DEV.to Reviews

1. jorge

   · CEO at Escuela de Formación Técnica Chile SPA · about 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

Clockify Reviews

DEV.to mentions (648)

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• What We're Seeing After 8,000 SEO Audits

  If you want to see where your site sits in this distribution, run an audit — it takes about 12 seconds. - Source: dev.to / 7 days ago

• How to Get Your First Tool Online

  Getting a first thing online is a milestone worth not reaching alone. A MLH hackathon is the perfect place to try: build, break, and deploy alongside other people over a weekend. And DEV is always here for the other parts, open all the time, where a new coder can post the project, ask for feedback, and read how someone else cleared the same hurdle. - Source: dev.to / 8 days ago

• AI slop and the content treadmill every developer is on

  Same idea. Four rewrites. Four character budgets. Four hashtag policies. Four mental models of an algorithm I do not control and cannot see. And that is before you reach Mastodon, Threads, Reddit, a newsletter, dev.to, and whatever launched this quarter. - Source: dev.to / 10 days ago

• Docker Networking Explained: Bridge, Host, Overlay, and DNS

  Visualizing how Docker Compose services connect to each other — which services share networks and which are isolated — helps catch misconfigured networking before deploying. InfraSketch parses Docker Compose files and maps services and their network relationships as a diagram. - Source: dev.to / 12 days ago

Clockify mentions (57)

• Launch HN: PointOne (YC W24) – Automated time tracking for lawyers

  Check out https://clockify.me/ It's my go-to for hourly "clock your hours" work. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• A list of SaaS, PaaS and IaaS offerings that have free tiers of interest to devops and infradev

  Clockify - Time tracker and timesheet app that lets you track work hours across projects. Unlimited users, free forever. - Source: dev.to / over 2 years ago

• Fellow algerians, a question for you

  Clockify.me to timetrack my activities. Source: almost 3 years ago

• Time Tracking for Work?

  See if this helps, I have a few contract freelancers that use this for reporting their hours back to me https://clockify.me/. Source: almost 3 years ago

• iOS app for tracking where I put my time

  Finally, if you don't pay attention to the "billable" part and such, Clockify is a decent time tracking app, this one you can create the task, tag it, add description, etc. It also integrated with a ton of productivity apps as well. Source: about 3 years ago