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The 7 Most Popular DEV Posts from the Past Week

1. An answer to the apocalypse

Blaine's post summarizes an article by The Atlantic, "The Coming Software Apocalypse" and analyzes Uncle Bob's response, Tools Are Not The Answer.

2. Are you hamster wheeling?

Suzan talks about the plateau every developer faces in their career: continue solving the same problems or move to management/entrepreneurship/open source, with all the outcomes leading to burnout. In this post, we long for the missing career path for programmers.

3. AMA with Sean Larkin, maintainer of webpack!

A fun AMA with Sean, where we learned about why react is better than vue and what his favorite chicken breeds are.

4. Learn the mistakes of others

While making mistakes is part of the learning process, you can also avoid some mistakes by learning from others. Lorenzo shares nine mistakes to avoid while you're building a software engineering career.

5. Agile, Waterfall, Spiral, Extreme, the list goes on.

Iren gives us a detailed summary of the top six software development methodologies.

6. ReduxJS in 30 seconds

Exactly how it sounds, Ross gives us an explanation of redux in 576 characters.

7. Enter the terminal

The what and why of terminal and bash.

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!

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Arne Mertz

Would you consider to add week numbers or dates to the #icymi post titles? If I look at the tag I see a dozen or so identically named posts. They are ordered by date, yes, but do I really have to do the math to see which posts made it to the list in the last week of June? ;-)

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Ben Halpern

@ross 's posts definitely exemplify that brevity can be a major feature!