Ben Dumke-v. d. Ehe ➡️ @balpha@social.balpha.de (@balpha) profile picture

Ben Dumke-v. d. Ehe ➡️ @[email protected]

@balpha

Mastodon: https://nitter.cf/t.co/Ik5x201PSJ. Web dev. Earliest remaining @StackOverflow employee by start date but not tenure. Made @UnicornOfTheDay. He/him.

 Berlin, Germany
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Joined March 2009
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Ben is the longest tenured employee at Stack Overflow and he joined because of unicorns. It was his first developer job and he loved it. Then one he realized he might be an asshole to work with. New @corecursive episode is out and its Ben's story. Starting from coding side projects to working on one of the highest traffic web sites out there. And ending with a reflections on personal character and the perils of engineering driven orgs that frankly I needed to hear.
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As I suspected, someone has been adding soil to my garden. The plot thickens.
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I wrote you a song.
There once was a team that worked web three And the pay of the team was in NFT The market had crashed, and with it VC Let's try it on our own Soon may Stack Overflow aid To bring us answers and end the wait One day when the bug fix is made We'll vest our stock and go Just one day was left till launch And all the devs were in full crunch The CTO had a terrible hunch And then all hell broke loose Soon … The contracts were not smart at all The valuation in free fall The chain was forked, the debt was tall And half the team let go. Soon … The error logs immensely grew But what was wrong no-one had a clue The tech lead said "stand back all you 'cause regexes I know." Soon … For fourty days or even more The app seemed fixed, then broke once more The peg was lost, down ninety-four, They blamed the DAO Soon … As far as I've heard the fight's still on The rug's not pulled and the bug's not gone Stack Overflow gives a regular vote To encourage the engineers and all Soon … Soon …

ALT There once was a team that worked web three And the pay of the team was in NFT The market had crashed, and with it VC Let's try it on our own Soon may Stack Overflow aid To bring us answers and end the wait One day when the bug fix is made We'll vest our stock and go Just one day was left till launch And all the devs were in full crunch The CTO had a terrible hunch And then all hell broke loose Soon … The contracts were not smart at all The valuation in free fall The chain was forked, the debt was tall And half the team let go. Soon … The error logs immensely grew But what was wrong no-one had a clue The tech lead said "stand back all you 'cause regexes I know." Soon … For fourty days or even more The app seemed fixed, then broke once more The peg was lost, down ninety-four, They blamed the DAO Soon … As far as I've heard the fight's still on The rug's not pulled and the bug's not gone Stack Overflow gives a regular vote To encourage the engineers and all Soon … Soon …

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Currently feeling real dumb for how hard I laughed at this
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Rachel Andrew@rachelandrew26 Jul 2022
I think about this tweet a lot. Usually while trying to find a typo in some YAML.
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"A red faced duck fought me for french fries a month ago"
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1979. "Thank you all for coming to this joint Sony / Philips leadership meeting. Let the record reflect."
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ironically, Covid would be a better name for Zoom
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@Wendys16 May 2022
Replying to @neiltyson
Sir, this is a Wendy's.
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Aaron Galbraith@stubbletown12 May 2022
Replying to @ariehkovler
Also “helico-pter”, not “heli-copter”: helico = spiral pter = wing
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Years ago I had a boss who used to text our team product ideas while he was on the toilet. Every time we saw him leave to use the bathroom we would want for a barrage of "shitty ideas." Anyway, hope the product team at twitter is doing OK.
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Aaron Shekey@aaronshekey1 Apr 2022
Y’all gotta check out this website I work on called Stack Overflow right now. We did a ton of work on theming for like a year and now you can choose the one for you. stackoverflow.com
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Ok I didn’t expect this to do numbers! If you want to repost or share the cartoon, which is fine, I’d appreciate it if you use this version, which has my name on it!! (I forgot to sign the first one, whoops!!!!) thank you!!
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SoFuckingAgile@sofuckingagile21 Mar 2022
Mourning the loss of a colleague as an entirely remote team is rough. We weren't ready for such a thing. His wife had to create a support ticket to let us know. This one was tough to write: sofuckingagile.com/blog/mour… #prodmgmt #webdev #SoftwareEngineer
Mourning loss as a remote team

Mourning loss as a remote team

This is a hard one to write about. Last year our team lost Pete, a long time engineer. Pete took his own life. He had battled mental health issues for some time.

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Ryan Nixon@NewYorkNixon5 Mar 2022
My mates and I are having the STUPIDEST debate... And I am here for it. Do you think there are more doors or wheels in the world?
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Elise Craver@E_Craver3 Mar 2022
Ever wondered, ‘why is my kid drawing a box to solve a multiplication problem?!?’ It tells you why. It’s your traditional algorithm made visual. So when they get to the algorithm you learned, it makes SO MUCH more sense and reduces common mistakes.
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ladies and gentlemen, this is
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Every dev with an over-engineered side project and a .com or .io TLD and a dozen features nobody asked for, upon hearing NYT paid 1 mil+ for a dude's simple but beautiful implementation of Mastermind that he didn't even host on a TLD but instead as a sub folder on his blog:
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I was asked to post an announcement for the upcoming hackathon in the @virtual_wonder engineering Slack channel. I may have *slightly* overengineered the announcement. This is what I posted: youtube.com/watch?v=kSrhPjcu…
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The existence of Google Earth, Apple Air, and Amazon Fire implies there must be a Microsoft Water.
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