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Top 7 Featured DEV Posts from the Past Week

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 published later in the week.

A Beginner’s Guide to Building LLM-Powered Applications with LangChain!

Interested in taking it up a notch by crafting your own LLM-based applications? If so, LangChain is the platform for you. Learn more about LangChain and LLMs with @pavanbelagatti!

Clocks & Countdowns: Timing in CSS and JavaScript

Learn how to tell time in CSS & JavaScript with @madsstoumann! requestAnimationFrame should be better for performance than setInterval, but let’s compare how they work together.

Memorization and Learning To Code

Many of us have held onto the belief that memorization equals learning. The hard truth is that the concept you spent hours trying to memorize is going to fade from your memory. Explore this path of learning to code with @bycdiaz.

Using REM Doesn't Make Your Website Responsive - Here's Why

Here’s what REM actually does and how you can make your website more responsive by optimizing your text with @marcelluscaio.

Small Details to Improve Your Website's Experience

All the small things matter, and that’s especially true for web development. Let’s go over five small things with @alvaromontoro that just need a line or two to change and will improve your users’ overall experience.

The Communication Shortcomings of Programmers

These are some very down-to-earth tips from @bytebodger on what developers can do to make sure they’re effectively communicating with everyone outside the engineering team.

Prompt Engineering is Programming

Recently, prompt engineering has become big - but is it a new thing? Let's follow that thought down the rabbit hole a bit with @polterguy!

That's it for our weekly Top 7 for this Tuesday! Keep an eye on dev.to this week for daily content and discussions...and be sure to keep an eye on this series in the future. You might just be in it!

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Brian Bethencourt

Congratulations to our authors this week! @polterguy, @bytebodger, @alvaromontoro, @marcelluscaio, @bycdiaz, @madsstoumann, and @pavanbelagatti!

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Angela Caldas

Congrats, @marcelluscaio <3