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Ben Popper

  • Director of Content Marketing, WRITER
Hudson Valley
As seen in: Business Insider, TIME, CNBC, CNET, The Verge, Slate, VICE, Flipboard, Observer, Popular Science and
Director of Content at @Stackoverflow. Formerly business editor @verge and communications at @djiglobal. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu player. Brooklyn native.
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Why do developers love clean code but hate writing documentation?

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By Ben Popper
[Ed. note: While we take some time to rest up over the holidays and prepare for next year, we are re-publishing our top ten posts for the year.
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In the Developer Coefficient, a study commissioned by the fintech giant Stripe, developers reported that they spent over 17 hours a week on maintenance tasks like debugging and refactoring—work classified as “toil.” Our 2024 Developer Survey revealed a lot of the same issues and grievances for professional developers. The biggest frustration, by a large margin, was . Conversely, the thing that was improving the quality of their code and developer environment.
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Life in the Fastlane: SDK tools built with developers in mind

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By Ben Popper
October 30, 2024 Life in the Fastlane: SDK tools built with developers in mind On this sponsored episode, Ben and Ryan talk to Sunny Patel, Staff Software Engineer at PayPal, and Kyle Prinsloo, a developer and a PayPal partner, about all the ways that Fastlane by PayPal makes developers’ lives easier.
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