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Top 7 Featured DEV Posts from the Past Week

Every Tuesday we round up the previous week's top posts based on traffic, engagement, and a hint of editorial curation. The typical week starts on Monday and ends on Sunday, but don't worry, we take into account posts that are published later in the week.

Understanding Git with Images

Inspired by Nico Riedmann's "Learn git concepts, not commands", @nopenoshishi put together an awesome guide on Git’s system structure featuring hand drawn-images!

Improve Your Chances at Interviews

Looking for work is always a tough experience. Here, @andrewbaisden describes many actions you might take to make sure you get your foot in the door of the IT business.

Databases 101

Databases can be a confusing and scary topic for those who haven’t explored them. @danielhe4rt shares their learnings, letting us know what they find particularly fascinating about databases.

Reduce Docker Image Sizes

Reducing the size of the Docker image in their pet project by 97%, @kitarp29 uncovered some really effective methods for bringing down the size of Docker images. Read on to see how they made it happen!

Google Logo in CSS

Illustrating logos in CSS is a great way to learn the ins and outs of the language. In this post, @ratracegrad walks us through creating the Google logo.

A Guide to WebAssembly

WebAssembly (Wasm) is a low-level binary format that is designed to be faster and more efficient than traditional JavaScript. In this article, @cocoandrew explores how to use WebAssembly in a web application.

Blogging for Developers

Though it can be difficult to get going, @nasirovelchin puts forth several reasons why blogging is particularly beneficial to software developers.

That's it for our weekly Top 7 for this Tuesday! Keep an eye on dev.to this week for daily content and discussions...and be sure to keep an eye on this series in the future. You might just be in it!

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Michael Tharrington

Big ups to all the authors above: @nopenoshishi, @andrewbaisden, @danielhe4rt, @kitarp29, @ratracegrad, @cocoandrew, & @nasirovelchin! 🙌

Thank you for sharing such great posts with the community!

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Elchin Nasirov

Thank you @michaeltharrington!

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Pratik Singh

Thank you So much Michael 😊
Means a lot to a student like me!

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Tech reven

Thank you for this 😊

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Bobby Iliev

This is awesome! Great to see some database posts on the list 🙌

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Michael Tharrington

Awwww yeah! We're trying to broaden our picks and being really adamant about choosing posts from different topics, writing styles, and people. Variety is the spice of life!

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Andrew Baisden

Congrats everyone, well done keep up the good work posting valuable articles on here 👏

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Cocoandrew

Thank you, congrats to you too

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Pratik Singh

Thanks you for mentioning my article 😊
It look like I am on a Hattrick 😅

Congratulations everyone!

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Cocoandrew

Congrats everyone ( :

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Daniel Nogueira

CSS always on the top!

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Elchin Nasirov

Well done 👏 Congrats everyone!

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Cocoandrew

Thank you ( :