The 7 Most Popular DEV Posts from the Past Week

#top7 #bestofdev

1. "Beginner" ➡️ "Hazard" ➡️ "Expert"

Jan drops some wisdom and perspective about the different "stages" of being a developer. The phrase "I know enough to know I don't know enough" comes to mind.

The Three Stages of a Developer

Jan Wedel ・ Nov 8 '18

#development

2. Teaching Functional Programming 💡🌎

Ed describes two big-picture approaches to teaching functional programming: using History, and using Philosophy.

Teaching Functional Programming: Two Big Picture Approaches

Ed Toro ・ Nov 6 '18

#functional #ruby #elixir #javascript

3. 🙈 Things no one told me 🙈

There's a big difference between "programming" and being a professional software engineer. Ana kicks off a discussion with 20 observations.

Things Nobody Told Me About Being a Software Engineer

Ana Ulin 😻 ・ Nov 9 '18

#career #industry #work #discuss

4. 🚀 Gitote is live! 🚀

A very cool #showdev, announcing the launch of Gitote — an open-source alternative to GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, and others.

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5. 📜 The Unix Way 📜

Amidst all of the great Vim tutorials, David shares some great context about Unix. Vim is powerful because it's already tightly integrated with Unix tooling.

The Unix way... or why you actually want to use Vim

David Wickes ・ Nov 9 '18

#vim #unix #productivity #bash

6. 🔬 Exploring Vim 🔬

Speaking of great Vim tutorials and introductions, don't miss this article which provides some great background and offers a taste of Vim.

Exploring Vim

Jaime González García ・ Nov 6 '18

#vim #neovim #webdev #productivity

7. PHP Resources on DEV 🏗✅🚥🔒🛠

Spanning tooling, security, bootstrapping, quality, clean code, testing, and DEV members to follow, this is a great PHP-focused roundup.

Awesome PHP Resources on DEV 🚀 🎉 🎢

Boris Jamot ✊ / ・ Nov 7 '18

#php #devtips #bestofdev #learning

That's it for our weekly wrap up! Keep an eye on dev.to this week for daily content and discussions...and if you miss anything, we'll be sure to recap it next Monday!