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Welcome Thread - v388

Sloan the DEV Moderator on August 12, 2026

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Welcome everyone to dev.to! Glad you are here and hope you are well! I am a DEV Community Moderator and my primary goal is to support everyone on dev.to and ensure everyone is having a good time!

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

Hope you are having a great summer and enjoy your stay here on DEV :D

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agaura

Hi,

I’m Abhishek, a software developer with expertise in .NET and Angular. I’ve worked on SaaS-based products such as CRM and HRMS solutions for clients, gaining experience in building practical software for real-world business needs.

Going forward, I want to explore and build more innovative and scalable SaaS products that solve real-world problems. I’m currently expanding my skills in AI, Generative AI, and RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), to integrate these technologies into SaaS products to create smarter, more advanced, and useful features.

I’m excited to share my learning, experiments, projects, and development journey with the community.

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charleseze322

hi,

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Timothy Oywera

Hi charleseze322

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Krux Rise

Hello

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Akaza Sanny

olá

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Qassam Abumwies

Hello everyone
I'm a teacher from Palestine who loves tech. I'm not a coder myself but i have a desire to learn and build apps that suit my own use cases. And since i can't really code and don't have the time to learn i've went down the ai coding route. I'm always ready for advice. Nice to meet you all .

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Aliaksei Zelianouski

Apps that suit your own use cases is the category where this actually works. Which project you pick first matters more than the coding, though. I have a home automation setup I built this way and have never read a line of its code - fine, because when it breaks I flip the switch by hand. Anything where a bad result costs me something, I still end up reading what the model wrote.

Start with something where a bug is only annoying. What are you building first?

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john houser

I am building a site for wife that documents her 'antique' items for her 'store'. She needs something to track storage location and history. I hope to have this ready for her by the time I reach the upswing of awesome.

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Qassam Abumwies

That sounds interesting , building a physical tracking app would be very helpful for her for sure. And the history function i think would be good , maybe create a tag system to make things easier to manage. Also a storage location history , in case something goes missing you will have information at every storage location it has ever been at.

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Qassam Abumwies

I agree, having something personalized to your own use case and fits your vision is the best category where coding using ai works best. It doesn't have to be perfect and you can make it fit your use case perfectly if you give yourself enough time to actually use the app you're building and debug it. However, bugs can be hard to debug for noncoders like me and ai isn't at the stage where there won't be any bugs or errors in the outcome. I've made a small dictionary app where students can upload a pdf/doc/txt file to the app and it would auto translate every English word into Arabic with English meaning, synonyms and antonyms. I'm also building a personal media library app (but that's a pretty huge app I've been building for the past six months.). Honestly , speaking the biggest friction i have with coding using ai is the structures ai build the app on. It seems that ai always uses the easiest or shortest path which may not mean the best approach or structure to build an app on. I've faced this with the library app I'm making and right now I'm in the middle of redoing the structure of the app. Being a non-coder means i don't know the terms or the structures best suited for the apps i'm building and ai is doing a really bad job at giving advice in this regards. So I've learnt my lesson for future apps i plan to make, first research the structure to build upon and map things out correctly.
I'm also curious about automation , i haven't done it outside of the apps I've built so far. I've heard a lot of people talk about creating a workflow for coding which i haven't done yet. What's the a home automation setup you made ? And how did you build it ?

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Aliaksei Zelianouski

I don't really use automations for coding. Claude Code is a good level of automation for me out of the box. My monitoring are about monitoring, and some routines. My loop agent checks the logs of my apps in prod, collects user metrics, checks API budgets and other thing. Then it lets me know in Telegram.

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Andrew Avery

Hi everyone! 👋

I'm Andrew, building PromptSpend, an open-source LLM cost calculator that tries to get the actual arithmetic right (compounding chat history, cache-write costs, promotional pricing that expires, that kind of thing), backed by a catalog that re-checks itself against vendors every morning.

Just published my first piece here, about the specific ways pricing calculators like mine get the number wrong, including one we got wrong ourselves, in public, on our own product.

Excited to be part of the community and see what everyone's building.

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Aliaksei Zelianouski

Publishing the one your own tool got wrong is rare. The gap I keep hitting sits upstream of the arithmetic though - you cannot know the output length before the call. I track cost per call on a side project that runs a lot of models, and on thinking models about 60% of billed output turns out to be reasoning, roughly a 2.5x multiplier over the visible answer, and it moves run to run.

So I stopped projecting single requests and bound the session instead: models are banded by effective output price, and the band decides how much can run. Does PromptSpend take a reasoning estimate from the user, or carry a per-model multiplier?

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Andrew Avery

Good question, and the honest answer is user-supplied, not a per-model default. PromptSpend has a reasoning-multiplier field, defaults to 1x, that you set yourself — it bills output at round(output_tokens x multiplier). The model catalog only flags whether a model has hidden reasoning at all, a boolean, not how much; the multiplier isn't derived from anything because there's no published per-model figure to derive it from, and it swings run to run like you said. Your 2.5x number is a genuinely useful data point, closer to a real per-model default than what's in there today, which is just 1x until someone moves the slider.

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Abhiix0

PromptSpend sounds really useful, especially with how messy LLM pricing has become.

I really like that you're sharing where the calculator itself got things wrong too. That kind of transparency makes technical projects way more interesting to follow.

I'll definitely check it out 👀

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Andrew Avery

Thanks, Abhiix0! Appreciate you reading through the calculator's own mistakes too — that was almost the part I cut, but it's the part that actually matters. Let me know if you hit anything weird once you try it.

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Abhiix0

Glad you kept that part in—it definitely gives great context. I’ll run some tests with it soon and let you know if anything pops up. Cheers!

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Asada Shinsaku

Hello, everyone! 👋

I’m Asada Shinsaku, a software engineer who loves coding—sometimes more than my code loves compiling.

I’m really happy to be here. This community already feels warm and welcoming, and I’m looking forward to meeting you, seeing what you’re building, and sharing the occasional debugging headache.

I hope we can support one another, help our projects grow, and celebrate those rare, magical moments when everything works on the first try.

Thanks for having me. I’m excited to be part of the community!

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Abhiix0

Haha, "sometimes more than my code loves compiling" is painfully relatable 😂

Welcome! Looking forward to seeing what you're building too. Hopefully we get more of those magical "works on the first try" moments than debugging headaches here 🚀

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Asada Shinsaku

Thank you for your kindness.

I hope we can discuss more work matters in the future.

Thank you once again.

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Robert Brownstein

Welcome! I'm new here too.

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Asada Shinsaku

Thank you! ♥️

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Vo Viet Hoang

Hey Asada, welcome! Excited to see what you build and share here! 🙌

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Robert Brownstein

Hi, I'm Robert, and I'm a software engineer. I'm here to engage with the community around the stuff I'm prototyping - which is currently Tauric Studio, a Tiled-compatible map editing tool for game developers.

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bswvladimir-beep

Hello, colleagues!
Glad to be part of this friendly community of enthusiasts.

I've already published an article here about my debugging tool for coding agents. I hope you found it useful. Giving agents X-ray vision—that was worth all the effort.

And now I have some big ideas. I've been searching for a long time and found a way to provide agents with information in the most convenient format. But that's the topic of the next article. I just finished it and am about to publish it. Enjoy!

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Abrham Yeshigeta

Hey everyone! I'm Abrham - I'm from ETHIOPIA.
I'm a developer who loves building creative projects and learning new things.
Outside of coding, I'm a huge movie fan—I love getting lost in a good story, discussing plot twists with friends, and discovering new perspectives.
I'm always up for a great conversation and love learning something new from every person I meet.
Nice to meet you all!

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Abrham Yeshigeta • Edited

Hey everyone! I'm Abrham from Ethiopia.
I'm a developer who loves building creative projects and learning new things.
Outside of coding, I'm a huge movie fan -- I love getting lost in a good story, discussing plot twists with friends, and discovering new perspectives.
I'm always up for a great conversation and love learning something new from every person I meet.
Nice to meet you all!

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Syed Ibrahim • Edited

Hey everyone!

I’m Syed, a developer who’s been getting more into AI lately, mostly by building side projects and figuring things out as I go. Joined Dev.to to learn from what others are building, share a few things along the way, and hopefully meet some cool people here✌️

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Peter Ndumia

Hey everyone, I'm Peter. I'm building PDFHaul, a free browser-based PDF toolkit, solo.

Most of what I've been deep in lately is PDF parsing and table extraction, which turns out to be a much harder problem than it looks once you get past simple bordered tables. I recently shipped an MCP server for it too, bcrypt-hashed API keys, JWT, SSRF prevention, idempotency keys, the works, which taught me more about the edge cases of letting AI agents touch real files than I expected going in.

Happy to talk PDFs, document processing, MCP, or the general chaos of building something solo on nights and weekends. Looking forward to seeing what people here are working on.

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Seth Wheeler

Hi everyone,

I am Seth, a graduate student, and most of what I build is a re-implementation of something which already exists, since rebuilding systems seems to be the only reliable way that I have found to learn which parts of its design are actually load-bearing.

What I worked on most recently is a Kubernetes API server in Node that the real kubectl talks to unmodified, a macOS browser (Swift, on WKWebView) that holds a memory budget you give it the way a game engine holds a frame budget, a web crawler that implements the B25 algorithm, and a benchmark that ranks language models on catching liars in a game of Mafia instead of on win rate.

What keeps me interested is that the failure is never in the part I expect. I priced a hibernated browser tab at 32 KB in simulation; real WebKit charges 39 MB. My web crawler's rate limiter measured itself as enforcing a perfect five-second delay while the host on the other end was receiving a hundred requests at once. However, in both cases every component was correct and the composition was wrong, which is hard to catch from inside a single process.

I have been documenting most of my findings from my projects at sethwheeler.dev, and cross-posting my findings here. Glad to be here.

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Kyohei Taniguchi

Hi everyone! 👋

I'm Kyohei, an independent developer from Japan building simple, privacy-focused tools for macOS.

I recently released SnapSlim, a native Mac app for compressing JPEG, PNG, and HEIC images entirely on-device, and I joined DEV to share what I learn while building and shipping small software products.

I'm especially interested in macOS development, local-first software, developer tooling, testing, and AI-assisted development.

I just published my first post here today. Looking forward to learning from everyone and sharing more along the way!

Nice to meet you all! 🐈

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welcome nice to meet u i wish u a great day

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Kyohei Taniguchi

Thanks! Nice to meet you too, have a great day!

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korsto

Hey everyone! 👋 Glad to finally join the community. I’m into Android tweaks, CLI workflows, and exploring new software dev projects. Looking forward to learning from everyone here and sharing what I discover along the way. Happy coding! 🚀

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Ömer ExpressGo

Hi everyone! 👋

I’m Ömer, joining from Istanbul, Türkiye. I’m interested in technology, web development, digital projects, and learning how people solve real-world problems with tech.

Happy to be here and looking forward to learning from the DEV community, sharing ideas, and joining the conversations. 🚀

Nice to meet you all!

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Mihail

hi

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RollDate

Hi everyone! 👋
I'm a frontend developer working mainly with JavaScript.

Recently I've been building RollDate, an open-source, dependency-free JavaScript date picker focused on scroll-first interaction.

I'm here to share what I'm learning while building and maintaining an open-source project, and hopefully learn from the DEV community as well.

Looking forward to reading your posts and meeting other developers! 🚀

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hey welcome

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Kumaresan

Hey everyone! 👋

Recent grad here — just joined a company that works heavily in AWS, and I'm learning backend development on the job (Node.js/TypeScript, Lambda, API Gateway, PostgreSQL, and the AWS ecosystem more broadly). Landed here to learn from people further along than me and hopefully share what I pick up along the way too.

Fun fact: I'm still at the stage where every new AWS service I touch feels like unlocking a new level 😄

Looking forward to being part of this community!

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Leoncio Jr Coronado

Hi everyone! 👋

I'm Leoncio from the Philippines. I work with Python automation, web scraping, data pipelines, and AI-assisted workflows.

Recently, I've been building practical tools around web data extraction and business automation, including Apify Actors and small systems designed to reduce repetitive manual work. I'm especially interested in turning real-world workflows into reliable, maintainable software.

I'm here on DEV to keep learning, document what I discover while building, and learn from developers working on automation, AI, backend systems, and data engineering.

Looking forward to meeting fellow builders and sharing what I learn along the way! 🚀

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ErystelaThevale

Hi everyone! 👋
I'm an engineer and independent researcher. I recently built a lightweight, local-first RSS reader to bypass Reddit's strict unauthenticated API rate limits (using a combined "hot" feed workaround).
I joined DEV to share technical learnings from that process, read about open-source workflows, and connect with fellow developers. Looking forward to the discussions and great articles here!

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skyblueao77

Hi everyone! 👋

I'm a Civil Engineering student from Japan.
I'm currently creating an open-source tutorial series titled "Python for Civil Engineering" to help engineering students learn data analysis and scientific computing (NumPy, pandas, SciPy) using modern tools like uv.

Excited to learn from this community and share my journey here! 🚀

GitHub: github.com/skyblueao77/civil-engin...

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Ace • Edited

Hi everyone! 👋

I’m Akira, an AI/ML Engineer based in California. I’ve been working in software engineering and machine learning for several years, with most of my recent work focused on LLM applications, generative AI, RAG, NLP, and building AI systems that actually make it into production.

I joined DEV because I want to learn from other developers, share some of the things I’ve learned along the way, and hopefully contribute to some interesting discussions.

I’m particularly interested in AI engineering, LLM infrastructure, model evaluation, AI agents, and the practical side of taking ML systems from an idea to something people can actually use.

Looking forward to meeting everyone here and reading what you’re building. Feel free to say hi! 🚀

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MORPHOICΞS. • Edited

Hey guys! ~

I’m Valentine, a solo founder building MORPHOICES — an AI-powered product development system for turning scattered ideas into structured, launch-ready digital products.

What brought me here is a problem I keep running into while building: context gets lost as work moves between tools and stages.

Research lives somewhere.
Decisions end up in docs.
Implementation happens somewhere else.
Then a few weeks later, you’re trying to remember ''why'' you made a particular decision in the first place.

I’m exploring how AI can work inside a system that keeps those connections intact — from research and decisions through validation, planning, and execution.

I’m still learning a lot about product architecture, AI workflows, and what actually makes these systems useful in practice.

Looking forward to learning from everyone here and meeting other builders. 👋

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Hamsterwork

Hi all! I am full-stack web developer.

Started many years ago with simple HTML/CSS pages, then mastered WordPress, which became my favorite for a long time. Later, immersed myself in exploring Laravel, and quite recently, my learning journey led me to mastering React.

I’m not a vibecoder, but I’m actively studying ways to turn AI into a good assistant.

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Dev Connect

welcome :)

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Christoph Dieck

Hey everyone.

I'm Chris, a systems engineer and web developer from Germany. I build cloud infrastructure and TypeScript applications by day, and pave actual patios and run electrical cables by evening. Same problem-solving mindset, very different tools.

Tech stack is mostly TypeScript, React, Astro, AWS, and Docker. I self-host what I can on Proxmox and automate what makes sense.

I'll be writing about practical patterns and architecture decisions from my projects.

Looking forward to seeing what everyone's building.

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Gregory Harris

Hello!

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Muhammad Usman

Hi I am Muhammad Usman, a passionate software engineer who is currently working on his problem solving skills and makes projects in MERN Stack. One of my projects is vconnect.fun, its a real time messaging web application inspired from the WhatsApp and currently in beta version. The other project is cocode.fun that is collaborative code editor that was built for fun as I and my collegues spend time while coding and it has microphone and chats feature as well .
I am here to build connections and work with other fellows

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BruceJames • Edited

Hi, I'm Bruce 👋

I'm a software engineer passionate about building developer tools and AI products.

Over the years, I've worked with Go, Rust, TypeScript, distributed systems, and modern web technologies. Recently, most of my time has been spent exploring how large language models can solve real-world problems instead of just creating demos.

My current project is MeeLang, an AI-powered Chrome extension that provides real-time translation for Google Meet. The idea came from a simple problem: multilingual meetings are still surprisingly difficult, even with today's AI. I wanted a solution that could translate conversations while people are still speaking—without requiring meeting bots or complicated setup.

Besides building products, I'm interested in:

  • AI and LLM applications
  • Developer tools
  • Distributed systems
  • Rust & Go
  • SaaS and indie hacking
  • Product growth and SEO

On Dev.to, I'll be writing about what I learn while building AI products—from engineering challenges and Chrome extension development to product launches, growth experiments, and lessons learned as an indie developer.

If you're working on AI, browser extensions, or SaaS products, I'd love to connect and exchange ideas.

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Michael Jhonathan

Hi, I’m Michael Jhonathan... or Schicksal.

I’m a developer who started out coding in my spare time, though I only officially graduated this year.

I recently completed an intensive training program where I learned about cybersecurity, HTML, CSS, JS, TS, Python, Machine Learning, Flutter, databases, and more.

I’m currently expanding my skills in AI usage—the market is a bit crazy right now.

My true goal in programming is to create innovative new technologies for the community that help and make life easier for all developers.

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Frank Zhang

Hi everyone! I’m Frank Zhang, an IT infrastructure engineer with a focus on networking, virtualization, systems, and infrastructure operations.

I’m here to share practical experiences around VMware, Proxmox, Hyper-V, Linux, homelab monitoring, and network infrastructure. I’m also building OpsHome in my spare time — a collection of tools focused on infrastructure monitoring and diagnostics.

Looking forward to learning from the DEV community and sharing useful technical notes along the way. 👋

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David Hoang

Hello DEV community! 👋

I’m David, an AI Engineer focused on Natural Language Processing, Large Language Models, and applied AI research.

I’m joining DEV.to to document my learning journey, share technical insights, and turn some of my experiments and research into practical, understandable articles.

Looking forward to connecting with fellow developers and researchers!

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Masaki Iino

Hi everyone!
I’m Masaki from Tokyo. I’m an indie developer at Toybird Labs, building small productivity tools for Mac and Windows.
I recently joined DEV to share what I’m learning from building and shipping these products, and to learn from other developers here.
Nice to meet you all! 👋

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Emirck

Hello everyone! I'm new around here, I'm 24, and I want to start a devlog of sorts where I document my progress as a programmer. I hope to both give and receive feedback on whatever I’m working on or posting.

I'd love to make friends with people who are also just starting to grind, since I'm one of them. I'm about to finish university, but honestly feel like I don't know anything, so it's time to do my part. Greetings to everyone!

If you just want to meet people and shoot me a message so we can suffer together, you're more than welcome to haha. 🤘🏼

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Kamil Abdulfatau

Please I want to learn full stack development please who can help and one problem is I’m 14years

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Cristina M

Hi everyone! 👋

I’m just getting started in web development and joined this community to learn, improve my skills, and connect with other people who enjoy building things for the web.

I’m currently experimenting with HTML, CSS, WordPress, and a bit of JavaScript, taking things step by step and learning through small projects.

Looking forward to learning from the community, sharing progress, and hopefully helping others as I gain more experience. 😊

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Ichimura Tomoo

​Hi everyone! I'm Ichimura, a Web Engineer from Japan.

I'm still at the beginning of my career, but I write Java for a living by day, and by night, I'm completely obsessed with Rust 🦀.

When I'm away from the keyboard, I love going cycling to refresh my mind 🚲. Excited to connect with you all!

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Danil'

Hi, my name is Danil. I’m a 4th-year student majoring in Refrigeration and Cryogenic Engineering and Life Support Systems.

While doing an internship at a design bureau that develops components for aircraft ventilation systems, I realized that engineering involves a lot of repetitive tasks that could potentially be automated using ML/AI.

So, I decided to dive into the world of AI and ML ☻

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Hey everyone!

I'm Shan, a web developer passionate about building fast, practical tools for the web.

I mainly work with Next.js, React, TypeScript, and Tailwind CSS. Currently, I'm focused on building and optimizing programmatic web applications, including my project HypeCalc - a suite of free, accurate calculators designed to make everyday estimating and math effortless.

I joined DEV to connect with fellow developers, share insights from my building journey, and learn from this awesome community. Looking forward to meeting other builders here!

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Tomasz Kolpaczek

Hey everyone! 👋

I'm Tomasz, a Polish dev who's been surviving in the UK for almost 20 years now (yes, I still can't get used to the weather).

By day, I'm a freelance web developer building fast websites for local businesses. By night, I'm building AI-powered tools to automate my life with Claude Code, multi-agent systems, and whatever new shiny thing catches my attention.

Think Batman, except I'm not a millionaire and definitely don't wear a cape. Just sweatpants and too much coffee 😂

Fun fact: I once spent 3 hours optimizing a site to get a perfect 100/100 Lighthouse score. The client never noticed but still worth it.

Looking forward to sharing my experiments (and failures) with this community!

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Amruth Kumar M

Hey DEV! 👋 I'm Amruth, an AI engineer from India.

I write about applied AI engineering — retrieval systems, transformer internals, agentic AI, and evals. My running theme: demo ≠ production.

Currently shipping a grounded RAG + voice agent for Kannada literature (0.92 RAGAS faithfulness, sub-600MB RAM).

🟢 I'm actively looking for AI/ML Engineering roles. If your team is building real AI systems and needs an engineer who cares about latency, evals, and shipping past the demo stage, I'd love to connect!

First post drops this week. See you in the comments. 🚀

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OpsByAkash

Hello, DEV! 👋

Finally joining the DEV community! 🚀

I work mainly around DevOps, cloud infrastructure, and platform engineering, and I’m here to learn, share ideas, and connect with people working on similar things.

Looking forward to being part of the community! ☁️💻

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Dev Connect

welcome

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Marcelo Maia

Hi everyone! 👋

My name is Marcelo—a teenager passionate about how AI works and vibe coding. I’m currently working on a project called DeepSeek Code (I won't talk about it here, as this isn't the right place for it). I’m currently learning Machine Learning, and I like chewy food.

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Yahan final Welcome Thread post hai, ready to publish:

Title: 👋 Hello Dev.to Community! Excited to Join

Hi everyone! 👋

I'm excited to be part of the Dev.to community! I'm currently building TopPdfHub — a free, no-signup-required platform for everyday PDF tasks like merging, splitting, compressing, and converting files.

A bit about me:

💻 Interested in web development, PDF & document tools, productivity apps, and SaaS products
🛠️ I love building simple, useful tools that solve everyday problems without unnecessary friction
📍 Based in Lahore, Pakistan
🌱 New here — excited to learn from this community, share what I've learned building TopPdfHub, and connect with other developers and makers

Looking forward to engaging with your posts and hopefully contributing something useful along the way!

Check out what I'm building: [TopPdfHub link]

What are you all currently working on? Would love to hear! 🚀

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Abhiix0

Hey everyone! 👋

I'm Abhi, a B.Tech student and developer from India.

I'm here to learn, build, break things, and hopefully contribute to the community along the way.

Currently working with Python, AI, backend development, and open source. I'm also building a developer tool called Spawn to make repetitive Python project setup a little less painful. 🐍

Looking forward to learning from everyone here and meeting some fellow builders! 🚀

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Jaishil Khatri

Hello, I am Jaishil. A 2nd year AI-ML college student from India. The opportunity to learn and collaborate with other developers brought me here. I am no developer myself. But I am starting my journey today.

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Bob Taylor

Hi, I'm Bob a software engineer and architect who builds developer tools and AI systems. I'm currently developing Arid, a fast Python duplicate-code checker written in Rust, and Polaris, an AI-assisted portfolio intelligence platform.

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Buggaram Vignesh

Hey everyone! 👋

I’m Vignesh, a software engineer passionate about building interactive developer tools and computer science education.

Currently exploring WebAssembly (WASM), in-browser runtimes, and building CodePulse PRO — a 100% free interactive CS learning platform with AST visualizers and AI voice tutoring.

Excited to be here, learn from the community, and connect with fellow builders! What’s everyone working on this week?

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Abhishek Mondal

Hi, I'm Abhishek Mondal — a software developer based in Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India, who builds things the way I write commits: small, deliberate, and shipped often. I work across the stack — Python/Flask backends, JavaScript front-ends, and the occasional automation bot that saves someone an afternoon of copy-pasting.

My recent work spans learning management systems, CRM tools, resume/ATS tooling, scraping & data pipelines, and chatbots — most of it open-sourced on GitHub. I like projects with a clear "before / after" — a manual process that becomes one command, a messy dataset that becomes a clean dashboard.

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bingus-bongo

Hi everyone,

I'm a founder based in SF that started in decentralized cloud and are now building out tokengo.com for your serverless inference needs. We're one of the cheapest providers online due to our supply economics and support 99.9 SLAs! Come check us out!!!

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Wilbur Lindqvist

Hi everyone! 👋
I'm Wilbur, and I'm new here! I run my own tech community on Mattermost and also have a YouTube channel where I create tech-related content.
I'm an advanced Linux user and also work a lot with AI and automation. I'm always interested in learning more, sharing what I know, and connecting with other people who are into tech, Linux, AI, and content creation.
Looking forward to being part of the community and getting to know everyone!

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Yogeswar • Edited

Hey everyone! 👋

I'm Yogeswar, a CSE student from India who enjoys building things with AI and experimenting with full-stack development.

I'm currently learning more about AI/ML, LLMs, and multimodal AI, while working on a few side projects and hackathon ideas.

I’m here to learn from other developers, share what I build, and hopefully contribute to some interesting open-source projects along the way. 🚀

Fun fact: I tend to turn random ideas into projects before I fully figure out how I'm going to build them. 😅

Excited to be part of the DEV community!

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Sheshank Sidhu

Hey everyone! 👋 I'm Sheshank, a builder and full-stack developer from India. I enjoy identifying real-world problems and turning them into practical software products. I'm currently building ESOP Value Clarity, a product focused on helping startup employees better understand the potential value of their equity. Excited to learn from the community, share what I'm building, and connect with other builders!

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Mahad Ansar

Hey everyone, I’m Mahad. I’m a backend engineer mostly working with Node.js, TypeScript, PostgreSQL and AWS.

Lately I’ve been exploring AI coding agents, orchestration and developer tooling, and I’ve started documenting some of those experiments too.

Looking forward to learning from what everyone here is building 👋

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Adam Belton • Edited

Hello!

I'm Adam, a senior product engineer based in the UK. I'm currently between roles, focusing on building the next stage of my career in healthtech, social care technology and accessibility. Outside of that I've just released a product demo on my website for a side project called ThoughtForm, a conversational thinking workspace where an AI assistant helps you explore, organise and articulate what you think or feel. I'm here to learn, share my writing about how I think, and connect with other devs that enjoy building software that helps people do more for themselves.

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ZeroCost Tech

Hey everyone! 👋

I'm ZeroCost Tech. I enjoy building practical automation and AI projects using free or low-cost tools.

Recently I've been experimenting with self-hosted AI tools, WhatsApp automation, and ways to run useful projects on existing hardware without monthly cloud costs.

Looking forward to learning from the DEV community and sharing what I build!

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Ajay Varsan

Hey everyone! 👋

I’m a developer who loves building things, learning new tech, and figuring out why things break when they absolutely shouldn’t. 😄

I’m here to learn from the community, share what I discover along the way, and connect with other developers who enjoy building cool stuff.

Looking forward to learning, sharing, and probably debugging a lot of weird bugs together!

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Ajoy Deb Nath

Hi, I’m Ajoy, a Software Engineer with around 3 years of experience, primarily working with Java, Spring Boot, and backend systems.
I’ve worked across enterprise applications, developer tools, reporting systems, automation workflows, and data-driven applications, with a focus on building scalable and maintainable solutions.
I’m particularly interested in system design, databases, distributed systems, performance engineering, and AI/ML, and I enjoy exploring these areas through side projects and open-source work.

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str_int_float

Hi everyone, I'm str-int-float. I'm a hobbyist programmer who loves technology. I've built a lightweight Agent platform for small models running on personal computers, which helps them handle complex tasks more effectively. The project is open-source. I'm looking forward to learning from and exchanging ideas with all of you here, and growing together.

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Katsuhiro Yamakawa

Hi everyone! 👋

I'm Katsuhiro, an engineer from Japan. I've been writing technical articles in
Japanese for a few years, and I've just started publishing English versions
of them here.

Most of what I work on these days is the workflow around AI coding agents —
how to hand work to them without losing track of what's protected, and what
kind of documents are worth keeping when an agent writes most of the tests.
I also spend a lot of time in a terminal-only setup (NixOS, tmux) and
occasionally build small hardware things with a Raspberry Pi.

English isn't my first language, so writing here is partly practice.
Looking forward to reading what everyone's building!

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Mahad Ansar

Nice, I’ve been exploring a lot of the same stuff lately around coding-agent workflows and orchestration. Curious to see what you end up writing about.

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David Stewart

Hi, My names David Stewart, I'm a software developer. Big interest in Automation and AI, i've been an avid reader for years now, but have never signed up. only window shopped. though it was about time to create an account 💪🏽

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Dheeraj Akula

Hi everyone. I'm Dheeraj, a software engineer currently working on agent harnesses and a VS Code extension like cursor to accelerate developer velocity.

I got into Computer science because of my passion for games and started my career working on game engines.

Lately most of that attention has gone to harnesses.

Glad to be here.

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Bertrand Morel

Hi everyone! I’m Bertrand, founder of Edikka, a digital strategy and SEO/GEO agency based in Paris. I’m interested in AI, search visibility, web development, and digital strategy. Happy to join the DEV community!

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QuickForge.Dev

Hey DEV community!

We’re new here and excited to join.

We recently launched Quick Forge, 🥳 a coding app we built with one goal: make working with code simpler and more approachable.

We’re not programmers ourselves, which is actually what inspired us to build it. After about a year of development, we’ve opened our $10 beta and would love feedback from the community.

You can check it out at quickforge.dev if you're interested.

Either way, we're happy to be here and looking forward to meeting everyone.

Thanks for having us!

JT and Tony
Quick Forge

quickforge.dev

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Fábio

Hi everyone!

I'm new to the DEV Community and I'm really happy to be here!

I'm currently studying Systems Analysis and Development (ADS) in Brazil. I'm still at the beginning of my programming journey, but I'm really enjoying learning and building new things.

So far, I've been studying C, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, algorithms and programming logic. I've also worked on some Arduino projects using C/C++, including a small Arduino car project.

I'm also working on improving my English, so joining an international developer community like this is a great opportunity for me to learn both programming and English.

I'm looking forward to meeting other developers, learning from you guys, sharing my projects, and improving along the way.

Nice to meet you all!

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Leo Dan

Hi 👋 Leo Dan here.

Solo dev based in Asia, building browser-first audio AI in public. Currently working on ezaudio.io — vocal removal and audio cleanup, all in the browser.

1-person team, which means I spend a lot of time on the boring parts (deployment, support, billing edge cases) alongside the fun parts (audio DSP, prompt engineering, browser APIs).

I'm here mostly to learn from people shipping AI in production, and to write down what I learn along the way. If you're building something similar in the audio space, would love to compare notes.

Happy to be here.

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Tulsa Gangdev

👋 hello,
I am tulsa had a exp in php /my sql , java/sql server and after a carrier break learning Ai , python , Al/ML, TypeScript and React etc also drvloped 1 small project using a TYPESCRIPT/REACT , Git/github , docker and CI/CD.

Thank you 😊

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Elias Muse

Hey everyone 👋 Happy to finally be here.
I'm an AI music creator — I spend most of my days turning text prompts and lyrics into songs with an AI music generator, then editing them into something I'd actually want to listen to. My background isn't traditional music production; I got here by being endlessly curious about what these tools can and can't do, and just... not stopping.
Why DEV.to? Honestly, I've been lurking for a while and kept noticing that the people here explain how things work, not just that they work. As someone who lives on the creative side of AI but keeps bumping into the technical side (prompt structure, audio formats, little automation scripts to save myself time), this feels like the right room to learn in — and eventually give back to.
One thing I find genuinely fascinating: how much a tiny change to a prompt can swing the whole mood of a track. "lofi, rainy night, 85 BPM" and "lofi, rainy night, 85 BPM, slightly out of tune" produce two completely different feelings. It's turned me into someone who takes notes on adjectives. I now have a document that is, unironically, just a curated list of moods.
Looking forward to reading, asking questions, and sharing what I learn along the way. Nice to meet you all!

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Bidyut Mahanta

Hi everyone! 👋

I’m new to the DEV Community and excited to dive in! Currently learning and working on expanding my coding skills. Looking forward to connecting with everyone and learning from all your experiences!

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Aksa Fatima

Hi ,
I am aksa fatima a software developer and going to learn about agentic AI
Going forward, I want to explore and build more innovative and scalableproducts that solve real-world problems. I’m currently expanding my skills in AI, Generative AI, and RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation).
I’ve just joined DEV and going to publish my first ever Blog here have a look in it

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ADITYA SINGH TANWAR

Hey everyone 👋 I'm Aditya. I joined DEV Community while participating in the 10 Days of AI Voice Agents — Voice for Bharat challenge by Murf AI. Over the past week, I've been building 'Kisan Vaani' — a multi-agent voice assistant to help Indian farmers get real-time mandi prices, weather forecasts, and expert crop disease advice in Hindi. Excited to learn and connect with all of you here.

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Maki Vlach • Edited

Hello!

I am Maki. I got into the software development ever since the age of 10. I had multiple motivations back then - one of them being my father who was a hero to me. He was always able to repair the computer that I've broken by downloading free computer games, which was mind-blowing to me back then.

Another motivation was the fact that I loved playing computer games such as Heroes: Might & Magic III, WoW, etc. I also loved to watch the tv show Star Gate. I loved how they have managed to save the world by understanding a computer program minutes before disaster.

So I decided that I also want to save the world by helping others, as well as making my father proud and perhaps one day - become better. And it paid. The gift that was given to me by the universe started to pay off - persistence.

I spent years of studying on my own, creating projects, working for companies bigger and smaller and step by step becoming better in what I do.

At some point I have reached level where I can tell that I made by father proud and now - the other goal remains - make this world a better place.

Thank you!

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Alex Morgan

Hi everyone,

I build small, static, no-account web tools — most recently a calculator site (finance, health, unit conversion, that kind of thing), all client-side, no backend, statically generated. I got here because I wanted to write up a few of the architecture decisions that came out of building it — mostly around when a backend is actually justified vs. when it's just the default shape people reach for.

Looking forward to reading and sharing more here.

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Yann • Edited

Hi There!

I've been doing front-end stuff forever… I'm a big fan of hand coding CSS/HTML, but I've been dabbling in Claude code recently for TDD (and writing my PRs 🤣) and it's definitely sped up my workflow (and I've always hated writing tests 😅).

I run a web design studio by day, maintain an open source CSS framework by night, and put out a newsletter about CSS/HTML features based on Google’s Baseline once a month. I'm also working on a stealth startup right now… I'm not sure it's appropriate to link to all this here though, so I'll keep it mysterious 😁

Nice to be part of the community! 👋

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Thomas Casali

Hi everyone! I'm Thomas, computer science teacher at a technical high school in Italy by day, indie dev after hours. I build web and mobile apps for sports events and for my school, mostly solo, which means every lesson I learn is paid for exactly once and forgotten twice. Lately I've been working on fixing that second part: a memory system for my AI coding sessions, so what I learn in one project survives into the next. First article about it coming next week. Fun fact: some of my students find bugs in my apps faster than any test suite I ever wrote.

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Harshil Srivastava

Hello everyone,

I am Harshil, an engineering student who is focusing on learning skills and tools related to DevOps and Cloud.

Currently I am learning Networking, Amazon Web Services and Jenkins with having a prior knowledge of Linux, Git and Bash Scripting.

I am new to communities and stuff so please help me out if you can 😅. I had also recently started contributing in Open Source Projects (Like Ianvs).

If you are in my field any type of advice will be appreciated. Thank you for having me in this community. 😁

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Milton Quranda

Hi, I am a Software engineer & founder building Bright Canoe. With 28 years in the industry, I am Passionate about real-time web tech, AI integrations, clean developer UX, and shipping tools that save people time.

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Matheus Saar

Hi everyone! Matheus here, I am a mobile dev, software engineer student and in my free time I took lots of photos and ride my motorcycle. Looking forward to learn and keep up with the news and novelties about our professional subjects.

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Voolee

Hi everyone!

I build practical automation tools, browser extensions, and small open-source experiments. I joined DEV to share what I learn while building them. Most recently, I created a local C2PA Content Credentials validator using Google's Credentio library.

I'm interested in AI automation, open source, content provenance, and product engineering. Looking forward to learning from the community and connecting with other builders!

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ITInterviewCoach

¡Hola!
I’ve been working in IT for around 8 years and regularly interview with international companies. As a side project, I created a Telegram-based platform for technical interview preparation called ITInterviewCoach.
I’m currently working on growing it in both Spanish and English, and I’m still actively building and improving the project. Honestly, I’m really excited about it right now.
I’d like to keep that momentum going, and one of the best ways to do that is to connect with other developers, follow what they’re building, and exchange ideas and experiences.
Looking forward to meeting people here and learning from the community