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Welcome Thread - v359

Sloan the DEV Moderator on January 07, 2026

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. Re...
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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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Parteek Jain

Hi everyone, Parteek this side. Just joined this dev community a week ago, really liked here. Currently building an AI tool for developers. Hope to make some impact for community in future by building something useful.

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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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CIZO

Hey everyone 👋

I’m Siddharth, founder at CIZO. I work on building production-grade AI systems—especially where real-world constraints matter more than demos.

Here to share lessons from shipping, and to learn from the community as well.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Richard Pascoe

Welcome to the DEV Community, Vishal. I'm sure you'll be right at home here! I really like what you said about writing code being redemption, as it made me realise that is has similar meaning for myself. When I write code, it forces me to focus - attention disorder be damned!

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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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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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Webster

I was using comet to browse the plethora of ai tools and their tutorials and stumbled onto here. Very Nice. Everything is in one place!

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Richard Pascoe

Welcome, Webster. I look forward to hearing more about your learning journey!

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Webster

Light-speed response.... Okay. Cool!

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Alberto Rodríguez Acevedo

Hellooo!! I am a programmer from Spain, who is also 18 years old. I have like a year of programming experience 😅. I study Web Dev and Game Dev. Nice to meet you all.

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Richard Pascoe

Welcome to the Dev Community, Alberto. Best of luck with web and game development! Once I gain a little more knowledge, I'm hoping to use Godot Engine to develop a role-playing game. I look forward to hearing more about your own journey!

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Alberto Rodríguez Acevedo

That's the Game Engine I'm currently learning! It's definitely a fun one :)

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Richard Pascoe

Ah, good to know! Look forward to any related posts that you publish.

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CY Chan

Hi everyone! I’m CY, a full-time software engineer with three years of experience. I’m excited to be here to learn new things and share what I’ve learned along the way.

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Alindev

Hi everyone! 👋 I’m a developer working on web apps and plugins, excited to share what I learn and connect with the community.

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Richard Pascoe

Welcome to the community, Alindev. I look forward to reading your posts!

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John Simon

Hello DEV.to! We’re launching DataExtractorPro

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eric amouzou

hi there, nice to meet you all

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230223131006_VATSAL CHHATBAR

Hello Everyone, I am Vatsal. I am a begginer in my professional career as a developer

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Piyush Bani

HLL GUYS NEW TO THIS STUFF WANNA KNOW HOW THIS REALLY WORKS.....SO WILL BE GREAT HELP IF COULD HELP ME I KNOW I COULD WATCH YT TUTORIAL BUT LITTLE HELP WILL BE APPRECIABLE....

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Richard Pascoe

Greetings, Piyush. Big energy in this intro - glad you’re here. Where do you think your interest is at the moment? Web Development? Programming? Do you have something in mind that you hope to create or build? There are plenty of resources available, like freeCodeCamp and The Odin Project, just let us know what you hope to achieve.

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Jess

Hello Everyone 👋
Jess here, I have started learning about python recently and excited to be the part of the community!

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Richard Pascoe

Greetings, Jess. Welcome to the community! I'm learning Python myself, having worked my way through Automate the Boring Stuff with Python by Al Sweigart in the past. Is there anything in particular that drew you to Python?

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Sharan Shetty

Exploring more...

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Richard Pascoe

Welcome to the community here at DEV, Sharan. I am sure you'll find lots of ideas and excellent posts from fellow members!

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King Habib

New year, new journey

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Lukas Karlsson

👋

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srujan G

Hello Everyone. I am a Data Engineer, new to the DEV Community, and excited to learn and share.

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Scott Cotton

Hi all,
Happy to see a site that accepts markdown uploads!
Not familiar with the community yet, we'll see.
Thanks for the reception.
Scott

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Source Orisun

I am here to learn. Thank you.

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Iniubong Ebong

Hello everyone

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Michele Moye

Looking for a move up in Library technology AKA Digital Repositories

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Richard Pascoe

Greetings, Michelle and welcome to the DEV Community. As a supporter of the Internet Archive, I think it's important to realise how much material, historic or otherwise, is being lost. Best of luck with your endeavour!

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Timothy Eldon

Hi everyone am Timothy! I’m here to learn ORM in Laravel and explore how to use it to build something meaningful.

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sodiumsun

just found this! would love to chat w anything building agents. pls DM

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kt

👋 💩 < Hi everyone!

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Huzaifa Mahmood

Hahaha i cant code

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Xauntasia Mabry

Just want to start sharing my experience balancing life and loving to learn with a community of bright minds

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Richard Pascoe

Glad you have decided to become part of the DEV Community, Xauntasia. Looking forward to hearing more about your experiences!

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Seigo Kitamura

Hi all, I am Seigo. I am here to share my knowledge and daily observation I obtain while learning any new technologies.

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mastermate

I was referred here by someone else. I specialize in making carbon fiber cards and am delighted to meet everyone.