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Welcome Thread - v359

  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.

  2. Reply to someone's comment, either with a question or just a hello. 👋

  3. Come back next week to greet our new members so you can one day earn our Warm Welcome Badge!

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Ruan Aragão

I arrived here about 10 years ago through Hacktoberfest, I think. I loved the place, despite the strange people, but it was clean. (Just kidding). Thank you to everyone who makes this community fantastic! I'll try to post more this year 👀.

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Richard Pascoe

Hello, Ruan. Amazing that you've spent a decade here! I look forward to seeing some more posts from you during 2026 perhaps. Hacktoberfest and Advent of Code are two things I'd like to tackle this year, if I gain enough experience before then come around!

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Syed Fazil

Hi everyone
I found dev.to around a week ago, saw some really interesting posts, and the community is really nice so far from an outsider perspective. going to start posting here and become a part of the community, hopefully. Anyway, this is my very first interaction activity here, so again, hello everyone, and looking forward to learning and growing with everyone.

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Richard Pascoe

Hello, Syed. Welcome to the community! Glad you like what you have seen. Hope to read some of your own posts soon!

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Vincent Du

Hi, Dev.to community, I am here to learn and share.

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Ruan Aragão

Your posts are very good.

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Alberto Rodríguez Acevedo

You have some really nice posts!

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Vincent Du
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Diz • Edited

Hi am Diz and I have been interested in coding for 2yrs . Though still writing in exercise books but am glad of the website existing to keeps my hopes high.

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Richard Pascoe

Welcome to dev.to, Diz. I look forward to reading about your transition from theory to practice! Those exercise books full of information will sure come in handy, I'm sure!

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Diz

Well I don't have a laptop yet that's why 😁

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Richard Pascoe

That makes your desire to learn even more impressive, Diz. I wish I made more notes to be honest, it's my achilles heel. Good luck with the laptop! It's not an alternative for everyone but I used a Raspberry Pi to learn how to code for quite sometime - less distractions!

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mehrshad

I’ve been a backend developer, and during one summer semester, one of my college professors told me, “Hey man, change what you’re doing and learn AI , start with image processing.”
I’m really thankful to that person and professor.

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Matthew LaCrosse

Hey everyone!

I've been in deep GenAI R&D for 3 years now. 18 years building and growing tech startups. Have really gotten into product over the past 5 years. Vibe coding for a couple years now and have been up for 2 weeks straight learning everything claude code. Would love to connect with some other people building claude code frameworks and optimizing dev environments, etc.

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mehrshad

hi there

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Mehmet Bulat

Hi everyone! I’m Mehmet (mebularts) — a full-stack dev from Istanbul. I build SaaS and automation tools (PHP/Python, bots, integrations). If it can be automated, I probably already tried… and then tried again after fixing a typo.
Excited to learn, share, and meet fellow builders here!

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Matteo Tuzi

Hi everyone!
I'm an AI engineer currently obsessed with giving long-term memory to AI agents... mostly because I have terrible memory myself, so I'm trying to compensate!
I'm here to chat about RAG, system architectures, and to see if my code can remember things better than I do. Nice to meet you all!

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JJ7striker

Hi, I am currently learning frontend development in the javascript phase right now. I came to this platform to understand how other developers produce code and projects. Also, i came here because i sometimes struggle with creating a program and came to understand how others would do it.

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Vishal

I landed here following of this article . Looked like an awesome place for likeminded people so decided to stay :) I have been a solution architect most my professional career, and only shifted to dev at the end of 2020, and then never looked back. Writing code is like redemption to me, and I also love playing guitar and flying fpv drones. Looking forward to learn from the community and give back as much as I can. If there are any handy links for newbies like me to get to know the community better, do share. Cheers!

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