This is a weekly roundup of awesome DEV comments that you may have missed. You are welcome and encouraged to boost posts and comments yourself using the #bestofdev tag.
One of the most popular discussions this week was a conversation on Password manager recommendations. @simoroshka had the short-and-sweet top comment to recommend LastPass:
I am very happy with LastPass
While @alex_barashkov offered some additional context around 1Password. Be sure to give the whole thread a look if you're in the market for a new password manager:
1password is amazing product. I used LastPass but switched to 1Password.
- Really pretty and nice UI
- Family plan. the price is very fair but you could guarantee that all your credentials so be safed across family and it's also great to have share vaults where you could put common things
- Touch Id support. Use it on Mac and iPhone, so it's really fast and secure way to access to your vault.
- 2fa codes support. First of all you could keep all your codes in 1password + it will be auto copied to your clipboard. it so useful
I think that's my best features I use every day in 1password
@ballpointcarrot jumped into The node_modules problem discussion thread to talk about how there really is a package for everything. This actually pre-dated the very timely disclosure of an npm package that was discovered to have a backdoor:
At the risk of being too snarky this morning:
a library that sums two numbers (hypothetical example, I hope)
@bosepchuk talked about preference in the Compact or Verbose Codestyle? discussion:
I don't concern myself with the number of lines (compact vs verbose).
Code must first be readable (by a new programmer, at 5pm on Friday, operating on four or less hours of sleep). You're going to run into trouble with anything else.
I've never encountered code that was too readable. But I have encountered plenty of puzzle/mystery/deceptive/spaghetti code.
And finally, @puritanic gave a great reply in response to What are some misconceptions about web development?:
One of the most annoying ones is that web development is easy and that everyone can create a website. Of course, maybe my grandpa can create a website but there are a lot of factors that a website requires to be performant and accessible among the other stuff. There are also zillion frameworks and this field is advancing on a week level, and there is always something new to be learned so that you can stay up to date. So you should be prepared to spare some time weekly for learning new stuff. Beside this, for web development, you only need to have a solid knowledge of Javascript and CSS, for now, you don't need to know ten programming languages to start looking for a front-end job.
Another common misconception is that when you finish the website your work is done 🙃If we're talking about production applications this is far from true.
You don't need to be an expert at maths to be a good web developer. That's mandatory for the data science and machine learning but in web development, you'll use your math skills on rare occasions only.
And you don't need to have a CompSci degree to start working as a web dev, this is mandatory for data science and ML (although there are exceptions here too as well). I'm self-taught (and no degree) and I've been working as a frontend dev for almost 3 years now 😎
See you next week for more great comments ✌
Top comments (7)
Congrats @simoroshka , @alex_barashkov , @ballpointcarrot , @bosepchuk , and @puritanic for making the list this week!
Thanks 😄Made my day
Hah, thanks, but mine is the most useless comment of the week, probably :D
Not really :) There's nothing wrong with lastpass.
As someone who uses LastPass all the time, it was my favorite of the week :)
Congrats on the great comments folks 😄
(Also testing to see if Peter gets this notification on his phone)
Wow! Who knew my snark would take me this far. 😁
Glad to provide some levity for everyone this week. Thanks!