rhymes articles - 68 total
How to combine Rails's Ajax support and Stimulus
In this post I'm going to explain how we are exploring adding snappier SPA-like interactivity to the...
How to wrap a Preact component into a Stimulus controller
In this post I'm going to illustrate the following: wrapping a Preact component inside a Stimulus...
Changelog: API updates
We recently shipped a series of improvements to the Forem API thanks to our open source contributors:...
Is accidental complexity inevitable?
I'll start with two questions: Is complexity inevitable in software development? How much of this c...
Happy birthday Django! 🎂
Django was introduced 15 years ago.
How we decreased our memory usage with jemalloc
DEV is a Ruby on Rails application deployed on Heroku servers. The other day Molly Struve, our resid...
How to build unique indexes in PostgreSQL on large text
As I believe a relational database schema should be as independent as possible from the apps using...
A couple of thoughts from the Python survey results - 2019
the screenshots and data come from Python Developers Survey 2019 Results Python's usage in data ana...
Redis 6 is out
Huge fan of Redis here :-) Its latest version adds the following: Access control lists (ACL) so t...
My laptop is 8 years old
I bought this laptop in Paris in 2012: it has the French keyboard layout (AZERTY instead of QWERTY)...
A semi technical explainer of all known Zoom issues
(or Zoom choices are what got them in trouble) (opinions are mine and not DEV's) A (mild)...
Changelog: updated API docs!
We recently updated the documentation of the DEV API (beta) to add detailed information on the follow...
Changelog: Query the DEV API from a JavaScript Frontend!
We recently updated the DEV API to allow it to be queried directly from JavaScript frontends....
Help us squash bugs in DEV with Honeybadger! 🐛
We have some exciting news: thanks to our friends at Honeybadger, we now have a public dashboard that...
State of the API, October/November 2019
DEV strives towards being open, collaborative, and a positive force in the larger ecosystem. In addi...
What would you use as a sortable, globally unique, ID?
The objective is to have an ID that has the following two inherent properties: globally unique: if...
I'm joining the DEV team
Hi everyone, you've probably seen my name popping up around the website or the Gi...
What can we learn from rewrites?
Rewrites are a classic argument in software development. Every software architect at some point...
Ask the community for a post
DEV's community is full of people enthusiastic about a wide range of different ...
The dangers of the unibrow(ser)
At the beginning of December, Microsoft announced their wish to re-engineer Edg...
Changelog: export comments
As of a few hours ago, thanks to a graciously merged pull request, you can expo...
How to add a GraphQL API to dev.to in a few minutes
Why you're reading this dev.to has a REST API that is probably beco...
Really easy way to use HTTPS on localhost
Testing if your site works well on your local machine is always burdensome. I ...
You don't need to know everything (but you should know something well)
Dan Abramov recently published a couple of posts that made me think considerably. I regard these two...
Requests for posts tag
We all have our favorite topics in software development, usually because of a c...
The 10 most popular dev.to posts of 2018
I took the 10 most popular posts in the year section of dev.to and added some t...
A big rewrite
Folklore and common sense warn developers and teams against doing big rewrites. To do or...
The new MacBook Pros are overpriced
I've been a Mac user for over a decade but I'm lacking enthusiasm towards the r...
Salaries
This is post is super long but there are pictures (of words). I made a summary...
How many UI libraries are too many?
from Curated list of framework component libraries for UI styles/toolkit ...