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Andrew Bone • Edited

Make a command line interface for looking at the top 10 most recent post titles on dev.to.

The program should take a username as an argument and should fail gracefully.

node devtofeed.js ben

The output should look a little like this, though the design is up to you.

Author: Ben Halpern
Description: A Canadian living in New York, having a lot of fun cultivating this community! Creator and webmaster of dev.to.

Tue, 14 Aug 2018:
What are common myths about software careers?
Whether they were once true and now outdated, or were never a thing: What are commonly held beliefs about software development careers that are actually myth

Mon, 13 Aug 2018:
Who's looking for open source contributors? (August 13 edition)
Please shamelessly promote your project. Everyone who posted in previous weeks is welcome back this week, as always. 😄

Fri, 10 Aug 2018:
What are your guiding principles in software development?
Regardless of tech and challenge-specific context, what overarching principles do you come back to?

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There is an XML feed you can get the data from, I got that data from dev.to/feed/ben you simply need to change ben to the correct argument.

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Mark Matute

this is great!

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Andrew Bone

Feel free to post your solution here, it will be interesting to look at 🙂