Dev.to Review #6: Top 7 Of The Week, Discussed
Tags: discuss, webdev, bestofdev, meta
Published: 2018-10-31 17:36:34

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title: Dev.to Review #6: Top 7 Of The Week, Discussed
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description: Two devs get together to discuss the week's Top 7 posts on dev.to
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Bit of a quick and spoOo0Ooky episode this Halloweek as I prepared to head off to India (hello from Mumbai everyone!), but [Malik](https://dev.to/milkstarz) and [I](https://dev.to/dangolant) got together again to chat about this week's Top 7 Articles on dev.to.

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This week, we realized we messed up picking our Host's Choice last time, and we quickly recapped [Max Antonucci's piece on web accessibility](https://dev.to/maxwell_dev/the-web-accessibility-introduction-i-wish-i-had-4ope) from [last episode](https://dev.to/dangolant/devto-review-5-top-7-of-the-week-discussed-3l1d). Congrats to Max for making it into the Top 7, and to us, _for having such great taste :D_. 

From there, we moved on to a [project highlight](https://www.notion.so/dgolant/dev-to-review-6-10-29-2018-84686c38092b4551a39d06248622f9c8#d732d6eb02aa434b9b166e0a091ec833) from user ["James"](https://dev.to/jsrn), in which he covered nonsensical recruiter emails, and a project he made using Create React App to help developers highlight crazy experience requirements. 

[Jess Unrein](https://dev.to/thejessleigh) hit me close to home on a week where I not only lost my `.bash_profile`, but a whole damn computer, with a great post on [making terminals more user friendly](https://dev.to/thejessleigh/essential-quality-of-life-terminal-improvements-4pa4).

[Adrián Norte](https://dev.to/anortef) won our "Spicy Post Of The Week" with ["Why Branching On Git Is Wrong"](https://dev.to/anortef/why-branching-on-git-is-wrong-1pao), spurring some interesting discussion between us and in the comments section on his way to the top.

[Aly Sivji](https://dev.to/alysivji) brought us an [exhaustive introduction](https://dev.to/alysivji/testing-101-introduction-to-testing-5hdk) on testing philosophy, history, and the "why", "how", and "what" of testing. In _awe_ of the size of this lad. 

We discussed the strong case [Arik](https://dev.to/acoh3n) [made for Java](https://dev.to/acoh3n/why-i-love-java-5c14), along with the value of boring stacks and productivity over novelty.

And finally, we spoiled a few of [Matt Stratton's](https://dev.to/mattstratton) jokes from his great post on the [myths surrounding DevOps](https://dev.to/mattstratton/hot-takes-myths-and-fake-news---why-everyone-is-wrong-about-devops-except-for-me-265j) (go read it)(go read all of these).

Any thoughts on Test Pyramids versus Test Diamonds?

What's your favorite shell alias that you have baked into your config?

Now that you've read Matt's piece on DevOps, any tips on what to read next in the space?

Let us know in the comments!

We're still experimenting with post formats, audio, etc., so if you have any thoughts, feel free to let us know here, or on Twitter at [@dangolant](https://www.twitter.com/dangolant) and [@milkstarz](https://www.twitter.com/milkstarz).