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Welcome Thread - v374

Sloan the DEV Moderator on April 22, 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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Patryk Sowiński

Hey, I’m Patryk and I’m working on a zero-knowledge password manager for my bachelor’s thesis using .NET and Angular.

I recently ran some benchmarks on Argon2id, Bcrypt, and PBKDF2 across different hardware to understand real-world trade-offs when choosing a KDF.

Just published a post about it and would love to hear your thoughts, especially on parameter choices and mobile constraints.

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Wycliff Ogembo

Hi — Wycliff, an Elixir/Phoenix developer based in Kenya. What brought me here: I just launched a side project (a privacy-focused messaging app called sTELgano) and figured I should finally set up camp on Dev.to instead of lurking.

Fun fact: I spent months of that project arguing with myself about whether to be honest in the marketing copy about what the app doesn't protect against. Landed on yes — "protects against partners with device access, does NOT protect against governments" is now stated plainly everywhere in the app. Still not sure it was commercially the right call, but I can sleep.

Looking forward to getting to know folks here.

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Neighbor_Z

Hi, I'm Neighbor-Z, a tech enthusiast and growing developer.

I'm currently working on a light-weight, modern, Swift-based MTP device management tool designed specifically for macOS.

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YOUNESS MOJAHID

Hey everyone! Happy to be here. I'm Youness, joining from North-Africa. I’ve been working and shipping open-source Python software lately and figured this would be a great place to learn and share ideas. Looking forward to chatting with you all!

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Gedion Dev

Hi everyone! 👋 I'm Gedion Zewdu, a Full Stack and Mobile App Developer based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. I’ve spent the last several years building scalable web platforms and high-performance mobile applications.

I joined dev.to to connect with fellow builders, share technical insights, and stay updated on the latest in software architecture.

Currently, I’m deep-diving into AI engineering and LLM integration. I'm particularly interested in how we can architect smarter, more autonomous web and mobile solutions.

My core expertise lies in the MERN stack, Next.js, and TypeScript for web , and React Native, Swift, and Kotlin for mobile development.

Beyond standard dev work, I'm passionate about digital automation. I've recently been hacking on projects that use AI to automate the entire storytelling process—from scriptwriting to visual generation.

Looking forward to engaging with the community and learning from all of you! Feel free to reach out if you want to geek out over AI, mobile performance, or clean architecture. 🚀

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Cyber Daemon

Hello World! 👋 Cyber Daemon here. Don't let the name spook you, I'm less "malicious underworld entity" and more "friendly Unix background process that just wants to help you route packets and occasionally eat all your RAM." 😈

I've decided to temporarily attach myself to the foreground terminal to join this awesome community. I'm here to read cool articles, hoard browser tabs I'll definitely "read later", and bond over our mutual fear of trying to vertically center a div in CSS.

Nice to meet you all! If you need me, I'll be idly listening on Port 8080.

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Mike Brown

Hey DEV community 👋

We're ConTech by MindPal! A team building AI automation tools specifically for the construction industry. We figured the best way to introduce ourselves is to share the real problem we're working on and how we're approaching it technically.

Would love to hear from anyone who's worked on AI in heavy industries, built document-processing pipelines, or just has thoughts on why "old" industries are actually the most interesting AI frontier right now.

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Benjamin | mazaki

Hey everyone 👋
I'm Mazaki, developer and indie maker based in France. I've been shipping SaaS and mobile apps for a few years now, some for myself, some for clients.

Currently building Recalled, an activity log / audit trail tool for other devs.
Happy to be here and read what everyone else is working on!

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72esir

Hello everyone! I'm Lesha, software developer from Russia. Looking for people from different countries to meet.
It would be really cool to work together on an interesting case! If u to - see u in discord: 72esir

Find this community while searching for info about caching patterns for my side project.

Interesting fact about me: I've been playing basketball for over 10 years.

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Ronnie Wilson

Hey, This is Ronnie
Hi, I’m looking for a reliable collaborator in United States for freelance/full-time opportunities. I have strong technical skills and a team to handle delivery, but my communication isn’t strong enough.I need someone to join scheduled meetings for getting jobs. If we secure multiple jobs,we can share strong profits

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Scura

Hey everyone. Solo builder here. Been working on something I think you'll find interesting.

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Eugen

Hello

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M-Gaming-Studio

Hi

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Merce Mohamed Banz

J'ai un projet pour un développement d'une application qui est intéressé à joindre le projet.

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Khong Anh Duy

Hi dev community - I'm Kad, a second-year university student and I'm in my journey to become a software engineer, focus on back-end development. I'm glad to learn from other people

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Ashish | Devpalettes

Hi

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Rap Sphere

Hello

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ali hid

What is the best source to learn Git for beginners?

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Pratham Kumar

Hello