Hey, everyone! It’s Thursday already! That means it’s time to present you the most thought-provoking Dev Articles over the last week. Less talking, more reading!

1. Refactoring: What Is It and When Do I Need it? The first article in our list was written by our Account Manager, Gleb Klimshin. We’re very proud of him! In this episode, he shared his experience about proper code refactoring.
2. JavaScript Functions — Understanding The Basics. This post, written by Brandon Morelli, will be especially useful for people who are going to start working with JavaScript. Launch your career as a JavaScript developer right now!
3. How to get your site on HTTPS for free in 10 minutes. This day has finally come. Google announced that Chrome 68, arriving in July, will mark all HTTP pages as “Not secure.” Nevertheless, as long as we’ve such articles, there’s nothing to worry about. By Ayo Isaiah.
4. Lessons from submitting 500k images from Shopify stores to Google for indexing. William Belk wrote a decent article that will help you significantly improve your Google image indexing.
5. The Mistakes I Made As a Beginner Programmer. Samer Buna made a list of the most common mistakes that he made as a beginner developer. Why not to learn from his mistakes?
6. Ruby’s New JIT. CRuby just got a JIT! No more words needed. By Shannon Skipper.
7. Who Killed The Junior Developer? Great article, written by Melissa Mcewen, will tell us a tragic story of a junior developer’s hard life:) Seriously, sometimes it’s extremely difficult to find a mentor if you’re new in programming.
8. Why starting a new Android project with Java is a bad idea. In this episode, Juhani Lehtimäki will tell you why Kotlin on Android is the future while Java is the past.
9. 5 Things to Remember Before Shipping Version 1.0 of your Mobile App. Once you’ve published your app, there’s no way back. Martin Rybak’s 5 tips will be your best friends after your app’s initial 1.0 release.
10. The Book Every Programmer Should Read. Martin Fowler, an author, speaker, and loud-mouth on the design of enterprise software, said once: “Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.” Vinicius Brasil, an author of this article, wrote an article that could totally change your developer’s career.

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