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

Avatar Maker Reviews

DEV.to mentions (662)

• Your first Fitz LiveViews component, twice: SSR and WASM from one source

  In part 1 I made the pitch: real-time UI in one language, no JavaScript build. Now let's build something and ship it two ways from the same source. - Source: dev.to / 4 days ago

• My Comment-Reply Queue Draft One Reply to a Thread and It Went Deaf to Every Follow-Up After That

  Def pending(): try: drafted_text = open(DRAFTS, encoding="utf-8").read() except FileNotFoundError: drafted_text = "" drafted_codes = set(re.findall(r"^## (\S+)", drafted_text, re.M)) out = [] for a in api(f"/articles?username={ME}&per_page=100"): if not a["comments_count"]: continue for c in api(f"/comments?a_id={a['id']}"): if not... - Source: dev.to / 8 days ago

• Domain Search to Render: How the web works behind the scenes

  To think that all of this happens under the hood when I’m just trying to access YouTube to listen to my favorite music playlists to go through the day is insane! It all happens so quickly… to think that all eleven of these steps occur instantly when I was first entering a website like https://dev.to, for instance, is mind-blowing. - Source: dev.to / 9 days ago

• Enjoy the Bubble While It Lasts: The Secret Behind Your AI Bill

  And keep an exit. This is the argument I made about small models from a different angle: the same task that costs $14,000/month at frontier scale often costs approximately nothing on a 4B model running on your own hardware. Not for everything - for the long tail of focused, repetitive work that makes up most of what we actually automate. Knowing which of your workflows would survive a 10x price increase is cheap... - Source: dev.to / 13 days ago

• From Full-Stack Developer to Tech Lead: Lessons I Learned the Hard Way

  P.S originally it was only daily.dev. Now it is (dev.to)[https://dev.to] as well! - Source: dev.to / 13 days ago

Avatar Maker mentions (5)

• Where can i find a Graphic Designer?

  I start to love making own games. But as I have no experience I started to create withmods for other games. One of my mod is coming to an end (Game Kubifaktorium). But for my Story I need some good avatar pics to make my mod complete. So I was wondering if anybody could help me, where I could find people who have this skills. I'm talking about pics from avatars. Something you can create here... Source: over 4 years ago

• My Family

  I found an avatar creator app, and decided to make my family! Here's a link: https://avatarmaker.com/. Source: about 5 years ago

• Resources for character art (tokens, portraits) for a world builder who can't draw?

  I'm not super into the art style, but this thing has a little more options than normal for different facial features. https://avatarmaker.com/. Source: about 5 years ago

• Looking for visual novel character set like dlsite blue forest

  Avatar Maker might be meant for forums. However, it's another online tool for designing shoulders-up portraits. Source: over 5 years ago

• [D] FYM workaround?

  Https://avatarmaker.com/ Is pretty good too, but it’s much more limited than FYM. Source: over 5 years ago