The 7 Most Popular DEV Posts from the Past Week

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Every new week we round up some of the last week's top posts, comments, and tweets. If you have any feedback, please leave a comment. â¤ï¸

1. Programmer -> Lead -> Exec

Lorenzo has been coding since 1984 and is focused on the human dimension of software engineering. In this AMA, he shares his advice with the dev.to community.

I spent 30 years coding full-time, then I switched to full-time management and leadership. Ask me anything.

Lorenzo Pasqualis ・ Sep 8 '17 ・ 1 min read

#ama #career

2. Are you ready to go?

New job, new language. This post is about Francis's experience learning go. He gives us an intro to the language, and reasons why we should give go a try.

How I learned Go Programming

Francis Sunday ・ Sep 2 '17 ・ 5 min read

#webdev #go #programming

3. From carpal tunnel to ramen

One of our engineers, Andy, was on a search to give up his mouse bc carpal tunnel blows. From there, he somehow ends up discovering a package that blesses code with ramen.

What's your favorite useless repo/package/website/etc?

Andy Zhao (he/him) ・ Sep 8 '17 ・ 1 min read

#discuss #productivity #offtopic #justforfun

4. How to Function...al Programming with Javascript

In Tiffany's new series, she researches and dives into the hot topic of functional programming in javascript by writing a few functions. This post is all about .filter()

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5. AMA with the Crystal creators

Crystal is an open source programming language aimed to be friendly for both humans and computers. It's a statically typed, compiled language with a really heavy type inference. The Crystal team were kind enough to let our community ask them anything.

We created the Crystal language, ask us anything!

Matías García Isaía for Crystal Language ・ Sep 6 '17 ・ 1 min read

#ama #crystal

6. Chop wood, carry water

Kevin connects mindful exercises to daily activities related to programming. Here are the exercises he came up with.

Mindful Code Exercises

Kevin McGillivray ・ Sep 5 '17 ・ 3 min read

#mindfulness

7. When choosing a framework...

Sylvain wants to know why he shouldn't choose RoR. In his post, he lists his requirements and questions.

Why should I not choose Ruby on Rails ?

Sylvain Marty ・ Sep 3 '17 ・ 2 min read

#discuss #rails #programming

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 Monday!