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Ben Greenberg @hummusonrails.com · 10/02/2025

Never travel without one in my backpack.

Travel router configured to my home router and other VPNs ready to go.

Ben Greenberg @hummusonrails.com · 17/01/2025

I can't believe I hit over 10k #YouTube channel views (actually 11,321 but who's counting? 😅)! I intend to make a lot more content over this year. All #developer focused short form (5 minutes or less). Give me a follow if you want to join the journey! 👇 www.youtube.com/@HummusOnRails

YouTube message that I achieved 10,000 views on my channel. I'm really grateful!

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Ben Greenberg @hummusonrails.com · 03/01/2025

New project dropping soon! Tired of guessing which dev events to sponsor? I'm building to help solve it! 📍Use natural language to find events 📍Filter by region, dev community, etc. 📍Check sentiment 📍Save or export Beta testers get free Enterprise plan. Interested? LMK and I'll add you!

Screenshot showing feature of the site, using natural language and a combination of search parameters to narrow down from hundreds and hundreds of developer events

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Ben Greenberg @hummusonrails.com · 23/12/2024

Can you tell the theme for my upcoming talk at the GitHub user group meetup tonight in Tel Aviv? Does the font give it away? 🛸👽 #starwars

Picture of laptop screen with PowerPoint slide with a specific space themed font for the word “testing”.

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Ben Greenberg @hummusonrails.com · 23/12/2024

Some things I wish would stay in the States. We really don’t need another American fast food chain like Cinnabon in Tel Aviv. #fastfood #telaviv #thanksnothanks

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Ben Greenberg @hummusonrails.com · 11/12/2024

Israeli fortune cookies read like a verse from Tanakh: ‘The end of an act begins with thought, and much thought follows…’ Fortune cookie or the Bible? You decide. 🤣 #food #fortunecookie #israel

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Ben Greenberg @hummusonrails.com · 09/12/2024

Building RAG apps is too much fun! Do you agree with the response on which planet in the #StarWars universe would be most familiar to someone from Earth? The AI context is being enhanced with a vector search of Star Wars data on @couchbase.bsky.social. Are you buying a place on Alderaan today?

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Ben Greenberg @hummusonrails.com · 05/12/2024

Benefit #1 of remote working: Being able to step out for a quick lunch with your spouse during the workday. (Also, not fighting traffic; not being interrupted constantly; using the office chair that’s right for you, etc., etc. 😅)

Two people outside posing for a picture after a nice lunch

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Ben Greenberg @hummusonrails.com · 29/11/2024

Anuradha is delivering a fantastic hands-on talk on web accessibility at @cityjsconf.bsky.social. Learning quite a lot from her dynamic presentation. 👏 #a11y #accessibility #cityjs #javascript

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Ben Greenberg @hummusonrails.com · 25/11/2024

I’m here with the @couchbase.bsky.social team at @GoogleCloud_IL Cloud Day TLV! Come say hi at our booth and grab some popcorn! 🍿

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Ben Greenberg @hummusonrails.com · 21/11/2024

After a 14 hour flight I land home and right away in a cooking competition for a bar mitzvah celebration. Don’t even know if it’s day or night but cooking here we come!

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Ben Greenberg @hummusonrails.com · 17/11/2024

Some light reading for the flight 😅

Book cover for nuclear war by Annie Jacobsen

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Ben Greenberg @hummusonrails.com · 15/11/2024

And the last of the @couchbase.bsky.social swag is going fast on the final day of #rubyconf! Stay warm, #rubyfriends, and get yours before it’s gone!

Two lovely people grabbing some winter gear

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Ben Greenberg @hummusonrails.com · 14/11/2024

#rubyfriends, we got you covered for the Chicago winter! ❄️ Come to Hack Day and get geared up and figure out how to build GenAI apps and more with the new @couchbase.bsky.social Ruby ORM! Curt and I are here to get you started going and hacking on all your projects!

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Ben Greenberg @hummusonrails.com · 13/11/2024

When you come to Chicago for a conference, and you’re a kosher meat eater, there is one mandatory stop in the north side that’s a requirement. #kosher #romanian #chicago

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Ben Greenberg @hummusonrails.com · 08/11/2024

Back in the city just for the weekend. You may see me today working from random coffee spots all over from lower manhattan to the upper west 🗽

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Ben Greenberg @hummusonrails.com · 30/10/2024

It’s time for the DevOps undead! Getting ready to kick off a spooktacular DevOpsDays Tel Aviv! 👻🎃

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Ben Greenberg @hummusonrails.com · 25/10/2024

I’ve taken down hirethePIVOT, the site showcasing devs from non-traditional paths. 😥 Proud of its impact, though it proved unsustainable. Second-career devs bring unique strengths, and one day, recruiting will value that.

Screenshot of the home page of the now retired hirethepivot

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Ben Greenberg @hummusonrails.com · 09/07/2023

I know we enjoy generics in Rust, but there’s nothing generic about these tacos 🌮

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Ben Greenberg @hummusonrails.com · 09/07/2023

Code on Sunday or enjoy the sunshine? ☀️

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Ben Greenberg @hummusonrails.com · 06/07/2023

Yet another alternative and of course FOMO means I’m there too, you can find me at hummus_on_rails on threads

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Ben Greenberg @hummusonrails.com · 04/07/2023

Uncovered my old laptop from when I just started learning to code again at Flatiron School, what a journey it’s been! 🚀👨‍💻

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Ben Greenberg @hummusonrails.com · 24/06/2023

People enjoying my random references in my talks makes it all worth it :)

Screenshot of a tweet with a picture of me presenting in front of a screen showing a visualization of Pac-man eating a ball and the tweet said:

"Come for the code and stay for the pacman pong rust demo.
@Polkadot
during #KCDC2023
@kc_dc"

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Ben Greenberg @hummusonrails.com · 31/05/2023

This isn’t Italy, so where am I instead?

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Ben Greenberg @hummusonrails.com · 29/05/2023

I think I found the official BlueSky yarmulke 😂✡️

Picture of a hand holding a yarmulke with a blue sky pattern

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Ben Greenberg @hummusonrails.com · 28/05/2023

An enjoyable day in the big city (Jerusalem) today. It started off overcast and rainy but ended up warm and sunny 😎

Inside of the Jerusalem train station, the deepest heavy rail passenger station in the world

Above ground at the Jerusalem train station

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Ben Greenberg @hummusonrails.com · 23/05/2023

No matter how many times I’m in Berlin I’ll never get used to this being a word in German, do they not know the Yiddish translation? 😅

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Ben Greenberg @hummusonrails.com · 22/05/2023

🗣️In this blog post, sharing my experience using @github Codespaces for a 60+ attendee smart contract workshop👩‍💻👨‍💻 of varied skills! Blog highlights: Process 🔄 Required steps ⚙️ Challenges 💢 Check it out 👉 www.bengreenberg.dev/posts/2023-05-…

Cover image for blog post with a visual representation of people on their laptops for a workshop

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Ben Greenberg @hummusonrails.com · 21/05/2023

Where in the world is Ben today?

Sculpture in a city center with names of cities on it

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Ben Greenberg @hummusonrails.com · 18/05/2023

Me doing TikTok strategy at age 40

A senior citizen depiction of Jerry Seinfeld staring towards the camera seated in front of a laptop

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Ben Greenberg @hummusonrails.com · 17/05/2023

Don't know if I love this new "badge" from Hashnode. I think they're trying to tell me I'm long winded 😅

Screenshot of a badge from Hashnode that says:

Word Warrior
Wrote an in-depth blog post with more than 2k words

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Ben Greenberg @hummusonrails.com · 16/05/2023

📰 New blog post 📰 Discussing blockchain without hyperbole: 🎓 Polkadot's security & trust 🎓 Blockchain for app transparency 🎓 Compatibility via light clients More here 👇 www.bengreenberg.dev/posts/2023-05-…

cover image from blog post showing title of the blog, with an illustration of a blockchain relay network

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Ben Greenberg @hummusonrails.com · 07/05/2023

Last walk around Athens 🇬🇷 after an excellent Devoxx Greece!

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Ben Greenberg @hummusonrails.com · 04/05/2023

Can you guess the company based on their stickers?

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Ben Greenberg @hummusonrails.com · 02/05/2023

Finally checking out my town’s original Irish pub after living here for years. Yes an Irish pub in the center of Israel! 😂🇮🇪🇮🇱

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Ben Greenberg @hummusonrails.com · 02/05/2023

This is so counter to the values of DevRel. Figuring out success metrics in this space is so challenging and such a loaded subject, and the companies that build in that space take advantage in many ways of that challenge by overselling and overhyping. This, though, is particularly awful.

Screenshot of a twitter thread from KrunchData that has started a public sporting-like competition amongst devrel teams pitting one against the other

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Ben Greenberg @hummusonrails.com · 01/05/2023

I just want to call attention to all you foodies out there about a new phenomenon in Israel over the last year or so of the "Friday sandwich/Erev Shabbat sandwich/כריך יום שישי" and all of its deliciousness

Picture of one of the most delicious sandwiches you will ever have

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Ben Greenberg @hummusonrails.com · 27/04/2023

This platform has very quickly replaced Twitter for me as my go to, and I’m very grateful to connect with all of you! I don’t take my first 100 followers here for granted, not a bit. 💙 Excited to keep on building community with all of you in this decentralized and thoughtful place! 🎉

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Ben Greenberg @hummusonrails.com · 26/04/2023

Took a moment and wrote up a small step-by-step guide for any folks needing help verifying themselves on Bluesky if they have a Godaddy domain. Hope it's helpful! www.bengreenberg.dev/posts/2023-04-…

Cover image for blog post that shows a sort of artistic rendering of being verified on the backdrop of a green meadow and a perfectly blue sky above with butterflies in the air

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Ben Greenberg @hummusonrails.com · 26/04/2023

Celebrating Independence Day in the traditional manner with a beach day! And it’s a perfect BLUE SKY! 😎 🇮🇱🎉🎆🎇🍾🏝️

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Ben Greenberg @hummusonrails.com · 25/04/2023

How to setup a custom domain / get verified on Bluesky with Godaddy: 1. Navigate to your Domains 2. Click Manage DNS 3. Click Add New Records 4. Fill in: 4a. TXT for type 4b. _atproto for name 4c. ⌘+C (Mac) or Ctrl+C (PC) the text from Bluesky into value 4d. Click Save 5. Wait for it to take effect

Image showing screenshots of each of the steps to setup a custom domain on Godaddy for Bluesky

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