DEV.to Reviews

1. jorge

   · CEO at Escuela de Formación Técnica Chile SPA · over 6 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

Autocrypt Reviews

DEV.to mentions (676)

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  Built for the DEV Weekend Challenge: Generosity Edition hackathon. - Source: dev.to / about 21 hours ago

• Dealing with sensitive permissions on Android

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• Fixing Delicate Cache Mismatches in a Brownfield SPA: A Pragmatic Solution

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• Building the flagship (3): a packaged UI library, i18n, and one-command Docker

  Parts 4 and 5 showed the flagship's auth and its live grid. This one is about reuse: the app is built almost entirely from packaged components, and this is how you'd build yours. - Source: dev.to / 10 days ago

• Claude Code Attempted 752 /proc/*/environ Reads. 256 Succeeded. Codex: 0.

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Autocrypt mentions (13)

• Email Self-Defense - a guide to fighting surveillance with GnuPG encryption

  Also, isn't downloading and using DeltaChat would be easier? It used autocrypt protocol out of the box as well bunch of useful features and feels more like comfortable messenger than email. Source: over 3 years ago

• PGP on Android

  You should look into the autocrypt standard and apps that can use it. Https://autocrypt.org/ Https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autocrypt. Source: over 3 years ago

• title crypted

  They can also use new headers then parse those, that is what Autocrypt does, See https://autocrypt.org/ . The email specification allows custom headers for extension. Source: over 3 years ago

• Ask HN: If there is a replacement for email, what should be the requirements?

  Requirement 1: It should be backwards compatible with existing email systems. As examples, consider Delta Chat and the Autocrypt specification it's built on. https://delta.chat/en/ https://autocrypt.org/. - Source: Hacker News / over 4 years ago

• What do you think about Telios?

  That's why I said https://delta.chat/en/ ;) An email-based messenger with https://autocrypt.org/. Source: over 4 years ago