Welcome to dev.to! 👋
Our last welcome thread was pretty successful, and it's grown a bit long. Let's get this going again!
Please introduce yourself to the community! You can start by sharing your favorite programming languages, what you're interested in learning next, or your latest and greatest side project. No rules, just make yourself at home! 😀
Leave a comment below to introduce yourself! ✌ï¸
Also, here's a random question to get you started: what's a non-dev thing you're doing lately?
Top comments (194)
Hello friends!
Looking forward to be part of this community! I'm kinda new in programming world, all I know is that one day i want to earn for living with my programming skills. Node.js is my focus for now and I'm loving it!
I'm from Croatia and English is not my native language. I want to improve my writing skills and i think this is good place for that! So when you see mistake in my text please tell me so i can fix it and learn from it! :D
Also if you have some advice regarding Node.js i would love to hear it!
Have a nice day you wonderful humans :)
Welcome! Definitely follow the node tag 🙂
Thank you, Ben! :)
Hello devs!
To be frank, I have to say that i haven't been programming seriously for quite a long time already.
Couple of years ago I was diving in scientific computing with fortran, matlab and CAE software. But that was something like 3 years ago.
Now I'm doing VBA time to time, bit of Python... But I'm trying to develop my skills and would like to get some fresh air and new infos. That's why I'm here!:)
Certainly the place for learning. Welcome!
Hello devs!
I have a love/hate relationship with ruby and an interest in go.
Current side project is containerizing all the things.
My non-dev activities lately is exploring my passion for making and art.
I know what you mean about Ruby. It's such a great language yet still can't do everything I want it to do. I just want to write everything in Ruby, but that's not really possible.
Hello Devs!
I'm sorta new(ish). About me? Well I'm a little weird, very tall, I make a lot of ridiculous things in both hardware and software. As for development I'm a software developer, working in Java and C# mainly. I also have interests in web development.
Enjoy your stay :D
Hi devs,
I'm happy to be here and hope to get some new ideas and refresh some old ideas. I'm a softwareengineer and I love rules. So it's not a surprise that I'm very interested in patterns and how they work and techniques to get around the nasty problems. Most of the time I write PHP. I love it for the possibility to get a result really fast without much programming overhead and I hate it for the same reason. PHP makes me understand the sentence "Just because you can, doesn't mean you should!" :D
I also had the chance to work in a 3-year-Java project, which was really fun. In my education at the univerity of applied science in Aachen (Germany) I wrote Python, C# and C++ as well and as a Web-Developer I have some experience with javascript, css and HTML (yeah, I know it's not a programming language :P )
When I'm not at the computer I play guitar in a band or read books, papers, articles or whatever comes to my eyes.
What's your band?
The band's called "Pedicle Screw". The music is a heavy rock- / metal- kind of thing. But it's a relatively new Band. We're working currently on our 6th song :D and we had two Gigs so far. But there's more coming...
Welcome! Congrats on graduating.
I'm no expert at all, but I once had to choose between learning iOS and web development. I ended up with web development mostly by chance, but I think the lesson I've learned (so far) is that it doesn't matter too much. What really matters is that you learn programming by doing one of them.
Of course maybe take my advice with a grain of salt since I don't know any iOS development. Maybe @kimberlypilbeam can shed some light?
Hey fellow devs!
I've been hanging out on The Practical Dev (dev.to? Ben, what are you calling this?!) more and more lately. These days I work as a web developer and hack on ASP.NET, C#, and JavaScript. I like working on front-end web stuff mostly. I've only been doing this for about three years, and I've already written my first blog on here. I hope to get more of my experiences as I grow as a developer on here.
These days, I'm getting ready for a second kid.
Yeah, we're going to figure out this naming convention soon enough... 😓
Hello devs!
Another web developer here, working in a small spanish company. I'm just learning Android development, and enjoying it a lot. As side projects, I maintain a friend's web and I'm starting with my future apps list.
I'm planning to post here something about starting side projects and building mobile apps, so if you're interested in reading that send me a message you I'll have more pressure and I'll have write it sooner :)
As non-dev interests, I have been reading a lot about minimalism, and trying to become more minimalist in my life in general. And starting to think about becoming vegetarian.. but important changes come better one at a time.
Keep writing so great dev posts!
I'm a vegan and can attest to the minimalist lifestyle it offers. It really limits my choices, and counter-intuitively makes me think more creatively about my food choices. That in turn makes me feel more free, interestingly enough.
Also looking forward to your Android dev posts. :)
Looking forward to your Android mobile development post!
Okay, I'll notify you when I'm done :)
👋🏽 everyone! I'm Parwinder from Chicago! Developer (everything web). Eagerly waiting for the day I convince myself to switch to Observables (from Promises).
When I'm not coding, I'm usually spending time with my 🐶 or binge watching something on Netflix!
Welcome!
@ben Thanks. Is there a thread to report bugs on the site?
This GitHub issues section is the best place for now github.com/thepracticaldev/dev.to/...
Hi everyone. I'm currently doing web development with Python/Django. In the past, I also did PHP (still love it). I'm also interested in web deployment, like Heroku and currently researching into deployment mechanism that we can use in house, like Flynn and Convox.
what's a non-dev thing you're doing lately?
I want to write novel or short story, but never got pass the first paragraph :D
Update:
Oh, I've also been working remotely in the past 7 years, so it also among the topic of my interest ;)
What's your novel going to be about?
I want to write on sci-fi and fantasy in Malay (my mother tongue) which I think still a niche. Not much good story I've found yet in this genre. So far what I have in mind is about life on mars, slap on with some politic to touch on issue with corruption, which a very sensitive issue locally and using mars as a background, allow me more freedom in tinkering with the issue.