Wisdom of the DEV crowd 🗣
Tags: learning, bestofdev, meta, watercooler
Published: 2021-08-26 14:56:52

Unearth incredibly good content with this crazy simple trick!

It sounds like clickbait, I know... but it's true, I swear!

## How to unearth incredibly good content

- Take a topic you are unfamiliar with but curious about, for example **Kotlin**.
- Find its tag, for example https://dev.to/t/kotlin/.
- Crucial step: select the top articles from the **Infinity** tab, which leads you to https://dev.to/t/kotlin/top/infinity.

<img width="1085" alt="Screenshot_26_08_2021_16_32" src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/459464/130982102-c9d0a031-36b7-472d-906c-11205593ad91.png">

- Select the **3 articles** that looks most interesting to you and bookmark them.
- Open https://dev.to/readinglist and prepare yourself to learn a lot quickly.

## Benefits

As you can see the feature is not really hidden, but still the DEV interface is focused on what is new in the feed, and it can be easy to miss the good things that have been written before.

Every time I have followed those steps, I have been really happy about the results.

Most recently I was unsure about working remotely and how to avoid its pitfalls. 

Sure enough https://dev.to/t/remote/top/infinity was filled with really helpful content:

* [What I have learned from eight years of being a remote developer - DEV Community 👩‍💻👨‍💻](https://dev.to/ivancrneto/what-i-have-learned-from-eight-years-of-being-a-remote-developer-3eob)
* [How to Work Remotely Without Going Insane - DEV Community 👩‍💻👨‍💻](https://dev.to/walrusai/how-to-work-remotely-without-going-insane-28l6)
* [10 years of remote working. This is what I have learned so far. - DEV Community 👩‍💻👨‍💻](https://dev.to/mpermar/10-years-of-remote-working-this-is-what-i-have-learned-so-far-21l9)


## Try it out!

Select a topic you are not familiar but curious about and start bookmarking the articles that looks interesting.

- Non tech: [#career](https://dev.to/t/career/top/infinity)
[#writing](https://dev.to/t/writing/top/infinity)
[#agile](https://dev.to/t/agile/top/infinity) [#discuss](https://dev.to/t/discuss/top/infinity) [#watercooler](https://dev.to/t/watercooler/top/infinity) [#meta](https://dev.to/t/meta/top/infinity)
- Webdev: [#javascript](https://dev.to/t/javascript/top/infinity)
[#react](https://dev.to/t/react/top/infinity)
[#reactnative](https://dev.to/t/reactnative/top/infinity)
[#angular](https://dev.to/t/angular/top/infinity)
[#node](https://dev.to/t/node/top/infinity)
[#vue](https://dev.to/t/vue/top/infinity)
[#css](https://dev.to/t/css/top/infinity)
[#html](https://dev.to/t/html/top/infinity)
[#typescript](https://dev.to/t/typescript/top/infinity)
- Programming langugaes: [#python](https://dev.to/t/python/top/infinity)
[#php](https://dev.to/t/php/top/infinity)
[#java](https://dev.to/t/java/top/infinity)
[#android](https://dev.to/t/android/top/infinity)
[#go](https://dev.to/t/go/top/infinity)
[#ruby](https://dev.to/t/ruby/top/infinity)
[#csharp](https://dev.to/t/csharp/top/infinity)
[#rails](https://dev.to/t/rails/top/infinity)
[#swift](https://dev.to/t/swift/top/infinity)
[#dart](https://dev.to/t/dart/top/infinity)
[#cpp](https://dev.to/t/cpp/top/infinity)
[#rust](https://dev.to/t/rust/top/infinity)
[#c](https://dev.to/t/c/top/infinity)
- Topics:
[#git](https://dev.to/t/git/top/infinity)
[#ux](https://dev.to/t/ux/top/infinity)
[#learning](https://dev.to/t/learning/top/infinity)
[#database](https://dev.to/t/database/top/infinity)
[#sql](https://dev.to/t/sql/top/infinity)
[#devops](https://dev.to/t/devops/top/infinity)
[#aws](https://dev.to/t/aws/top/infinity)
[#security](https://dev.to/t/security/top/infinity)
[#testing](https://dev.to/t/testing/top/infinity)
[#docker](https://dev.to/t/docker/top/infinity)
[#linux](https://dev.to/t/linux/top/infinity)
[#cloud](https://dev.to/t/cloud/top/infinity)
[#serverless](https://dev.to/t/serverless/top/infinity)
[#datascience](https://dev.to/t/datascience/top/infinity)
[#machinelearning](https://dev.to/t/machinelearning/top/infinity)
[#kubernetes](https://dev.to/t/kubernetes/top/infinity)
[#blockchain](https://dev.to/t/blockchain/top/infinity)
[#architecture](https://dev.to/t/architecture/top/infinity)
[#algorithms](https://dev.to/t/algorithms/top/infinity)
[#ai](https://dev.to/t/ai/top/infinity)
[#bash](https://dev.to/t/bash/top/infinity)

I would be surprised if you don't find 3 excellent articles!