DEV.to Reviews

1. jorge

   | CEO at Escuela de Formación Técnica Chile SPA | about 4 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 (398)

• Let's Play with the DEV API

  As we saw in the last section, the url of this endpoint is https://dev.to/api/articles. We also know that we can specify how many results we'll get back for each page. The default is 30, but I don't think we need that many for this example. I think 5 is more than enough for us to take a look at. So let's make a simple fetch request to this endpoint passing the per_page query parameter with a value of 5. - Source: dev.to / 3 days ago

• Tech radar: Keep an eye on the technology landscape

  Also think about the Dev.to platform which allows developers to easily share on their topics. - Source: dev.to / 22 days ago

• Computer Science challenge, let's make it interesting!!

  If you haven’t checked it out yet, dev.to has introduced First Computer Science Challenge in honor of Alan Turing. The challenge is to explain a computer science concept in 256 characters or less. - Source: dev.to / 8 days ago

• Writing an Obsidian Plugin Driven By Tests

  I recently developed the initial version of Obsidian DEV Publish Plugin, a plugin that enables publishing Obsidian notes as articles on DEV. The first prototype was developed during a ~4 hour live stream. - Source: dev.to / 18 days ago

• Install Docker and Portainer in a VM using Ansible

  Note: The inventory.yml file is not shared since that depends on the actual environment So it will be different for everyone. If you want to learn more about the inventory file Watch the videos on YouTube or read the written version on https://dev.to. Links in The video descriptions on YouTube. - Source: dev.to / about 1 month ago

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• Crossposting on Dev.to and Hashnode

  I was searching for a quick solution and came across CodeWrite and CrossPost, both good solutions but paid, my take is, the importance of a good post is getting to the point quick, because I came to Dev.to and Hashnode when I was searching for solutions for coding, personal blogs are fun, but the truth is when you search for a solution on the internet you always rather find it fast and keep on what you are doing. - Source: dev.to / about 3 years ago

• Looking for a blogger who is at the same stage as me to help motivate each other.

  Engage with every related channel, forums, and community. Spread the word as much as possible. But don't just spam there. Adding more value can increase your credibility. It helps you in the long run. I was doing it manually until I built a tool to automate the process of sharing the content. Because it is a time-consuming process but a crucial one to grow our blog. https://crossxpost.app/. Source: about 3 years ago