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

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DEV.to mentions (664)

• Stop Arguing About Which Model Is Best. Build a Two-Tier Habit Instead.

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• My Comment-Reply Pipeline Picks One Winner Per Thread. Two Commenters Broke That.

  Def _pending_leaves(comment): if not comment["children"]: if comment["user"]["username"] != ME: yield comment return for child in comment["children"]: yield from _pending_leaves(child) Def _pending_entries(comment, drafted_codes): for leaf in _pending_leaves(comment): if leaf["id_code"] in drafted_codes: continue yield { ... - Source: dev.to / 1 day ago

• 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 / 8 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 / 11 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 / 12 days ago

Beeftext mentions (16)

• Is there a way to automatically replace words / phrases with new ones while I'm typing?

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• What is the best Win10 tool to make text replacements like on OSX happen?

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• Use this non vegan app to help you share information with others

  I came across this non vegan app lol, called https://beeftext.org/ which is a text expander and you can save your replies to reuse over and over. Source: over 3 years ago

• Free MANUAL transcribing software for interviews

  You could use a text expander like Beeftext or Espanso so that typing something like :ee will replace it with Interviewee and :er will replace it with Interviewer. Source: over 3 years ago