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What are your Favorite Authors, on Which Topics, and Why?

Jean-Michel 🕵🏻‍♂️ Fayard on September 26, 2022

I think the title says it all? I am thinking mainly about authors writing on DEV.to but feel free to mention your favorite writers outside. This ...

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Drew Knab • Sep 26 '22 • Edited

Of the users who aren't super active anymore:
@tux0r (I have a soft-spot for his unhinged opinions, though occasionally problematic)
@jrswab (genuinely a good writer)
@chantastic (absolute goober who's written some genuinely helpful articles)
@dmfay (some really cool older articles and formerly a prolific commenter with great insight into an array of topics)

Currently active users:
@joaofbantunes (never read or watched one of his videos without learning something)
@missamarakay (genuinely good writer and consistently makes me think about DX in a new way)
@jwoertink (unique perspective from an, uhhh, unconventional industry and really gets me thinking about alternative solutions architecture)

Jean-Michel 🕵🏻‍♂️ Fayard • Sep 26 '22

Wow thanks a lot. I had a look at all of them and found some pearls
(the others are good too, just writing about other parts of the industry than mine).

In particular:

tux0r has "strongly dislike Git" in his bio and that was an immediate follow for me.
Michael Chan's article Do The Thing — Confront Ego and Make Something was eye opening.
Amara's article Measuring Successful Documentation was super insightful. I recently discovered I love documenting things. The reward where I can send "See link here " instead of repeating myself is so great.

Eljay-Adobe • Sep 27 '22

Was it tux0r who wrote....

git - makes simple things difficult,
      hard things impossible, and
      disasterous things easy.

...?

Jean-Michel 🕵🏻‍♂️ Fayard • Sep 27 '22

I don't know but I will steal it, thanks.

Jeremy Woertink • Sep 26 '22

😬 I have to really think outside the box sometimes lol. Thanks for the mention, glad you dig the articles.

João Antunes • Sep 26 '22

Thanks for the shout-out!
Happy that you’ve found the posts and videos useful 🙂.

Amara Graham • Sep 26 '22

<3 thank you for the shoutout! And a great prompt to get another blog written!

Jean-Michel 🕵🏻‍♂️ Fayard • Sep 26 '22

ah ah that was also a secret hope :)

Matija Novosel • Sep 27 '22

Haven't had the time to check out a lot of devs here but I'd like to mention @gregorygaines, he makes interesting content that isn't the usual run-of-the-mill "here's X blazingly fast tricks in X language" buzz word fest.

Off dev.to, I like to skim through Fireship's old content both on his main and off channel, One lone coder for the low level stuff, Ben Eater for the more low level stuff and Mental outlaw just to keep up with technology controversies.

Jean-Michel 🕵🏻‍♂️ Fayard • Sep 27 '22

Thanks for the hint.
I found this article especially interesting

Stop Using .env Files Now! - DEV Community 👩‍💻👨‍💻

Matija Novosel • Sep 27 '22 • Edited

I found the gameboy stuff more interesting, but yes that particular article was quite a show.

Also, I think there's an extra "h" at the start of your portfolio GitHub link (hhttps://github.com/jmfayard/).

Jean-Michel 🕵🏻‍♂️ Fayard • Sep 27 '22

Thanks for the hint.

Gregory Gaines • Sep 28 '22

@matijanovosel Thanks for the shout out!!

M R 3 Y • Sep 26 '22

I really like reading Tony Robalik articles
on topics such as #gradle #benchmarking #gradle-best-practices.
My favourite article is: Abusing gradle class loader hierarchy

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