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Yo! Graduating without a job. Will keep building software. More interested in core comp science but also learning ai stack to keep up.
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Hi! I am Ripa. Now I am learning CSS. Almost finished, just trying to strengthen my site in responsive design. I heard about this from Programming Hero. So here I am.
Welcome Ripa! Welcome to DEV! What are your goals for this year? Great job on making progress on your CSS learning :)
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Hello Ben! My name's Adam, I'm trying to change careers. I've done some html and css courses and I'm trying to study Javascript now. Idk what branch of tech I should focus on, I thought web dev would be boring building static web pages but I'm learning you can do a lot more in web dev now days. I think I'm interesting in building applications and tools for windows and mobile though. The "self taught" path I've been trekking feels very slow, I've considered a boot camp but I'm nervous it's just a money grab.
Anyways. Glad to be here and to be part of the community, excited to learn new things!
Welcome Adam!
Fr the self-taught grind is real but you're on the right track honestly. Everyone feels slow at the start.
Skip the bootcamp, save your money. YouTube and building real projects will teach you more.
JS is the right choice if you want to build apps. Just keep going.
Hi Adam! I'm new here too, excited to be part of the community as well!
Welcome! 👋 Good to see you here.
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Hello, I’m Alexander. I’m aiming for my first junior DevOps role. Right now I’m self‑educating by building a multi‑hop VPN infrastructure (AmneziaWG, Xray, Ansible, Prometheus) to help my family and myself access information that’s restricted in our region. I joined dev.to to learn practical, relevant skills and connect with people who are solving real infrastructure problems.
Welcome, Alexander 👋
That’s a very practical way to learn DevOps — your setup sounds impressive already. Curious what’s been the hardest part so far?
Hello, Olga 🙂 The most challenging part was finding a balance between obfuscation (to bypass DPI) and performance for multiple clients. I tested different protocols—Xray, AmneziaWG, even pure WireGuard on port 443—but each had its own tradeoffs. Ultimately, I found a configuration that provided low latency for more than 15 concurrent users, all on the cheapest plan the VPS provider could offer.
However, some mobile providers here use a strict whitelist, and I haven't been able to solve this issue yet. It's a fascinating challenge.
By the way, your guide to Shopify themes is very practical—I don't run a store, but I can imagine how many people make this "it looks good" mistake. Do you often see store owners encounter performance issues after choosing the wrong theme?
Welcome Here Alexander ! I will be happy to connect 😊
Thank you, Valentin! Nice to meet you 😊
Your TodoAI project is really interesting. The idea of combining task management with an autonomous Claude agent (especially the GoAI Mode) is something I haven't seen before.
By the way, I noticed you're working from Tbilisi — I'm actually planning to relocate there after landing my first remote DevOps role. Small world!
I'm curious about how you approached the autonomous agent part. What were the biggest challenges with context building or subprocess management?
Looking forward to staying in touch!
Pleasure mate ! I sent you an email (maybe drop in spam)
Hello! Very ambitious, sounds like a plan. More like a traditional DevOps approach with getting your hands dirty 😃 How does that work so far?
Thanks! You’re right, I like to understand how things work under the hood. 😃 It’s working well so far — I’ve automated the deployment with Ansible and set up monitoring with Prometheus.
To keep up with modern trends, I'm also developing a Telegram bot with AI analysis. It helps me monitor the system state and get intelligent insights in real-time. It’s a great way to learn by solving real-world problems!
As a Tech Lead, what is the #1 skill you look for in a Junior DevOps candidate who has a strong engineering background but is new to Cloud?
Hi everyone, I’m Aftab. I’m into web and software development, mainly working with PHP, C#, and .NET, and lately I’ve also been exploring cloud and AI-related projects. I joined because I like learning from other builders and picking up practical skills I can actually use in real projects. Fun fact: I enjoy jumping between backend development and experimenting with new tools way too often. Looking forward to learning with you all 👋
@aftabkh4n "Welcome! I'm also learning about AI APIs right now. Good luck with your journey!"
Welcome here Aftab ! On what kind of project you are working on ?
Hey everyone 👋
I’m currently building SaaS tools and admin dashboards (focused on real usability, not just UI).
Working on a couple projects right now and trying to improve the developer experience side of things.
Happy to connect with other builders here 🚀
Great to hear! Welcome to DEV :D
What kind of SaSS tools are you building specifically?
Thanks! I’m working on Nexa Admin — a SaaS admin dashboard template with Next.js. Just trying to make something clean and actually useful for developers to build on, not just a UI showcase.
Nice, usability over just UI is rare these days. What kind of SaaS tools are you working on?
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Hi Dev.to 👋
I'm a Go / Vue dev based in Ukraine, and for the past year I've been building something called Road511 — a REST API that normalizes real-time traffic data from every US state and Canadian province 511 system into one
consistent schema.
Over the next 6–8 weeks I'll publish a deep-dive series about the technical decisions behind it. If you work on data pipelines, API design, geospatial systems, or you've ever tried to integrate 30+ upstream services with 30+
different schemas — this one's for you.
## Why Road511 exists
Every US state and Canadian province runs its own "511" traveler information system — traffic events, road conditions, cameras, DMS signs, rest areas. They all serve the same kinds of data. They all do it differently:
Want cameras for a cross-state trip? That's five integrations, five auth flows, five update schedules.
Road511 aggregates 80+ source servers into one REST API with a unified schema. One call, one key, one response format.
## What's in the data
Every endpoint has a GeoJSON variant. Drop it into Leaflet or Mapbox and it just works.
## The series
Already published:
Coming up — expect one post per week:
Follow the series tag (sidebar, right) if you want new posts to land in your feed automatically.
## Stack
cmd/api(public API + customer portal) andcmd/worker(scheduler + adapters + admin)## Try it
If there's a 511 system I haven't covered, a feature you wish existed, or a data source I should look at — drop it in the comments. I'm actively building and this series will shift based on what people actually want.
See you in the next post.
Hi DEV Community!
I’m Hema — a SDET with 9 years of experience in software testing and quality engineering. I’ve recently started learning machine learning, generative AI, and responsible AI from a QA perspective, and I’m documenting my journey learning in public.
I regularly share my learnings and AI‑focused QA insights on my blog as well:
hemaai.hashnode.dev/
Excited to be part of the DEV community and to learn, share, and grow together. Feedback and conversations are always welcome! 😊
That's great to hear and glad you are still in your DEV journey after 9 years! Great work and welcome to DEV :D
Welcome! Mac dev here too — nice to see another [Swift/desktop/indie] person joining. What are you working on currently?
Hey everyone — I'm Rohith.
I've spent the last year building LLM systems in production. Started with a RAG chatbot for enterprise warehouse management, ended up with two production services, a shared orchestration layer, and a lot of hard lessons about what actually matters when these systems run under real load.
Most of what I've learned isn't about the model. It's about everything around it.
Just published my first article here. Writing more as I go.
Good to be here.
Great work on your first article and welcome to DEV! Hope your journey goes well on DEV :D
👋 Hey everyone, Alan from Mexico here.
Jumped on DEV because I've been heads-down building Hablaaa (hablaaa.com), a collaborative Spanish slang dictionary that covers 22 Spanish-speaking countries. Think Urban Dictionary, but for how Spanish actually sounds across Mexico, Argentina, Spain, Colombia, and the rest of Latin America.
Stack: Next.js 16 + Turbopack, Supabase (Postgres + RLS), TypeScript. Bootstrapped, solo-built, and currently hovering around 20k daily Google impressions, all organic.
Background is mixed: years freelancing as an illustrator and motion designer (After Effects, 2D animation) and then picked up full-stack code somewhere along the way. Today I try to apply the same craft to both. The attention that makes a 30-frame animation feel alive is the same attention that makes a Postgres query return fast.
Excited to lurk, learn, and share some technical write-ups soon. Cheers ;p
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