DEV Community
An open publishing community where developers write about what they are building, and a low friction place to start writing yourself. Publishing regularly does more for a career than most people expect.
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What it is
A blogging platform and community for developers, free to read and to publish on, with a comment culture that is markedly kinder than most technical forums.
Why publish rather than only read
Writing about what you learned is the cheapest career leverage available to an engineer. It forces you to actually understand the thing, it produces a public record of your thinking, and over time it is what makes people know your name before they meet you. The barrier is finding somewhere unintimidating to start, and this is that.
On reading it
Quality varies widely, as it does on any open platform. Follow specific authors rather than the front page.
Best for: engineers who want to start writing publicly and have been putting it off.
Ready to start?
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Stuck on something specific?
Writing only gets you so far. If you want an answer to your situation rather than the general case, book a session and we will work through it together. Every session is free; a few slots open each week.
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