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Top 7 Featured DEV Posts of the Week

Jem on August 18, 2026

Welcome to this week's Top 7, where the DEV editorial team handpicks their favorite posts from the previous week (Saturday-Friday). Congrats to al...
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Zion Sati

Wow thank you! First time my writing has made it into any top list! Lol

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FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ (っ◔◡◔)っ

Big Win it is then! Good work Zion, keep it up haha

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Self-Correcting Systems

Thank you bro, i appreciate it!

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Haoxiang Li

thank you:)

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Sandro Garcia

Thank you Francis!

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Sylwia Laskowska

Thank you so much! ❤️ And huge congratulations to everyone else who made the list, especially @sandrog for his excellent article.

And @robertobutti, where did you get that awesome hoodie? I need to know! 😂

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Jess Lee The DEV Team

We will bring the DEV shop back one day 🥲

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Sandro Garcia

Thanks Sylwia!

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Roberto B.

@sylwia-lask from the old official DEV shop! 😃

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Sandro Garcia

WOW! Thank you so much to everyone who engaged and contributed to the discussion! Really appreciate all the great feedback and insights! 🙌🚀

Congrats @robertobutti, @sylwia-lask, @debashish_ghosal, @kenielzep97, @zionsati, and @haoxiangli!!

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Pascal CESCATO

Congrats to everyone being featured this week! 👋

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Hemapriya Kanagala

Big congrats to everyone featured this week 🙌
@robertobutti, @sylwia-lask, @debashish_ghosal, @sandrog, @kenielzep97, @zionsati, @haoxiangli

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Self-Correcting Systems

thank you, this genuinely made my day. appreciate you taking the time to shout everybody
out.

congrats to the rest of the list too, good company to be in.

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Haoxiang Li

thank you!

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Sandro Garcia

Thank you!!!

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Roberto B.

Thank you so much to @heyitsjem and the DEV editorial team for including my article in this week's Top 7! 🙏

It’s always a great feeling to see your work recognized by the community.

And congratulations to all the other authors who made the list @sylwia-lask , @debashish_ghosal , @sandrog, @haoxiangli , @kenielzep97 , @zionsati well deserved! 👏🎉

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Self-Correcting Systems

thank you @heyitsjem, and to the editorial team.

im going to say why this one lands the way it does.

that piece exists because i kept getting refused doing security work on software i wrote
myself. my own code, my own machine, and i couldnt get a straight answer about it. so
instead of writing the complaint post i built something to measure whether the promise was
actually real. it broke before it produced a single number.

publishing that felt bad. theres no version of the thing i built didnt work that reads
well. i put it out anyway, because the alternative was quietly fixing it first and telling
you about it later once it was flattering.

what happened after is the part i still think about. somebody i have never met took it,
ran it on their own machine, checked the setup themselves instead of taking my word for
it, and the numbers matched.

its still not reproduced. one machine, one time, and most of what i asked for is still
empty. so this isnt a finish line and im not going to dress it up as one.

but getting picked for the one where it broke, in the same week i caught five wrong claims
in my own work before they shipped, is a strange and good thing and i wanted to say that
out loud instead of just saying thanks.

congrats to the other six.

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Sarvar Nadaf

Hey @heyitsjem
any idea how to add youtube video to article cover?

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Jem The DEV Team

Hey @sarvar_04, I'm glad you asked!

First, make sure you are using the Rich + Markdown editor. If you already are you can skip to the next paragraph. If you're still using the basic markdown editor you can switch in Settings > Customization, then scroll down to Writing and select the Rich + markdown option.

Now when you go to create a new post, there should be an option to add a Cover Video Link at the top. Just paste the Youtube video URL in there.

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Sarvar Nadaf

Thanks Jem.
This is really helpful 😀

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Aalaa Fahiem
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xulingfeng

Congratulations!