Blogging for Devs Reviews

DEV.to Reviews

1. jorge

   · CEO at Escuela de Formación Técnica Chile SPA · over 5 years ago
   It is a nice mini-blog, it's for free and such but

   As a mini-blog, it is a nice alternative for Medium to publish and share information about programming.

   However, the community and the organization are biased toward social justice (and they are open to it). You can read its Code of Conduct, it is so vague and politically leads (I prefer a term of service because it defines fair rules for everybody). So it alienates developers that we don't care about politics in pro of people that want to talk about any other topic such as sexuality, how women are unprivileged, and such. It even mandates to use inclusive language. Good grief.

   My main complaint is the quality of the community. It is not StackOverflow (so we don't want to ask for an answer here), and most of the top topics are clickbait, such as "how to become a rockstar developer in ... days", "100 tips to become a better programmer" (and it doesn't even talk about programming).

   Technically this "mini blog" site allows us to use markdown, and it is okay. However, the whole experience is really basic. Even the template is ugly.

   🏁 Competitors: Medium

   👍 Pros:    Free

   👎 Cons:    Social justice|Basic features|Quality of content

Blogging for Devs mentions (9)

• 5 Tools I add to every new web project for SEO and analytics

  My adoption of Google Search Console come from what I learned taking Monica Lent's Blogging for Devs course. - Source: dev.to / about 3 years ago

• 2021 in review: my second year of blogging

  I joined the Blogging for Devs community towards the end of 2020. Unfortunately I haven’t been too active in the last half-year, but I would highly recommend it for anyone with a blog, or for anyone looking to start a blog in 2022. I’ve picked up a lot of useful SEO tips that I’ve implemented on my site, and I’ve gotten into the habit of making SEO tweaks to older posts to boost their page views as well. - Source: dev.to / almost 4 years ago

• Courses/Feedback for Technical Blog Posts?

  I’m a big fan of the Blogging for Devs newsletter: https://bloggingfordevs.com/. Source: about 4 years ago

• This survey among 60+ hiring managers reveals: Don't waste your time on a (React) portfolio website

  If you want to take a deep dive into blogging as a developer I can highly recommend this free course to get started. - Source: dev.to / about 4 years ago

• Developer Communities Every Developer should Join According to your niche.

  Blogging for Devs It is a private community for developers, freelancers and tech creators growing their audience through writing online. The only thing is that it's not free, you need to pay a fee to be a part of it. - Source: dev.to / about 4 years ago

DEV.to mentions (545)

• Preloading the DEV (and Forem) home feed and sidebar for substantial performance benefits

  When you visit the homepage of dev.to, the page itself is cached on the edge so that it's delivered to you as quickly as possible from the closest server. - Source: dev.to / about 18 hours ago

• 5starsstocks.com: Unlocking Tech Signals for High-Performance Portfolios

  The engine behind 5starsstocks.com’s success is its proprietary, multi-factor scoring system, the true decoder of the "tech signal." This system is not static; it’s a dynamic hybrid model that combines four distinct, powerful categories of market indicators:. - Source: dev.to / 2 days ago

• What are some good websites on which programmers can write articles?

  Dev. to](http://dev.to) is more like a coffee shop for programmers. It’s a place where most developers love to hang out. A lot of developers post their tutorials, personal experience, and lessons on a project they’re working on or a failed project so others can see and learn from it. Take, for example, you posted a project on your latest debugging tricks, and within an hour, another developer saw your post and... - Source: dev.to / 4 days ago

• Hello World!

  This is my first post in dev.to. Hope I'll learn something from you. Thank You 🙏🏾. - Source: dev.to / 4 days ago

• My AI-Era Technical Article Repository

  Feel free to peek at https://github.com/tom-takeru/articles as you read. The setup routes Japanese pieces to Qiita and English pieces to dev.to so each audience gets the right language. Qiita ships an official CLI, but I skipped it here. dev.to currently lacks an official command-line client. - Source: dev.to / 6 days ago