Ringer is leaving Medium for Vox. Bad for Medium, but not surprising. Never made sense to me in the first place.

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  21. May 30

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