Benjamin Humphrey

@humphreybc

Founder & CEO . Designer, developer, pilot, musician. Previously lead designer at , .

Sydney, Australia
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Joined December 2009
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    5 Jul 2017

    I've been writing this five part series about the early days of creating a startup from scratch. This is part one!

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  2. Retweeted
    13 hours ago

    FUN FACT: Uber lost about $5B last year. If fares were set high enough to just break even they would cost more than a traditional taxi. Every rideshare you take is subsidized by the finance industry in a ploy to profit off the destruction of unionized companies and public transit

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    16 hours ago

    Hey technovisionaries, Steve Jobs wouldn't have been tweeting breathlessly about the latest BTC prices. Go build something.

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  4. 21 hours ago

    and before you ask – no, I will not be adding syntax highlighting 😂

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  5. 21 hours ago

    I spent my Saturday evening completely over-engineering this new code snippet component. It can take n snippets, displays comments differently, is responsive for mobile (why? who cares it was fun), and has cross-browser, non-flash copy to clipboard.

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  6. Jan 4

    “Thank god” is a stupid expression. God had nothing to do with it!

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  7. Jan 4

    Thank god for regulation and consumer rights in Australia / NZ.

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  8. Jan 4

    Pretty much none of these apply outside the US. So many gotchas and shady business tactics in America.

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  9. Jan 3

    I'm working on a sweet embeddable feedback collector for at the moment. React makes rich interactivity pretty easy. Can't imagine doing this in only two days with straight HTML / CSS / JS.

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  10. Jan 3

    HOLY ANIMATION BATMAN

  11. Jan 2

    “we have a lot of money”

    People working for Basecamp live in ~35 cities around the world, but starting in 2018, Basecamp is paying everyone based on the top 10% of the San Francisco market (the highest paid tech market). Here’s how and here’s why —>
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  12. Dec 31

    Just subscribed to a year of too! would be proud.

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  13. Dec 31

    Did you know you can get a 12-week print subscription to the —delivered weekly to Australia—for only $8? It's amazing!

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  14. 27 Dec 2017

    Stripe's trial periods are doing my head in. Reeks of a ShipIt. They create a $0 invoice for the duration of the trial, attempt to charge a nonexistent card, and count an account who didn't upgrade from trial as churned!

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  15. Retweeted
    22 Dec 2017

    Deleting Facebook was the best gift I gave myself this year

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  16. 23 Dec 2017

    I'm always amazed people don't do this sort of thing. I always have my phone on DND. No Facebook app, no Twitter app. I also hide both the dock and menu bar on OS X. More screen real estate and no distracting dock notification badges.

    Phone hacks that have changed my life for the better this year: - Do Not Disturb on 100% of the time. - All Slack notifications turned off. - Only look at work email through Safari. You?
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  17. Retweeted
    22 Dec 2017

    New in Dovetail this week – domain-restricted sign up! Now your colleagues can easily join your team when they sign up. Learn more:

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  18. 21 Dec 2017

    I *think* all that needs to happen is for someone on Airbnb's Android team to publish the latest version of the app for her type of device.

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  19. 21 Dec 2017

    tl;dr there's a version check on log in. When she tries to logs in it says ‘Error: Update your app to continue, check the store.’ But in the Play Store, the latest available is 17.28 – no updates. No way to update the app, no way to log in. Can't sideload APKs on a Chromebook.

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  20. 21 Dec 2017

    can you help me out here?

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  21. 21 Dec 2017

    Just going to tweet at Airbnb engineers I found on Github until someone can help my mum. , , ,

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