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Welcome Thread - v365

Sloan the DEV Moderator on February 18, 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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Abdul Malik

First day on Dev.to

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Ben Halpern The DEV Team

Welcome Abdul!

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Chris Jarvis

Welcome to DEV, Abdul.

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👾 FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ 👾

Hey! Welcome to Dev.to Abdul! What brings you here? Any goals?

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Subham Panda

hello

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Chris Jarvis

Hello there. welcome to DEV.

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Lars de Ridder

Hi all, moving over from Medium which isn’t what it was. I’m posting about software development, technical as well as, well, existential at this point. Building a bunch of OS things related to AI in public, like tether and context-lens. Hope to see some of you around.

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Chris Jarvis

Welcome Lars, I hope you like what you find at DEV.

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👾 FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ 👾

Hey Lars! Welcome to Dev.to! Any projects you are working specifically in the field of AI? In any case, welcome aboard!

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Max Mendes

Sounds great ! I will take a look into ahahh :D

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Adaka Ankita

Hey everyone 👋

I’m Ankita. A backend software engineer intentionally transitioning into AI engineering.

I’m currently diving into LLM production systems and documenting what I learn along the way not as an expert, but as an engineer trying to understand how to build reliable AI systems beyond just better prompts.

I recently published my first blog on control layers in production LLM systems (constraints, structured outputs, validation, randomness control).

Writing about what I’m learning forces me to understand it properly publishing it makes it real.

Here to learn, exchange ideas, and connect with others making a similar shift.

Fun fact: Hitting “publish” on my first AI blog felt scarier than deploying production code 😅

Looking forward to learning with you all! 🚀

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赵文博

Hey Ankita, nice to meet you! 👋 Welcome to the community!
Just curious about your transition—are you currently building these AI systems in Python, or are you coming from a Java/backend background? Also, I'm still learning about this space. Would you say an LLM system is essentially a business platform or application built around the capabilities of large models?
Excited to learn with you

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👾 FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ 👾

Hey Adaka! Welcome to the Dev.to community! Hope you are well.

What's your favorite part about being a back end software engineer? Any reason on the transition to AI engineering in particular?

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farooq Ali

hello team

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Chris Jarvis

Welcome to the community.

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👾 FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ 👾

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

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廖冠凱

Hi everyone

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Chris Jarvis

Hi and welcome to DEV!

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👾 FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ 👾

Hey! Welcome to Dev.to! What brings you here? Any goals for this year?

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Peter Kim Frank The DEV Team

Welcome to DEV!

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Akashneelesh

Hey everyone, I'm akash and I work as a ecosystem lead at Starkware/Starknet blockchain.

What brings me here is, we've seen apps that have interest into blockchain and bitcoin but the learning curve is too steep. Hence our team has worked on a SDK to bring Bitcoin to any app in under minutes. So I would love to showcase and do blogs around it to make things easier for any founder/application to have bitcoin on their apps

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👾 FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ 👾

Hey Akashneelesh! Welcome to the community!

A lot of great resources here when it comes to your field of blockchain. Hope your journey goes well :D

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Akashneelesh

Thanks :)

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Rubasri Srikanthan

Hello everyone 🙏

I’m Rubasri, a passionate Salesforce Developer.

I joined DEV.to share my Salesforce learnings, the systems I build, and the struggles I face while designing real-world solutions. I believe documenting the journey helps me grow.

Thank you to the DEV.to team for providing this wonderful platform.

I’m currently working on building my first end-to-end Salesforce project from scratch and sharing it as a series.

Looking forward to learning from all of you and contributing wherever I can. Excited to be part of this community! 👋✨

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👾 FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ 👾

Hey Rubasri! Welcome to the community!

I am also into Salesforce stuff as well! (More of an admin side than a dev side). Can't wait to see your Salesforce Project!

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Jasper | Langbly

Hey! I'm Jasper, building Langbly, a translation API for developers. Based in the Netherlands. Mostly interested in APIs, localization, and keeping things simple. Looking forward to sharing what I learn along the way.

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👾 FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ 👾

Hey Jasper! Welcome to Dev.to. Hope you are well. Seems interesting that you are building Langbly. Can you tell me more on how it works and what it means by "translation API for developers?".

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AUTISTE REDDING ou Gaël Périer

Hey salut.
I was born in 1982, first computer at home was a Thompson T07, it was 1984, now I'm using a Pc because I love video games but my son has an old laptops msi of line with a Edubuntu on it :)
yesterday I started "coding" with my mate Node, the Gemini Pro 3 assistant, we worked in it yesterday (8am->11pm) : result => ar-studio.art
only the template is fixed, I'm gonna fill it with real material today (no jokes and broken links 🥷🏼).
I wish I will meet many greats minds here <3

it's just 3 files :

  • index.html
  • style.css
  • script.js

:D

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👾 FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ 👾

Hey Welcome! Hope you are well. Looks great and thanks for sharing! Hope your journey goes well!

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Quackers

Hello Everyone!
I went to college to study computers and find a community. The first thing they told us is that we couldn't talk about assignments so that they could prevent cheating. Then the pandemic hit and they sent us all home. My hopes of finding a collaborative group dashed; I left school, heartbroken.

It turns out that the knowledge is online, but the community and motivation are elusive. I started attending MLH Global Hack Week events and found some of what I was looking for. The recent acquisition of Dev led me here. I hope to find community and more opportunities to learn.

-Quackers

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👾 FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ 👾

Hey Quackers! Welcome to Dev.to!

There is a lot of great things to learn on this platform and I hope you will find some great minded people here as well. Anything in particular you are currently learning. Nonetheless, welcome!

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RepoSweeper

Hey guys, I'm Taylor. I'm a Data Engineer for a video streaming service and I build productivity tools in my spare time.

I saw some other folks who moved over from Medium as well. I can't say I was super active there, but that was my main platform before. It's so trash now. Everything is paywall and AI slop.

Looking forward to meeting some of yall and exchanging ideas!

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👾 FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ 👾

Hey RepoSweeper! Welcome to Dev.to! I heard about Medium. I do agree it has paywall in some way. Dev.to is free to use whenever you like! Community here is great!

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Angel García

After so many years of dreaming and idealizing myself in this world, I finally have the opportunity to learn and possibly dedicate my life to programming. I'm very excited about this. In my current situation, it won't be easy, and I know that, but in my short 22 years, I've always made sure to put my maximum effort and focus into what I'm passionate about, to the point of exceeding the average. I have a long road ahead, including possible setbacks, but I hope I can count on all of you when needed. Thank you so much for the work you do. btw im starting to learn from absolutely 0

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👾 FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ 👾

Hey Angel! Welcome aboard! Anything you are learning in particular that you want to start off?

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Juan Isidoro García Cifuentes

Hey! I'm Isi, full-stack dev from Spain. Just launched MAKO, an open protocol for AI-agent readable websites. Excited to share the journey here

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👾 FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ 👾

Hey Juan! Welcome to Dev.to! How long have you been a full-stack dev? Any tips into that field? Regardless, welcome!

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Juan Isidoro García Cifuentes

Hi @francistrdev! Thanks for the warm welcome 😊

I've been programming ever since I got my first PC: creating forms, databases, and my first HTML websites. Life took me down a different path for a while (I spent years in the industrial sector), but about six years ago I returned to it completely and haven't looked back.

Since then, I've been working on full-stack projects and pretty much every kind of digital work you can imagine. Over the last two years, I've delved deeper into software architecture, design patterns, and systems design, mainly learning from the basics, without too many abstractions to hide behind 😄

The best advice I can give? Keep creating things that interest you. Curiosity is a powerful motivator. Never stop learning!

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Subham Panda

Hi dev community i am a 1st year undergrad exploring new technologies

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Chris Jarvis

Welcome to DEV!

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👾 FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ 👾

Hey Subham! Welcome to the Dev.to Community! We are all glad you are here.

Any technologies in particular you are interested in? In any case, welcome!

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赵文博

Welcome to the community! So glad to have you here.

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Max Mendes

Hello everyone , pleasure to be part of the community , looking forward to share some post and read some good ones as well !
cheers

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👾 FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ 👾

Hey Max! Welcome to Dev.to! Hope you are well.

What kind of posts are you planning on sharing on Dev.to? In any case, welcome aboard!

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Max Mendes

Thanks! Planning to write about building AI automation systems for small businesses, mostly from a practical angle. Things I'm actually building and testing, not theory. First post is already up about how I automated lead generation for local Polish businesses using OpenClaw. More coming on the technical side of running AI agents on a budget VPS. Should be useful for anyone building similar systems.
Sharing my own experiences :D

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Petr Macek

Hello everyone!

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👾 FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ 👾

Hey Petr! Welcome to Dev.to! What brings you here?

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Petr Macek

Thanks, @francistrdev !
I was not aware of the community until recently. I have a bunch of technical articles I wanted to share with the community, so here I am.

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Alexander Leonhard

Perplexity told me to post about my idea here. Looking for opinions and feedback, maybe even contributors.

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Moaz Hegy

Came here from mlh, want to get involved in tech events. I am in S3

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👾 FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ 👾

Hey Moaz! Welcome to Dev.to!

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BV Sai Sujith • Edited

Well i am not too late!

Finally getting into DEV world.

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👾 FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ 👾

Hey BV Sai Sujith! Welcome to Dev.to! It's never too late to join this platform! A lot of great community members to interact and a lot of great resources to improve your skills! Hope your journey goes well!

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Job

First day on Dev.to

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👾 FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ 👾

Hey Job! Welcome to Dev.to! Any plans you have for this year?

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kyla

Halluu

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👾 FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ 👾

Hey Kyla! Welcome to the community! Hope you are well :D

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Emmanuel Godspower

Hello

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👾 FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ 👾

Hey Emmanuel! Welcome to Dev.to! What brings you here today (sharing projects, meeting new people)?

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Fito Dangkuhono

hi everyone, i'am from indonesia and i'am very interested about backend programming. Thanks guyss

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👾 FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ 👾

Hey Fito! Welcome to Dev.to community! Anything in particular you are learning for backend? Regardless, welcome!

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Nicholas Williams

New here. How’s it going?

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👾 FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ 👾

Hey Nicholas. Welcome to the community! I am doing great! What brings you here on dev.to? Anything you are currently learning?

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Wert1209yt

I'm PHP

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👾 FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ 👾

Hey Wert. Welcome!

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Shishir Shukla

Hello everyone, came here after hearing that MLH acquired DEV. Hoping to get more good news and learn more.

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👾 FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ 👾

Hey Shishir! Welcome to the community! Yes, it is great news to hear about MLH and DEV joining forces! Anything in particular you are learning and to gain out of Dev.to?

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Impeccify

Hi Everyone!

Impeccify team here, we are building free web tools for developers at impeccify.com

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aj sh

First day with Dev , From India

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👾 FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ 👾

Hey Aj! Welcome!

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kubo shiori

Hello everyone.

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👾 FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ 👾

Hey Kubo! Welcome aboard! What brings you here today?

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Shivam Patel • Edited

Hi Everyone!

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👾 FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ 👾

Hey Shivam! Welcome aboard! What brings you here today?

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Euclides Marin

Hello, Palls I am new here. I am growing like a full stack developer. I enjoy working Js and Python. My best desairs for everyone.

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👾 FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ 👾

Hey Euclides! Welcome to the community. Hope you are well. How long have you been a full-stack dev?

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Daft

Happi AISN Independance Day!! 🍾 !!! 🥳🎉🎉🎊🎶🎵🎶

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Rafalphassa

Hello it's my first time here. I'm beginner dev who just start to learn flutter

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👾 FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ 👾

Hey Rafal! Welcome to Dev.to! Great resources here to learn Flutter! Hope your journey goes well in mobile development :D

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Kang

Hello world!

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👾 FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ 👾

Hey Kang! Welcome aboard! Hope you are well!

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Muhammad Zaid Amjad

Hi coders

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👾 FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ 👾

Hey Muhammad! Welcome aboard! What brings you here on Dev.to?

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JAIVARDHAN SINGH KANKARIYA

Hi

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👾 FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ 👾

Hey! Welcome!!

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jake watts

Good day all,
First day on Dev, looking forward to learning new things which is my goal with this community, just learn the most I can and meet new people to hopefully build something big one day 😁

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👾 FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ 👾

Hey Jake. Welcome to Dev.to! Anything in particular you are learning?

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Simanjali Jena

First day here 😊

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👾 FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ 👾

Hey Simanjali! Welcome!

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David Isaac

Diving into the pool. After decades in IT ranging from developer to business owner, I'm embracing my dev roots. Finally published my first open source product. It's like coming home.

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Barnabas John

I am a beginner

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ExusiaiApplePie

First day on Dev.to

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👾 FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ 👾

Hey! Welcome aboard!

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liferestarter

hello,everyone.I start my journey in Dev.to,today

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👾 FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ 👾

Hey Liferestarter. Welcome to Dev.to! Any plans you are currently having for this year as a dev?

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ikram-muhr

Hi everyone I'm just learning programming, It's not the first time, but I'm still learning

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👾 FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ 👾

Hey ikram! Welcome. What programming language you are currently learning?

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mjagomooh365

Am noob trying to be pro

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👾 FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ 👾

Hey! Welcome to Dev.to! Anything particular you are trying to be a pro at?

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Sri Shaik Mulla Sadik

First day on Dev.to

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👾 FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ 👾

Hey Sri. Welcome!