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The 7 Most Popular DEV Posts from the Past Week

1. Technically correct, but not the full picture

Afri shares his research on Ethereum and explains why the blockchain size will not exceed 1TB anytime soon. In his explanation, we learn about block, state, block-history, state-history, pruning-modes, sync-modes, and more!

2. "I mostly use PHP” / “Oh wow, I’m sorry”

Andrew shares his experience with imposter syndrome as a PHP developer.

3. AMA w/ Julie Hubschman!

In this AMA, Julie shares her untraditional journey of graduating from a liberal arts college, designing her own major, and now, working as a software engineer at Microsoft.

4. Which noun describes you?

This post provides descriptions of different programming skill levels along with their parallel martial arts rank and code examples.

5. Note-taking applications

In an effort to find the best note-taking application, Aleksey went into research mode. This post details the apps he tried and what he liked/disliked about them.

6. An interesting project from Microsoft

Sonny provides a step-by-step guide on how to set up and get runnign with the Windows Subsystem for Linux.

7. What's in your toolbox?

Yes, yes, your fav text editor and QUnit, jUnit & Jenkins...but what's in your non-coding toolbox? In this post, we'll learn about some of the best coding tools that aren't specifically coding tools.

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!

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Kim Arnett 

Thanks for this wrap up! I've been avoiding the internet this week, and this is perfect to ease me back into the goodness. :)

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Ben Halpern

That Ethereum post was really interesting

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Afri Schoedon

Thanks!