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Welcome Thread - v380

Sloan the DEV Moderator on June 17, 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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FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ (っ◔◡◔)っ

Welcome everyone to dev.to! Glad you are here! Hope you are having a great week so far! It's raining at the place I am at D:

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 the one project you are proud of? (I recommend creating a post about your project and sharing it in the comments!)" and here is one answer that stood out to me by @artemkozak where he built DockGraph!:


Question of the Week!

"What is the hardest bug that you have to encounter as a developer? Did you fix it?"

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

Any questions about DEV from a DEV Community Mod perspective? Leave a comment and come chat here!

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Quang

Hi everyone! my name is Quang. I'm a machine learning engineer from Paris France.
Feel great to finally be here! Up until now I work mostly in startups. My specialization is in deep learning and machine learning/data engineering but my startup life has taught me well so I'm a bit many hats now =)).
Most recently I work on two projects: one is an AI canvas app named dim0.net (a bit like excalidraw combined with notion), the other is hexgate.ai which is about AI agent securization.
Besides coding I support Arsenal, Barca and play a bit of Age Of Empires.
Nice to meet everyone!

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Hemapriya Kanagala

Hey Quang, welcome to DEV 👋

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Quang

Thank you !!

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MjolnirBearer

Hey Quang, glad to connect! I’m on my ML journey right now, building projects and learning AI step by step. It’s awesome to come across someone experienced in the space. Looking forward to your posts. 😄

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Ari

Hi Quang!

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Nwachukwu Chinaemerem

Hi everyone 👋

I'm Chinaemerem Nkwachukwu Nwachukwu — a cybersecurity engineer and founder based in Nigeria.

I build detection tooling and security infrastructure under Tinlance Limited, my AI and cybersecurity studio. My first article here covers ThreatFade, an entropy-based C2 detection engine I validated against real Merlin QUIC malware traffic. Before that I contributed Nigerian fintech credential detectors to Nuclei, TruffleHog, Semgrep, Gitleaks, and Slither — the gap in coverage for Paystack and Flutterwave patterns bothered me enough that I just fixed it.

I'm here to write about threat detection, building security products as a solo founder in Africa, and the actual engineering decisions that go into shipping real tools — not the sanitized version.

dev.to/nwachukwu_chinaemerem_f01/how-i-detected-merlin-quic-c2-traffic-using-entropy-and-z-scores-490k-packets-0-false-positives-mki

Looking forward to connecting with the security and open source folks here. If you're working on detection engineering, C2 analysis, or building SaaS from emerging markets, I'd love to talk.

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Hemapriya Kanagala

Hey, welcome to DEV 👋

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Travis Wilson

Impressive! Welcome

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Billal

wow

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plasma

Welcome!!!👋

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Abdullahi Kabri

omo how far na, your job dey great

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Jack Liu

Hey everyone, I’m Jack.

I’m working on AI developer tools and recently spending more time around LLM APIs, model routing, and practical AI app infrastructure.

I joined DEV to share small technical notes, learn from other builders, and write more consistently about what I’m building and testing.

Outside of work, I’m usually exploring new dev tools and trying to turn messy setup problems into simpler workflows. Happy to meet everyone here.

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Hemapriya Kanagala

Hey Jack, welcome to DEV 👋

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Joshua Dungan • Edited

Do you have an active project? I am actively looking for testers and you said you are working on llm tools and apis etc.

I just released my app, PathMap and you can see the plain code. It has a humanitarian and clinical waiver for commercial use so depending on what you are doing, you may be able to use it as you can under the license.

Link's in my profile and if you have a public facing project, I am looking to get involved in testing as well. I am a.good reverse engineer so to speak.

I have no community and today is my first day here. Sorry if I wrote too much. Good luck and welcome!

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We0ai Team

welcome to DEV

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Travis Wilson

Hey welcome!

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Trevor

Hey Jack,
Welcome to the community! I just joined today as well 👋

In my career, I specialized in turning messy problems into simpler workflows, as well!

Glad to have something in common 😀

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Lavkesh Dwivedi

Hi everyone - I'm Lavkesh, a senior engineer in Dallas working on cloud-native systems and AI. 15 years in and I still write my own code, which I think is the only real way to keep your judgment sharp. I write about what I actually build at lavkesh.com - cloud architecture, AI in production, distributed systems, and occasionally something that has nothing to do with any of that. On the question of the week: the hardest bug I've hit was a race condition that only appeared when two services crossed a Daylight Saving Time boundary at 2am on a Sunday under real production load. Three weeks to reproduce it deliberately. Yes, we fixed it. No, I'm not over it.

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Hemapriya Kanagala

Hey Lavkesh, welcome to DEV 👋

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Lavkesh Dwivedi

Thanks @hemapriya_kanagala. What's your caffeine?

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Hemapriya Kanagala

Coffee for me 😄
What about you?

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Lavkesh Dwivedi

Caffeinate agents (skills) right now for me

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John Nickell

Wow. Yet another reason for everyone to just use UTC. Why does it need to be a certain time of day for the number we assign to it? 😅 That bug would've broken me.

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Divine Uzor

Hello everyone! 👋

My name is Divine, and I'm excited to join the DEV Community.

I'm currently building my skills in Cloud Computing, Networking, Azure, and Microsoft 365 Administration. I recently earned my Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900) certification and have been documenting my learning journey through technical notes, GitHub repositories, and LinkedIn posts.

At the moment, I'm focused on:

  • Cloud Infrastructure
  • Networking
  • Azure
  • Microsoft 365 Administration

I believe in learning in public, sharing what I learn, and connecting with others who are on a similar journey.

Looking forward to learning from the community, contributing where I can, and documenting my progress along the way.

Happy to connect with fellow learners, cloud enthusiasts, and IT professionals!

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Hemapriya Kanagala

Hey Divine, welcome to DEV 👋

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Divine Uzor

Thank you so much Hemapriya

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𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐚𝐳𝐲 𝐆𝐢𝐫𝐥

Welcome!!💗

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Divine Uzor

Thank you so much

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huay br

Hey, welcome to DEV

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John Nickell

Hey, I'm John. Software architect, about 15 years in. PHP, DDD, and Clean Architecture have been my corner of the world for most of that time.

What brought me here is pretty simple: I've had a lot of opinions about writing software the right way for a long time, and I'm finally starting to put them on paper. The thing I keep coming back to is that AI coding tools are a real accelerant... but if there's nobody on the team who actually understands the domain, you're just generating a mess faster. That's the thing I want to write about.

Good to be here!

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Hemapriya Kanagala

Hey John, welcome to DEV 👋

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John Nickell

Thank you 🍻

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𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐚𝐳𝐲 𝐆𝐢𝐫𝐥 • Edited

Hey!! John nice to meet you!!!❤️
Welcome to Dev

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John Nickell

Thank you 🍻 Nice to meet you too

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Asha

Hello everyone ! I'm Asha, a frontend developer who works with JS and its frameworks, based in India.

Great to finally be here!
About me - I build and maintain applications, work on UI/UX, and write (which I love the most).

I'm here to write about JS and its frameworks, breaking complex concepts down into simple explanations that's how I learn myself, so it's how I like to share too.

I also write on Medium if you'd like to check out some of my articles — here's the link: Asha bikawat

Outside code, I actually like to binge-watch web shows — Suits being a recent one.

Looking forward to connecting with developers who share the same interests. Nice to meet you all! 🤗

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Hemapriya Kanagala

Hey Asha, welcome to DEV 👋

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Sohan

Hey Asha, nice to see you here.

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Pranav Raj

Hi everyone, myself Pranav
I am a B.Tech student passionate about AI, machine learning, and software engineering. I build projects, experiment with emerging technologies, and write about what I learn along the way.

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Hemapriya Kanagala

Hey Pranav, welcome to DEV 👋

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𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐚𝐳𝐲 𝐆𝐢𝐫𝐥

Welcome!!!❤️

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James Cruce

Hi everyone, my name is James. Glad to be here. I live in north Florida (very different from central and south Florida) If you love nature this is the place to be. Lots of springs and nature preserves, parks etc.

I'm a long time systems engineer (25+ years) and love automation whereever possible. Not a strong coder but have created extensive scripts.

Currently strengthening my Python skills to help with my side-pivot, machine learning. My day job is at a large University Health System administrating virtual infrastructure. I hope to learn much here and contribute when I can.

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Hemapriya Kanagala

Hey James, welcome to DEV 👋

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James Cruce

Thanks for the welcome! 😎

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Shannon Mettry

Hi everyone 👋🏼

I’m new to Dev.to and here to get a bit creative and see where it leads.

I’m a self-taught developer with years of experience in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, currently working in integrations and moving toward Developer Advocate roles.

Reach out if you're keen to build cool projects.

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Hemapriya Kanagala

Hey Shannon, welcome to DEV 👋

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Ari

Hi! Welcome!!

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Julie Do

Hi everyone! 👋

I'm the builder behind HTML Deployer, a Chrome extension that bridges the gap between AI-generated HTML and a live website.

The problem I kept running into: ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini can generate beautiful HTML in seconds, but getting that HTML actually live on the web still requires too many manual steps: copy the code, create a Netlify project, push to GitHub, configure FTP... For non-technical users, that last mile is a locked door.

So I built a Chrome extension that detects HTML code blocks directly inside AI chat pages, lets you preview on desktop/tablet/mobile, then deploys to Netlify, GitHub Pages, Vercel, FTP, or a self-hosted agent in one click.

Currently focusing on making the deploy workflow feel as fast and friction-free as possible especially for marketers, freelancers, and agencies who use AI daily but don't want to touch a terminal.

Happy to connect with anyone building dev tools, Chrome extensions, or working on the AI + no-code space. 🚀

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Hemapriya Kanagala

Hey Julie, welcome to DEV 👋

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Arif Molla

Hey Julie! 👋

This is a brilliant idea that the "last mile" problem is real. I use Claude daily for content and HTML generation, and deploying is always the friction point.

The Netlify one-click deploy sounds especially useful for marketers and bloggers who just want to see their AI output live without touching Git.

Will definitely check out HTML Deployer!

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Julie Do

Thank you! You can find it on Chrome Webstore 😊

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Trevor

Hi everyone,

I'm Trevor, an indie builder, and I recently launched my first API: a privacy filter designed to strip personal data from text before it is sent to an LLM. I decided to build this after noticing how frequently apps pass sensitive information like emails, names, and credit card numbers into prompts.

I’m looking forward to learning in public and sharing practical ways to protect user data when integrating models like GPT, Claude, or Gemini into applications. I'm happy to be part of the community.

What is everyone else building right now?

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Hemapriya Kanagala

Hey Trevor, welcome to DEV 👋

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Vibudh Sharma

Hi I'm Vibudh, a software engineer who enjoys building things with AI and code.

Most of my work revolves around backend systems, machine learning, cloud technologies, and experimenting with the latest developments in AI. I love taking an idea from a blank page to a working product, whether that's a web application, an AI-powered tool, or a system designed to solve a real problem.

Through my posts, I'll be sharing technical learnings, project breakdowns, engineering challenges, and thoughts on AI, software development, startups, and technology in general.

Excited to be here and looking forward to connecting with other developers and builders along the way.

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Hemapriya Kanagala

Hey Vibudh, welcome to DEV 👋

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Cyrus Espiritu

Hey all! Dropping in to say hello. I'm a tech leader and full-stack engineer building cross-platform web/mobile/desktop apps and open-source utilities. Looking forward to checking out everyone's builds here!

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Hemapriya Kanagala

Hey Cyrus, welcome to DEV 👋

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Aliaksei Zelianouski • Edited

Hey, I'm Alex. Cybersecurity by day, building AI games and agents the rest of the time. A good chunk of what I "do" now is actually run by two agents I built and named.

One's Simona - she drives my computer, edits code, makes videos, runs my writing. The other's Marlow, a long-loop agent that writes and self-publishes a tech blog on its own, 24/7, and watches my apps for breakage. Simona built Marlow and keeps maintaining it. It works, mostly.

My best project so far is a social-deduction game where AI bots pretend to be human and play against real people. Getting a model to lie convincingly turned out way harder than getting it to hallucinate - they hide a secret role fine, but ask one to build a real bluff and every other model immediately piles on.

On the side: a cheap AI video pipeline (gen-AI motion clips stitched with ffmpeg over stills, a 2-minute piece runs about $20), a pile of local models on a self-hosted box, and a habit of coding my own little apps just to cancel subscriptions. Like a calorie-tracker or a skin care routine helper.

Nice to meet you all.

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Hemapriya Kanagala

Hey Alex, welcome to DEV 👋

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Axel

Hi, I’m Axel. I work in digitalization inside a company whose main product is not software which means my work sits between technology, business processes, adoption, and ownership.

I travel often to help standardize processes, give talks and my personal favorite, get my hands dirty with the process and the people behind it.

I spend most of my time thinking about how to turn operational problems into systems people actually use. Not just apps that look good in a POC, but tools that fit the way work really moves inside an organization and help change behavior.

I’m here to share what I’m learning about enterprise software, AI, inner source, collaboration, developer culture, and the messy middle between building something and getting people to trust it.

Fun fact: I have a soft spot for handmade art. I like things that feel personal, imperfect, and made by someone who actually cared.

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Hemapriya Kanagala

Hey Axel, welcome to DEV 👋

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plasma

Hey everyone! I'm plasma 👋

I'm a developer advocate at TokenBay — we're building an API gateway so you don't have to juggle 6 different LLM provider keys, dashboards, and billing pages. Before this I was just another indie dev whose AI API bill randomly doubled one month and decided to do something about it lol.

Outside of work I'm kinda obsessed with workflow automation (been diving deep into n8n lately) and agent architectures. When I'm not staring at code, you'll find me on a tennis court taking my 3.5 rating way too seriously 🎾 or dragging myself up Mission Peak on weekends.

Been lurking on DEV for a while but finally decided to stop being a ghost and actually talk to people. What's everyone building right now? Anyone else out there juggling multiple LLM providers or is that just a me problem?

Happy to chat about APIs, agents, workflows, or anything else. XD ☕

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Hemapriya Kanagala

Hey plasma, welcome to DEV 👋

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Dennis Lee

Hey everyone 👋

I'm a full-stack developer who loves building things, solving problems, and learning new technologies. My main interests are web development, backend systems, APIs, automation, and AI.

Just wanted to introduce myself and connect with other developers. Feel free to say hi or share what you're working on!

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Hemapriya Kanagala

Hey Dennis, welcome to DEV 👋

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Omkar Basvde

Hey! I'm Omkar from Pune, India 👋
I'm a fresher MERN stack developer — just finishing my BSc and figuring out this whole "becoming a real developer" thing. Did an internship last year, built a couple of projects, and now trying to go deeper into React and Node.js instead of just jumping to the next shiny thing.
Joined Dev.to because I want to start writing about what I'm actually learning — not polished tutorials, just honest notes from someone who's still in the middle of it.
What brought everyone else here? And is anyone else at that stage where you know enough to build things but still feel like you have no idea what you're doing? 😅

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Hemapriya Kanagala

Hey Omkar, welcome to DEV 👋

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Reena Sharma • Edited

Hi everyone,
I'm Reena Sharma, currently interning at Endee, where I'm getting hands-on with vector databases and the infrastructure that powers modern AI retrieval systems.
My interest in this space started with a simple question: how do you actually make an LLM know things it wasn't trained on?
At Endee, I'm spending my time digging into:
How vector indexes, trade off recall, latency, and memory footprint works and what actually makes a RAG pipeline reliable in production chunking strategy, embedding model choice, re-ranking, and all the "boring" engineering that determines whether retrieval is useful or just noisy

I'm especially drawn to the systems side of AI: not just "can we build a cool RAG demo" but "can this hold up at scale, stay accurate as data grows, and not blow up someone's cloud bill."
I'm here to learn out loud, sharing what I figure out about vector search, RAG architecture, and the day-to-day of being early-career in applied AI. If you're working on retrieval systems, embeddings, or RAG pipelines, or you're also just starting out in this space, I'd love to connect and learn from your experience.
Looking forward to being part of this community!

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Hemapriya Kanagala

Hey Reena, welcome to DEV 👋

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Dhrumil Shah

Hi everyone — I’m Dhrumil. I work on browser-native AI orchestration and AI agents for interactive web mapping apps at Esri.

I’m new to DEV and planning to share more about browser-based AI architectures and what we’re learning by building these systems in real products.

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Hemapriya Kanagala

Hey Dhrumil, welcome to DEV 👋

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Saylee

You're right. Here:


Hi everyone! 👋

I'm Saylee — a Flutter developer from India who spends way too much time debugging audio/video call issues at 2 AM. When I'm not wrestling with WebRTC, I'm probably building something I'll never finish or arguing with my code.

Started my journey in 2023, currently building things that break in interesting ways, and writing about it so the next person doesn't have to learn the hard way.

Excited to be here! 🚀


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Hemapriya Kanagala

Hey Saylee, welcome to DEV 👋

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Giorgi Kobaidze

Welcome everyone! It’s so great seeing so many people joining the community!✨

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Caleb Brooks

Hi everyone 👋
Looking forward to connecting with the security and open source folks here. If you're working on detection engineering, C2 analysis, or building SaaS from emerging markets, I'd love to talk.

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Hemapriya Kanagala

Hey Caleb, welcome to DEV 👋

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GWEN

Hi, everyone. This is Gwen- A engineer at Tokenbay. .

I work on building OpenAI-compatible gateways that help teams evaluate and switch between multiple LLM providers without rewriting their apps. In Dve.to , I’ll share practical engineering notes on routing, testing, cost/latency tradeoffs, and how to roll multi-model setups into production.

Nice to see you guys again!😀

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Hemapriya Kanagala

Hey Gwen, welcome to DEV 👋

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João Camarate

Hi everyone!

I'm João Camarate - a startup founder and CTO from Portugal (Aveiro!)

I've been building SaaS for 15+ years, doing a lot of mentorship and investing lately (after my last exit 4+ years ago) and recently I've thrown myself into the arena again and started a new company (called defract, yes its AI 😅)

I'm NodeJS/Rust guy, really familiar with AWS at global scale, PostgreSQL/REDIS lover, and I'm currently a Claude Code fanboy (which can change at any moment!)

Happy to meet you all and exchange thoughts and ideas around production grade code with AI as this revolution unfolds!

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Hemapriya Kanagala

Hey João, welcome to DEV 👋

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Maxwell Adesina

I joined yesterday and I never said hi here so hi

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Hemapriya Kanagala

Hey Maxwell, welcome to DEV 👋

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Maxwell Adesina

and welcome to everyone else who is new like me

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Vartika

Hello everyone!!

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Hemapriya Kanagala

Hey Vartika, welcome to DEV 👋

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𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐚𝐳𝐲 𝐆𝐢𝐫𝐥

Hey!! 👋🏻 Welcome to Dev ❤️

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Lolo

Hey! I'm a full-stack developer from Spain. I'm really into building APIs and AI integrations. Looking forward to learning from this community and sharing what I build along the way!

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Hemapriya Kanagala

Hey, welcome to DEV 👋

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huay br

Hey, welcome to DEV

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Manvi

hii everyone I am new here

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Hemapriya Kanagala

Hey Manvi, welcome to DEV 👋

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Manvi

🤗

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barry odoro

hi I am Barrack a junior backend and systems engineer

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Hemapriya Kanagala

Hey Barrack, welcome to DEV 👋

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Rahadian Bayu

Hello, I have been silent reader here for quite a while until today I decided to also contribute to Dev.to looking forward to contribute more

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Hemapriya Kanagala

Hey, welcome to DEV 👋

I started out as a silent reader too. Looking forward to your posts.

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Ujwal Jayendran

👋 Hey everyone! I'm a data engineer by day, and I build small data-utility websites on the side under a project I call NicheLabs — basically taking public datasets that are stuck in terrible formats (scanned PDFs, clunky government registers) and turning them into clean, queryable tools.
What brought me here: I just shipped a site on a fresh domain and hit a result I couldn't find written up anywhere — Bing started ranking it 2.6× harder than Google. Came to dev.to to share the data and learn from people who've seen similar patterns.
Fun fact: my tech stack of choice is almost embarrassingly cheap — Next.js static export on Cloudflare Pages means I run these sites for about ₹1,000 (~$12) a year total. The constraint is half the fun.
Currently learning a lot about how AI Overviews are reshaping SEO — it's changing what kind of content is even worth building.

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Aliasgar Sogiawala

hi

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jstoffac

Hi everyone, I'm Joe.

I've spent most of my career working as an all-source analyst, systems analyst, and data scientist. Over the years I've developed a bit of an obsession with creating useful models of the world from messy data through the use of data provenance, knowledge graphs, ontologies. I want to build better analytical systems.

Lately I've been building MirrorDrop, an open-source project focused on entity-centric, provenance-first data modeling, and recently released the first version of OESO (Open Entity State Ontology).

I'm here to learn, share what I'm building, and hopefully contribute a few useful ideas along the way.

Looking forward to meeting everyone and reading what you're working on.

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Shaan Satsangi

Hey everyone! 👋

I'm Shaan, a Computer Science student from India who spends an unhealthy amount of time building AI/ML projects and convincing bugs to become features. 😆

Currently learning and experimenting with AI, data engineering, and anything that looks shiny and complicated enough to ruin my sleep schedule.

🎮 Fun facts:
• Certified Counter-Strike 1.6 addict.
• Minecraft veteran who still believes digging straight down is a life choice.
• Unpopular opinion alert: Attack on Titan > Game of Thrones > Breaking Bad. (I'm prepared for the incoming tomatoes 🍅😂)

Always happy to chat about tech, projects, anime, or games. If I can help with something, just tag me!

And if you ever need a random AI enthusiast, bug hunter, or someone to debate AOT endings with, you'll probably find me lurking around. 😄

P.S. Following my GitHub or LinkedIn might accidentally expose you to cool projects and questionable anime takes. Consider yourself warned. 🚀

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Vinothsingh Elumalai

Hey everyone! 👋 I'm Vinoth - Head of Platform Engineering for Identity provider

What brought me here: I built an AI agent that investigates production incidents 24/7/365 so I or my team don't have to. It works so well that I realized I should probably write about it before someone else figures out the same pattern and gets the credit. 😄

What I do: I lead platform engineering for a global IAM/SSO platform supporting 30M+ users, 5 AWS regions, 20+ EKS clusters. My team keeps the lights on at 99.97% uptime. My AI agents keep us sane while doing it.

Fun fact: I named my agents after Tony Stark's AI assistants because if I'm going to be on-call at 2 AM, I at least deserve a butler. FRIDAY handles the incidents. JARVIS handles the security. I handle the coffee. ☕

Looking forward to connecting with fellow practitioners who are actually shipping AI to production not just talking about it at conferences. 🚀

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Aliaksei Zelianouski

FRIDAY for incidents, JARVIS for security - splitting them by job makes sense. I run something close for problem analysis: an agent that stitches logs, metrics, and user activity into one timeline, so I'm not bouncing between five dashboards lining up timestamps by hand. That part - correlating across different signal types - is where I think AI is underrated. Everyone talks about it writing code. Almost nobody talks about how good it is at reading the telemetry nobody has time to read. Does FRIDAY pull from multiple sources like that, or mostly logs?

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Multita

Hey everyone! 👋

I'm one of the devs behind Multita (multita.com.ar), a service that checks traffic-fine status across a pile of Argentine jurisdictions. There's a lot of scraping, queueing, and Cloudflare Workers behind it, and after lurking here for ages, I finally started writing some of it down.

First post went up this week: how we stopped bots without a CAPTCHA, using proof-of-work in the browser + Cloudflare Workers. It's in Spanish, but the snippets and diagrams should carry the idea even if you don't read it.

Fun fact about the problem space: in Argentina, checking your own fines means visiting a different government portal for almost every province, each one slower and weirder than the last. The product basically exists because doing that by hand is miserable😅

What are you all building on Workers these days? Always curious about edge use cases.

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TuanAnhNguyen

This hits home — I do a lot of scraping into Cloudflare D1/Workers myself, so the "every government portal is slower and weirder than the last" line made me laugh in recognition. The proof-of-work-instead-of-CAPTCHA approach is clever, going to read the post even through the Spanish (the diagrams will carry it). Curious how you handle portals that change their structure on you — that's been my biggest maintenance headache. Following along.

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Multita

Daily checking your business does the work. Thank you!

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Metareignity

Why I'm Building an Experiment Around Digital Independence
For the past few months, I've been thinking about a simple question:
How much of our digital life do we actually own?
At first, the question seemed philosophical.
The more I looked into it, the more technical it became.
Most of us create online through systems that we don't control.

We publish on platforms we don't own.
We build audiences we can't take with us.
We rely on services that can change, disappear, or restrict access with little warning.

None of this is necessarily malicious.
In many cases, these platforms provide enormous value.
But it made me curious:

What would a digital experience look like if ownership was treated as a first-class principle rather than an afterthought?
That question eventually turned into a side project.

I'm currently working on an experiment that explores ideas around:

  • Digital ownership
  • User autonomy
  • Platform dependence
  • Identity portability
  • Long-term control over data and presence

I don't have all the answers.
In fact, most of the project so far has consisted of discovering how complicated these questions actually are.
Every solution seems to introduce new trade-offs.
More freedom often means more responsibility.
More control can mean more complexity.
The challenge isn't simply building technology.
It's finding a balance that people would actually want to use.

One thing I've learned already is that many of the assumptions we've accepted about the internet aren't technical limitations.

They're design choices.
And design choices can be reconsidered.

Over the coming weeks, I'll be documenting parts of the process here:

  • Technical decisions
  • Architecture experiments
  • Design challenges
  • Lessons learned
  • Ideas that fail
  • Ideas that might work

I'm not writing this as a launch announcement.
I'm writing it because I think the underlying questions are interesting, whether the project succeeds or not.
If you've worked on anything related to digital ownership, decentralized systems, identity, or platform independence, I'd love to hear your perspective.

What do you think people should truly own online?

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neitherGalax

Hey everyone,
I joined dev about a month ago, and I've been learning a lot from all the posts I read.
I use Python mainly, but I'm also emphasizing the tech writing side, like technical documentation, which is often underrated field in tech.
If there is no topic or hashtag related to the tech writing, I'm thinking would like to start one.
Anyway, happy writing.

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Abdul Imran Faridh

Hey Dev.to community! 👋

I'm Abdul Imran Faridh, a Full Stack .NET Developer
based in Chennai, India with 2+ years of hands-on
production experience.

What I work with daily:
→ ASP.NET Core & C# (backend)
→ Angular & TypeScript (frontend)
→ Entity Framework Core & LINQ
→ SQL Server (stored procedures, cross-DB scripts)
→ JWT Authentication with refresh token rotation

What I've built in production:
→ HRMS platform with biometric attendance integration
→ Inventory Management System
→ E-Commerce app with Tally ERP integration

Why I write here:
I got tired of tutorials that work perfectly in
localhost but break in production. Every article I
write comes from a real bug, real fix, or real
lesson from my actual production codebase.

3 articles every week — real problems, real code,
real solutions. Follow along if that sounds useful! 🚀

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Indra Gusti Prasetya

Hey! I'm Indra, infrastructure and security leader based in Jakarta, co-founder of Temika Cyber.

Lately I've been writing about the security implications of AI agents hitting production stacks: MCP server hardening, SPIFFE-based identity, post-quantum TLS already breaking things in the wild.

Also just covered the npm 12 allowScripts breaking change before it bites people in July.

Happy to be here, what are you all building?

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gabinotech22-cmyk

Hi everyone! 👋

I'm a developer working on AegisLink — an open-source, end-to-end encrypted messenger built around one idea: zero metadata, anonymous by default. No email, no phone number, no real name to sign up. Private keys never leave your device.

Tech stack if you're curious:

Mobile: Expo SDK 54 + React Native + TypeScript
Crypto: Double Ratchet + X3DH, with a hybrid post-quantum (PQXDH) layer — TweetNaCl & @noble/hashes
Backend: our own relay (Node/Bun, Socket.IO) — no Firebase, no Supabase — plus self-hosted coturn for E2EE calls
Everything is open-source and auditable, because crypto you can't verify isn't crypto you should trust.
I'm here to learn from this community, share what we find while building privacy-first infra in the open, and meet other folks working on security, decentralization or React Native.

The hardest bug so far? Pure-JS KDFs running ~60x slower under Hermes than Node — fixed by moving to async Argon2id so the UI stops freezing on backup/PIN derivation. 😅

Happy to be here — looking forward to chatting! 🔐

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TOKUJI

Hello 👋

I'm Toshio. By day: credit risk modeling (15+ yrs). By night: building networking protocols from scratch in pure Python.

What I'm building:

  • BlackBull — a pure-Python ASGI framework with its own HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2, and WebSocket stack. No h2, no C extensions. Every block annotated with its RFC 9113 section number.
  • blackbull-htcpcp — RFC 2324 + RFC 7168. Coffee pot control, taken seriously.

Co-authored a joint BOJ/ECB study on fintech. My work converges on one question: what does it take to turn a spec into a correct, fast implementation — and what breaks when you get the details wrong?

github.com/TOKUJI

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Mariam Fatima

Hi everyone! I am Mariam, a second year CSE student, interning at IIIT, Hyderabad in India in the domain Machine Learning and Computer Vision. I enjoy exploring different topics and domains, analyzing problems, and building solutions that contribute to a better and more sustainable future.

I also do full-stack development and am currently exploring LLMs. In fact, I'm even trying to build my own LLM 👀

I'm here to learn from others, share my experiences, and exchange ideas with fellow enthusiasts and professionals.

When I'm not coding, you'll probably find me reading books or listening to interesting and informative podcasts.
Excited to be here and connect with you all!

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Yuri Penskikh
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Check out my latest post here:
Stop Saying Python Iterators Are Eager

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Muhammad Owais Kasuri

Legacy systems are often underestimated. While modern systems offer speed and new opportunities, working with legacy systems can give you a much deeper understanding of architecture, business logic, and real-world complexity. In some cases, that experience becomes a competitive advantage and can help you make bigger leaps than someone who has only worked with newer technologies. The key is not choosing one over the other, but using the lessons from the old to build the future more effectively.

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Arif Molla

Hey everyone! 👋

I'm Arif Molla, founder of Lifetime Deal Tech (lifetimedealtech.com).

I'm a blogger and deal hunter based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. I review SaaS lifetime deals from
AppSumo, DealMirror, and Dealify, helping bloggers and solopreneurs build their software
stack without monthly subscriptions.

I also write about SEO, content strategy, and AI writing tools.

Excited to be here and share what I know! 🚀

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Oluwaloseyi Oluwatofunmi Emmanuel

Welcome everyone! I'm not actually new on here, but this is my first time doing the thread. I'm a cloud/DevOps enthusiast. I'm working on building DevOps and cloud projects and writing articles about them.

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CanBeSolved • Edited

👾 Hi everyone!
For a long time, I have been working heavily behind the scenes on closed-source projects across a wide variety of industries. Now, I want to take that knowledge and give it back. My goal is to start creating open-source applications, tools, and full-scale solutions so they can be accessible and useful to the entire world. 🌍. I build systems to solve complex problems. I focus on deep R&D, understanding processes, and engineering non-standard solutions — from writing code to designing new tools. I planning to create useful posts about my researches, new open-source projects and ergonomics tips&tricks.

Here is my "bubble" 😊:

Tech Stack

  • Linux
  • Embedded
  • Robotics
  • AI
  • Python, C++
  • Bash, CLI

Profile

  • R&D Engineer
  • System Designer
  • Automation Engineer
  • Ergonomics & HCI Engineer
  • Toolmaker
  • Lifestyle & Product Researcher
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amir

Hi everyone! 👋 I'm Amir

I'm a backend engineer and I've recently been writing about my experiences and lessons learned from running Golang in production.

Right now, my main focus is diving into the AI ecosystem, I'm actively learning about and looking to build LLM management tools. Alongside that, I have a massive passion for infrastructure development, DevOps, and building resilient systems.

Excited to connect with this awesome community, read your articles, and share more of my journey!

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patij212

Hi everyone 😁 My name is Patryk. I was brough here by the Solstice Game Jam but I think I will stick around as it was genuinely fun experience.

I am an electronics engineer and it was my first game jam and a first game I ever made. I have learnt a lot and more importantly had great fun tinkering and playtesting with a friend.

looking forward to the next challenge 🤗

BTW. For some reason my submission post is not showing up in the feed/search. It is still showing up on my profile but no one else will be able to find it. Has anyone got an idea why this might be happening?

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Marcus Thorne

Hey Dev.to! 👋
I’m Kenji, a Senior Full-Stack & Mobile Engineer (7+ years exp) based in Japan. My daily drivers are React/Next.js, Node.js, TypeScript, and Flutter. I love architecting systems and shipping clean code, but I'm not a salesperson and I'm in the wrong time zone for EU client calls.
The Idea 💡
I'm looking for a Europe-based developer to partner up and start a small boutique agency.
You: Handle client acquisition, sales calls, and scoping in EU time zones.

  • Me: Handle 100% of the technical delivery, architecture, and project management.
  • We split the profits (thinking a standard 70/30 agency split, but totally open to discuss). Who you are: You understand the tech well enough to talk to clients, but you prefer the business/networking side over writing code 40 hours a week. If you have leads but need a senior dev to execute them, let’s chat! Drop a comment or DM me on** Telegram: @Never_Miss_chance**
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Jabulani Ndlovu

Hi Everyone i am Jabulani, I am a Data and AI engineering Intern. I would like to share and showcase the projects I've started working on recently, these are just some small side projects that are linked by personal interest. I am an aspiring Agentic AI and Analytics Engineer.

Here is a fun fact i just uncovered: Before MCP's i was the developer going through that M x N model frustration with the 🤖multi-agent systems i support, and now working with the M + N model has simplified so much of my work🤗.

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Sentinel compliance agent

About Me

I’m Habibu, founder of Sentinel SCA.

I build governance and security infrastructure for autonomous systems, with a focus on runtime decision enforcement, cryptographic auditability, and execution control for AI agents.

My current work centers on Sentinel SCA, a runtime governance layer that evaluates AI actions before execution and produces signed, auditable ALLOW, REVIEW, or DENY decisions.

I’m particularly interested in AI governance, agent security, autonomous systems, cybersecurity, and building practical infrastructure that helps organizations safely deploy increasingly capable agents.

On this blog, I’ll share engineering lessons, architecture decisions, validation results, failures, and what I’m learning while building Sentinel in public.

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Seth

Hello! Made a profile here specifically for the June Solstice game jam. Hope everyone is doing well. First time being in a game jam, ended up starting a week late on a shooter which I'd never done before. Lots of firsts!

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We0ai Team

Hey DEV 👋

We’re We0.ai, building an AI showcase website growth platform.

Our focus is simple:

Build → Showcase → Grow → Leads

We’ll be sharing product updates, AI website building notes, SEO/GEO growth ideas, and lessons from helping brands, founders, and agencies turn websites into customer-facing assets.

Glad to be here 🚀

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SonGo

Hello everyone,

I’m excited to introduce SonGo — an AI-powered app that helps creators make music from scratch, even without prior experience.

With SonGo, you can generate original tracks, experiment with different styles, and turn your ideas into полноценные музыкальные композиции in just a few clicks. Whether you're a content creator, marketer, or just someone who loves music, SonGo makes the process fast, intuitive, and accessible.

We’re building SonGo to simplify music creation and unlock creativity for everyone.

If you’re interested in AI tools, content creation, or music production — stay tuned

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Welcome ❤️🌺

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Jalal Dad

Hi,

I'm a vibe coder. I don't write code from scratch, but I understand enough about how codebases work to spot the kind of problems other non-technical builders hit when they use AI tools.

I've been using Claude Code for a while now and learning where it works well and where it quietly fails. I'll probably write about that here, specifically the gap between what AI tools claim and what they actually do.

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ZyVOP

Hello Dev.to 👋

Hi everyone,

I'm software engineer and founder of ZyVOP.

Over the years, I've spent countless hours reading engineering blogs, debugging production issues, learning new technologies, and sharing knowledge with other developers. That experience inspired me to build ZyVOP, a platform focused on developer education, software engineering, AI, DevOps, security, and real-world technical insights.

I'm joining Dev.to to:

Share engineering lessons from real projects
Write about AI and software development
Discuss architecture, security, and scalability
Learn from the incredible developer community here

Looking forward to connecting with fellow developers and contributing to the community.

What are you currently building?

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Jessin Ra

Hey dev.to — I'm Jason 👋

Senior engineer in Singapore. Been building backend systems for a while, but lately I've been obsessed with one question: why do AI agents forget everything between sessions?

So I built Lorekeeper — an open-source memory server for AI agents. It's the kind of tool I wish existed when I was teaching Claude my codebase and it forgot by morning every single day.

Check it out and leave a star as support! github.com/Jessinra/Lorekeeper

I'll be writing about agents, MCP, persistent memory, and building developer tools in public. Already got two posts up since joining last week — more coming.

Say hi if any of this resonates 🤝

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Samot428

Hello guys,
I am a high school student who is interested in programming, machine learning and webdeveloping. I am trying to build some apps to help others (including myself) with daily problems :). Besides that I do ballrom dancing in my free time and calisthenics also.

Nice to meet you everyone

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Code With Logs

Hello, my name is Zeeshan Zakir, and I am a MERN Stack Developer. Currently, I am working on a blogging website and a service-based website, codewithlogs.com, so that I can start earning and build a startup. I need your support and guidance. Thank you!

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Omarc

Hi everyone!

I'm Omar from Morocco. I'm currently building Mumtaz.ma, a marketplace connecting individuals and businesses with trusted professionals across Morocco.

I'm interested in SEO, WordPress, marketplace growth, and entrepreneurship. Excited to learn from the community and share lessons from building a marketplace from scratch.

Happy to connect with fellow founders and makers!

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Chinmai Sd

Hi everyone 👋
I'm Chinmai from Bengaluru. I enjoy building AI systems, developer tools, and open-source projects.
Recently, I built TraceroAI, an open-source platform for RAG evaluation and observability.
Excited to learn, build, and connect with fellow developers here!

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Sergey Ivanychev

Hi friends! My name is Sergey, I work as data engineer and director of engineering in my organization. I live in Warsaw, huge tech enthusiast.

I code in Python, Go, SQL, JS/TS (a little) and have experience working with Scala, Java, C++. I use AWS, Docker, Git, Delta Lake, Apache Spark a lot. I enjoy researching andexploring and applying new data technologies to work on data-intensive applications in machine learning and data engineering. I apply the latest AI tools and AI agents to solve real productivity problems and automate routine tasks.

Very happy to join dev.to!

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Rashi Ranjan

Hello Community!

I'm Rashi Ranjan passionate about programming and technology.

I wanna document my learning journey and share articles on several modern-day technologies. Looking forward to learning from the community and connecting with fellow developers.
Excited to start writing and growing here!

beginners #programming #java #python

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Sudhanshu Maurya

👋 Hello Dev Community!

My name is Sudhanshu Maurya, and I'm a Full Stack Web Developer with 4+ years of experience building web applications using Angular, Node.js, Express.js, and MySQL.

I'm excited to join Dev.to and share my experiences, tutorials, project case studies, and lessons learned from real-world development.

In the coming weeks, I'll be posting content about:

  • Angular Development
  • Node.js & Express.js
  • MySQL Optimization
  • Full Stack Project Architecture
  • Web Development Tips & Best Practices

Looking forward to learning from the community and connecting with fellow developers.

Thanks for having me here! 🚀

Portfolio: sudhanshu-maurya.vercel.app

#introductions #webdev #angular #nodejs #javascript #fullstack

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ammorick

Hi everyone, I'm Ammorick — a self-taught developer from China.

By day (well, by night), I work as a delivery rider — 8 PM to 8 AM, on the road. I code in every spare moment between shifts.

On May 24, 2026, I started learning to code from absolute zero. No CS degree, no prior experience. But I had this one idea that wouldn't leave me alone: what if we could have multiple AI experts talk to each other, cross-validate, and then give an answer?

So I started building. One month later, I have a working MVP — a multi-expert Q&A system where medical, legal, and strategy experts run in parallel, debate across multiple rounds, and then output a final answer.

Code is here: github.com/ammorick/ai-learning-jo...

I'm still learning — my fundamentals are weak and I'm working on them every day. I'm here on Dev.to to document my journey, share what I'm building, and learn from all of you.

Glad to be here. Looking forward to connecting 🙏

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Kamran Shahzad

Heard a lot about dev.to from my colleagues, now that I've joined in myself, I just wanna say hello to the community :D

In an era, where every post, every reply has that AI essence in it, it's great to see people sticking to OG stuff here.

Looking forward to participating in different events that happen throughout the year, and hopefully give something back to the community in the process!

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niluved

Hey everyone! I code for fun — mostly because I keep spotting tiny inconveniences in my daily life and can't rest until I've built something to fix them. Most of my projects start with "wouldn't it be cool if…" and end with me learning way more than I intended.

I'm here to share what I build, learn from all of you, and maybe find a few people who are also obsessed with making their phones do weirdly specific things.

What's something you built just for yourself?

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Maisam Abbas

Hey everyone!

Hope you're having a wonderful day wherever you are in the world.

One of the things I love most about the developer community is how people come together to build, learn, share ideas, and inspire each other. Whether you're a seasoned engineer, a student learning your first programming language, or someone simply curious about technology, it's great to have you here.

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Ankit Parekh

Hey everyone, Ankit here from Mumbai!

I'm a WordPress developer by trade i spend my days scaling high-traffic WooCommerce and LearnDash sites. But somewhere along the way I fell down the AI rabbit hole, and now most of my free time goes into building AI tooling for WordPress: MCP servers, RAG pipelines, that kind of thing. My latest side project is AI Conduit, a no-code MCP server builder for WP.

What brought me here: I want to write more in public and document what I'm learning (mistakes included). Excited to be around people building cool stuff.

Fun fact: when I'm not working, I'm usually gaming or eating — the two things that keep me sane between deploys. 😄

Looking forward to connecting with folks working on WordPress, AI, or both!

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Manish Patel

Hey everyone 👋 I'm Manish — 25 years in banking & payments IT, SAP Press author of 3 books. I'm currently building a free reference app for a global standard that defines how banks and payment systems structure and exchange transaction data. The recurring lesson from that work: fluent AI output isn't the same as correct AI output once you're in a narrow, structured domain.

Looking forward to comparing notes with other practitioners working in domains where AI nails the surface but misses the substance.

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Nnamdi Felix Ibe

8 years in cloud engineering, and I'm only now writing about it publicly. That's on me.

I'm Nnamdi. Cloud Platform and DevOps Engineer, Manchester, UK. I've spent those 8 years building real systems, AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Linux, healthcare and e-commerce environments, regulated and messy. Good experience. Zero documentation of it. That changes now.

I'm 22 sessions into 100 days of hands-on DevOps labs on KodeKloud. Each session gets posted here. The commands, the things that broke, what I had to debug and why. Not tutorials. Actual notes from someone doing the work.

My degree is in Applied Geosciences. The path here was not straight. I've stopped calling it a detour.

If you're doing the same thing, learning in public, grinding through labs, wondering if it's worth posting, I think you already know the answer. Would you rather do the work silently and have nothing to show for it, or do it loudly and build something people can actually find? 🚀

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Scot Gardner

Hey everyone 👋

I'm Scot. Retired from 30 years in cable network infrastructure. Now I live in an RV in Gettysburg, PA and build small, useful Mac apps.

This week I built an AI Idea Machine that scrapes Reddit/HN/PH for pain points, scores them against my skills, and picks what to build each morning. Then I actually build it. 7 products shipped in 6 days.

I'm here to share what I'm learning about building solo, monetizing small apps, and shipping fast with SwiftUI + Python. Also to meet other makers who are into the "build it, ship it, repeat" approach.

Outside of code: I'm a grandfather, a fan of good BBQ and strong Bloody Marys, and I think subscriptions are evil.

Happy to connect 🚐