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Welcome Thread - v378

Sloan the DEV Moderator on May 20, 2026

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FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ (っ◔◡◔)っ • Edited

Welcome everyone to dev.to! Glad you are here! Another week! Hope you are having a great summer so far (Even though it just started lol).

To get started, I recommend reading this guide on making the most out of dev.to!

Make sure to check out other resources here: dev.to/help/community-resources


Feature Comment from last week thread!

Last week, I asked the community "What is your favorite music to listen to when programming?" and here is one answer that stood out to me by @sathishk-dev stating "Microsoft Teams ringtone 🤯😅"


Question of the Week!

"What is your favorite programming language?"

The comment will be featured on the next Welcome Thread!


Thanks for stopping by! Feel free to introduce yourself and welcome others by replying to at least 2 people! It would be greatly appreciated! :D

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Jonathan Martin Paez

TypeScript, easily. 🙌 It's the language that finally let me move fast and sleep at night — the type system catches the dumb mistakes before they reach prod, and refactoring a large codebase stops feeling like defusing a bomb. The tooling and ecosystem are just icing. Python is my close second for anything data/AI-related though. What about everyone else — anyone here a Rust convert trying to pull me over? 👀

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steve

You're speaking my language with TS and Python! But I'm actually learning Rust right now, mostly because compiled Rust binaries are great for source code protection. It's a beast to learn compared to TS and Python, though—the borrow checker is fighting me every day! 😅

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K Vivaan Reddy

TypeScript ahh, I am trying to learn JS, I seem to be struggling I learned HTML,CSS fairly quickly

Have you tried Zig btw?

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Krish

Hey K Vivaan,

I was on a similar path a while ago. One thing that helped me a lot was trying to understand how JavaScript works behind the scenes rather than just learning the syntax.

If you haven't already, you could start by learning about the V8 engine and how JavaScript executes code internally. It gave me a much better understanding of what was actually happening when I looked at my code.

Just sharing what worked for me—everyone learns differently, but it might be worth checking out.

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K Vivaan Reddy

oh that's great advice I will look into it

thanks 😄

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Ghanmidev2012

thanks @francistrdev

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Mayree

Hi everyone, I'm Mayree, a Customer Service Representative transitioning into tech(Front-End Development).

The journey hasn't been easy. I've spent a lot of time stuck in tutorial hell, often not knowing what to learn next. Sometimes I learn something new, then find myself going back to learn something else instead of building.

I'm hoping this community will be my last stop on that cycle. My goal is to focus on understanding what I learn, applying it in real projects, and turning knowledge into actual code and solutions.

I'm excited to learn, build, and grow alongside everyone here. Looking forward to connecting with you all!

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Eugene Maiorov

Welcome, Mayree.

Tutorial hell is familiar to many of us. What helped me was picking one very small thing and finishing it, even if the code was ugly.

Good luck with front-end. Share what you build here — small projects count too.

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Mayree

Thank you Eugene!

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Stephane Patteux

Shifting your focus to building real projects is absolutely the right move. I spend a lot of my time spinning up my own web apps and automation tools, and I can promise you that the real learning happens when things break and you have to figure out how to fix them yourself.

Don't worry about knowing everything before you start. Just pick a small project and dive in. Looking forward to seeing what front-end solutions you build!

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Mayree

Thank you! I really needed to hear this. I've spent a lot of time jumping from tutorial to tutorial, so I'm intentionally focusing more on building now, even if it's not perfect. Looking forward to sharing my progress and learning from everyone here!

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Farhan Rehman Sherief • Edited

Haaaiiiii, my name is Farhan, I may not be from the same field but I do relate on the part where you're stuck in hours of tutorial learning about programming etc, it can be really daunting and a steep hill to climb (the last half year to finally understand and be able to explain things at a glance) but it felt so rewarding once I did. It's even more fun to build projects, especially those that could solve real-world solutions etc. Can't wait to see your future work! All the Best ✨️💪🏻

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yuzu_mikan

Hello everyone! 👋

I'm yuzu_mikan, a high school student from Japan.

I'm excited to join the DEV community!
My English isn't very good yet, but I'm looking forward to learning a lot of new things from other developers and improving my skills.

Nice to meet you all!

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sebastian castano

👋 Hey everyone, Sebastian here from Cali, Colombia.

I'm a software engineer and consultant. Outside of client work, I build small projects to learn and experiment. Right now that includes a multiplayer party game at games.valdemird.com and a growing collection of developer tooling projects.

Lately I've been focused on a question: how do we make AI assistants genuinely useful for day-to-day software development, not just impressive in demos? Most of my experiments and writing revolve around that.

I share what I learn—in both English and Spanish—at valdemird.com. Looking forward to sharing some of those ideas here and learning from what everyone else is building.

Fun fact: I started with React Native before I ever touched React on the web. Mobile came first; the DOM came later.

What are you learning, building, or experimenting with these days?

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DEEPAK M S

Hey Sebastian , your question about making AI genuinely useful day-to-day rather than impressive in demos is exactly what I've been thinking about too. I've been experimenting with MCP and LLM gateways for infrastructure use cases. What's been the biggest gap you've noticed between demo AI and actually useful AI in your experiments?

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sebastian castaño

Totally with you on this. For me the gap is consequences, in a sandbox nothing actually breaks so the AI always looks great, but the second it touches a real project that changes real fast lol.
Honestly that's half the reason I've been living in OpenTelemetry, Langfuse, Prometheus and Grafana lately. If the problem is consequences, you kinda need to actually see what the agents are doing once they're loose, otherwise you're just guessing. Throw in stuff like the Ralph loop and harness engineering and yeah, it's a fun time to be doing this.
Your MCP + gateway thing sounds super interesting btw, would genuinely read a whole post on it. How's it going?

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Biprayan Choudhuri

hey, i am on a similar path too , would like to connect .

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sebastian castaño

Sure 🙂

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T.

Hey Sebastian! Your journey with tech is really cool, and I definitely want to check out your game. I'm learning web development and data analytics right now.

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Jamie Cropley

Hi, I finished university a while ago now with a degree in AI, I signed up to this site to hopefully share work on my projects, knowledge and to connect with others in the tech and AI industry, and somewhat game development.

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Jonathan Townsend

Hello! I've gotten pretty into Cython recently. I'm not quite a systems lang programmer but love Cython for its inherent speed and Python-like syntax and Python interoperability (the language I have far more experience in). Glad to be here!

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Sami

Hey everyone! 👋

I’m an electronics engineer with a PhD in AI, but my passion is coding and development.

I recently built my own desktop tool: an AI writing mentor to assist me daily with my writing tasks. Because data privacy is essential to me, I designed it to run 100% locally using local LLMs. No cloud, total confidentiality.

Excited to join the community and chat about local AI setups with you all! 🚀

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vaibhavi suradkar

Hey everyone! 👋

My name is Vaibhavi. I'm a frontend developer currently learning backend, finally opening the folder where the backend lives and hoping for the best 😅
Exploring Node.js, databases, APIs, and AI while building full-stack projects and documenting the whole messy journey along the way.

Excited to be here and looking forward to learning from the community, sharing ideas, and connecting with people building interesting things.

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DEEPAK M S

Hello Vaibhavi, finally opening the folder where the backend lives, honestly this is the bast description of starting backend development I've heard. One quick question, what's the first thing that susprised you once you got in there?

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vaibhavi suradkar

Haha, thanks!

The biggest surprise was realizing the backend folder wasn't just a single folder.

It was several folders, a database, a dozen environment variables, and at least one error message that refused to explain itself!!

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croc100

Hey! DevOps engineer from Korea. Been working with Python and Django for a while —
mostly infrastructure, CI/CD, database migrations. Just shipped my first open source
tool and figured this was a good place to share things. Excited to be here!

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PaoloMassignan

Hi everyone 👋

I'm Paolo, a software manager and developer from Italy.

I've been working with C# and industrial software systems for many years, spending most of my time somewhere between software architecture, team leadership, and hands-on development.

Lately, like many others, I've been fascinated by how quickly AI is transforming the way we build software. Every week there seems to be a new model, a new tool, or a completely new way of working.

One of the reasons I joined DEV is that keeping up with this pace is almost impossible alone.
Looking forward to learning from the community and hopefully contributing something useful along the way.

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Max Becker • Edited

Hi I am Max. Nice to meet you!

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MOULIK CHOUDHARY

👋 Hi everyone!
I’m Moulik, currently pursuing my B.Tech in Computer Science & Engineering. My journey so far has been fueled by building projects in C++ (including a modular SAT solver) and diving headfirst into game development, which I’m learning independently.

I love exploring how code can evolve into scalable systems or immersive gameplay, and I’m always excited to collaborate, share ideas, and learn from this amazing community. Let’s push boundaries together and make tech fun, impactful, and a little bit playful along the way! 🎮✨

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Shreyash Chaugule

Hi everyone 👋

I'm Shreyash, a software engineer passionate about building scalable applications, AI-powered solutions, and agentic systems.

Recently, I've been exploring Generative AI, multi-agent architectures, and modern cloud technologies through hackathons, open-source projects, and real-world applications. With the rapid pace of innovation in AI, there's always something new to learn, build, and experiment with.

I joined the DEV community to connect with fellow developers, share projects, learn from others, and participate in exciting community challenges and programs. Looking forward to contributing, collaborating, and growing alongside this amazing community.

Happy coding! 🚀

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Pratik Goswami

Hi All!

I am Pratik Goswami, a Frontend Engineer based in Bangalore, India.

I am deeply passionate about modern web architecture and UI engineering—specifically:

  • The Evolution of UIs: How interfaces are scaling and changing to meet future user needs.
  • Performance & UX: The direct correlation between frontend optimization and real-world user experience.
  • Architectural Tradeoffs: Exploring how different rendering strategies, state management patterns, and system designs work together to build resilient apps.

Lately, I’ve been spending my time diving into frontend system design and building side projects focused on real-time collaboration tools and performance optimization.

Excited to join the community here, read some great technical breakdowns, and share some of my own insights down the line. Let’s connect!

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Eugene Maiorov

Welcome, Pratik.

Frontend system design is a great rabbit hole. The deeper you go, the more you realize performance and UX are not separate topics at all.

Real-time collaboration tools sound interesting too. Looking forward to seeing what you share.

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Rizki Murtadha

Hi everyone 👋

I’m Rizki, a software engineer. I’m currently building AI tools, including PrompTessor, an AI prompt analysis and optimization platform, and Choosaro, an AI decision-making tool.

I’m here to learn more about software development, AI products, SaaS building, SEO, and to connect with other developers and indie makers.

A fun fact about me: I enjoy building products from scratch and learning through real launches, experiments, and user feedback.

Nice to meet you all! 🚀

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Jonathan Martin Paez

Hi all! 👋 Indie dev who builds open-source tools — currently into LLM observability, local model inference, and the occasional idle game on the side. Here to learn from how other people design systems that actually age well. Fun fact: my Desktop folder is basically a graveyard of side projects 😅

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Harshil Barot

Hey, I am Harshil Barot.

I'm always open to discussing SEO, digital marketing, content strategy, website growth, online tools, affiliate marketing, and business collaborations. Feel free to say hello if you'd like to exchange ideas, explore opportunities, or talk about growing your online presence.

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Neel-Vekariya

Hey everyone 👋,
I’m Neel, a student trying to learn my way into the tech industry. I like learning new things every day. I’m not a developer or engineer yet, just a student, but I’m working towards it and hope to join you all soon.

Thanks.

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Stephen Thompson

In 2026, cryptocurrency recovery has emerged as a specialized field combining blockchain forensics, investigative analysis, and legal coordination. Chainalysis Crypto Recovery (CCR) has become a trusted leader in helping victims recover lost funds safely and efficiently.

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Eva

Hi everyone!👋

I'm Eva,a solo developer exploring ways to automate digital product workflows.I'm currently experimenting with Telegram,Make,Notion,and Payhip to build fully automated processes for my projects.

Excited to connect with other devs here and share insights along the way!

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Ahmad Humayun

H Everyone! Data Engineer. I work on solving data problems and creating systems for messy processes for marketing analytics. Recently have been looking into how AI systems relibility should be solved, Looking forward to being part of the community!

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Faizal

Hey DEV community! 👋
I'm Abdulfaizal Shaikh, Senior Automation Engineer from India with 6+ years in UI, API and mobile test automation.
Currently exploring AI based testing and RAG framework testing — fascinating space to be in right now.
I love teaching and sharing what I know, so I'll be posting regularly about automation and AI testing.
Excited to be here and learn from this amazing community. Say hello! 😄

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TokenHub

Hi everyone, I am new here. Sharing what I have been building. TokenHub started as a weekend project after I got scammed twice trying to buy DeepSeek API keys on Telegram. Three months later it serves 400+ AI models through one OpenAI compatible endpoint. From /usr/bin/bash.26 per million tokens. No Chinese phone. No VPN. Credit card accepted. Happy to answer questions about building API relays, working with Chinese AI companies, or running on a 2 Vultr budget. Feedback welcome.

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Prasad R

Hi everyone 👋

I'm Prasad, a tech enthusiast passionate about building scalable applications, AI-powered solutions, and agentic systems.

I've been exploring Generative AI, MCP, AI Foundry, and cloud technologies. I joined the DEV community to learn and share my learnings along the way.

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Muhammad Usman Ali

Hey 👋

I’m Muhammad Usman Ali, an AI SEO Strategist & SEO Consultant focused on Technical SEO, entity optimization, and AI-driven search. I’m here to learn, share insights, and explore how dev + SEO + AI intersect in modern search.

Currently experimenting with SEO automation and entity-based strategies.

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Franklyn Nmesoma

Hello everyone,

I'm a software enginner passionate about crafting solutions to problems faced by internet users and even businesses.

I'll be sharing my first-hand experience, concepts I'm learning, best practices on here.

Happy to connect with you all.

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Ravi Teja • Edited

Hello i am newbie, eager to contribute to the community and learn from others i am Sr Software Engineering Manager at a fortune 500 company leading teams focused on building modernized digital applications

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Sahil Mansuri

Hello everyone. I just joined the dev.to. I’m a Full Stack Developer specializing in the MERN stack with hands-on experience building scalable web applications using React.js, Node.js, Express.js, and MongoDB.

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Uday Krishnan

Hey DEV community! 👋 I'm Uday — a full-stack developer from India with 7 years in IT.

I work with React and FastAPI, and lately I've been going deep into AI engineering - prompt engineering, RAG systems, agentic workflows, and LLM integration.

What brought me here: I want to learn in public, share what I build, and connect with others who are serious about software craft and AI.

Fun fact: I'm equally obsessed with trading systems, Indian philosophy, and making my code work on the first try (still working on that last one 😄)

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oluwanifemi1111

I'm building Molada Pay, a digital wallet and payments platform. I already have product mockups, a roadmap, and a defined MVP. I'm looking for developers interested in discussing the project and potentially contributing to an early-stage startup.

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Be On Time

"Greetings everyone! 👋
Excited to be here! I'm a Project Management expert joining the community to share some insights on a topic that usually keeps us awake at night: the managerial 'Death March'—where the plan looks great on paper, but the reality is a disaster.

I'm on a mission to help teams move from 'hoping' their resources are available to 'knowing' they are.

Let's build some better systems together!"

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Bubb Tucks

Hi everyone,
I'm Bubb and am an absolute beginner to coding and Linux. Day1.
I'm interested in security and online privacy and am a fan of the original ethos of the web.
Hope to not annoy anyone with basic questions but will try my best to pick up speed-
Am eager to learn and be part of the community.

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wispcss

Hello everyone. I'm a web developer obsessed with architecture, design patterns, etc. I'm full stack but I mostly do frontend work with minimum backend stuff. I also created github.com/wispcode/wisp-css/

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cim

Hi all, new here. Background in SWE, from code to infra, for over a decade now. I've got an open source project that I've been developing for years called Demyx. Link to the project is in my bio, if you're interested.

Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.

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Bakhtiar Aleem

Hello everyone

I’m Bakhtiar Aleem, a Principal Frontend Software Engineer with 11+ years of experience building scalable, high performance web applications and modern user interfaces.

Over the years, I’ve worked across both web application development and CMS ecosystems. On the web side, I’ve been deeply involved with React, Vue, and Laravel. On the CMS side, I’ve worked extensively with WordPress, Webflow, and Shopify focused on building clean, maintainable, and user-centered digital experiences.

I’m passionate about writing code that is not just functional, but also simple, scalable, and meaningful in real-world use.

I joined Dev.to to:

  • Share lessons from real projects
  • Learn from other developers’ experiences
  • Connect with people who love building things as much as I do

Looking forward to being part of this amazing community and contributing along the way

If you’d like to connect or check out some of my work, here it is:
bakhtiaraleem.live

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Nicolau Amorim

Hey! I'm Nicolau, 18-year-old economics student in Portugal building Flowtex — a second brain for small teams that connects your apps, AIs, and team context in one workspace.
Started because I kept losing context switching between Gmail, Notion, Claude, and Calendar. Validated the problem on Reddit for a few weeks, just launched the waitlist at flowtex.xyz.
Building in public and documenting the whole journey here. Happy to connect with other founders doing the same.

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Fabio Devin

Hi, new here, old everywhere else! My name is Fabio Devin, some may know me as the creator of the Quantum UX framework. I work in AI based stuff since 2011 (Quantum UX which is pure AI was created in 2014, go figure) and I have worked in-house or as a consultant for many Fortune 100 companies and governments around the world.

Well, I guess that's it, just another UX and AI nerd!

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Artem Kholomyanskiy

I'm Artem — AI Automation Consultant from Poland, working with Russian-speaking clients globally.
I build AI agent systems, Telegram bots, and workflow automations using Python, Claude API, and n8n.
Recently created ANSS — an open-source specification standard for AI-assisted development. The core idea: classic spec formats were designed for humans, not AI agents. ANSS fixes that.
→ github.com/Kholomyanskiy/anss-standard
Happy to connect with anyone working on AI agents, automation, or Claude Code!

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Jothiprakash K

Hey Everyone,
Curious builder here. Developing software for quite sometime. Worked majorly on Traditional ML, DL, Edge AI, Android Framework, Android Applications. Here to widen my knowledge base and to share some of my learnings.

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Atharva Kusumbia

Hey Dev.to! I'm Atharva - I like to build, experiment and have fun with languages!

I have recently worked on few projects like tokindle and vayu.

I am hoping i would be able dive into open source community through dev.to !

Glad to be here!

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Manu

Hey everyone, I am an undergrad with a few skills, but I never focused on one thing. I would really love it if someone could tell me what worked for you to land your dream job or anything else that really gave you what you really wanted, it would be of real big help...

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Ebrahim Shafiei

Hi all! 👋 I'm Ebrahim Shafiei, aka EbraSha — White-hat hacker, security researcher, and software engineer. Builder of open-source tools spanning network security, system internals, and offensive defense. Sharing deep dives on cybersecurity, reverse engineering, and building things that matter.

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Robert Cooper

Long time Debian pure Linux user (1999). Now building simple: Browser + JavaScript + socat + bash = Unlimited browser power:

Are you Running Linux; want to play youtube iframe videos on localhost ?

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Lineu Graeff

Hi, I'm Lineu, senior dev from Canada. Just published my first article on the SSL certificate lifespan changes happening through 2029. Happy to be here.
dev.to/lineu_graeff/ssl-certificat...

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Debmalya Sen

Hello people, this is Deb. I love building software, mostly for fun. Sometimes they turn out to be useful and one such project that I am proud of and working currently is helium agent. Give it a try github.com/DebmalyaSen34/helium-agent.

I love, I mean I love to play video games. Recently got platinum trophy in Elden Ring. Completed sekiro a while ago. Anyways, nice to be here.

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sys-ronin

Hi everyone,
it is my first day here
Python + git + json + AESGCM + cognitive UI + github e2ee sync
my stack
i am a sysadmin with 25 years of system level knowledge, for last 7 months , i have been building a encrypted, portable, decoupled, writing application, but i did not get a chance to show it anywhere, it is not a commercial product, i built it using python,git, AESGCM, git-filter-repo, i had no prior development experience as i am not a cs degree. I will be glad if someone ask me about my app, i will happily share the knowledge, its architecture are fully decoupled, and key vault are portable but hardware bound, here llm was my team member, though i dont know python, but i have built this,
i wish someone will ask about me more

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Jak s

HI everyone
I am a Senior Full-Stack Engineer | .NET Core · Angular · Node.js
Building enterprise software for startups and SMEs across Europe & GCC.
Creator of jaklens.ai Free offline AI invoice tracker — built for Windows.
and JAKS.dev Vault — 26 free HTML templates at templates.jack-codes.com
Portfolio → jack-codes.com

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Muhammad Abdullah

Hi All!
I am Abdullah, an AI/ML Engineer based in Lahore, Pakistan.

I am deeply passionate about building production-grade AI systems—specifically:
• RAG Pipelines: Designing retrieval-augmented generation systems that go beyond demos and work reliably at scale.
• LLM Integration: Connecting large language models to real-world data, APIs, and workflows in meaningful ways.
• AI Agents: Building multi-channel autonomous agents that automate complex, multi-step tasks end-to-end.

I've been spending my time working on real-time ML APIs, vector search systems, and LLM-powered automation — turning cutting-edge AI research into practical, deployable solutions.

Excited to join this community, learn from the talented engineers here, and share some of my own experiences and insights along the way. Let's connect!

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Severino

Hello Dev Community! 👋
I’m a senior full-stack developer who enjoys turning complex ideas into clean, scalable, and useful products. My main stack includes React, Node.js, Python, APIs, cloud infrastructure, and AI integrations.
I joined Dev.to to share real project experiences, learn from other developers, and connect with engineers around the world. Excited to be here — let’s build something great together!

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Can Nguyen

hello everyone,
I'm a software engineer specializing in backend systems (Java/Spring Boot/AWS) and full-stack development.
What I'm currently working on: Finishing up a real-time transit alert dashboard and diving into advanced AI agent performance benchmarks.
When I'm not staring at code or a terminal, you can usually find me exploring open-world survival games. Stated simply: I love to build things. Happy to be here and looking forward to connecting!

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Daniel Pokorný

Hi everyone 👋

I'm Daniel, founder of Atom Foundry.

I'm researching how AI systems discover, evaluate and recommend businesses online.

Recently I've been spending a lot of time thinking about Recommendation Intelligence™ and what happens when AI becomes part of the buying journey.

Open to meet others working on AI, search, e-commerce or data products.

Nice to meet everyone.

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Akshay Pancholi

Hi DEV Community! 👋

We're Echovya, a creative digital agency based in the UAE.

We specialize in web development, UI/UX design, branding, SEO, Generative Engine Optimization (GEO), and AI Search Optimization.

We're joining DEV to share practical insights, case studies, experiments, and lessons learned from building digital experiences and helping businesses improve their online visibility.

Looking forward to connecting with fellow developers, designers, marketers, and founders.

Excited to be here!

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Ivan

Hi everyone — glad to be here.

I’m a software developer from the Czech Republic. Outside work I’m building my own AI English tutor and learning app (voice-first, real-time conversations). That side project keeps me busy with challenges like: UX, AI reliability, agent-assisted development, and solopreneurship — plus marketing, which I’m still figuring out :-)

I’m here to learn from this community and share bits of the journey that might help others building similar things.

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Armin MK

Hey! 👋 I'm Armin, a developer passionate about building clean, user-friendly web experiences. Whether it's crafting sleek frontends or building robust backends, I love turning ideas into reality. Feel free to explore my work and reach out — I'd love to connect! 🚀

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Mehroz ali

Hey I’m Mehroz, currently learning web development and exploring different tech stacks like frontend and backend development. I joined to improve my skills, build real projects, and connect with other learners. Fun fact: I enjoy turning ideas into small working apps.
Hey nice to meet you! What are you currently learning or working on?

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Anapeksha Mukherjee

Hey everyone!
I am Anapeksha Mukherjee, systems programmer, currently building Vaylix, an open source key-value database engine in Rust, and AuthSafe, an auth platform.
Mostly here to write about distributed systems, database internals, and what you actually learn when you build infrastructure from scratch rather than just read about it.

Looking forward to being part of the community.

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Lalit Bagga

Hey everyone! I'm Lalit, a DevOps Engineer based in Canada with a software development background spanning mobile and web.
I recently started documenting my cloud journey, building AWS infrastructure with Terraform, deploying containerized apps on ECS, and setting up CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions. All written from a "I actually built this and here's what broke" perspective.
Excited to cross-post here and connect with the community. Always happy to talk AWS, Terraform, or anything DevOps. 👋

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Olayiwola Akinnagbe

Hey everyone! I am Olayiwola, a software engineer from Lagos, Nigeria. I joined DEV because I have been building in public and I wanted to connect with developers who actually ship things.

My current project is Tablesmit. Tablesmit.com is a free, open source table builder for writers, analysts and researchers. You build a clean, structured table in the browser, set column types, and export to PDF, Excel, LaTeX, CSV, PNG or JPEG. No account required. MIT licensed. The LaTeX export has been the feature that surprised me most, I added it because one researcher asked, and it turned out to be the thing people talk about most.

I am most interested in frontend performance, accessibility, and the craft of building tools that feel right to use. Happy to connect with anyone working on developer tools, open source projects, or building in public.

What are you all working on?

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Karthika M

Hi everyone ,I'm Karthika , a 3rd year computer science student from Kerala . I'm a complete beginner in this journey of becoming an SRE .I'm glad to be part of this community . Hope to make wonderful connections here!!😄

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DEEPAK M S

Hey DEV community! I'm Deepak a Cloud Infrastructure & Platform Engineer from Kochi, India.
I stumbled here because I've been building in public lately and wanted to connect with more engineers who actually ship things.

Yesterday I shipped dockersec, an offline CLI tool that scans Dockerfiles and docker-compose files for security vulnerabilities. Built in Go. 28 rules, single binary, GitHub Actions ready. Wrote it because I kept seeing the same Docker security mistakes in production containers running as root, hardcoded secrets in ENV, latest tags everywhere.

I spend my days running production infrastructure solo for a startup. Nights I build tools and make content explaining complex systems simply.

Currently learning: transformer architecture from first principles (starting with linear algebra). Long game.

Fun fact: I once stopped a live AWS account breach at 4AM alone the attacker had hidden a Lambda function in another region that kept regenerating credentials. Found it, deleted it, regained access. Best debugging session of my life.
Good to be here.

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Jessica Templet

Its not so bad in fact the math isn't really the difficult part. The challenge lies in the sheer volume of moving parts and the strict discipline required to track multi dimensional tensor operations as they mutate through the network. Once you understand matrix multiplication, vector spaces, and linear transformations, you have conquered the most significant conceptual wall and then the rest just falls into place.

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Taksh Panchal

Hi everyone!

I'm Taksh, a Flutter developer who loves building mobile and web applications. I'm always looking to learn new technologies, improve my development skills, and connect with other passionate creators. Recently, I've been exploring iOS development and working on some exciting side projects.

Fun fact: I enjoy turning ideas into real products and sharing what I learn along the way. Looking forward to getting to know all of you and learning together!

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Shahid Malla

Hey everyone!
I’m Shahid, a Full Stack Developer and freelancer. I mostly work on WHMCS, WordPress, Laravel, and server-related projects. Looking forward to sharing ideas and learning from this awesome community.

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notenki

Hey everyone 👋
I'm notenki, an indie dev from Hakodate, Japan. I just shipped Claude Token Dashboard — a local tool to monitor your Claude Code usage, track agent activity in real-time, and score your environment's security. Launching on Product Hunt this Tuesday. Would love your feedback!

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Jessica Templet

I'm Jessica Templet
a DevOps. I design cognitive or reasoning substrates for AI systems particularly in high-stakes professional environments where auditability is a requirement and contradictions, drift, and loss of oversight can have serious consequences.

My current project is a geometric field-theoretic framework for AI memory and reasoning. It treats AI memory like a dynamic hyperbolic manifold where logical tension, identity preservation, and human oversight are expressed through curvature, inertia, and thermodynamic properties. Over time this has evolved into a hybrid elliptic-parabolic-hyperbolic GNN-PDE engine that supports dynamic self-organization, strict compartmentalization across isolated matter manifolds, and safe generalization through preservation-based bridges.

I’m especially drawn to problems that sit at the intersection of graph theory, discrete geometry, physics-inspired modeling, and practical computer science. I also do a bit of technical writing with regard to CS and AI especially.

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henry

Hi everyone! I'm a solo developer building AI-powered Chrome extensions — contract review, document OCR, job autofill. Just published my first post here about RAG grounding with 1,700+ statutes. Excited to learn from this community!

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Figa .A.K

Hi Everyone 👋

I'm an AI Automation Developer from Indonesia.

Over the past few months, I've been building automation workflows using tools like n8n, AI agents, APIs, and chatbots to help businesses automate repetitive tasks.

Some projects I've worked on include:

AI Customer Service Chatbots
WhatsApp Automation
Lead Generation Systems
AI Content Automation
CRM & Spreadsheet Integrations
Multi-Agent Workflows

On DEV.to, I'll be sharing:

✅ n8n tutorials
✅ AI automation workflows
✅ API integrations
✅ Chatbot development tips
✅ Lessons learned from client projects

I'm excited to learn from this community and connect with other developers interested in automation and AI.

What's your favorite automation project you've built recently?

Looking forward to meeting everyone! 🚀

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Kunal Verma

Hey DEV community! I'm Kunal — a self-taught Full Stack Developer with 3 years of experience, currently exploring GenAI and AI/ML. Just published my first article here about my coding journey. Excited to learn, share, and grow with this community!

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Lord

Hello all I'm lord. I am comp sci student who loves all things computers. I very much enjoy the backend side of things algorithms data manipulation and analytics. Thought I'd join here as I dont really have any friends who like programming and I would love to collaborate in the future, ive worked with python java sql and the usual hatml css javascript combo. Worked a little with ai libraries.

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Ed Umbao

Hi everyone, I’m Ed.

I work in SEO and content strategy for Outscraper. We’re a lean SaaS team serving more than 500,000 users, and even though I’m not a technical person by background, being in this environment pushed me to learn more about APIs, GitHub, automation, and product workflows.

My role is mainly in content and SEO, but I want to understand the technical side of SaaS better so I can write more useful content, support the team more effectively, and build a stronger skill set.

I’m here to learn in public and share:

  1. What I learned from APIs and automation
  2. Small tools I built for SEO and content work
  3. GitHub lessons from a non-developer
  4. How technical learning improves SaaS content
  5. Mistakes and wins along the way

I’m not here as an expert developer. I’m here as someone growing into the technical side of the work, one step at a time.

Excited to learn from the dev.to the community.

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Decker Shaw

👋 Hey y'all! I'm Decker.
I build little AI tools for Amazon sellers — think product photos, listing copy, that kinda stuff. Been coding for a while and got curious about how AI could make e-commerce less of a headache.
Still figuring things out, but happy to be here. Say hi if you want, happy to chat! 🚀

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Albert • Edited

Hey everyone! I'm a senior dev and solo founder. By day I work on enterprise software, by night I build CFAI — a Windows desktop AI layer that operates at OS level. It reads screen context, captures system audio without bots, runs local LLMs via Ollama, and lets you trigger AI actions in any app via hotkeys. Basically I wanted an AI that works while I work, not one I have to go talk to. Always happy to geek out about local inference, agentic systems, or low-latency audio pipelines.
My best
CFAI Founder

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Karthikkrishnan J

Hello

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Mohsin Raza

Hey everyone! I'm currently building SysNerve, a platform that helps developers identify root causes and troubleshoot software issues using AI. I'm here to learn, connect with other builders, and share insights from my startup journey. Excited to be part of the community!

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DarkenAmber

Hey! Engineer from Baku, Azerbaijan. I build things as a hobby.

Just published my first post here 36 offline IT/security tools
in a single HTML file. Packet analyzer, CIDR aggregator,
AES encryption, SSH key generator and more. No npm, no backend,
no tracking.

Happy to connect with network engineers and security folks!

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Marcus Holmberg

Hey there! 👋

I'm a backend dev originally from Sweden 🇸🇪, currently based out of sunny Phnom Penh ( yet polluted lol), Cambodia 🇰🇭.

Right now, I'm spending most of my free time fighting with code to build a moody, narrative-driven website. It’s a bit cryptic and honestly, I don't think anyone fully understands it yet (sometimes including me), but the backend architecture is a fun puzzle!

Excited to join the community here, read some great articles, and connect with other devs.

PEACE!

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oluwanifemi1111

I'm building Molada Pay, a digital wallet and payments platform. I already have product mockups, a roadmap, and a defined MVP. I'm looking for developers interested in discussing the project and potentially contributing to an early-stage startup.

Reachout to me: x.com/nifemi_1111

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Opportunity Biz

Hey everyone! 👋 I'm Opportunity Biz — building automation and scraping tools on Apify, focused on MCP-native data extraction for AI agents. Based in Spain, working mostly with Python, Playwright, and the MCP protocol. Excited to connect with other builders here and share what I'm learning. What's everyone working on these days?