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Welcome Thread - v361

Sloan the DEV Moderator on January 21, 2026

Leave a comment below to introduce yourself! You can share advice, tell us what brought you here, what you're learning, or just a fun fact about y...
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Oud Agarwood

just joined this community to learn more about generative ai techniques.

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Hadil Ben Abdallah

Hey Oud! 👋🏻
Welcome to the community 🙌🏻

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Chris Jarvis

Welcome to DEV, Oud.

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Richard Pascoe

Welcome, Oud! This isn’t exactly my field, but I’m sure you’ll find plenty of information here. The DEV Community is full of bright minds and curious souls!

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Francis Tran

Hey Oud! Welcome!

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Shahrukh

Hey guy how's doing...
i just joined this community to learn about web development and software development. hope it I'll be fun because i enjoy a lot coding, creating crafting all the stuff attract me.
thanks and wish me happy journey.

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Chris Jarvis

Welcome to DEV, Shahrukh. Follow the WebDev tag to see web development in your feed.

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Hadil Ben Abdallah

Hey Shahrukh! 👋🏻
Welcome to the community 🙌🏻

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Richard Pascoe

Hey there, Shahrukh. Welcome to the community! I am sure you'll find a lovely home at DEV, with plenty of like-minded souls sharing information about their own learning journey!

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Francis Tran

Hey Shahrukh! Welcome! There is a lot of great resources here for web and software development here! The community is awesome for me so far and wish you the same for your journey!

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Jess Lee The DEV Team

Welcome, everyone!! I hope you enjoy it here :)

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Hadil Ben Abdallah

Welcome to DEV! 🙌🏻

If you’re new here, I’m really glad you found your way to this community. DEV is one of those rare places where curiosity, kindness, and learning actually coexist, and that’s what keeps me coming back.

I’m Hadil Ben Abdallah, a software engineer and a technical content writer who loves turning complex developer topics into clear, practical stories that actually help people build things. I learn a lot by reading others’ experiences here, and I strongly believe that sharing, even when you feel “not ready yet”, is how we grow fastest. 🔥

If you’re just starting out, my advice is simple:
🌟 Ask questions.
🌟Share what you’re learning.
🌟 Don’t compare your chapter 1 to someone else’s chapter 20.

Looking forward to learning with you all 💙

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Ben Halpern The DEV Team

Welcome everyone!

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Alex Benny

Was building an AI project and somehow ended up here. Curious what happens next

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Richard Pascoe

Greetings, Alex. I am sure all the members of the community here at DEV are happy to be part of your journey. Lots of brilliant people here, sharing their experiences. Perhaps you want to share your own at one point - look forward to it!

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Francis Tran

Hey Alex! Welcome to the community! What AI project are you working on specifically? If anything, glad you are part of this community!

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David Peluola

Hello, I'm David, I just got to know about Google AI Studio and I've been exploring so far and it's been fun!
Thank you

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Richard Pascoe

Greetings, David. Welcome to the DEV Community! Now you're here and already exploring Google AI Studio, I wonder if you have seen the DEV Education Track? The first track happens to be Build Apps with Google AI Studio - might be worth a look?

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Francis Tran

Hey David. Hope you are well! Glad you find it fun so far learning Google AI Studio! What are other things have you been exploring so far? Other than that, welcome to the community!

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Fahim Shahriar Rafi

Started learning Mobile app dev and was recommended by a friend to join here. Let's hope for the best.

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Chris Jarvis

Welcome, you joined a great community. There's ton of content on Mobile apps.

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Francis Tran

Hey Fahim! Welcome to the community! Hope your journey for the best in mobile app development!

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Jiya

just joined the community, hope to learn about gen ai and web development and also if I could get some career guidance

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Francis Tran

Hey Jiya! Welcome to the community! Hope you are well. There are great resources for career related stuff you might find on dev.to, but I can give you some to start off!

  • Networking is a huge because it allows you to stand out from the rest of the crowd. Connection really helps than cold applying on LinkedIn since you are competing other people's resume and the ATS in general. Additionally, recruiters only hope that resume reflects their ability in the interview and sometimes their resume does not reflect that when it comes to the interview (Resulting in a waste of time). The common way you do it is by going to career fairs. Additionally, being on Dev.to (Like you are here now) is another way to connect since you are part of a community where people show their work and provide advice for others! It gets to show your learning experience by blogging and commenting on other people's post!

  • Cleaning up resume to fit the ATS scanner. There are resources out there that provide you tips on resume wise, but the common one is structure. I tend to do a one column instead of two since the ATS scans from left to right. If it is two columns, it tends to misread.

  • Don't be a generalist. By that, I mean do not learn EVERY SINGLE technology that is out there. Since you are going for web development, probably choose either front-end, back-end, or full stack. Whatever you choose, stick to it. Recruiters do not like generalist because there is a saying "If you claim to know everything, you don't know anything". Be specialize in something and go from there. Recruiters look for people that are specialize in something. It makes sense because if I want a react developer, I want a developer that knows react for a long time, in which their portfolio shows that instead of a person knowing react, vue, angular, etc.

Those are the biggest one's (in my opinion). Hope this helps along with your journey goes well!

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Jiya

thank you this was really helpful looking forward to learning a lot from people like you here

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Francis Tran

No problem! If anything, I tend to do "#career" on the dev.to search bar for more. Feel free to ask if anything else!

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Jesse Bond

Thanks you again for making me join your group chat so I'm here waiting for next step

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Richard Pascoe

Hello there, Jesse. Was there anything in particular that brought you to the DEV Community? Are you learning to code or do you already have some experience in the field? Either way, welcome!