Top DEV articles this week

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The 20 most-reacted articles on DEV over the last 7 days, with reactions and comments, and how the reactions are spread.

A snapshot, not a live feed. These values are what the source returned at 2026-09-30 06:36 UTC. Run the calls below now and the numbers will differ.

Articles
20
Most reactions
142
Median reactions
74.5
Fewest reactions
17
Median comments
30
Articles per reactions range0-49 reactions: 50-49 reactions550-99 reactions: 1250-99 reactions12100-199 reactions: 3100-199 reactions3200-399 reactions: 0200-399 reactions0400+ reactions: 0400+ reactions0
How many of the 20 articles fall in each fixed reactions range.

The data

#ArticleReactionsCommentsBy
1The Accidental Blogger: How I Ended Up on DEV11662sylwia-lask
2🦄 Sharing DEV Followers Count on Github Profile 🦄14287annavi11arrea1
3I Turned DEV.to Into a Walkable 3D Library — Debugging It Has Been a Nightmare7631mikachu
4Disappeared Since March: Taking a Long Break Was My Best Decision Yet8431maame-codes
523 Rejections, Multiple Offers: What I Learned From My 2-Month SWE Job Search5838javz
6🗓️ Monthly Dev 💫SPECIAL💫 Report: September 20268434francistrdev
7What DEV Series Are You Reading or Writing? Let’s Make Them Easier to Find9336hemapriya_kanagala
88 Posts by Women on DEV That Deserve More Than a Once-a-Year Spotlight6825mikachu
9I Built My First AI Agent With AWS AgentCore, and the Hardest Part Wasn't the AI7422hemapriya_kanagala
10I burned out. Now I don't know how to start again.6547embernoglow
11Polly Introduces an Open Source Maintenance Fee7551gramli
12'Someone Already Built That' is the Favourite Excuse of Broke Developers7729maame-codes
13I Pulled Nine Years of My Own Dev.to Data. The Numbers Were Not What I Expected.3810kenwalger
14I Built a Better Codex Pet Than OpenAI Did428mikachu
15Prompt Injection Is the New SQL Injection (and We're Not Ready)7766james_anderson_h
16An introverted dev in an extroverted world3429ikrame-ih
17Your Type Guard Can Silently Drift from Your TypeScript Type 🔧7228nyaomaru
18Claude e Obsidian - Como uma QA utiliza essas ferramentas no dia-a-dia1024m4rri4nne
19Pointers Aren't Arrows. How C and C++ Actually Talk to Hardware.174smtahosin
20Implementation is where judgements go to become invisible1725tom_jones_230c4659491adcd

Method. Reactions are engagement.likes as mapped from the source (its public reactions count). Bins are fixed (0-49, 50-99, 100-199, 200-399, 400+), not fitted to the data. A value shown as “unknown” was null in the response.

The calls used

RequestHTTPFetched (UTC)Price
GET /v1/devto/top_articles?days=72002026-09-30 06:36 UTC (from cache)5 credits

Reproducing this costs 5 credits at list price: each call is charged at its endpoint’s flat price, and a call served from cache is free (see credits and pricing). Snapshot built 2026-09-30 06:37 UTC by scripts/build-data-snapshots.mjs, one call at a time.

Reproduce this

curl -s "https://api.onekey.dev/v1/devto/top_articles?days=7" \
  -H "x-api-key: $ONEKEY_KEY"

You need an API key (get one free). The response for each call has the shape described in Response format; the rows above are read from data.

Cite this

Onekey data snapshot, “Top DEV articles this week”, as of 2026-09-30 06:36 UTC. https://onekey.dev/data/devto-top-articles-week

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