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1. jorge

   · CEO at Escuela de Formación Técnica Chile SPA · about 5 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

Ollama mentions (141)

• CouponAI: Turn Promotional Emails into Smart Savings

  The application is powered by a Node.js + Express backend, a locally running LLM model via Ollama, and Postmark’s inbound email parsing feature to automate the extraction of useful promotional data from email content. - Source: dev.to / 2 days ago

• My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts

  > How does that work exactly? Do you have a link? https://ollama.com. - Source: Hacker News / 7 days ago

• Use Local LLM with Cursor

  Go to https://ollama.com/ and download Ollama, then install it on your machine. - Source: dev.to / 14 days ago

• No More API Bills: The Economics of Running LLMs Locally on Your Mac with ServBay

  While tools like Ollama are fantastic, managing different services and ensuring everything plays nicely together in your development environment can still involve some setup. This is where ServBay steps in to make local AI development on macOS not just cost-effective, but also incredibly convenient. - Source: dev.to / 19 days ago

• Devstral

  Https://ollama.com/library/devstral I believe its just a HTTP wrapper and terminal wrapper around llama.cpp with some modifications/fork. - Source: Hacker News / 19 days ago

DEV.to mentions (513)

• 🏳️‍🌈 Pride RS: LGBTQ+ Flag Component for Rust Frontends

  So I came across the Frontend Challenge: June Celebrations (CSS Art) on dev.to, and I thought: "Hey, what if I build a handy dandy crate for our gay friends that they can slap onto their rusty websites?" This way, I learn a bit more about CSS, make something useful, and give Ferris the crab 🦀 a chance to finally come out of the shell. - Source: dev.to / about 11 hours ago

• [01] Understanding the Fundamentals of Web Development

  Now, consider a website like https://dev.to/. Unlike a static website, Dev.to is dynamic, meaning its content is constantly changing—new articles, comments, and other data are frequently added. - Source: dev.to / about 1 month ago

• What is LLM?

  Since 2022, source-available models have been gaining popularity, especially at first with BLOOM and LLaMA, though both have restrictions on the field of use. Mistral AI's models Mistral 7B and Mixtral 8x7b have the more permissive Apache License. In January 2025, DeepSeek released DeepSeek R1, a 671-billion-parameter open-weight model that performs comparably to OpenAI o1 but at a much lower cost. Since 2023,... - Source: dev.to / 13 days ago

• My first professional portfolio site... 🎉

  The community at dev.to has always been my favourite, which is why this is the first platform I wish to share my portfolio with. Your feedback would mean a lot to me! 🙏. - Source: dev.to / 13 days ago

• AI killed my coding brain but I’m rebuilding it

  Dev.to Good for sharing experiences, writing, and reading posts from devs across the spectrum. - Source: dev.to / 23 days ago