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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
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

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  3. Retweeted
    2 hours ago

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

  4. 2 hours ago

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

  5. Retweeted
    5 hours ago

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

  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.

  7. Retweeted
    20 hours ago

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

  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

  9. 21 hours ago
  10. 21 hours ago

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

  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

  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

  13. 21 hours ago

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

  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

  15. 22 hours ago

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

  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. 😳

  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

  18. May 30

    Great quote about Trump

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    May 30
  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.

  21. May 30
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