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Welcome Thread - v363

Sloan the DEV Moderator on February 04, 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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Ben Halpern The DEV Team

Whoa new thread! Welcome everyone. We encourage you to search out one or two posts you find helpful and leave a thankful comment. It's free to spread the love.

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Jess Lee The DEV Team

Welcome to the community everyone ❤️

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Alabi Adeeyo Owoseni

Thanks for welcoming me. I want to learn JavaScript first. Looking forward to seeing you support my progress.

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Ishan Manjrekar

Hello DEV community! 👋🏼

I’ve been working in game design for over 15 years. I started a newsletter fairly recently to share thoughts and practical insights from the work I do day to day.

I began writing after noticing a gap in resources that focus on fundamentals, especially ones that connect theory to real working experience. Most advice is either too abstract or too surface level. I wanted to try and share something more grounded.

DEV felt like a great place to share these ideas and learn from others here too. I’m looking forward to exploring the community.

I’ll be cross-posting more of my writing here over time. I’ve started with a couple of pieces you can check out below:

Looking forward to the conversations.

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👾 FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ 👾

Hey Ishan. Welcome to the community! Hope you are having a good morning, afternoon, or evening!

I minored in Game Design in my undergraduate years and you have a lot of experience into it! 15 years is a lot! What is your favorite part of doing Game Design? Welcome aboard!

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Ishan Manjrekar

Hey! Game design has been fun, and I never left it once I started :D

I love the fact that you have the power to affect the mood (in a good, or a bad way) of a lot of players just by making a few decisions for the game. * slightly evil laugh *

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Cesar Castillo

👋👋👋

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Ben Halpern The DEV Team

Hey Cesar!

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Cesar Castillo

Hey Ben! Hope you're doing great. ! Thanks for the welcome
I'm really enjoying exploring the platform so far :))

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👾 FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ 👾

Hey Cesar👋. Welcome! Looks like you already got a good start on Dev.to! I notice you are also into Full-stack. How long have you been into Full-Stack Development and what do you enjoy being in this field? Welcome again!

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Cesar Castillo

Hey Francis!
Thanks a lot for the warm welcome 👋

Full-stack has been a really interesting and rewarding journey for me. I love how even small ideas can grow into something, from planning and architecture all the way to design and implementation.
I’ve been as a full-stack developer for around 3 years now, always learning and improving along the way :)

Also, your post about the Multiplayer ASL Game using MQTT is super interesting awesome work!

Great to connect, and thanks again

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👾 FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ 👾

Thanks for your reply and happy you read my post on MQTT! Hope your journey goes well on Dev.to and can't wait to see what you will post!

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mogee

Hey! 👋 Flutter dev here, working on indie apps.
Looking forward to connecting with you all!

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👾 FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ 👾

Hey Mogee. Welcome to the community! What's your favorite part about being a Flutter Developer? In any case, hope you find yourself at home on Dev.to!

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mogee

Hey Francis, thanks for the welcome! 😄

My favorite part? Definitely the "one codebase, all platforms" thing. As a solo indie dev, being able to ship to iOS, Android, AND web without maintaining separate codebases is a lifesaver. Hot reload is a close second though — it makes the dev loop so satisfying.

Actually, that cross-platform power is exactly why I used Flutter to build FeedApp, a feedback exchange community for indie devs. I wrote about it here on DEV if you're curious!

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👾 FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ 👾

Thanks Mogee! That does sound satisfying! Have you tried Tauri? I know you can make android apps using Tauri and you can use any stack such as React, Vue, etc. I haven't made one myself but used it to make a Desktop app! Flutter is really useful though either way.

I bookmark your post for now and will read in the future! Thanks again Mogee for your reply! Hope your journey goes well :D

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Kyle Bennett

Hey, what's up everyone!

I hope that we are all having a productive start to Feb and also enjoying our 2026 experience so far. I live in the states, Pennsylvania to be exact. I am a noob CS undergrad and take online accelerated course FT. I have 3.25 years in total to obtain my BSCS/Software Engineering and have just about finished my first year of schooling. As I have started learning about programming principles/Python syntax/ Data structures and Algorithms, I realize that school alone is NO WHERE NEAR ENOUGH practice and time put in, by itself. Since 2-3 months ago, I have fully committed my free time to nothing but reading, and writing code/ the how and the why. For e.g. I can't stand not knowing how something works that I use on the daily; so, I have decided to take a deep dive into Cpython and understand what the hell the interpreter is doing behind the scenes and I wasn't aware of how freaking relevant C/C++ is in the world. Damn near EVERYTHING is abstracted from C, or so many languages these days will utilize C to carry out the instructions in an intermediate language called 'byte (not bit) code'. I am sure I may not have said that properly but, I find it so incredibly cool and interesting... Excited to learn C/C++ in the future. I work in operations and are a Hub Supervisor at a UPS regional hub. I have always had an interest in IT/Software and computer architecture. Unfortunately, I made some bad decisions growing up and gave up a lot of my life for nothing, essentially. I am 37 now and are grinding my balls off... Not literally, but yea.. I am sure you understand the sentiment, lol.

Currently, I am focusing on Python via codewars/leetcode (fun learning games imo) and have been homing in on backend dev frameworks like FastAPI, Django, and Flask. I am going to be starting some basic projects this week and will be creating an http server, which I am very tempted to learn how to perform this task from scratch to help me get a better understanding of how the protocol/s are built upon TCP/UDP. What we must do to create a server which is as secure as we can make an http server. I will need to learn many different little things that I may not fully understand by just using Pythons amazingly extensive libraries like, 'http.server', lol. Then I will make my own rest API, and more than likely some sort of small db with SQLalchemy and will be able to learn how to utilize SQL to properly query my db as well as, will have to take the time to set up tables/db schema... Of which, I have never done before but, this is how I learn best.

I appreciate any replies, lol - whether they are encouraging or trying to convince me to do something else, I welcome all comments with an open mind and promise I won't be a sensitive noob who gets offended. Thanks to the creators and maintainers of this cool social media platform!!

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👾 FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ 👾

Hey Kyle. Welcome to the community! Hope you are well.

Appreciate taking the time for writing this comment! As @richardpascoe mentions, you don't see that quite often for someone taking the time and reflect.

I respect you taking some self reflection and making initiatives! Again, not a lot of people have that kind of self-awareness of knowing their needs and wants.

You mention about doing basic projects. Anything in particular you want to build ultimately (Ex: Chat app)?

Regardless, I hope you will find this community very inclusive and will support you on your journey!

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Mirko Stahnke

Hallo zusammen, ich bin Hobby Programmierer seit 30 Jahren und fordere mich täglich aufs neue selbst heraus. Hauptgebiet sind kleine Web Anwendungen für private Nutzer und Freunde.
 Freue mich auf Interessante Kommentare und Themen

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👾 FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ 👾

Hey Mirko. Welcome!

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Mirko Stahnke

Danke

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Kein Problem!

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Shloka

Hey Everyone!

Professionally: I have worn multiple hats over the past few years, as a technical writer, data analyst, frontend engineer, DevRel Engineer.. and am currently wearing the hat of a Full Stack AI engineer. All these hats had a common goal, make people's lives easier!

My blogs: A lot of courses around AI are trying to break people's banks. Sooo my current blogs aim to make it easy for people to understand the concepts around AI through Eli5 explanations, cause I believe that knowledge should be easily accessible.

Random stuff: I am considering adopting a bombay cat, love plants, jigsaw puzzles, and wine! :)

PS: Love this post, and the sense of community it brings.

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👾 FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ 👾

Hey Shloka! Hope you are well. Looks like you got a lot of experience under your belt. What is your favorite "hat" among other hats you have worn? I am also a Full Stack AI Engineer as well (Title is Verbatim in my profile!). What's your favorite stack?

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Shloka

Hey Francis, Yeah. I have continuously been exploring roles.
My favorite hat is the one of full stack AI engineer, although it makes me feel guilty sometimes because of how the current methods are not good for the environment.

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Fit Happens ML

Hey DEV folks 👋

I build apps - mostly Flutter (Dart). I also do ML engineering, and I’m pretty into shipping small tools that make life easier (and then open-sourcing them when they stop being embarrassing 😄).

I joined last week - let’s connect 🤝

Here are two posts I’ve already published:

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👾 FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ 👾

Hey Fit! Welcome aboard! I notice you got a good start on Dev.to and highlight your post! I also notice you replied to one of my post as well, appreciated it!

Will look into your posts in a bit. Going to bookmark it for now. Welcome again!

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James Centeno

Hi guys, i'm new to this community. Im James Im Currently restudying vanilla programming basically just pure html,css, and js. But im also interested in learning Computer Network and graphics design.

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👾 FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ 👾

Hey James! Welcome aboard! Hope you are well. I am also into Web Development and currently honing my skills in Full-stack! Have you got any projects related to Computer Network and Graphic Design? In any case, welcome!

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Diay

hello everyone,
cs student here. working on improving my understanding of computer systems and there components along with programming. currently exploring as finding it difficult to stick to a path. hope to learn lots from the community here and further solidify my path in progress.

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👾 FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ 👾

Hey Diay! Welcome aboard to the Dev Community! Happy for you to be here! Any goals you have for this year in particular? As @richardpascoe, any specific you like to get into?

Regardless, welcome again!

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Diay

Well multiple mini projects to validate skills and build experience. my plan for the next quarter.

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Denis Arruda Santos

Hi everyone! 👋

I’m Denis, a software architect with over 18 years of experience in the industry. I mainly work with Java, Spring, Azure, and AWS.

I’m really happy to be part of this community, and I’ve just published my first article here in Portuguese about Java and containers, focusing on modern build strategies. 🚀

If you’re interested, feel free to check it out:
👉 dev.to/denisarruda/java-em-contain...

Looking forward to learning from you all, sharing experiences, and contributing to great discussions. Let’s connect!

Cheers!

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👾 FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ 👾

Hey Denis! Welcome to the community! Hope you are well.

As @richardpascoe mentions, 18 years is a lot of experience in the software architect space! I am also currently learning AWS for my course in IaC! Will look into your article soon, going to bookmark it!

What is your favorite about about being a Software Architect if you do not mind me asking? Regardless, welcome!

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Denis Arruda Santos

As a Software a Architect, I think it is very important to always remember: If a technology seems perfect to you, you probably don’t know it well enough yet. :)

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👾 FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ 👾

That's a great insight! There's always more to explore of the technology you are using in particular. Thanks Denis!

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Cesar Castillo

Hi Denis! Great to have you here. I also work with Java and Spring, so it's always good to connect with fellow developers in the ecosystem. As it happens, I understand Portuguese, so I’ll definitely check out your article on modern build strategies. Looking forward to your insights! 👋

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Myke Aneke • Edited

Hello Everyone, Michael here and I'm really happy to be part of this community and I look forward to learning as much as I can and be part something great. I am currently learning cyber security specifically web security and I love hands on learning

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👾 FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ 👾

Hey Michael. Hope you are well. Welcome to the Dev community! Awesome to have you here.

Cyber Security is great! Is there any projects or experience you have gain so far in that field? What's your favorite part of being in that field?

Regardless, welcome aboard!

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Myke Aneke

Yeah, I have one project
VulnRadar: a tool that detects vulnerabilities in web applications
Check it out on GitHub:
github.com/MykeChidi/vulnradar

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👾 FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ 👾

Thanks Michael! Looks very useful! You should do a demo of it somewhere on the Readme of how it works (I like visuals) but it's up to you! Regardless, great job!

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Myke Aneke

Thanks for letting me know, I'll get right to it

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José Antonio

@myke
I really like this project; I'm getting some great ideas... Thank you so much, I hope it goes wonderfully!

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mogee

Thanks for the warm welcome, Richard! 😊 I've been working with Flutter for about 1-2 years now. Started as a side project thing and got hooked pretty quickly — the cross-platform magic is real haha.

I've been building indie apps solo, and actually just posted about one of them here — a feedback exchange app for indie devs called FeedApp. Would love to hear what you think if you get a chance to check it out!

Excited to be part of this community 🙌

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Lizzy Charles

Hello everyone in the house. Today is my first day here. I hope to have great learning experience and also have fun as I journey through.....

If you are a beginner and want someone to learn with ...please reach out so we can study together.

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Ryan

Hey, Lizzy! It's my first day too. Is there any particular programming language you're learning at the moment? I hope you stick with it, coding's insanely fun. Best of luck!

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Fit Happens ML

Thanks, Richard 🙏

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Vamsi Krishna

Hello Dev Community
I am really excited to start my journey
I am here to read, engage and occassionally write my blogs.

I really searched for many blogging platforms with good community and minimal setup and dev.to feels so perfect for my needs.
I used to be briefly on Hashnode, but that community and platform support is fading away, i really wish dev.to doesn't go in that way and stay to be awesome for tech bloggers as i want to be with dev.to for long time 😊

And thanks for the welcome message

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Nehemiah Mwangi

Hey there Everyone am Nesh from Kenya. Am a late bloomer on the programming passion scale. But once it clicked I fell hard for the art of computer engineering from hardware to software. I hope to grow my skills as a write here and also open up myself to new networks that will boost the smoothness of my transition from education to the work force community. I am so excited to be here and I hope I become a core contributor to this amazing platform.

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Ned C

Hello, I'm ned, a fullstack dev working in mostly react and next.js stuff and in the Cursor community. just figured I should start writing about some of the things I've been learning instead of keeping it all in my notes, looking forward to reading what other people are working on 👋

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Harsh

Hi everyone! 👋
I’m excited to join this community. I’m passionate about web development and learning new technologies. Lately, I’ve been exploring JavaScript frameworks and AI tools. I’m here to learn, share knowledge, and connect with fellow developers.

Fun fact: I love solving coding puzzles while sipping coffee ☕💻.

Looking forward to learning from all of you and contributing wherever I can!

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Lizzy Charles

Greetings, Richard,

Thank you for your message and sorry for late response. As you already know that i am new, i have been taking my time to settle and know how things work here.

I know about freeCodeCamp and used it for a while and left Lol. Maybe i will get back to it again.

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Connie Hieb

My passion is learning, everyday. Learning something new is always exhilarating. Learning something you did wrong is definitely an experience that sticks with you. Excited to start learning. Thanks all for being here.

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👾 FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ 👾

Hey Connie. Welcome! Anything you are learning in particular?

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José Antonio

Hi everyone 👋

I’m José. I build backend systems and APIs, mostly around data quality and automation.

I’m here to learn, share what I find while building real products, and connect with other builders.

I hope to find people who can contribute to my learning and, above all, receive a warm welcome from everyone.

Thank you!

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👾 FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ 👾

Hey José. Welcome! What projects are you currently working on in particular?

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José Antonio

Hi! Thanks 🙂

I currently work primarily on backend APIs and data pipelines.

One of my current projects focuses on validating and scoring incoming leads before they reach a CRM or any sales flow. This involves managing messy input data, ensuring consistency, and applying deterministic scoring logic to return a lead score and determine whether it's worth investing time in, keeping for review, or simply ignoring. I've been working on this for almost a year, and it's not related to AI.

I'm mainly here to share what I'm learning from this process and to learn from others developing similar systems.

Thanks for reading!

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Samir Shuman

Hi, I'm Samir. I'm a software engineer based out of the San Francisco Bay Area, specializing in web development. Long-time lurker and soon to be first-time contributor to this community. I self-host my own blog. After a little hiatus, I hope to start cross-posting regularly. Have a great weekend everyone.

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Shloka

Hey Richard, with all your interactions over the past few weeks, I would have not taken you as a newcomer. I am pleasantly surprised.

I just need to fight my mom on getting a cat, now!

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Jemimah Johnson

Thank you Richard
I am a civil engineer, and I was looking to change careers to tech. The most talked about were front-end, back-end, or full-stack developers, data analysts, and data engineers. I decided to go into cloud computing, but I met someone who is a DevOps engineer, and I was intrigued by how he talked about what he does. So I did some research and came across an IBM video on DevOps by John Rofrano, explaining what DevOps is all about and how it's a shared mindset and cultural change. And that's how I fell in love with DevOps. I am unemployed right now and learning on my own time.

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Roderick Rutledge • Edited

Hey DEV community,
I don't [even] code — I'm an online Business English Coach, and I work with non-native English-speaking IT pros [Devs, mainly] helping them improve their careers, and lives.
My focus is on Colombia [where I live seasonally], though I do have students in Spain, Italy, Brazil, and China.
I'm here to keep my finger on the pulse, keep up-to-date with the latest topics, trends, and generally, what's going on…especially related to the Job market and the Interview process.

As you know, things are changing fast and you guys are at the forefront of that change. I need to be there too, trying to figure out how I can best help my students navigate these turbulent waters.
Cheers for having me.

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Cesar Castillo

Welcome to the community! Honestly, your work is a game-changer for many of us

English is just as critical as the code itself. It’s great to have you here keeping a pulse on the industry. Cheers for the support, and enjoy your time in Colombia

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Roderick Rutledge

I really appreciate your kind words, cheers. I'm currently in New Zealand, I'm a Kiwi, but I'm off the Colombia in a couple of months, can't wait!

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Mahesh

Hello everyone! I'm Mahesh, a Freelance Cloud Architect with a deep passion for AWS, Terraform, and all things DevOps. ☁️

I’ve officially joined the GitHub Copilot CLI Challenge and I'm building Sentinel CLI a self healing terminal agent that uses AI to diagnose and fix cloud infrastructure errors in real time.

Excited to connect with fellow builders and see the amazing tools everyone creates! 🚀

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Juan Diego Figari

Hey everyone! 👋

I'm Juan, a junior software engineer from Argentina. Just started my first dev job a couple weeks ago, working on an urban planning platform (React + TypeScript + Zustand).

Yesterday I pushed my first implementation PR — small fix, but felt good to go from analysis to working code.

I'm here to learn, share the journey, and connect with others navigating early-career dev life. Interested in frontend, state management, and figuring out how to ask good questions.

Looking forward to being part of this community!

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👾 FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ 👾

Hey Juan. Welcome to the Community! Great accomplishment on starting your first Dev job! Congratz!

I also made my first PR, but on the Forem repository. Nothing big, just making some small word changes. But hope that it will be accepted!

Again, Welcome!

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Juan Diego Figari

Thanks, Francis! And congrats on your first PR too.

Totally agree — even small changes feel big at the beginning.
Hope yours gets accepted soon.

Glad to be here!

 
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Diay

i guess if i had to say maybe it would be system design and architecture. Various components of complex systems. that's just speculation though as i myself don't understand it a lot, just that it seems relatively interesting.

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Friday Aniah

Hi I'm new here

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👾 FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ 👾

Hey! Welcome to the Dev Community! What brings you hear?

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Friday Aniah

I'm a newbie in tech.
I took a carrier part in web dev, I saw an AD on Facebook and decided to join the community

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👾 FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ 👾

Ah ok! Lot's of great resource here on this platform. Quite a small community and easy to go around. Hope your journey goes well :D

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Friday Aniah

Thanks 🙏

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Ryan

Hi everybody!

I'm a software engineer and love building things. I've mostly been developing with Python recently although I've previously developed with Java and Go quite a bit (but I'm likely EXTREMELY rusty).

I'm pretty surprised with how kind and tight this community is. I'm happy I joined!

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Cesar Castillo

Hi Ryan! Enjoy the community! I’m a huge Java fan myself, so don't worry about being rusty it’s like riding a bike. Just take it step by step and you'll get where you want to be💪

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Ned C

Thanks Richard! Appreciate the warm welcome. Just published my first post actually — been testing which .cursorrules actually make a difference vs the ones that are just vibes. Looking forward to sharing more experiments here.

 
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Jemimah Johnson

Thank you so much for the kind words. I’m really excited about learning DevOps and I'm grateful to be part of a community like DEV where learning feels so collaborative and welcoming.I look forward to sharing my journey, lessons, and even the challenges I face along the way.

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Optioneer

Hello,

I am working in the IT industry for around 14 years, I started first in the OPS side - mostly on Support while gradually working on more complex technologies like AWS, Kubernetes, Linux, Monitoring, Scripting etc.
I now work as A DevOps Engineer since almost 2 years but started working on my own apps like 6 months ago :)

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Eric Lewis

Hi everyone 👋

I’m a full-stack developer and SaaS builder focused on creating practical, developer-friendly tools and platforms. Right now I’m working on Docpose.cloud — a cloud-native document processing and automation platform that simplifies file workflows, conversions, and API-driven document solutions.

I love building things that solve real problems and help other developers ship faster. I enjoy working across the stack — from scalable backend APIs to performance optimization and infrastructure.

What brought me here? Curiosity and community! I’m here to learn from other builders, share what I’ve learned, and find people exploring similar challenges.

Fun fact: I spend more time tuning performance and cleanup scripts than writing new features — and I secretly enjoy it 😄

Looking forward to connecting and learning from you all 🚀

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Jemimah Johnson

Hi Dev Community,
I'm a DevOps Engineer in Training, currently building skills in Linux, Git, cloud, and automation. I am excited to connect, learn from this community, and grow together.

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lucidwray

Hi Everyone, Just joined the community and I gotta say, this place rocks! Im a developer focusing on security and DevSecOps. Ive been in the infosec world for 10+ years and lately working on some new products around the clock for our company QwikChek. I'll talk security and dev process all day... Thanks for the welcome!

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ARSH VERMA

"Hi everyone! 👋 I’m Arsh Verma and I’m currently diving deep into Web Development . I joined DEV to keep up with industry trends and learn from all the amazing tutorials here. Looking forward to connecting with you all!"

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Vincent Ventalon

Hey everyone 👋

I’m Vincent, a data engineer who enjoys building things. I like experimenting with side projects, learning by doing, and sharing what works (and what doesn’t).

Looking forward to connecting!

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Ishan Manjrekar

Thank you.

Godot is super interesting. I've seen many cool projects being made on it. I tried to learn it for a bit, but gave up too soon like every other code-learning endeavour I've been on. :')

 
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Joseph Soper

I appreciate the encouragement. I have been redesigning my resume to try and make some of my past experiences seem more relevant or marketable. I'm just trying to make sure I don't cross the line where I'm misrepresenting my experience. It's been a learning experiment.

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Joseph Soper

While I love coding and development, I really do enjoy the infrastructure side as well, and it seems like DevOps might be the less competitive market. Right now I am just trying to focus on whatever path gets me an entry-level role into the tech field, as I feel like I have a wealth of knowledge that can be applied, I'm just having a hard time trying to figure out where to focus it. with 17+ years of work experience, and none related to tech other than some minor tech support jobs for a couple years, it's hard to figure out how to get noticed. (10 years in car sales and finance, 2 years customer support at Apple, 2 years customer support at Intuit, and 2 years at my current role as AGM of a Hilton hotel.) Any guidance or resources you have are greatly appreciated. I've been using everything from LinkedIn to Claude and Gemini to discord servers and reddit platforms, anything I can find that can help.

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Joseph Soper

Hello all! I'm a life-long hobby developer looking to finally make a career transition into development or DevOps. Just trying to connect to the community and see whats out there!

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Ashish Kumar

👋 Hi everyone!
I’m Ashish, a Computer Science student with an interest in cloud computing, AWS, and backend development.
I’m here to learn, build, and collaborate with fellow developers.
Looking forward to growing together

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Anıl Sevinç

Thanks for the warm welcome! I started with JavaScript and backend development—what are some key tips or lessons you wish you had known earlier? I’d love to hear from experienced developers and I’m still exploring resources—happy to take any recommendations.

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VintageTechie

John here. Retired software engineer (43 years backend) who got pulled back in by the COSMIC desktop. Now building Rust applets and writing about Linux at blog.vintagetechie.com.
Spent decades saying yes to everything. Finally learning when to say no. Writing about that too.

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suresh devops

Greetings All,

I am Passionate about DevOps, DevSecOps, and other latest Technologies.
Trying to explore Gaps, Blind Spots, Unknown Areas, and Unthinkable Scenarios.

Happy to be part of this community and seeking your support and encouragement.

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azemo

Heyhey everyone!

I’m a high school student from the Philippines, currently trying to level up my experience by diving headfirst into programming and electronics. Lately, I’ve been hacking on ESP32/Arduino projects, C++, and small web experiments. I would consider myself beginner-level with my 1 year of experience in programming, yet I am obsessed with understanding how things actually work- like what’s going on behind the scenes in code or circuits- and not just running tutorials. I hope that in this 2026 I will dedicate more of my time practicing and grinding my abilities.

Right now, I’m juggling smart wearable tech, sensor networks, and building a portfolio website to showcase some my projects. I’m here to learn, share, and geek out over anything tech-related. If you want to talk code, hardware, or weird little experiments, I’m all ears!

Excited to meet everyone and swap ideas.

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emmanuel chibuike wehere

Hello everyone, my name is Chibuike, am new here and am happy to be here with you guys.

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saliu kazeem

I am Saliu kazeem, a man of science with the study of situation. I'm here to learn and scale up on my tech skills and to apply my accounting and financial analysis skills to the trending job market and economic changes waves going on all the world.

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👾 FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ 👾

Hey Saliu. Welcome to the Dev Community! What skills specifically are you currently honing right now for financial analysis?

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Cesar Castillo

Hey Richard!
I’m still exploring DEV and really enjoying it so far reading community posts, learning new things every day, and hopefully doing a bit of networking too

Thanks for reaching out! Glad you liked my little extension of the challenge.
Have a great one!

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Diay

Guess as much you would expect from a student but with more interest rather than just grinding for exams. Operating Systems, Networks, Databases, Various paradigms and more of theory stuff and the derivative topics. Though i have to say i am relatively weaker at the practical application of the concepts, so am working hard on that. Interested in the why and how of everything working together. Look forward to the community interaction.

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Ashutosh Kumar Tiwari

Hello everyone, I am Ashutosh Kumar Tiwari, currently a student and here to learn new things. I have also built a GitHub App for multilinguality over your repositories: Yaplate

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Ridwanullah Suleiman

Thanks for the warm welcome guys😁.
I am looking forward to expanding my coding skills , although I know basic html and css, would love to find the most easiest way to learn JavaScript, Tailwind, React and others.

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vikas patel

hi

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👾 FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ 👾

Hey Vikas. Welcome to the community! What brings you hear? Any goals you have? In any case, welcome!

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Ravi Singh

Thank to all welcoming me

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👾 FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ 👾

Hey Ravi! Welcome welcome! Any goals you are hoping to achieve this year?

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Kendrick Olori

Hey guys 👋🏽
I'm Kendrick from Nigeria

I enjoy writing tutorials and teaching devs how to use stuff (I learn best that way 😁)

I do code in Python and Rust

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Ivan Postigo

Thanks for welcoming me, I look forward to keep growing as a developer

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Kyle Diamond

Hello, I'm Kyle. 👋
I'm new here and I want to learn Python and some machine learning.

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Kyle Diamond

Thank you so much i will check it out. Have a great rest of your day. 😃

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Muneeb Ahmed

a beginner in coding !!!

would love to get any valuable suggestion to start the journey .

 
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emmanuel chibuike wehere

Thanks a buddy I appreciate

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Syed Maaz

Hello all Im new at this platform, By the way how are you guys. I'm here to learn some new and meet with new people so i can make circle big

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Kendrick Olori

Thanks 😁
Python was my very first programming introduction so it always has a special place in my heart
I'll be looking forward to learning from everyone too

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Denis Arruda Santos

Welcome to the community!

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Piyush kanojiya

Hello!

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👾 FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ 👾

Hey! Welcome to the community! What brings you here?

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Samir Shuman

Thanks for the warm welcome, Richard.

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Ethem Beldagli

hi

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Aurora Reyes

Hola

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Gungun

Hi all! I’m a Data Science student excited to share my learning journey and connect with fellow developers

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SIBTAIN RAZA

Hello I am a beginner developer , I will try my best to write blogs on tech , productivity and books As i will learn .

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Vamsi Krishna

Just a quick question, I am trying to create a new post, the editor window looks bit small, is the post editor window is limited?

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Richard Baxter

Hey everyone. Saying hi and looking forward to learning and hopefully contributing ✌️

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Ivan Postigo

Thank you, my current interest is building freeware shareware, and keep vibing. thanks!

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Ofri Peretz

Hey everyone! I'm Ofri — security engineering leader and open-source maintainer. I build static analysis tooling for JavaScript/TypeScript ecosystems. Always happy to connect with folks who care about shipping secure code. Welcome to all the new devs here!

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Ewat Andrew

I was told I cal learn and create with Rust, were they lying

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Радик Мухаметшин

Hello everyone ! I’m system analyst, and I learn English. My current level is А2.

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fanantenana

Salut les developpeurs ,,

__ je suis nouvel equipe ,

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Mamadou Boyie Barry

I am Barrie Mamadu a Comp Science student from Njala University Sierra

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Social Devta

Hurray,

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👾 FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ 👾

Hey! Welcome to the community!

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Lucrezia Bruno

hi guys

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Naomi wang

Cool

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David Kayima

just new here but i will surely catch up

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Aj Roy

Teaching app explain everything

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👾 FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ 👾

Hey Aj. Welcome to the community. Can you explain further on what you mean by "Teaching app explain everything"? Regardless, welcome again!

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Shoban Chiddarth

Hi

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Kenu Olotu

Welcome Guys!

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Vignesh Ambalam Suresh

hello!

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Mr.Basic

Hello everyone! I'm glad to be here, surely it will be an exciting experience. good life to all.

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emmanuel chibuike wehere

Truth is, am just still new in the biz and am currently taking a JavaScript course in FCC. Hoping one day I will be great at it, I love JavaScript already and I'm becoming very addicted to it

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Brand Anchor

Hello folks,

I am building a simple Digital Asset Management tool. It focuses on the essentials like version control, annotations & comments, public links for clients, and basic analytics.

I’m learning as I go and building in public. I’d love to connect with others who work with creative assets and get their thoughts. What features would make your workflow smoother?

Looking forward to the conversations.

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👾 FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ 👾

Hey! Welcome to the Dev Community! Made the right choice in coming here. Lot's of great resources for you to learn and grow!

I wouldn't say mine is making the "workflow smoother" but I am building a chrome extension that allows you to detect if the images are AI generated. Still working on it, but there are current things I still need to address first before coming back to the project again. Welcome again!

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Brand Anchor

Thanks for the warm welcome. Detecting AI-generated images sounds interesting, and this is such a timely problem.

Looking forward to learning from the community here and hopefully sharing more about what I’ve built so far soon.

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App Utility Droid

Hey everyone 👋

I’m a backend-leaning full-stack developer who’s been spending more time building side tools lately.

I enjoy working on things that save time and reduce friction, simple UIs, fast utilities, and privacy-friendly apps. Currently learning a lot about frontend UX and performance by building and shipping small projects.

Fun fact: I get way too annoyed when a “small task” needs five different websites 🙂

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Steve

Hi everyone 👋 I’m Steve. Excited to be here and looking forward to learning from the community.

My current area of interest is anonymous, authentic human interaction with AI systems. About a year ago I had a slightly crazy idea: build a system that takes anonymous human emotional signals and lets a machine translate them into something visual — potentially something that can then be further interpreted by a human artist. I love the idea of an artwork made from the emotions of many individuals.

It’s still very early and I’m nowhere near the grand vision yet, but every project has to start somewhere 🙂

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Turtleand

Hi, Lean (Turtleand) here!

Software engineer exploring the intersection of solid fundamentals and AI tooling. Interested in both classic Software Engineering and also building with agents, automation, and new tools.

I'll be sharing about both: engineering foundations + practical AI

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Warren S. Allen

Hi everyone, I’m Warren S. Allen. I’m a PM building developer first tools for information filtering and AI workflows. I ship fast, iterate closely with engineers, and write about product craft, growth experiments, and practical AI. Happy to connect with anyone building devtools or tackling information overload.

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dchisholm125 • Edited

Hello! I am not technical so much as I am a tinkerer --- my eyes glaze over with technical jargon but man can I apply concepts brilliantly. I'm a dumb engineer, but a smart builder (just don't tell the school I got my Master's in SWE that !!).

I'm here because I love the new workflow: AI coding assistants + human orchestrator overseer. I've got 5 YoE in Full Stack WebDev (Vue JS, MySQL, FastAPI, Python, TypeScript) and am just now ready to get over my fear which is best described as "afraid-of-connecting-with-others-for-fear-of-sounding-dumb" and actually offering at least my pragmatic discoveries since embarking on an EXTREME journey into growing my AI skills.

I'm no master, but damn I can already tell that AI is a skill and not everyone has it. I've been working with AI religiously for the past 7 months and have used every free or '.edu' sponsored Pro plan you can think of and have a lot to share!

Please feel free to reach out and DM me as I am finally ready to collaborate. I'm working on a Solana project currently, have ambitions to do my own "Voice to Code" project, and maybe an open source coding assistant. I'd love to find others close to the Boston, MA area, but if you're not here, that's cool too. I'm just looking forward to being here =]

Take care!

-Derek

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Jonathan TL

¡Hola Dev's! Recien estoy comenzando esta travesía en el mundo del desarrollo web, espero aqui poder encontrar colegas que me ayuden a resolver dudas, y también espero poder aprender de todos ustedes! soy de Mexico ! es un gusto saludarles 🤗

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Vamsi Krishna

Thanks for you reply..
I am creating a new post...
Here is the screenshot for reference

Is this the default size? or we can expand it?

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Aiman Aiman

Well 👍

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pak tech

Thank you so much dev for welcome me. I want always learn and teach with your platform honestly....

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Zrewolwerowany Kaloryfer

Hi guys, I'm a beginner starting playing with vibe coding and stuff - I hope the community is nice here and I won't be roasted for English being my primary coding language :D

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Ayor

Hello, I'm crypto analyst

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Md. Sultan Ali

Welcome to everyone

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Dundappa Kambar

Thanks for welcoming, curiosity to explore more about ai tools, led me to join this aweome platform.