balpha

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bio	website	balpha.de
	location	Berlin, Germany
	age	32
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My name is Benjamin Dumke-von der Ehe. I am Stack Overflow Valued Associate #00007, which is just a confusing way of saying that I work as a developer for Stack Exchange.

I am @balpha on Twitter. My blog's "about" page explains the origin of my user name.

I am the creator of Unicornify, the service that gives you these lovable creatures:

I also created Lyfe, a small library adding yield-based generators to JavaScript, and Not a Real Question, a little game that's played with data from various Stack Exchange sites.

I sometimes have a strange sense of humor, but I also like to explain things I fix, break, care about, or come up with.

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Jan 28	awarded	Nice Question
Jan 26	comment	Dude, where's my cursor? @JeffAtwood Interesting idea, though I wonder if that's feasible. Mapping a character in a text area to a screen position is pretty much impossible.
Jan 26	comment	Dude, where's my cursor? @badp As always in Chrome, you have to open `chrome://extensions`, and then drag the script from the download bar at the bottom onto that tab.
Jan 26	revised	Dude, where's my cursor? added 1 characters in body
Jan 26	asked	Dude, where's my cursor?
Jan 8	awarded	Favorite Question
Jan 2	awarded	Custodian
Jan 2	reviewed	Reject suggested edit on Reputation graph
Nov 11	comment	Threaded comments @Asad Already exists. After you click "unthread", you can click "thread" to show the comments as before.
Nov 10	awarded	Popular Question
Oct 8	comment	Reputation graph @JonCage It's been like that for months; see stackapps.com/questions/3498/… (includes workaround)
Sep 30	comment	“Reply” links on comments @MartinSchröder Fixed now.
Sep 28	comment	“Reply” links on comments @MartinSchröder Ah yeah, I never fixed that... (To be honest, I haven't been using this script much since we put the tab autocompleter in). I'll fix it over the weekend; it's easy enough.
Sep 23	comment	is there a way to use my app to authenticate users with only a StackOverflow account with the stackExchange oauth api 2.1? @agares Just use the same login you used for the other sites. You already have a Stack Exchange network account: stackexchange.com/users/1073949/agares
Sep 23	answered	is there a way to use my app to authenticate users with only a StackOverflow account with the stackExchange oauth api 2.1?
Sep 13	awarded	Favorite Question
Sep 12	comment	Threaded comments @Pureferret You're absolutely right, it would be identical. I'm not thinking about technical issues, more conceptual issues. It should also be noted that most comment threads are fairly short, and any additional user interface functionality creates an additional burden, so you'd have to weigh the two. I don't actually have strong feelings about your proposal; I'm just not quite convinced.
Sep 12	comment	Threaded comments @Pureferret Hmm, I see your point, but it's somewhat problematic in that this script really only does guesswork (even if fairly educated guesswork) as to what is a reply to what. I fear that with such a functionality as you request, it creates a too confident impression of its abilities.
Sep 11	comment	Threaded comments @Pureferret Can you give an example of what you mean by that?
Sep 5	revised	Bug in the StackExchange Api ? getting “could not parse proxy url” when user not logged in edited tags