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Welcome Thread - v225

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  1. Leave a comment below to introduce yourself! You can talk about what brought you here, what you're learning, or just a fun fact about yourself.

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Martin Krause

Hi everyone!

Welcome to the dev.to-community!

I'm Martin, and I worked as a Senior Front End Architect and Engineering Manager at one of the world's largest digital agencies, where I led Front End Teams for international projects. After 15 years, I quit my job. Now I travel the world as a professional scuba diver, work as a freelance Front End Tech Lead and technical Recruiter for international clients. Besides that, I write about technology.

My latest book about Modern Full Stack development will be published in October by No Stach Press. It's an easy, hands-on introduction to creating web applications with Next.js, MongoDB and Mongoose (there's currently a 25% Discount!). You can read more about how to become a published author in my upcoming article about writing books.

On dev.to I'm publishing a weekly periodical, the "WebDevDigest: A curated list of the top five web development must-reads from last week", which keeps you up to date on current web development trends and "LevelUp: Elevate your Career Today" where I give Career and Interview advice based on my experience as Engineering Manager and Technical Recruiter.

If I have enough time, I write more in-depth articles, for example how to create multi-language pages with next export, which is on GitHub:next-export-i18n and npmjs: next-export-i18n


I recommend following the general tags webdev, vscode , career and productivity and javascript, react, CSS. Head over to your Dashboard and adjust the tag weight to personalize your home feed.


Here's a list of articles to start your journey as a successful developer and a great writer:


If you are looking for your next job, I highly recommend buying the Book De-Coding the Technical Interview Process by Emma Bostian. It is hands down the best preparation for every technical interview.


If you're interested in my articles, follow me on dev.to/martinkr or twitter.com/_martinkr.

If you have questions or want to get in touch, don't hesitate to contact me on dev.to/martinkr.

And remember to start posting today!

Cheers!

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JefferyWilliamson

Hi Martin!

Your introduction was like opening a Pandora's box of immense knowledge and adventurous life experiences! It's like watching Indiana Jones, but instead of archaeology, you're unearthing the secrets of the Front End universe.

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Martin Krause

Hi! Thank that you like it.

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Danities Ichaba

wow.... I love your career trajectory....massive and fun experience.....would love to connect with you more, can't wait for your book

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Rahul Pandey

Great one buddy

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Xpocryptic

Thank you, I am a newbie looking to learn and collaborate. I just signed up on DEV

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Thanos Kantaras

Thank you!!!!!

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Mark Reijerkerk

Hello to you all,
Computers where my first love when I was 16YO, since then I could not let it go. Started at WANG inc. as trainee developing software to archive all the driver floppies from 1,2 Mb 5" afterward, I was a few years’ service engineer. However, my health was getting worse by the day so I couldn’t work anymore. Since then, I do everything at home. Keeping track of new hard and software. 10 years ago, the first home automation was started. That is my big passion now, developing hard and software to make living and life easier. The next project will be digital health monitoring to assist the overcrowded health sector.

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Refaktor

Hello all! I am Janko, I'm a developer and sort of a language-nut. I've programmed in many languages over the years. Currently I am working on my own dynamic language based on ideas from Rebol, Factor and Linux shell. It's called Rye - here is a blog about it, there is of course also a github repo and also a rather new reddit group for the language.

For my "job" I mostly work on web (front and back) and also mobile development (android).

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Martin Krause

Welcome to the community

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Natalie Tyrrell

Hey y'all! I'm Natalie. I'm a newbie and looking to learn and practice coding as much as possible. I am thinking of starting with Python and then JavaScript... but I am also green and naive! So keep me honest.

Since pictures help with engagement... here's one of me when I was lucky enough to visit Chennai, India late last year :)

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Why I'm here: My best friend and co-founder are in the very early stages of starting a business, and I want to be able to pull my weight on the product/tech side. I also think it will be fun to actually build something I care about! I'm hoping to give myself tiny projects to complete because typical learning is way too boring for me. I need to be doing/creating for things to really stick.

A little about me: I have a strong background in business, HR, and leadership, but have only ever interacted with development on the surface level. I've always wanted to do it myself and have considered (and even applied to) coding bootcamps, but I never had the courage and/or it never felt like the right time to go all in. I was exposed to Python in b-school, so seemed like a good place to start. I'm so determined to learn!

Any advice? I'm starting to learn Python through the ebook Automate the Boring Stuff. I'm open to all the advice on what you wish you would have known or any of your experiences learning to code that might help me! Seems like this community has some badass wisdom.

Cheers!

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Rodney Lab

Hey Natalie, welcome!

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Medea

welcome everyone!

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Danities Ichaba

Hi everyone,
My name is Danities Ichaba a software engineer with experience in Nodejs. The reason I join to this forum is to network with like minded developers, i am looking to connect and provide value genuinely with tech lovers. happy to be here, cheers

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Surender FL

Hi everyone!

Welcome to the dev.to-community!

I'm Surender, and I am working as a Senior Software Architect. I am skilled in front end technologies especially in Angular and React.

I upload videos related to front end technologies in YouTube. My channel name is webtechtalk.

I am willing to contribute to this community.

Thanks

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YOGESHWARAN R

A warm and enthusiastic welcome to our vibrant community! Wish you the very best as you embark on your journey of contribution and engagement.

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Surender FL

Thank you bro

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Sunandini

Hey !!! You all techies👋🏼

I am Sunandini , I am a beginner Backend developer and started my journey with the node JS,Typescript , currently I am working in a fintech company .

I'm excited 🤩 to join the DEV community .
I am here for a direction 🦾 and looking forward to network with other developers, learn new things , and wants to contribute 🤝 in this community .

Kind regards 🤗
Sunandini

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Edgar Dyck

Hi everyone,

my name is Edgar Dyck, or just Eddi, and I am a developer and founder. Did not really get myself into unicorn founder status yet, but who knows :D

Pleased that I finally got myself to register and post here! Looking forward to be part of this community and I try to contribute as much as I can!

My topics right know are mostly AI and web dev stuff. For a living I do programming in the Microsoft 365 Business Central sphere and also a bit of React.

About my metadata, I am 32 yo, live in Germany and besides working on startup stuff I freelance for a living.

Looking forward to writing my next posts and wish you all a successful week!

Eddi

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Diyorbek

Hi there ✋. 
My name is Diyorbek Juraev; I'm a junior front-end developer, and now I'm learning some JavaScript frameworks. I really love coding and sharing my experience. Now, I'm happy to be in the DEV community. I have become a team leader on more than five projects.
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