And finally, here is a post from a long time ago from the very very early stage of some of the topics we discuss in this post. Some of our ideas have changed, many of the core principles have not. It's exciting that we have been able to make progress on these ideas while continuing to be practical devs squashing day-to-day bugs.
You may also appreciate a backlog reading material based on posts we've made which highlight the why and how of what we do.
Here's an example of an ongoing code quality/maintenance project calling for contributions...
Call for Contributions: Move All Cache Keys From Memcache to Redis
Molly Struve ・ Nov 1 ・ 1 min read
Here's a recent post outlining what's currently available with our API and an overview of our general approach to this component of our platform...
State of the API, October/November 2019
rhymes ・ Nov 1 ・ 3 min read
Here's a post outlining the evolution of our team dynamic...
The DEV Team is now 100% Distributed
Jess Lee (she/her) ・ Oct 10 ・ 4 min read
Here is a post from a recent product launch outlining some of the ways to interact with DEV as a component of the ecosystem...
You can now generate self-hostable static blogs right from your DEV content via Stackbit
Ben Halpern ・ Sep 26 ・ 4 min read
Here is another ecosystem post, showing off the new "Share to DEV" button that is live on Stack Overflow...
Native "Share to DEV" button is now on Stack Overflow
Ben Halpern ・ Aug 30 ・ 1 min read
Here is a post celebrating a year of open source...
DEV Went Open Source One Year Ago Today, And We Have So Much More Planned!
Ben Halpern ・ Aug 8 ・ 4 min read
Here is a post commenting on the nature of Medium in the developer ecosystem, contrasting it to what we're working on...
Medium Was Never Meant to Be a Part of the Developer Ecosystem
Ben Halpern ・ Jun 3 ・ 5 min read
And finally, here is a post from a long time ago from the very very early stage of some of the topics we discuss in this post. Some of our ideas have changed, many of the core principles have not. It's exciting that we have been able to make progress on these ideas while continuing to be practical devs squashing day-to-day bugs.
How dev.to could topple Facebook
Ben Halpern ・ Mar 22 '18 ・ 5 min read