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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

Engagespot mentions (5)

• free-for.dev

  Engagespot.co — Notification infrastructure for developers. Free for upto 100 monthly active users. - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago

• Migrating a self-managed MySQL database to AWS RDS using AWS DMS with zero downtime

  Recently, at Engagespot, we had to migrate our MySQL database which was hosted in an EC2 instance to AWS RDS to ensure high availability, automated backups and get more visibility through Cloudwatch monitoring and logs. - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago

• Launch HN: Courier (YC S19) – Developer infrastructure for product notifications

  Congratulations @troygoode. This is a real problem that needs to be solved. And this space is getting exciting. I'm working on something similar @ Engagespot(https://engagespot.co). - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Show HN: Engagespot – API to build your product's notification engine

  * Debug delivery issues, etc. All these began to eat developer hours soon. But we cannot ignore notifications. It is an integral part of a product, especially if it has multi-user interactions. For example, task management apps, social networks, CRM, etc. Messages like - "User ABC commented on your photo", "Someone assigned you a task" etc are critical for user engagement. Without such timely alerts, users may... - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Build a full-fledged notification center on your React App using Engagespot (Part 1)

  Enter Engagespot! A SaaS product dedicated to building a notification center for your websites and applications. Engagespot makes it easy to add in-app notification widget, real-time, and push notification features to your product with just a few lines of code. - Source: dev.to / over 2 years ago

DEV.to mentions (396)

• 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 / 4 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 / 13 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 / 28 days ago

• How Can I Create a DevOps Pipeline That Automatically Resolves All Conflicts and Bugs Without Human Intervention?

  Also, follow DevOps best practices on Dev.to and explore the Jenkins Documentation. - Source: dev.to / 19 days ago

• Two Days Indie Dev Life: Mailchimp, Webflow & Zapier - A Love Story

  I’ve been active on twitter for about a week now. It’s still kind of new to me but something really cool happened yesterday. DEV.TO put one of my daily blogs in one of their tweets, they have like 300k+ followers, I couldn’t believe it. Very very cool, thanks a lot 🙏. - Source: dev.to / 19 days ago