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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• Baklava: Generate API Documentation and Type-Safe Clients from Scala Routing Tests

  Path("/users/{userId}")( supports( GET, pathParameters = pLong, summary = "Get user by ID" )( onRequest(pathParameters = 1L) .respondsWithUser .assert { ctx => ctx.performRequest(routes).body.id shouldBe 1L }, onRequest(pathParameters = 999L) .respondsWithErrorResponse .assert { ctx => ctx.performRequest(routes)... - Source: dev.to / about 8 hours ago

• Building the flagship (2): a live DataGrid that queries Postgres on every keystroke

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• How to find a device by its MAC address

  You can collect all of that by hand, or let a scanner do it in one pass. DeviceShelf resolves vendor, hostname, services and open ports for every device on the network and turns them into an actual identification; the same IEEE data behind our lookup page ships inside the app. For the full detective story, see the guide on identifying an unknown device. - Source: dev.to / 6 days ago

• "My pending() Function Learned to Draft Against Nested Comments. My audit() Function Never Learned to Look for Them."

  Def _walk_comments(comment): """Yield this comment and every comment in its subtree, at any depth.""" yield comment for child in comment["children"]: yield from _walk_comments(child) Def audit(): ... for a in my_articles(): if not a["comments_count"]: continue for root_comment in api(f"/comments?a_id={a['id']}"): for c in... - Source: dev.to / 9 days ago

• 🍣 Sushi RS: SVG Sushi Components for Rust Frontends.

  So I came across the Frontend Challenge: Comfort Food Edition on dev.to, and I thought: "Hey, what if I build a Rust crate that lets you render SVG sushi directly in your WASM frontend? How hard can it be?". - Source: dev.to / 9 days ago

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• 12 Developer Tools That Keep My Workflow Smooth

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  And that wraps up this issue of "This Week in AI Engineering", brought to you by jam.dev— your flight recorder for AI apps! Non-deterministic AI issues are hard to repro, unless you have Jam! Instant replay the session, prompt + logs to debug ⚡️. - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago

• Jam.dev – An Effective Tool for Bug Reproduction

  Jam.dev is specifically designed to streamline bug reporting and reproduction. Instead of spending hours communicating with testers or users to gather details, Jam.dev automatically records all crucial data when a bug occurs. This not only helps developers reproduce bugs quickly but also saves a significant amount of time. - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago

• Node.js now supports TypeScript, JavaScript Rising Stars report is out, NEW developer tools and more

  And that's it for the seventeenth issue of "This Week in JavaScript", brought to you by jam.dev—the tool that makes it impossible for your team to send you bad bug reports. - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago

• How We Rebuilt Our Extension for Manifest V3

  Every week we share the story behind building our startup, Jam. This week, Jam eng, Aidan shares how we handled migration to MV3! Dig into all the technical details with us, and the challenges of doing a complete refactor of our browser extension + rolling it out to 150k users. - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago