Top 7 Featured DEV Posts from the Past Week

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Every Tuesday we round up the previous week's top posts based on traffic, engagement, and a hint of editorial curation. The typical week starts on Monday and ends on Sunday, but don't worry, we take into account posts that are published later in the week.

Sharing the wheel with Copilot

GitHub Copilot, that is! Thanks to @thenomadevel for sharing this breakdown of what this tool does... and doesn't do (i.e. steal your job).

What is Github Copilot? Will it take your jobs !?

Nomadev ・ Nov 10 '21

#javascript #opensource #github #codenewbie

Once more with feeling

@lorena built a machine learning model that detects emotions from speech in a data science bootcamp. Pretty incredible, right? Read all about it here. 👇

Detecting emotions from speech with neural networks in Python

Lorena ・ Nov 12 '21

#tutorial #python #machinelearning #datascience

Making the leap

@maxritter wrote about making the move from being employed by a corporation to working independently as a freelancer. If you've ever considered doing the same, check this out!

Unleashing Self-Employment in Germany: My Journey & Best Practices for Long-Lasting Success

Max Ritter ・ Nov 13 '21

#career #motivation #beginners #freelance

We are paid to solve problems not to write code.

@dvddpl explains why we need to learn how to love problems and not mistake our own ego as the entire point as programmers.

The screw and the hammer: Love the problems, not your solutions.

Davide de Paolis ・ Nov 11 '21

#productivity #career #personaldevelopment #beginners

The art of the possible

@0shuvo0 created a pretty amazing app that allows you to draw on a canvas in multiple colors, clear it, and save your creation as an image. Best of all, they provide the code so you can build the same app yourself!

Lets create a Drawing APP with JS

Shuvo ・ Nov 10 '21

#javascript #webdev #tutorial #beginners

Which conditional statement to use when

@sumusiriwardana took a problem they used to frequently encounter and turned it into a helpful resource for others. Great stuff, Sumudu.

If-Else or Switch-Case: Which One to Pick?

Sumudu Siriwardana ・ Nov 10 '21

#javascript #beginners #codenewbie #webdev

The No-Code Movement

"To reach an age of absolute no-code," writes @study_web_dev "we need to outdo ourselves with artificial intelligence before anything else." More fantastic insights into where we're headed with "no-code" and the factors involved in that trajectory in this post.

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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 Tuesday!