If DEV were an acronym, what would it stand for?

Do Everything Vetter

Don't Exit Vim

Mike

Don't Exit Vim has got to be my favourite so far.

Pro tip: ESC + :wq = exit vim

:w = Write
:q = Quit
:wq = Write buffer and quit

Avalander

To be fair, any reference to Vim being hard to quit is always a cheap win.

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Mike

As a regular vim user, the cheapest win for me is emacs.

David Castro

Aug 10 '18

Another other pro tip, that's bound to just ZZ, withough a colon.

Sasha Koss

Aug 10 '18

Another pro tip! There is a shortcut for :wq — :x

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Mike

Aug 10 '18

Another pro tip for regex:

:%s/term/replacement/g

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Adam Parkin

Aug 12 '18

I'll use something similar when I rebase (to squash) a series of commits in a git repo (vim's my editor for Git). If when presented with the list of commits you do:

:2,$s/pick/s/g

You'll squash all commits into a single commit in one fell swoop.

Richard Burk

Don't Exit Vim

I'll buy that! 😂

kobayashi

That's so good, sir :D.

vishal

I would say Do Explore Vim! I love Vim :)

Gergely Polonkai

You can’t exit ViM, why ask not to do it?

Eljay-Adobe

Vim is the Hotel California of editors.

Avalander

Well, if the acronym would have been CEV, I could have said Can't Exit Vim; and Don't (know how to) Exit Vim seemed too far fetched, so Don't Exit Vim is the closest to what I wanted to say I could think of.

Kevin McGinn

Developers, dEvelopers, deVelopers!

Eljay-Adobe

Christian Melgarejo Bresanovich

Okay, this one is my favorite so far!

Silly variant: Developers Evelopers Velopers

Aug 9 '18

This is actually what ballmer says near the end of it, LOL

AWESOME! 😂

Developers Engaging Virtually

Developers Exchanging Value

The second one feels a bit too business-y to me though...

Yechiel Kalmenson

So... DEV Engaging Virtually? 😈

Shreyas Minocha

GNU style recursion? ❤️

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Batuhan Osman Taşkaya

Lots of F/OSS's uses Recursive acronymies. e.g: WINE, GNU, BIRD, cURL, PIP (Python's pkg manager)...

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Shreyas Minocha

Yeah, YAML too. it's just that GNU's the most popular and recognizable example.

Joana Chavez

Aug 6 '18

The first is the best one to me!

Sung M. Kim

Make sure you have spaces between each word for the latter.
😉

Amin Arria

Define Every Variable

Brian Greig

Digitally
Empowered
Visionaries

Juan F Gonzalez

Aug 5 '18

This one deserves the prize so far.

{Gene}

Discussions, Entertainment and Visions

Andrew Lucker

Deprecating Every Vocation

Kim Arnett 

developers emitting vomit
do evade viruses
works on my machine

Meghan Denny

NPM has prepared me...

Don't Evaluate Void
Dinos Expanding Vocabulary
Dust Excites Vacuums
Devs Explaining Vividly
Deploying Enterprise VMs
Disk E: Volume
Disproportionate Experience Vouchers

Michael Lee 🍕

Doing EVerything

Developers Eating Views

Developers Encouraging Views

Developers Encouraging Values

Did Everybody View

Doesn't Entice Violence

Developer Encouraging Values

Developer Excited Values

Developer Excellence Vlogs

Dev Edited Vlogs

Does Everybody Vim

Jesse M. Holmes

Indeed, everyone does!

Sung M. Kim

1st one

𝔻𝕖𝕧𝕖𝕝𝕠𝕡𝕖𝕣𝕤 === 𝕎𝕚𝕟!

Explanation

𝔻 evelopers
𝔼 qual Win (a synonym for
𝕍 ictory).

Kinda stretching the meaning here 😝

2nd one

𝔻𝕠𝕟'𝕥 𝔼𝕧𝕖𝕣 𝕍𝕠𝕞𝕚𝕥

Explanation

Make sure you hold it after having a few drinks 🥃 at a conference/meetup.

Please be respectful of others 🙇

Casey Brooks

Developers, Entrepreneurs, and Velociraptors

Thomas H Jones II