Dion Almaer – Medium

Published in Ben and Dion

·Apr 21

Agency developers are underrated

You hear about the developer who created Wordle, or who went on to found a large company, or contributed an open source project to the commons. You don’t often hear about the agency developer, and they are both important and often on their own journeys. NOTE: This was originally posted…

Web Development

3 min read

Published in Ben and Dion

·Apr 3

Web Developers are Shopify Developers

tl;dr By staying close to the Web platform, web developers can use all of their web knowledge, and use the latest features as they become available. There is a difference between using the web platform vs. web technologies, a subtle difference I have seen in the past. …

Shopify Development

5 min read

Published in Ben and Dion

·Mar 15

The Shopify Entrepreneurial Developer

NOTE: This was originally posted on my own corner of the Internet. From Hello World to IPO tl;dr We often talk about how Shopify supports entrepreneurs from the first day of their journey building a business all the way to huge merchants that grow to become unicorns, or go public, and are just plain successful…

Shopify

3 min read

Published in Ben and Dion

·Nov 9, 2021

Developer Productivity Matters

NOTE: This was originally posted on my own corner of the Internet. I have been fighting for investment and focus on developer productivity for a large part of my career. Platforms often focus on the user side more, and think that the focus should be on solely economic opportunity. …

Web Development

4 min read

Published in Ben and Dion

·Aug 26, 2021

New Job! Arming Developers @ Shopify

NOTE: This was originally posted on my own corner of the Internet. I am excited to share the news that, after a lovely summer break post-Google, I have taken a new job at Shopify. My mission focuses on helping developers succeed at delivering amazing, diverse, commerce experiences. Why Shopify and…

Shopify

6 min read

Published in Ben and Dion

·Aug 18, 2021

App Mode

What would <html app> do? 🤔 NOTE: This was originally posted on my own corner of the Internet. The Web can continue to evolve by taking the long term view and chipping away with adding necessary functionality, and eliding some of the mistakes (albeit hard). However, I have been pondering…

Web

6 min read

Published in Ben and Dion

·Jul 27, 2021

Time to Embrace Escape Hatches on the Web Platform?

NOTE: This was originally posted on my own corner of the Internet. Progressive Web Apps aren’t reaching their potential at scale. I just spoke about how I think it’s important for the Web to push on its own vision as a platform, but as a universal app platform (one of…

Web

7 min read

Time to Embrace Escape Hatches on the Web Platform?

Published in Ben and Dion

·Jul 20, 2021

Progressing Web Apps

NOTE: This was originally posted on my own corner of the Internet. Alex wrote primarily about the role of the App Store in his opus on the pursuit of appiness. …

Web

6 min read

Published in Ben and Dion

·Mar 1, 2021

Horizertical: Should you focus horizontally or vertically as a platform?

NOTE: This was originally posted on my own corner of the Internet. I have seen a path walked repeatedly in platform land. If you are fortunate enough to have a large spectrum of experiences running on top of your platform, you start to think about prioritization of the platform and…

Platforms Software

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Horizertical: Should you focus horizontally or vertically as a platform?

Published in Ben and Dion

·Feb 7, 2021

Taste and Nutrition on the Web

tl;dr We have all had ups and downs during the pandemic. I have seen these up and downs on the scale, and on the Web, and here we discuss the need for both taste and nutrition to create a sustainable environment. NOTE: This was originally posted on my own corner…

Web Development

6 min read