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

Plotaroute Reviews

DEV.to mentions (657)

• What Is AI Agent Tool Calling? MCP, Function Calling, and A2A Explained (2026)

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• Active players looked real until we asked which sessions counted

  Outside PostHog, the acquisition picture did not match. Real arrivals were mostly organic Google Search. In Search Console, we had not yet hit the first “30 clicks from Google Search in the past 28 days” milestone. We had only just started posting on dev.to, so that channel was not a material source either. - Source: dev.to / 3 days ago

• How to let AI agents verify email signups

  ZeroDrop ships an MCP server that exposes exactly those three tools. Install it into any MCP-capable client:. - Source: dev.to / 3 days ago

• 🐘 Like... TypeScript for PHP? Yes. And it's not what you think

  In the previous parts of this series, we explored how PureScript acts as a quiet rewrite of the Web, offering a sanctuary of mathematical precision above JavaScript, and how its universal polymorphism allows it to target wildly different runtimes like Node.js, Erlang's BEAM, Chez Scheme, etc. - Source: dev.to / 5 days ago

• My Blog Had 20 Unanswered Comments Across 35 Posts. Nothing Ever Told Me.

  Def pending(): drafted = open(DRAFTS, encoding="utf-8").read() 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 c["user"]["username"] == ME or replied_by_me(c): continue if c["id_code"] in drafted: continue ... - Source: dev.to / 7 days ago

Plotaroute mentions (16)

• Technical question: Is there a GPX editor software (or web-service) that has functionality to export a track file with automatically added "turn after turn" notifications?

  The track in the picture was exported from gpsies, then imported into plotaroute.com Thanks! Source: over 3 years ago

• How do you plan and train for long runs?

  My watch is a basic Garmin Forerunner 35 with my map functionality or turn/directions capability. If I'm running somewhere new (somewhere I need to drive to or in a different city) I'll occasionally use plotaroute.com to plot my route and either write the turns down on a small piece of paper I'll carry and glance at periodically or download the GPX file and upload it to use in the rungo app. That app gives audible... Source: almost 4 years ago

• iwtl how to run a 12 min mile

  2: work towards walking ~2 miles in those 30 minutes (see plotaroute.com or strava to find distance). Consider adding 1-3x per week strength training, such as the minimal routine at r/bodyweightfitness. Source: almost 4 years ago

• Apps to plan hiking/trail running routes to follow with a smartwatch (Garmin Fenix)

  In other post I've been sugested to use plotaroute.com and I'm really liking it, a lot. Source: almost 4 years ago

• GPS accuracy

  Short of using a physical tool to measure the route, your best option is to use an online tool like plotaroute.com to plot the route you took. Hopefully one of the apps is consistently more accurate than the other. Different apps on the same phone may indicate slightly (or significantly) different routes. That's because of differences in how each app gathers GPS coordinates at different times and frequencies, how... Source: almost 4 years ago