{"id":9704,"date":"2020-07-30T02:00:19","date_gmt":"2020-07-30T09:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/softwareengineeringdaily.com\/?p=9704"},"modified":"2020-11-11T20:09:32","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T04:09:32","slug":"dev-and-forem-with-ben-halpern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/softwareengineeringdaily.com\/2020\/07\/30\/dev-and-forem-with-ben-halpern\/","title":{"rendered":"DEV and Forem with Ben Halpern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-attachment-id=\"2475\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/softwareengineeringdaily.com\/2016\/04\/19\/googles-container-management-brendan-burns\/brendan-burns\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/softwareengineeringdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/brendan-burns.jpg?fit=175%2C175&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"175,175\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"brendan-burns\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/softwareengineeringdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/brendan-burns.jpg?fit=175%2C175&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/softwareengineeringdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/brendan-burns.jpg?fit=175%2C175&amp;ssl=1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2475\" style=\"border-radius: 50%; border: 1px solid #000000; max-width: 175px; max-height: 175px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/softwareengineeringdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/BenHalpern.jpg?resize=175%2C175&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"175\" height=\"175\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dev.to has become one of the most popular places for developers to write about engineering, programming languages, and everyday life. For those who have not seen it, DEV is like a cross between Twitter and Medium, but targeted at developers. The content on DEV ranges from serious to humorous to technically useful.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">DEV contains a set of features which appeal to a developer community, such as the ability to embed code snippets in a post, but for the most part the entire app is generalizable to other types of communities. Hence, the motivation for \u201cForem\u201d. 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