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Sloan the DEV Moderator on July 15, 2026

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Harish .s

im harish, from a small village in india

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Andrei

Hello Harish, nice to meet you, I am Andrei and like you joined the dev.to Community just now 🎉

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Shreyas Siddaraju

Hey Andrei. welcome to the dev.to community

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Ravi Singh Kalakoti

welcome Harish

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abdullah

hello

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Scidrow666

Hey everyone! Senior sysadmin here. Just deployed my lightweight open-source behavioral network-socket monitor to GitHub. Excited to join the community and looking forward to sharing ideas and reviewing codebase architectures with you all!

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Patu

Welcome! A lightweight behavioral socket monitor is a great niche to own, the kind of thing you end up reaching for constantly once it exists. What pushed you to build it from scratch rather than wire up existing tooling? Always good to see more people shipping open source here.

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Donna Zavala Perez

Amazing!

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Priyank Singh

cool, how's going? I am starting with open source project as well, good to see more open source devs here.

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Ehtesham Zahid

Coolll

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Amer Ali

Hey everyone! I'm Amer, an IT and Network Infrastructure expert. I've been in the tech field since 1998, focusing on network maintenance, hardware, and recently, cybersecurity. I'm excited to join the DEV community, connect with fellow developers, and share insights from my long journey in tech. Looking forward to learning from you all! 🙂

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L. Cordero

Welcome @icoreux ! Dev is a great and welcoming community. Looking forward to reading about your journey!

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Mohamed IDBRAHIM

welcome to dev.to

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Jonas Hämmerle

Hey everyone! I'm Jay, 24 years old from Munich, Germany.

I'm building APIs on the side — currently running a validation toolkit on RapidAPI (IBAN, email, phone, VAT, password breach-check and more). Also into trading and building my own AI dashboard.

Always happy to connect with other builders and developers. Looking forward to the community!

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Konark Sharma

Hey Jonas. Welcome to the community. 😊

Wow, an API builder. Truly honored to meet you. What's your favorite API that you have build or used that have blown you away.

Awesome to have you here and have a great time here.😉

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Jonas Hämmerle

Thanks for the warm welcome! 😊

Honestly, the one that blew me away to build was the password breach-check endpoint — it uses HaveIBeenPwned's k-anonymity protocol, so only a 5-character SHA-1 hash prefix ever leaves your server. The full password never gets sent anywhere. Simple concept, but elegant privacy-by-design.

Currently working on a full validation toolkit (IBAN, VAT, email, phone, disposable email detection and more) — happy to share if you're curious!

Looking forward to connecting with everyone here 🙌

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Konark Sharma

Wow, completely blown away by your sharings. You explained it like I'm 5. Sure, I would love to know more about it and all the best for it. Hope it comes and becomes Product of the Day on Github.

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Chomping Tools Alligator

Hello Jonas :D

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Evgenii Slepinin

Hi 👋

Evgenii, from Valencia, Spain. I run a small web studio — React, TypeScript, Django, and lately a lot of LLM agents.

What brought me here: I keep finding the same problem on different clients' sites, and it isn't really a bug. People assume that if Googlebot can render their site, AI crawlers can too. They can't. I started writing about it, and this looked like the place where someone would actually argue with me. Please do.

Fun fact: I spent 12 years servicing medical lab analyzers before I touched the web. 300+ labs, coagulometers, immunoassay machines. Turns out debugging a React hydration issue and debugging a machine that hands someone the wrong blood test result use the same part of your brain. One of them just matters more.

Currently learning: what AI crawlers actually do — by reading server logs instead of vendor blog posts. Recommend it.

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Aliaksei Zelianouski

You asked for an argument, so: how long does the problem even last? Crawlers that can't render JS feels like a today-problem - the newer agent browsers drive real Chrome and render everything. My money is still on server-rendered HTML winning, just for a different reason: it's cheaper for the site than letting a thousand agents each run your JS. And 12 years of servicing lab analyzers is the best origin story in this thread.

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Evgenii Slepinin

Fair, and partly right. The agent browsers (ChatGPT agent, Perplexity's) do drive real Chrome and render everything. For those, JS is a non-issue.

But that's a narrow slice. The heavy lifting is GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Meta-ExternalAgent, and as of June 2026 none of the major AI crawlers render JS (Lantern's monitoring, plus a pile of May audits saying the same). The one exception is Gemini, and only because it rides Googlebot's infra. Meanwhile the volume is growing, not shrinking: GPTBot is up ~305% year over year per Cloudflare. So it's not a fading problem, it's scaling.

Which flips your framing, not mine: rendering at index scale is too expensive for them, so they don't, so the HTML has to carry the content. The day GPTBot renders JS at crawl scale I'll happily retract the post.

Your cost angle is the stronger version, honestly. "Cheaper for the site" beats "required for visibility" because it holds even in a fully-rendered world. Stealing that.

(And thanks re: the analyzers. Still not sure if it's a flex or a warning label.)

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Aliaksei Zelianouski

Deal - you take the cost angle, I'll take the correction. I was arguing from the session end (agent browsers); at crawl scale your numbers win. And 305% more crawling with zero rendering means they're scaling the cheap path, not working toward the expensive one. It's a flex, by the way.

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Evgenii Slepinin

"Scaling the cheap path, not working toward the expensive one" is the line I should've led with. 305% growth with zero rendering isn't a company that hasn't gotten to JS yet — it's a deliberate architecture. You don't scale something 3x while planning to replace it. Good arguing with you.

(Noted. Filing it under flex.)

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p0wikkk

Hi all! Joining the community as a Systems Engineer & Security Researcher. I focus on low-level tooling and hardened infrastructure. Currently hacking on PtyXL project. If you're into Rust, Tauri, CyberSecurity, or dev-tools, I’d love to connect and talk!

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Konark Sharma

Hi. Welcome to the Community 😊.

Can you explain PtyXL project or is it Top Secret Mission that will be discussed later?😆

Awesome to see you! Enjoy the vibe. 🫡

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p0wikkk

Haha, absolutely - no corporate secrecy here, just a strict local-first philosophy. 😆

PtyXL is a modern local-first terminal client for SSH, SFTP, and Serial, written entirely in Rust with Tauri. Zero cloud sync, zero telemetry, and full data sovereignty for your infrastructure credentials.

We also just shipped the Provision Builder in v0.5.8, letting you orchestrate server configurations and pipelines by connecting logic tiles instead of writing raw shell scripts.

Appreciate the warm welcome! 🚀

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Konark Sharma

This sounds too awesome. I would to try it and learn from you. Thank you so much for creating it. I wanna get my hands dirty in CLI or API building haha. Someday, I'll post about my projects too.

Awesome to have you. Keep building and breaking.😁

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p0wikkk

Thanks, that means a lot! Would love to have you try it out. If you hit any rough edges or have ideas, I'm all ears, still very early and shaping the roadmap based on exactly this kind of feedback. And yeah, definitely post about your projects - always good to see what people are building. 😄

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Christo

👋 Hey DEV! Solo dev here — just started shipping small, single-purpose CLIs and figured I'd say hi.

Two so far, both MIT + on npm:

  • grokscope — asks Grok 4.5's live X search what devs are actually saying about a tool right now, and cites every claim back to a real post. npx grokscope demo (no key needed to try it).
  • gemcatch — fire-and-forget research on the free Gemini tier: submit a long prompt, close your laptop, grab the answer later.

Also just posted my first article here — what grokscope turned up digging into Bun vs Node. Excited to be around people who build things 👋

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Konark Sharma

Hey Christo. Welcome to the community. 😊

These projects looks amazing. I would love to try them. Can you share lessons from your projects that you learned while building them.

Awesome to have you here and have a great time.😉

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Christo

Thanks Konark, that means a lot 🙏

Biggest one: my tests were lying to me. Both had a full green test suite, but a couple of real bugs only turned up when I actually ran them against the live API — gemcatch was quietly sticking the prompt at the top of its own answers, and the free Gemini tier drops your result after 24h if nothing grabs it in time. I don't trust a green checkmark until I've done one real round-trip now.

Also learned to keep deps light the hard way — a native SQLite dependency blew up CI on one older Node + Windows combo, so when I added a cache to the other tool I kept it to a plain file with zero native deps.

One design thing too: make it runnable with no setup. grokscope is bring-your-own-key with a small per-query cost, so I added npx grokscope demo — replays a real recorded run so you can see what it does before signing up for anything.

Both are still pretty new so I'm finding rough edges as I go — if you try either, I'd genuinely love to hear what breaks!

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Konark Sharma

Wow, amazing lessons. I would keep them in my mind before starting my projects. Thank you so much for sharing your lessons and thank you for sharing these projects. If I try I'll provide you an honest feedback.

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Vishal Pandey

Hey everyone! 👋

I'm Vishal, a software developer with 3+ years of experience and the solo founder of VIGILANTE, a free GitHub-based accountability tool that helps developers build a consistent daily shipping habit.

I'm here to learn, stay up to date with the latest technologies, and connect with fellow developers who enjoy building cool things.

I also love talking about software engineering, side projects, productivity, GitHub, and developer tooling. If you're working on something interesting or have questions about any of those topics, feel free to reach out. I'd be happy to help however I can.

And if building coding consistency is something you struggle with, give VIGILANTE a try. I'd love to hear your feedback and learn how it can be improved for developers like you.

Looking forward to learning and building together! 🚀

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Konark Sharma

Hey Vishal. Welcome to the community. 😊

VIGILANTE feels amazing. I'm feeling like I'm secretly Batman. What was your biggest struggle while building VIGILANTE.

Awesome to have you here and have a great time here.😉

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Vishal Pandey

Hey Konark,

Thanks for your feedback on Vigilante, have you connected your account with it and monitored your consistency?

If yes, can you give an honest review here?

Biggest Struggle? - because of struggling in finishing a project, I started building Vigilante to be accountable of whatever I've planned for me.

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Amin Parva

Hey — Amin here.

I build open-source agent infra in Python (runtimes, local-first guards, graph RAG). Just published my first post about cutting repeat LLM calls in multi-agent graphs — happy to be here and learn from other builders.

Currently deep in native agent graphs vs the usual glue stacks. If you’re fighting token bills or prompt-injection at the edge, I’d love to compare notes.

Glad to meet you all 👋

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Aliaksei Zelianouski

Everyone posts agent architectures, nobody posts their invoice - so a first post about cutting repeat LLM calls is a good one. I went the opposite way: resend full history on every call by design (statelessness bought me control of the context) and just eat the cost. Curious what your approach gives up to save the calls.

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K Gann

Nice to meet you as well

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Amin Parva

That’s a clean trade — and I respect it.

If you own the full history on every call, you own the context window: no “what did the cache think was the same question,” no stale answer after the world moved, no mysterious skip. Statelessness buys auditability of what the model saw. Paying for that is a deliberate ops choice, not a bug.

What I give up to save the repeats is roughly the opposite of that guarantee:

  1. I have to define “same enough.” Harmonic / semantic cache only helps when the intent is essentially a repeat. Unique turns, tool results that change the world, or “same words, new facts” should still climb. If the similarity gate is wrong, you either miss savings or (worse) reuse an answer that shouldn’t apply.

  2. Staleness is my problem. Once something is cached, I own invalidation / TTL / scope — not the model. Full-history-every-time never has that class of bug.

  3. Control moves from the prompt blob into the runtime. Ledger + cache keys instead of “the entire transcript is the source of truth.” That’s a win when graphs are multi-hop and the same honest question shows up again; it’s a loss if your product is “always re-ground on the full conversation.”

So I don’t treat cache as “never pay.” I treat it as: pay for novelty and for state changes; don’t pay twice for the same honest climb. Your design says: novelty detection is hard / risky, so always pay. Totally coherent — especially for agents where wrong reuse is worse than a fat invoice.

Curious where you draw the line inside the history itself (trim? summarize? always raw). That’s often where the bill actually hides even in the stateless path.

Happy to compare notes either way — invoice stories > architecture slides.

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doubletime • Edited

hello! I'm a mid-level software engineer. Came here just so that I can learn in public. Distilling down my knowledge of stuff I've worked on is a pretty great way to get new insights myself and I don't do it often enough. Lets see if I can keep it up on this account 😄

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L. Cordero

Hello @doubletime Learning in public here at Dev has been epic!

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Omar Abdelfattah Alshafai

hello

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Richard J.

Hi everyone! I’m a software engineer focused on production AI applications, Java backend systems, and business process automation.

I enjoy building practical tools that connect modern AI capabilities with existing business systems and operational workflows. I’m also exploring Microsoft Dynamics 365, Power Platform, and new approaches to modernizing business applications.

I joined DEV to share what I’m building, write honestly about engineering with AI tools, and learn from other developers working on real-world systems.

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Konark Sharma

Hey Richard. Welcome to the community. 😊

What's your daily AI tool or an AI workflow that you have created for yourself? Looking forward for your articles and learning from them.

Have a fantastic time exploring!

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Richard J.

Thanks for the warm welcome! 😊

My daily AI tools are mainly ChatGPT and coding assistants such as Codex or Cursor. I use them for exploring architecture decisions, reviewing code, debugging, and turning rough technical ideas into clearer implementation plans.

One workflow I’ve developed is using AI as a structured engineering partner: first defining requirements and constraints, then generating a plan, implementing in small steps, and reviewing the result rather than accepting generated code immediately.

I’m also interested in writing about how AI tools improve developer productivity—and whether relying on them too much can affect how we build our own engineering judgment.

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K Gann

Hi everyone,

I'm excited to join the DEV Community!
I've created two posts on dev.io to share, and am looking forward to discussing them with you all. I have 25+ years of experience in software engineering, AI/ML, data analytics, and technical leadership. Recently, I've been exploring how Large Language Models (LLMs) can help solve real-world software engineering challenges, such as Jira backlog analysis, project management, and developer productivity.

I'm currently writing about practical AI applications, prompt engineering, RAG, and LLM evaluation, and I look forward to sharing what I learn while learning from this amazing community. Comments and feedback are always welcome.

Outside of coding, I enjoy mentoring, continuous learning, and building projects that bridge AI research with practical engineering. Looking forward to connecting with fellow developers. Thanks for having me!

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Konark Sharma

Hey K Gann. Welcome to the community. 😊

Which is the best AI software that you feel caught your attention and you enjoyed using it. Like WisperFlow or any other. What are the key lesson that you have learned about AI.

Awesome to have you here and have a great time here.😉

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K Gann

Thanks for the warm welcome! 😊 I haven't tried WhisperFlow yet, but I've been using Colab with Gemini Flash for coding, Perplexity for research (love that it cites sources), and rotating between ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini depending on the task. Biggest lesson so far: each model has its own strengths, so it's worth trying a few rather than sticking to just one. Excited to be here and learn from everyone!

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Georgii Trenin

Hello Everyone, I am Georgii, software dev, working mostly with high throughput analytics. Recently started building AI agentic systems and now I am building my own project AgentArmory - Skills via MCP, always tuned, always fresh.

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Aliaksei Zelianouski

Skills that stay tuned is the hard half - mine go stale the moment the environment shifts under them. I ended up letting a model maintain them, with hooks that force a compaction when a skill overgrows. Curious how AgentArmory decides a skill needs a refresh.

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Georgii Trenin

Hi Aliaksei, thank you for the question. Regarding overgrowing, the skill tuning is never just append, it should be dense enough, so instead a fresh look is taken before the edit.
Regarding how to maintain the skills, mcp features feedback tools and harness can report staleness, and is actually encouraged by tool descriptions.

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Oglas AI SEO

👋 Hi everyone! Excited to be here!

I'm a developer interested in AI, Computer Vision, and Automation. I enjoy building practical AI applications and sharing what I learn along the way. Most of my current work revolves around Oglas AI, where I'm focused on applying AI to real business use cases.

Looking forward to learning from the community and contributing through articles and discussions. 🚀

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Ahmed Abdelgawad • Edited

Hey Oglas! Welcome to DEV! Looking forward to read your first article!

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K Gann

Same here - Would like to read your post

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John Alvarez

helloo

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Oglas AI SEO

hi

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Ehtesham Zahid

Welcome! Best of luck, mate!!

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Svetlin Minkov

Hey everyone! 👋

I'm a solo developer and I just joined DEV. I've spent the last few months building an open-source web security scanner (Django + React, self-hostable with Docker), so I'll mostly be writing about security tooling, CI/CD and the little engineering problems along the way — like how to stop a scanner from drowning you in the same findings every day.

Excited to learn from this community and share what I build. If you're into security, DevOps or indie projects, say hi — happy to connect! 🙂

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Aliaksei Zelianouski

Stopping a scanner from drowning you in the same findings every day is the real product - alert fatigue kills more security tooling than false negatives do. That dedup problem is the post I'd read first.

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Umme Nizba

Hi, My name is Nizba. I am a software engineer. I care about building practical, production-minded tools especially where AI systems meet real security problems.

Outside of my day job, I work on open source in my own time, on my own kit. My main project right now is AgentGuard: an open-source Python middleware that inspects messages between AI agents in multi-agent pipelines (LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen). The idea came from a gap I kept seeing most guardrails protect the user→model boundary, but not agent→agent traffic, which is where indirect prompt injection can spread.

I am sharing what I learn as I build: demos, benchmarks, and honest notes on what works in practice (including the messy parts, like latency trade-offs on CPU).

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Aliaksei Zelianouski

Yeah, the gap you describe is here - everyone guards the user-to-model boundary, and agent-to-agent traffic goes unwatched. I run a multi-agent game where the models hold secret roles, and the messages between them are the whole attack surface. Curious what AgentGuard flags most in the wild: injection attempts, leaked secrets, or plain malformed junk?

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Jonathan Linotte

👋 Hi everyone — John, from Brussels, Belgium.

I build agent harnesses. My working thesis is that the code decides and the model infers; the autonomy of an agent is mostly a metaphor once you're responsible for what it does at machine speed. I write long-form essays on AI governance, sovereignty and the engineering of harnesses, published on my own site, harnais.be.

Happy to meet people working on agent reliability, local/open-weight stacks, and anything where "but can you audit it?" matters more than "but is it smart?".

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Aliaksei Zelianouski

'The code decides and the model infers' - same place I landed after a year of running agents. Every guardrail I put inside the prompt eventually got ignored; the ones that held were plain code outside the loop. Will read the essays.

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Tanzeel ur Rehman Akhtar

**👋 Hi everyone!

I'm Tanzeel, and I'm excited to join the DEV community.

I'm currently learning Python from scratch with the goal of becoming an AI and software developer. Right now I'm focusing on building strong programming fundamentals instead of rushing through tutorials.

One thing I enjoy is understanding how things work, whether it's code, AI, or the psychology behind solving problems. I hope to share what I learn, my mistakes, and my progress as I build projects.

A fun fact about me: I love turning difficult concepts into simple explanations and I'm always curious to learn something new.

Looking forward to learning from all of you and hopefully contributing back to the community. 🚀******

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Tyler N

Hello Tanzeel! Welcome to the DEV Community! You sound exactly like me around a year ago, when I started to learn how to code! A good book on Python I would suggest would be Python Crash Course by No Starch Press. For me, I only read the first section and skipped the projects section. For each chapter, instead of just doing the practice problems at the end, I also had a code editor up and did things that were similar to those being discussed, but not the same. Eventually, you will move up to making projects on your own and learning as you go, which is what I did for every coding language after Python.

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Janani Jayakumar

Hello everyone! 👋
I'm a React Developer and tech blogger. I create content for freshers, students, and aspiring web developers. Right now, I'm focusing on JavaScript concepts and sharing beginner-friendly explanations with practical examples.
Excited to be part of this community and connect with other learners and developers. 😊🚀

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Konark Sharma

Hey Janani Jayakumar. Welcome to the community. 😊

What's your favorite react library that you need in your projects?

Awesome to have you join us. Explore, connect, and enjoy!

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Dhruval Anandkar

Hey techies! 👋🏼 I'm Dhruval!

I’m a CS student who is obsessed with building tech that actually holds up under pressure. I spend many late nights engineering resilient systems ranging from live transit mapping apps to multi-agent AI workflows.

What brought me here is I've been diving head-first into scalable data pipelines and also backend architecture. I've made enough messy debugging mistakes along the way that I figured I should start sharing them! I'm here to swap insights and learn from the infrastructure and AI experts in this community.

Fun fact: I actually acted in an NGO short film once! Turns out, acting in front of a camera is way less stressful than debugging code in production.🧑🏻‍💻

Really excited to connect with you all!

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Charles Solar

Hi all — Charles here. Small-business software dev who fell down the AI-agent rabbit hole and never climbed out. Currently obsessed with a question I don't think anyone has fully answered yet: how do you actually measure whether an agent team did good work? Happy to be here, looking forward to the comments sections more than the posts, honestly.

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Aliaksei Zelianouski

I run a long-loop agent 24/7 and my honest metric is still 'how often I have to step in' - everything fancier I tried ended up measuring effort, not outcomes. If you crack real scoring, I'm reading.

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Shipsealed

Hi everyone 👋 I'm Mateus — I build ShipSealed, Next.js + Supabase boilerplates and small tools that keep Row-Level Security from leaking. Lately I've been writing up the Supabase RLS gotchas that bit me in production (the "new row violates RLS" one, and infinite recursion in multi-tenant policies). I'm here to trade notes with other people shipping small products safely, and to learn from folks who've been at this longer. Glad to be here 🦭

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Youness Aamiri

Hey everyone! 👋 I'm Youness, a Senior .NET Software Engineer based in Casablanca, Morocco. I've spent the last ~5 years building production systems across fintech and insurance — payment platforms, financial pipelines, that kind of thing.
I'm heading into a new role focused on enterprise search and LLM-powered systems, so I'll be diving deeper into that world (vector DBs, RAG, the whole stack) alongside my usual .NET/C# work. Long-term I'm aiming toward a Solutions Architect / Staff Engineer path.
Outside of client work I like tinkering with side projects — happy to connect with anyone working on .NET, distributed systems, or search/AI tooling. Looking forward to learning from this community!

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Clen

Hi everyone 👋 I'm Clen, from Shenzhen, China.

I work on MAD-SHOW — a professional LED lighting control software that we've been building since 2019. It supports DMX512, Art-Net, sACN, and pixel mapping — and the best part? It's completely free. 🎉

Our goal is to make professional lighting control accessible to everyone, whether you're a lighting designer doing a small gig, a venue owner setting up atmosphere lighting, a system integrator working on a large-scale project, or just a hobbyist who loves playing with lights.

I joined DEV.to to connect with the builder and maker community — because I believe lighting and visuals are a huge part of how we experience technology, and there's so much to learn from people building in adjacent spaces. Whether you're into:

Stage/event lighting 🎭
LED architecture and pixel mapping 🌈
DMX and art-net protocols 🔌
Or just curious about how lighting software works behind the scenes
I'd love to chat!

I'm also here to share what we've learned over 7+ years of developing a graphics-intensive desktop application — everything from real-time rendering challenges to building a community around a free product.

Drop a comment and tell me what you're working on! Let's learn from each other. 🤝

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oleg-vdv

Hi everyone! 👋

I'm Oleg, coming from an infrastructure/sysadmin background - of keeping Linux servers, networks and on-prem systems alive taught me that the most dangerous problems are the invisible ones nobody inventories.

That's actually what pushed me to build my first open-source project: pqc-radar, a scanner that finds quantum-vulnerable cryptography (RSA, ECC, legacy hashes) in codebases and generates the CBOM inventory that post-quantum regulations now require. Building it in public has been quite a ride - my very first regression test caught the scanner detecting "crypto" in its own source code 😄

I just published my first article here about it, and I'm looking forward to learning from this community - especially from folks working in security, Node.js and open source.

Happy to connect!

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Konark Sharma

Hey Oleg. Welcome to the Community 😊.

Your OSS looks amazing and the way you have explained is pretty smooth. What was your biggest lesson while building in public. Congrats on your first article. Looking forward for your future articles.

System check: 100% ready for you. Welcome, and enjoy your time here! 😉

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oleg-vdv

Thanks Konark! Really appreciate the warm welcome and the kind words! 🙏

My biggest lesson so far with building in public is definitely learning to embrace feedback before the code is "perfect"

When you come from an infrastructure background, you're used to testing everything in isolation until it's rock-solid before deployment. But in OSS, sharing early forced me to focus on clear docs and real user feedback much faster than I would have on my own. (And as a funny bonus, public feedback helps you spot those silly edge cases you're completely blind to yourself 😄).

Thanks for stopping by! How about you - are you currently building or contributing to any open source projects?

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Such a wonderful lesson Oleg. I'm doing both currently still looking forward to contribute in OSS and be an open source contributor just to get to know OSS better and being able to call myself a developer and I'm building small side projects for hackathons and competitions to know my limit and the capabilities of my ideas.

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chenguang muhai

Hey everyone! 👋 I'm an indie developer, currently all-in on AI and building small web tools and reference pages.

What brought me here: the new wave of models (Kimi K3, Fable 5, GPT, etc.) moves so fast that I started building little pages just to keep the specs and pricing straight in my own head. Doing that in public felt more useful than hoarding 20 browser tabs.

What I'm learning: the practical stuff — how to ship a small site fast, what actually gets a page indexed and read, and how these models really differ once you look past the benchmarks.

Fun fact: I've probably opened more AI-model tabs in the last month than in my whole life before. 😄

Looking forward to lurking, learning, and posting a few things. What are you all building right now?

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Aliaksei Zelianouski

Model pricing pages change under you faster than the models do - I've written about API pricing a few times and half the work was re-checking numbers that had moved that week. Doing it in public beats the 20 tabs, agreed. Link your pages when they're up.

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Adam Voulstaker

Hi, my name is Adam Voulstaker,

Im a real progrmmer now cuz I made my websit hot pnk. But I deleted a emty line and now evrything is borked???

Also pls hlep how to colse VIM? My lap top sounds like a helecopter and its getting rly hot. thx bye!

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Biruk Wondmeneh

Hi everyone! 👋
I'm Biruk, a Software Developer from Ethiopia 🇪🇹 with a passion for building modern web applications. My primary stack includes React, Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, Node.js, Express.js, PostgreSQL, Prisma, and GraphQL.

I'm joining DEV to learn from the community, share my experiences, and improve my skills as I grow into a full-stack developer. I enjoy solving real-world problems, exploring new technologies, and building projects that make a positive impact.

Looking forward to connecting with fellow developers, learning from your insights, and contributing whenever I can. Happy coding! 🚀

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Muhammad Azmi

Hey everyone! 👋

I'm Azmi, a frontend-leaning software engineer from Indonesia with 3+ years building things from an electronic medical record system for a public hospital to landing pages and ERP systems at a software house.

Mostly living in React/Next.js, TypeScript, and Go/Express on the backend side, with a growing focus on performance and SEO (structured data, semantic HTML, chasing Lighthouse scores). Also dabble in GSAP for motion when a project needs it.

Portfolio's here if you want to poke around: Muhammad Azmi

Looking forward to learning from the threads here and hopefully shipping some writeups of my own soon. 🚀

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Zachary Llanza

Hey everyone, I'm Zack! I live just outside of Pittsburgh and I've been working on pivoting into the IT sector (terrible timing, I know) and I am wrapping up my bachelor's in IT with a focus on AI. I need a fun place to immerse myself in where I can also share some of my opinions on things so that people can tell me they are bad. I'm working on getting my own small IT repair company up and running, but I'm also looking for more creative outlets where I can write and muse about the future that we find ourselves in. Excited to see what's around!

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Hidayat Ktk

Hi everyone! 👋

I'm Hidayat from Pakistan. I'm interested in web development, SEO, and building free online keyboard tools and educational resources. Recently I've been working on tools like a Keyboard Polling Rate Tester, Typing Speed Test, and other utilities for gamers and typists.

I'm here to learn from the community, improve my technical skills, and share projects that others might find useful. Looking forward to learning from all of you!

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Pradeep Kandepaneni

Hi everyone! I’m Pradeep Kandepaneni, a DevOps, Cloud Platform, and Site Reliability Engineer focused on AWS, Amazon EKS, Kubernetes, Terraform, GitOps, observability, and resilient cloud architectures.

I recently joined DEV Community and published an article on preventing unsafe regional failover in Amazon EKS using policy-gated recovery.

Looking forward to learning from the community, sharing practical SRE and cloud architecture experiences, and connecting with other AWS, Kubernetes, DevOps, and platform engineering practitioners.

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Tehreem Farooqi

Hi, Tehreem here. I am an AI Engineer with 5+ years of experience (obviously not in AI engineering 😄).

I was a data scientist before "AI", as we know it now, came along. I have always been the one to adopt new things quickly so I did in this case too. Started experimenting with ChatGPT the month it came out and have not been able to live without LLMs since then.

These days I build automations and workflows using AI and my stack goes all the way from no-code tools like Copilot Studio to pro-code like Microsoft Foundry. I pick a problem and fix it using the best tools for it.

Happy to be here, looking forward to contributing and learning from all you peeps here 🙂

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Thomas Lee

Hi there,

I am Thomas from Dublin, Ireland. My personal website is lee.yt and X account is @lee_tom. I have published my first post to share my latest open-source project Omnist - a Python library to implement a canonical model and schema algebra for tree-structured data, like JSON, YAML, TOML, and XML.

Thomas

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Bishal Adhikary • Edited

I am a Data Analyst & working in a product-based IT company, here to explore updated News & also share my findings & expertise.
I know some loopholes in these LLM models. I'd like to explore more with all of you Techheads

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Aaron

Hello! Long time dev, first time listener. I've been developing for the last couple of decades, but am incredibly energized in this golden age of building. I'm looking forward to browsing the site and checking things out!

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Ravi Singh Kalakoti

Hey everyone, I'm Ravi from Uttarakhand, India. I enjoy building web applications with Python and Django, and lately I've also been exploring AI and data analytics. I joined DEV to learn from other developers, share what I'm building, and hopefully contribute back to the community.
Looking forward to connecting with you all! 🚀

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Techloghub

I am a founder of Techloghub - a developer-focused product discovery platform where builders can find, launch, and track developer tools, SaaS products, AI tools, APIs, and open-source projects — built for developers, by developers

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Ángel Sagredo

Hi! I'm Ángel from Madrid

I'm a Senior Laravel & Nuxt Developer with over 10 years building scalable, high-performance web apps. Specialized in Laravel backends and APIs and SEO-optimized Nuxt frontends.

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ROCKIMG

Hi. I'm sly, from China, a solo developer. Developer of RockIMG and some other products, I’d like to discuss topics about independent development as well as the usage and creation of image tools here.

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Atanas Oreshkov

Hi, I'm Atanas from Sofia, Bulgaria
I'm a software developer with 29+ years of professional experience building enterprise systems. I specialize in backend architecture and enterprise integration using Spring Boot, SQL, and Oracle Pro*C/C++. I'm passionate about clean architecture, modern tooling, and exploring emerging technologies like Kotlin Multiplatform, LLM and MCP.

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Boris Stiner • Edited

Hey everyone! 👋 I'm Boris, a PHP developer - TYPO3 is where I have the deepest experience, and I've been getting more into Laravel and Filament more recently. Just published my first post on dev.to, about signing webhook payloads correctly: Signing webhook payloads in Laravel - and the mistake that breaks it silently

Looking forward to being part of the community!

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Dominic li

Hi all — I'm Dominic, a solo developer. I just launched Tally Assistant (tallyassistant.com), an AI bookkeeping tool that auto-parses bank CSVs, scans receipts, generates invoices from one sentence, and sends automated payment reminders. Built with Next.js + Supabase + OpenAI + Clerk. Here to learn from other builders and share what I'm figuring out about solo SaaS. Happy to connect!

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Erika

Hi everyone 👋

I'm Erika and I have been working in enterprise tech company for over 10 years .

Recently I've been spending way too much time exploring AI tools and AI coding.

Right now I'm building Token Harbor, an AI model platform focused on making frontier AIs more accessible and affordable.

Still learning a lot every day, and excited to meet other builders here. Cheers ~

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Chris

Hi all! I'm Christian, CTO at a tech company. Currently building islandr — self-hosted WireGuard access management (Java/Quarkus), for people who want sovereign VPN control without a SaaS control plane: github.com/chriscohnen/islandr
Also have a long-standing soft spot for software rasterizers and low-level pixel pipelines. Looking forward to sharing more here and connecting with other Java/Webassembly/realtime 3D folks.

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Basilu Liyanage • Edited

I'm Basilu, a national-level coder from Sri Lanka 🇱🇰.

I'm here to:

  • Connect with other developers
  • Share my journey
  • Document what I'm learning
  • Explore topics like web dev, Python, etc.

Excited to be part of this community! 🚀

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Dhruv Mevada

Hello everyone!

I'm a Flutter developer with a bit of backend experience, and I'm currently exploring AI/ML by building projects and experimenting with new ideas.

I'm always open to learning, collaborating, and contributing to interesting projects. Any feedback, contributions, or support are always appreciated!

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Hyunse Kim

Hi, I’m Hyunse, a Content Designer at CUBIG.

I write about the data layer behind production AI:
how teams make data usable for AI, trace what ran, and reproduce results when data changes.

I’ll be sharing practical notes on AI-ready data, data states, and enterprise AI workflows.

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Raushan Kumar

Hi i am Raushan kumar from india
Joined because I kept building things solo and never writing about any of it. I'm a CS + Data Science student aiming for data engineering, and most of my actual learning happens by building real projects (an OS, a few ML experiments, random tools) rather than watching tutorials — but none of that ever left my machine. Figured writing here would force me to actually document the process, not just the finished (or half-finished) result. Also hoping it pushes me to be less of a "keep everything local and never update GitHub" type of developer.

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Ankitashiqsys

Hello everyone! I'm a Digital Marketing Executive at IQSYS with over 2 years of experience in the IT industry. I'm passionate about Artificial Intelligence, enterprise technology, software, and digital transformation. I'm here to share educational insights, learn from the community, and engage in meaningful discussions on emerging technologies.

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WSDN

Hi everyone! 👋 I'm a developer focusing on high-performance web infrastructure and distributed systems. I'm excited to join the community to connect with other developers and learn from the discussions here. Happy coding!

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Hemapriya Kanagala

Hi everyone 😀

A big welcome to all the new members, and welcome back to everyone who is returning. It is so nice to have you all here. I hope you have a great time, make some meaningful connections, learn lots of new things, and enjoy every step of your journey.

Looking forward to seeing you around and chatting with you in the comments. Wishing you all the very best, and I hope you enjoy being part of this wonderful community 💙

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Hongjun Yang

Hello everyone! I am an electronics engineer with years of hands-on PCB design experience. I specialize in multi-layer high-speed board layout, impedance control, EMC compliance and DFM process specifications, and am well-versed in the entire hardware workflow from design to mass production.
Supported by complete PCB manufacturing resources, I provide technical support including design optimization, process evaluation and mass production troubleshooting. I excel at efficiently solving all kinds of circuit board development challenges. Fellow professionals are welcome to discuss technical topics and explore project cooperation with me.

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John Patrick Juni

Hi everyone! 👋 I'm an IT graduate and Linux enthusiast currently learning Python, FastAPI, Docker, and backend development while building projects and looking forward to learning from the dev.to community.

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Suzanne Elinor

Hey everyone! 👋 Suzanne here.

What brought me here: I just spent two weeks rebuilding 2048 from scratch (badly, at first) and needed somewhere to complain about CSS positioning bugs to people who'd actually understand the pain. Found this place, immediately felt at home.

What I'm learning: mostly that I should measure things instead of hardcoding pixel values and hoping for the best. Vanilla JS game logic has humbled me more in two weeks than four years of "real" work ever did.

Fun fact: I once spent two hours debugging a misaligned game board only to discover the fix was one line of CSS. I have made peace with this.

Looking forward to lurking, learning, and occasionally posting about bugs I create for myself. 🙂

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Swify.io

Hey everyone! I'm João, I handle technical content for Swify, a bare-metal dedicated server provider based in the Netherlands. I've been writing some deeper dives here on infra fundamentals: dedicated vs VPS vs cloud, uptime SLAs, NVMe performance, mostly to get feedback from people who actually run this stuff in production. Happy to talk hosting, DevOps, or European infrastructure. Glad to be here.

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Harry

Hi everyone! I’m Harry, and I’m building Aivrae, an independent, OpenAI-compatible AI API gateway. Selected GPT models cost about 86% less than OpenAI’s published standard API prices. Glad to join DEV and meet fellow developers!

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slaeducation

Which is the Best Business Analyst Course in Delhi for Career Growth?
I am planning to build my career as a Business Analyst and am looking for the best Business Analyst Course in Delhi. I have seen many institutes offering training in Excel, SQL, Power BI, Agile, Jira, and Business Analysis, but I want a course that includes practical learning, live projects, certification, and placement support.

Can anyone recommend a good training institute based on personal experience? I would also like to know:

  • Which topics are covered in the course?
  • Is it suitable for freshers?
  • Does the training include live projects?
  • Are certification and placement assistance provided?
  • What are the career opportunities after completing the course?

I would appreciate your suggestions and experiences. Thank you!

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ALTE AI

Hi everyone! 👋

We’re ALTE — an AI product company based in Dubai, building working AI products, automation systems, and secure infrastructure for real business workflows.

We’re especially interested in applied AI, workflow automation, AI agents, LLM products, secure deployment, and how companies can move from manual processes to measurable AI outcomes.

Excited to join DEV, learn from other builders, share what we’re working on, and contribute to discussions around practical AI implementation.

Looking forward to connecting with you all!

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OfficeHours • Edited

Hi, I'm starting a new chapter here 👋
I work on Microsoft 365 and Copilot rollout projects — specifically on the change management and user training side. My job isn't configuring tenants or writing PowerShell scripts (though I touch that too); it's making sure that once M365 or Copilot is deployed, people actually use it, and use it well.

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Meesha Khattak

Hi everyone!👋

I'm Rameesha, a technical writer with 7+ years of experience, and I believe great software deserves equally great documentation.

I'm here because I want to understand how developers think, build, and solve problems, so i can turn that knowledge into content that helps developers share their work and helps everyone else understand it.

In many ways, technical writing is the bridge between the people who build technology and the people who use it.

What's one thing you wish more technical writers understood about developers? I'd genuinely love to hear your perspective.🤗

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Rudresh Shukla

Hi everyone!
I'm Rudresh, a CS student currently learning JavaScript and React. I enjoy building things, reading manga, and discovering great movies.

I recently published my first technical blog on JavaScript internals with beginner-friendly explanations and diagrams.

I'd love to hear your feedback!
🔗 dev.to/rudreshshukla592/javascript...

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Eedain Bhat

Hey everyone! 👋

I'm a 16-year-old app developer and founder. I enjoy building mobile apps, AI-powered tools, and SaaS products. Looking forward to learning from the community, sharing what I build, and getting honest feedback. Excited to be here!

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John Kiprito

Hey everyone!
I'm John, a Backend Developer focused on building scalable applications using Node.js, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, and AWS. I'm passionate about backend architecture, API development, database optimization, and cloud technologies. Looking forward to learning from the community, sharing my experiences, and connecting with fellow developers.

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Chi Lennon

Hello!

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Larry Margerum

Hey everyone! 👋

Happy to be here and excited to meet people who love building things, solving problems, and occasionally spending 3 hours debugging a missing semicolon.

What are you currently working on these days? I'd love to hear about your projects and connect with fellow developers. 🚀

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Zurox

Hi everyone!

I'm an independent builder focused on creating thoughtful web products. I'm currently building AstroZen, a Next.js project involving global time-zone handling, deterministic calculation pipelines, and AI-assisted interpretation.

I'm here to learn from the community, share practical lessons, and connect with other web developers. Glad to be here!

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szlkinsight

Hi everyone! 👋 We’re SZLK Insight. We’re excited to join the DEV Community and
share practical lessons about AI agents, creator workflows, digital ownership, and
building useful products. We look forward to learning from you and exchanging ideas
—what are you building right now?

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Zhao KK

Hey DEV community! 👋

I'm KK, an indie developer interested in AI, developer tools, and open source.

I've been reading posts here for a while and decided to finally start sharing my own experiences.

Recently I've been experimenting with AI coding agents and exploring how they change the way we build software. Excited to discuss workflows, tools, and ideas with other developers.

Looking forward to connecting with builders and learning from the community.

What are you all working on lately?

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Ahmad Hamdan

Hey all!

I'm Ahmed, solo founder of trimy.io, started as a link shortener,
now mostly obsessed with the AI part that tells you what your clicks actually
mean instead of just charting them.

Excited to join the DEV community, connect with fellow
developers, and share insights from my journey building this, looking forward
to learning from you all! ☺️

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Tomasz • Edited

Hi 👋 Tomek from Poland — I build browser extensions that add production guardrails to enterprise web apps (AWS Console, Salesforce, ServiceNow, SAP Fiori). Mostly write about the unglamorous parts: intercepting clicks in someone else's app, CSS bleeding out of host design systems, and bugs I shipped.

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Chi Lennon

Hi everyone, my name is John. I am 28 and I am starting to learn web development for the first time in my entire life without any knowledge or educational background. I am very much interested in NextJS and I am hoping joining this community, I will meet like minded people who will help me grow and become a better developer. 😊

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Mythily

Hey everyone! 👋 I'm Mythily, a CS student who's here to learn, build projects, make developer friends, and ask lots of questions. 😄

Currently exploring web development, Java, and DSA. Hoping to contribute, collaborate, and collect more wins than bugs (no promises 🤞).

Excited to be here! 🚀

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Konark Sharma

Hey Mythily. Welcome to the community 😊.

Three domains altogether. Are you on a quest to get the Legendary Developer Tag? 😆. All the best for all your wins and feel free to ask questions we all will be happy to answer them all.

So pumped you’re here. Have a good time here!

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Yura Solovey

Hello everyone! I’m a software architect with 20+ years of development experience, ranging from C++, Delphi, Java, and C# to machine learning and modern AI models. I also lead an ML team focused on integrating AI into company workflows to automate tasks and accelerate delivery. I joined DEV to share my experience, explore new ideas, and connect with other developers. Happy to be here!

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TTML

Hi everyone! 👋 Excited to join the community. I'm building an engineering-first software review platform and will be sharing what I learn about TypeScript, AI, automation, SEO engineering, and scalable architecture. Looking forward to learning from you all!

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Helkyn Coello

Hi everyone 👋 Helkyn here, from Munich. 25 years building enterprise software, now working on embedding AI into production systems — CAIO at AccountTECH and founder of Unlocked Consulting. Mostly here to write about what actually works with AI in real systems, past the demos and pilots. Currently deep in agentic patterns and where deterministic code still beats an LLM call. Glad to be here.