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Ben Junya

Don’t Just Be a Technical Writer. Be a Writer.

Many of the immensely popular thought leaders in the tech world write beautiful and elegant blog posts, articles, and opinion pieces…

10 min readJan 2, 2020

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Don’t Just Be a Technical Writer. Be a Writer.

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Ben Junya

Front End Development is Hard…

Remember that 10x Engineer thread on Twitter that got a stupid amount of attention and backlash from the technology community? There’s a…

6 min readNov 29, 2019

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Front End Development is Hard…

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Ben Junya

The Undervalued Skill of Teaching in Software Engineering

In the United States, teachers aren’t paid enough and often have to pull additional income from service jobs like waiting on tables or…

4 min readSep 10, 2019

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The Undervalued Skill of Teaching in Software Engineering

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Ben Junya

The Absolute Comedic Insanity (and Success) of my Technical LinkedIn Profile

“Award Losing Full Stack Computer Person.”

7 min readMay 28, 2019

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Ben Junya

Escaping from Tutorial Hell

In the programming communities I’m a part of, one of the most common questions often asked is:

7 min readApr 11, 2019

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Escaping from Tutorial Hell

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Ben Junya

Automate Team Code Style in 10 Minutes

Stop arguing about code style. Do this right now:

2 min readFeb 27, 2019

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Ben Junya

My Book: Modern Javascript by Example

I haven’t been publishing much on Medium because I have been a very busy bee focusing my time and energy into a free and open source book…

2 min readFeb 18, 2019

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Ben Junya

Why Aren’t We Writing Unit Tests?

It works right? Why bother?

7 min readFeb 4, 2019

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Why Aren’t We Writing Unit Tests?

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Algorithms Are Important, so Stop Bitching About it

For self taught developers, doing code challenges and algorithmic challenges feel like asinine wastes of time. Why bother learning to…

4 min readJul 6, 2018

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Algorithms Are Important, so Stop Bitching About it

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Ben Junya

Be a Full Stack, and Admit the Shortcomings

Earlier this year, I wrote a fairly critical piece of how every developer is full stack, and how just about everyone bloats their resume…

6 min readJun 14, 2018

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Be a Full Stack, and Admit the Shortcomings

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Ben Junya

Ben Junya

Javascript Developer and Software Engineer. I write longer(ish) articles on technology, career development, writing, and anything that comes to mind :)

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