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.
Is Uncle Bob serious?
Blaine Osepchuk ・ Oct 9 '17 ・ 8 min read
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.
The missing career path for software developers
Suzan Bond ・ Oct 10 '17 ・ 8 min read
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.
I maintain webpack, ask me anything!
Sean Larkin ・ Oct 11 '17 ・ 1 min read
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.
9 Software Engineering Career Mistakes To Avoid At All Costs
Lorenzo Pasqualis ・ Oct 12 '17 ・ 8 min read
5. Agile, Waterfall, Spiral, Extreme, the list goes on.
Iren gives us a detailed summary of the top six software development methodologies.
Top 6 software development methodologies
Iren Korkishko ・ Oct 11 '17 ・ 10 min read
6. ReduxJS in 30 seconds
Exactly how it sounds, Ross gives us an explanation of redux in 576 characters.
ReduxJS in 30 seconds
Ross Creighton ・ Oct 9 '17 ・ 1 min read
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!
Latest comments (2)
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? ;-)
@ross 's posts definitely exemplify that brevity can be a major feature!