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

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Andy Zhao (he/him) • Edited

Developers Engaging Virtually

or

Developers Exchanging Value

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

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Yechiel Kalmenson

So... DEV Engaging Virtually? 😈

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Shreyas Minocha

GNU style recursion? ❀️

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Sung M. Kim • Edited

Make sure you have spaces between each word for the latter.
πŸ˜‰

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Joana Chavez

The first is the best one to me!

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Amin Arria

Define Every Variable

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Michael Lee πŸ•

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

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Jesse M. Holmes

Indeed, everyone does!

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Meghan (she/her)

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

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Andrew Lucker

Deprecating Every Vocation

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Jason C. McDonald

Developers Excelling Vertically?

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Kevin McGinn

Developers, dEvelopers, deVelopers!

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Eljay-Adobe • Edited

Okay, this one is my favorite so far!

Silly variant: Developers Evelopers Velopers

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Christian Melgarejo • Edited

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

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Georgina Grey

Developers Enthusiastically Venting

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Kim Arnett ο£Ώ

developers emitting vomit
do evade viruses
works on my machine

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Txai

Debbuging... Enable Verbosity