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@BenLesh

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#RxJS core team lead. Dad. Art Lover. Literally not paid by the observable, or for anything RxJS-related. My views actually belong to @_jayphelps. he/him

Austin, TX
Joined March 2009
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@BenLesh
Ben Lesh
1 year
I finished my first oil painting in 25 years. I don't generally post identifiable images of family, but this was special. My mom and dad. My mom is very sick and doesn't have a ton of time left, and I wanted to make sure she finally got a painting from me (I went through art
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Ben Lesh
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Apparently, during my time at Netflix, the company itself grew rather attached to me. 🤣
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@GentlemansGuru
Gentleman's Guru
4 days
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@jayphelps
Jay Phelps
16 days
There's no one better qualified. If you need a contractor for this stuff, hire him!
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Ben Lesh
16 days
Hey y’all! I’m opening a few consulting slots. If your team needs help with AI integration, async/streaming architecture, or RxJS, I’m available for short-term advisory and hands-on work. My DMs are open.
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Ben Lesh
16 days
Hey y’all! I’m opening a few consulting slots. If your team needs help with AI integration, async/streaming architecture, or RxJS, I’m available for short-term advisory and hands-on work. My DMs are open.
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Ben Lesh
20 days
I loitered in Barnes and Noble, because the library had outdated tech books. And I tried things and deleted the things that didn't work... An underrated skill I guess.
@IamKyros69
Kyros
24 days
How did people even learn to code when there was no docs, no YouTube… nothing? Genuinely curious.
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@worldcoin
World
9 days
“It’s really hard to both identify unique people and to do that in a privacy-preserving way…having a human-centric system turned out to be way more important in the world today than we realized.” - Sam Altman
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Ben Lesh
29 days
Ironic. Haha. I go to sign my exit paperwork and one of the identification questions stabs me right in the heart. Maybe @Docusign shouldn’t use people’s mothers as identifying info? Just a thought. In case their mom passed away a few days ago. 😂😭
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@sebastienlorber
Seb ⚛️ ThisWeekInReact.com
1 month
Observables would be a cool addition to the web platform Here's an example of drag & drop implementation from @dannymoerkerke 's Modern Web Weekly newsletter, that already works in Chrome/Safari More expressive than addEventListener/removeEventListener 👌
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Ben Lesh
1 month
I greatly appreciate the folks who have reached out about my job situation. I’m sitting bedside with my mom. This is a quiet, quiet place. I’m with her until the end. I won’t be interviewing or taking calls during this time. DMs or emails are fine. Just not my focus. For the
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Ben Lesh
1 month
This has been one of the toughest years I’ve ever lived. I lost a close friend without warning, and now—on the same week I’m being laid off—I’m at my mom’s bedside as she goes through her final days with cancer. Hug your loved ones.
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Ben Lesh
2 months
I have been working on internal AI chat clients for the past few months. Honestly, this is some of the more fun work I’ve done in a while. I’m very glad I kept up on how to do streaming on the frontend for sure. 😅
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Ben Lesh
2 months
This is probably the best developer screwup I’ve read in a while. Imagine sitting in your house and all of a sudden your 3D printer starts printing something that you never asked to print. 😂
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Ben Lesh
2 months
There’s going to be a day in the not so distant future where you literally build a web app by providing some small static configuration and a prompt. Not even “no code”. I literally mean “no designers, no programmers, no project managers, no database administrators, no DevOps”
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@SwaymaKdotAI
Swaymak.AI
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Hot take: “I’m anti-AI” is not a wining biz strategy. Here are 7 reasons small businesses that avoid AI will get cooked in 2026 👇
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@ladyleet
Tracy Lee | ladyleet
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Ben Lesh
3 months
nobody has framed Charlie Kirk assassination as what it really is: Extremist on extremist violence. If you “hate a party“.. you and everyone like you, right or left, brought us to where we are. You got Trump elected. You caused those Minnesota politicians to be assassinated.
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@Una
Una 🇺🇦
4 months
🥳 CSS functions have arrived!!! 🥳 And they are *AWESOME* Now, you can do things like this: @​function --alpha(--color, --opacity) { result: rgb(from var(--color) r g b / var(--opacity)); } div { background: --alpha(red, 80%); } (*arrived = in the latest stable Chrome)
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4 months
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@HorrorCalendar
The Horror Calendar
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The first new horror movies you can expect in 2026 include... We Bury the Dead - 1/2 Primate - 1/9 28 Years Later: Bone Temple - 1/16 Return to Silent Hill - 1/23 Send Help - 1/30 Iron Lung - 1/30 The Strangers 3 - 2/6 Cold Storage - 2/13 Psycho Killer - 2/20 Scream 7 - 2/27
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@NihilismJS
JavaScript Nihilist
5 years
What if we're all typed as :any?
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Ben Lesh
5 months
Hey you. Yes you. Right there. Your company is probably not big enough to justify that crazy distributed GraphQL thing you're working on.
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Ben Lesh
5 months
Look on the bright side, your coworkers don’t write shitty code anymore. It’s all Copilot and Cursor now.
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Ben Lesh
5 months
Cursor AI tells me I’m “absolutely right” an awful lot. 😂 It’s like working with an over-zealous junior developer that types really fast.
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@cramforce
Malte Ubl
5 months
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