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Ben Vinegar

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Ben Vinegar

@bentlegen

Co-founder @modemdev. Before: founding engineer then VPE at @sentry. Runs @devtoolsTO. 🇨🇦

Toronto, Canada

Joined February 2007

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Ben Vinegar
@bentlegen
Mar 3
Coding isn't holding you back. Product work is. Introducing Modem, your dev team's auto-triage PM. It listens to user signals 24/7, finds problems before you do & does the work you're slow at – filing tickets, pinging teammates, closing the loop. Sign up today at @modemdev
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Ben Vinegar
@bentlegen
Oct 26, 2023
javascript is going places and i'm all in
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Ben Vinegar
@bentlegen
Mar 26, 2024
tech job market indicator: Spotify is a publicly traded company valued at $52B and employs ~9,000 people worldwide but at this moment, there is not a single engineering job you can apply for
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Ben Vinegar
@bentlegen
Oct 27, 2023
people have pointed out that mixing client and server code is unsafe, so i made a new safer version
Ben Vinegar
@bentlegen
Oct 26, 2023
javascript is going places and i'm all in
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Ben Vinegar
@bentlegen
Jan 10, 2025
I maintain the biggest flex is having a desk that's in the middle of a room and not against a wall
Paul Graham
@paulg
Jan 8, 2025
My flight was delayed so I cleaned up my office.
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Ben Vinegar
@bentlegen
May 15, 2025
👋 Some news! I've started a software company. Headquartered in Toronto. We're building a product to augment devs for the new era. We have S-tier backers and we're aiming high. If you're a strong engineer or designer who wants to try something ambitious – we should talk.
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Ben Vinegar
@bentlegen
Mar 26, 2024
Replying to @SaleemUsama
sounds like I can’t apply for them then 🤷🏻‍♂️
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Ben Vinegar
@bentlegen
Feb 20, 2022
Crypto miners literally bought a coal power plant to exclusively mine crypto (it was going to be decommissioned) Crypto and its harm to the environment is not an abstract, “theoretical” concept; here it is in black and white
Bitcoin miners revived a dying coal plant – then CO2 emissions soared
From theguardian.com
Ben Vinegar
@bentlegen
May 15, 2020
👋 Hey front-end developer friends. Wanna beta a new tool we're building to help you understand the performance of your production SPAs? I'd really value your feedback 🙏
Ben Vinegar
@bentlegen
Aug 25, 2025
I naively took a job offer like this out of school. Grateful I didn't know any better. It changed my whole life trajectory.
Steve the Beaver
@beaversteever
Aug 25, 2025
average YC startup offer
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Ben Vinegar
@bentlegen
Aug 31, 2025
Everyone’s racing to invent new AI products. But an underrated opportunity is just rebuilding apps with insane, never-before-seen levels of polish ... because you can now.
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Ben Vinegar
@bentlegen
Mar 6, 2022
I don’t understand the agenda of “web development is too complicated now” people … what is the endgame?
Ben Vinegar
@bentlegen
Apr 2, 2024
Cloudflare analytics engine pricing dropped yesterday: → free plan allows up to 100k writes/day → paid plan (just $5/mo) includes 10mm writes/month it's now official: you can host counterscale.dev on CF and record 100k analytics events/day for free 🤯
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Ben Vinegar
@bentlegen
Oct 30, 2024
👋 Some news: Friday is my last day at @getsentry Hard to believe it, cause this is the kind of job and outcome I've always wanted. To build a product and company that helps so many devs ship better software, that's cool and supports open source? At this size and scale?
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