Welcome Thread - v11

I'm not very proficient with any specific programming language yet

Aww I'm sure you're making great progress.

Good luck with React Native!!!

Lea Reimann 🦄 • Apr 12 '18

Thank you very much! :)

xDeveloper • Apr 30 '18

Hello world, my name is Mike this my first day joining you guy’s. It’s nice to meet everyone. Lea, I’m sorry but I hope the next time I can assist.

Hi Mike! Nice to have you here :) Have fun on your journey! What are you currently working on?

Blek Ulv • Apr 20 '18

Good luck, Lea!

thank you! :)

Carlos Fabara • Apr 28 '18

Hi, keep it up! web development is an amazing journey of constant learning. :)

I will! I think so too, but this is sometimes difficult but most of the time: so exiting :)

Mohammad Salem • Apr 30 '18

Good luck with React Native!!!

Thank you! :) I found so many tutorials and guides that I want to look at in the next few days and weeks - hopefully I will have time for it :o

Andre Barreto • Apr 20 '18

Go for it! Start a project and finished it is a great path to get proficiency.

That is very true!

Syed Zulqarnain • May 8 '18

Hi Lea, how are you coping with learning various languages and being at a "not very proficient" stage?

Lea Reimann 🦄 • May 18 '18

Let's say: I'm not really coping with it ;) It's confusing and overwhelming most of the time but as long as I have no pressure finishing things on a certain date (I can take the time I need for all the things I have to do/build - as an apprentice in my company) I can manage it. I know things won't be like this when I'm a senior developer but hopefully I will be more proficient in coding with various languages until then! I'm currently trying to focus more on some technologies/languages and this makes working as a developer a whole lot easier for my brain! Well, after all - it's quite the standard to use multiple languages as a web developer so I better start coping with it ;)
Are you proficient in any programming/scripting language? :)

Raul Guerrero Carrasco • May 4 '18

Hi!!

The last year i did a post in my blog while i was learning how to use.

If you have any doubt, just ask :)

Thank you for your response :) Would love to read that post if you'd drop a link :D

Lorenzo • Feb 13 '21

Hello! Good luck with your project

Demi Lee • Apr 10 '18

Hi guys, I'm a dev in Toronto who's been a dev.to lurker for a while. Finally decided to make an account. Excited to become a part of this community!

Awesome to have you!

Yay for Toronto! I was born and raised in Toronto. Go Leafs!

Bertoldi • Apr 25 '18

Hi from another long time lurker!

Donald Merand • Apr 10 '18 • Edited

Hi, I'm Donald, and I'm jazzed to have found such a supportive and diverse community of developers, on the internet no less!

Fun fact: I recently designed a password-generating app as a way to learn some basic Elm, and an accompanying Ruby Gem that uses Markov chains against a dictionary to generate words that sound right, but aren't usually real words!

Andy Zhao (he/him) • Apr 12 '18

Woah! Would love to see the dictionary app in action!

Donald Merand • Apr 12 '18

:) Well, I use it in the password app to generate "words that sound like English, but usually aren't English". The thinking being that you want a nice long password, easy to remember + type, but hard(er) to crack against a dictionary.

I also have a semi-secret API that I use to generate fake names for humans: robot.lab.explo.org/randomname/3 where you can substitute any number for 3 and get back that number of names :) You can also get JSON from it: robot.lab.explo.org/randomname/3.json. Handy!

And in general, if you have a dictionary (say, of Elvish words), you can make an "Elvish word generator" like this:

require 'markov_words'

generator = MarkovWords::Generator.new(corpus_file: '/path/to/elvish_words.txt')
# returns a random word
puts generator.word

Welcome welcome welcome!!!

Everyone is super welcome to contribute in any way, but one of the simplest ways to get started is to ask an interesting question in #discuss.

All are welcome and it is awesome to have you.

Víctor Adrián • Apr 10 '18

How many of we are in dev.to now? :D

Coming up on 70,000 registered devs. But many more lurkers who haven't signed up yet.

Víctor Adrián • Apr 10 '18

Whoa! Cheers! :D

Adam Hopkins • Apr 12 '18

Adam Hopkins here. I like to call myself a "solutions developer", but really I am a full stack dev that thinks highly of himself. Don't we all? Or, is it that I don't take myself seriously. One of them. Not sure which.

I am not a trained developer, although I have been doing it for 20+ years. Programming is actually my second career. I started out as an attorney, and practiced law for a while. All jokes welcome.

Python is my main language of choice. But, I am definitely a proponent of finding the right tools and languages to get the job done.

I am looking forward to meeting you all, and learning more about this community.

"All jokes welcome." Is legalese more opaque than software programming?

Adam Hopkins • Apr 19 '18

legalese == self.ego + 1

Niv Dror • Apr 12 '18

Hello! I am Niv 🤷‍♂️

Ben Halpern • Apr 12 '18

asalgarni • Jun 23 '18

Hay there Niv.

Liana Felt (she/her) • Apr 12 '18

¯\(ツ)/¯

John Copella • Apr 23 '18

Hello, long-time reader of the dev.to Twitter feed, and just popped in to share some thoughts on tools/tech/skills that would be good for new developers but maybe tend to get overlooked.

Have been a developer for a long time (since 1988) and have worked on projects ranging from manned spaceflight to mortgage loan portfolio analysis. I've had the occasional forays into development management, project management, product management, etc. but have always stayed hands-on with the code.

Hoping to share some hard-won wisdom and learn the same from others here.

Sarah Cohen • Apr 16 '18

Hello everyone!

I'm Sarah, a Computer Science major from NYC, and I'm excited to be here!
I love Java and I find algorithms fascinating to figure out and learn.

Right now, my biggest project is actually not coding, but putting together an all-women's high school, undergrad, and boot camp hackathon and pre-hackathon workshops. It's a ton of work, but I love being able to create an opportunity for female students at the beginning of their career get excited about comp-sci in a fun and supportive environment. (If anyone wants to check it out, the website is hackittogetherlcw.com and there are a ton of pictures on FB, facebook.com/hackittogether !)

I also would love to get more involved in open-source, and will soon be starting a remote internship doing just that, which is super exciting.

Looking forward to talking with all of you!

Hi Sarah. Love your hackathon idea! I hope it goes well for you!

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Waris231 • May 8 '18 • Edited

I like hacking and helping from others for hacking....good luck sarah

Haider Noor • Apr 14 '18

Hi everyone. I'm Haider (pronounced Hi there). I'm from Mozambique. I'm a webdev. Been coding for some time now mostly with JavaScript and react. I found this community through Twitter and got immediately interested because I just love these "techie conversations"

I hope I can teach as much as I've been learning from this forum.

Liam Norman • Apr 13 '18 • Edited

Hi! I'm Liam and I'm a software engineer at rhinoafrica.com and organiser of the PHP Cape Town user group. With experience working on monolithic systems, smaller SPA systems as well as API's. I have a passion for TDD, Laravel, CI/CD, and API Development. When not coding late into the night, I can be seen hiking table mountain or dabbling with anything PHP related. Mostly joined Dev.to to learn new things and try contribute to the community :)

Christian Chicoine • Apr 16 '18

Hey all,

I'm Christian, based in Montreal, Canada. I'm involved in software development since back the good old days of 5 1/4 floppy disks or before being geek was cool. :) I've done a lot of coding using a bunch of languages mostly Microsoft related (with the exception of PHP I also coded a lot). Today, most of my time, I'm a solution architect at a large international corporation in the automotive industry. But because of my love for start-ups, entrepreneurship and open source, I'm involved in many projects at the same time.

Beside IT, I have a degree in international trade and in photography.

I've join this community to meet new cool people and to help if I can.

Cheers!
Christian

Hi Christian. Welcome to another Canadian. Did you use the old floppy disk hack back in the day to turn a single-sided into a double-sided by punching a hole in the disk?

Christian Chicoine • May 1 '18

LOL. No. I never had one of those. I first had a 8086 PC and its floppy disks didnt need to be flipped manually. It was high tech. ;)

Ricky White • May 1 '18

Hi all,
I'm a new dev who has been playing around with code for fun on and off for a few years. I'm in a position where I can get stuck in and do it seriously.

I have got HTML/CSS/Python 'under my belt', and looking for the next step to take me from advanced beginner to a pro.

Tips welcome... Ha!

Nice to meet you all. 😊

Arik • Jul 7 '18

SQL would be useful if you want to store anything in a database

Ricky White • Jul 8 '18

Thanks. I recently made a start on this, actually. But appreciate your feedback 😊

Nino • Apr 30 '18 • Edited

Hi everyone,

my name is Nino and I've been a web dev since I bought my first computer magazine in 2002. Lucky for me, the issue focused on web development basics, HTML, and CSS. I was about 10 years old at the time and lived in a small town, population 10,000, in Croatia.

After becoming 18, I started working on and off as a developer, and then in 2015 I joined Upwork and started working full time while traveling the world, a la digital nomad (nomadlist.com/@ninoskopac).

Ever since I started in 2002 I've been trying to create a web app that people will love and use, but so far I've failed to do that. A year ago I launched Read2Me (producthunt.com/posts/read2me), which is a text-to-speech web app, and even though I do have more than 550 users right now, it's not making any money, so 8 months ago I decided to venture into the B2B market and create a widget inspired by Facebook Embeddables - an HTML/JS snippet that you can just copy paste into your website and it'll create podcasts out of your blog or news articles in an instant without any backend integration.

What I've done last week is I've created 11 demos (by integrating my service into existing news publications), recorded videos of myself giving a walkthrough of those 11 demos (a video for each demo), sent those demos and videos to companies, and so far I've failed to receive a single response (or even anyone clicking on either the demo or the Youtube link).

What I'll be doing in the next month is following up on those emails and reaching out to more, creating a homepage for the B2B product, automating the onboarding, etc. I haven't even figured out how much I want to charge for it yet. If I can get 5 companies to pay me $30 per month (for say, 5 hours worth of conversion time) during May, I'll be a happy camper, cause all I need right now is a little bit of validation.

Here's a couple of demos:
Standard design, British accent: widget-demos.read2me.online/examin...
Minimal design, American accent: widget-demos.read2me.online/chiang...
Feature list/API: github.com/read2me-online/read2me-...

Also, here's a video of me giving a walkthrough of the product, for entertainment purposes: youtu.be/dWx_KMsmdpo (i'm thinking of doing one where I just scream and meow next).

SDD • May 3 '18

Brawo!

Angela Riggs • Apr 18 '18

Hi! 😄 I'm a QA Engineer at a tech agency in Portland, Oregon. I've recently started writing more about my experiences and growth in my role, in the hopes of expanding what that looks like at my company, and helping create some insight in general around what QA can be!

SaaSha Pina • May 8 '18 • Edited

Hi everyone!,

I'm SaaSha, I found out about dev.to mostly by lurking tech blogs haha. I've been developing for about 2 years now. I've done a lot of self learning, and I'm currently 4months out of 6months in an intensive webdev bootcamp. So far I've worked with HTML, CSS, Javascript, React, Redux, a little React Native, NodeJS, and mongodb.

I've also been enjoying playing around with pure css images and I'm pretty proud of my latest; trivial, but I'm still proud: codepen.io/saashapina/full/wjWVvb/

Nonetheless, I'm super passionate about learning new things, and I'm happy to have discovered a new dev community!

I look forward to meeting anyone new! :)

Dan • Apr 12 '18

Hey folks,

my name is Dan Untenzu and I am a Webdeveloper from Dresden, Germany. 👋

I work with the two PHP Projects TYPO3 & Symfony. And I'm interested in DevOps, Git, Open Source and PHP in general.

Looking forward to share knowledge and ideas. 💻🤝

Javid Akhter • Apr 27 '18

Hi All, I am SDET working on mobile app automation. I use Java and I have started learning JS. Found this forum through Appium forum and looking forward to learn with you all!

Hope you all have a fantastic day :)

donaldCull • May 4 '18

Hi everyone,

My name is Don and i’m in my last year of IT at university in Townsville, Australia. Over the last couple of years I have been able to learn Python, Java, Javascript, PHP, SQL as well as some HTML and CSS. In my spare time I enjoy mucking around with my Raspberry Pi, doing online courses in new languages and learning about different areas of IT. I’d like to start contributing to some open-source projects but I am unsure where to start.

Thanks

Janeé Peña • Apr 22 '18

Hola!

I'm Diana, my autonamed-nickname is Janeé. Actually, my main job isn't involucred with development anymore but I'm still involucred with code. Later I'm gonna explain this and if we are lucky you can find interesting some subjects I discovered about be a developer.

English isn't my native language so I'm gonna try to do my best.

Hope you eat some tacos today :)

Sam Tsai • Apr 19 '18

Heyo,

I'm just trying to keep it real out here in the 'Burgh. Honestly just started following dev.to on twitter and now I'm here. Love to stay up to date as I've been developing for over ten years... Starting to catch the case of O.L.D. but I'm hip... I'm cool...Mostly front-end, but isn't front-end practically full stack now (don't @ me).

Anyways, yinz devs are fun to follow!

Zeynep Düzgün • Apr 21 '18 • Edited

Hi friends!
I'm Zeynep, a web developer for over a year now. I develop sites with using Angular, Spring and so on. I aim to improve myself more in terms of productivity, creativty and quality of code. Moreover, I'm interested in Machine Learning thing. It really makes me excited but I feel that I don't really work hard to understand and develop one of them too.That's why I came here to start from scratch with full of motivation!So, I would be glad, if I can make you guys excited to learn new things too! Also your help will not be bad :)

Have a nice day!

Chuks Festus • Apr 23 '18

Hello all,
am Chuks, a UI/UX-frontend hybrid. Right now am trying to focus on mobile-web(mostly PWA), web performance, serververless thingy and web animations (i love animations). so i decided to join this awesome community and learn from you all

Valentin Pearce • Apr 24 '18

Welcome !

Chuks Festus • Apr 24 '18

Thanks Val

Chet Williams • Apr 29 '18

Hi everyone, I am data center engineer and technical writer. I like building things and writing about building things. The tech writing side got me into html, css, and recently API documentation. The DC side got me into Linux and Python. I am looking forward to engaging more and reading through DEV.

Ben Halpern • Apr 29 '18

Welcome!

Jermaine • Apr 21 '18

Hey,
I'm Jermaine, a web developer in London who came across dev.to last week. I have taken the challenge of joining this group to improve my technical writing skills. Looking forward to knowing and learning from you.

Ewetumo Alexander • Apr 27 '18

Hi all, am a Software Developer with full stack interests. Am currently experienced with Javascript, Goland, Ruby on Rails and am currently in the process of broadening my stack with C#, Machine Learning, PowerBI and more.
I actually joined due to a initial post by Micheal in Looking For Workplace Experience.

But later found out that Dev.to was much more and it's definitely a community i would love to be part of. More so, having stuck without work even after much interviews where most seem more interested in Senior level developers, it can rather be a hard time being in the middle, which makes it great to find community there to help and support you.

Best Regards to all.
Alex.

P.S: Am available for any full-time/contract work.

Abu Sakib • Apr 16 '18

Hi everyone!
I'm Sakib. I'm an Electrical and Electronics Engineering student, but very interested in computer science and programming. I first get to know what programming is when we had to a CSE minor course.

And then I first felt the magic of programming and working with computers...

I started programming with C and now learning Python. It's been really exciting from since then and I hope I can learn many interesting things being here...

Cheers!

xelaflash • Apr 13 '18

Hello Community,

I'm Alex, 31 years old, i've been working in banks and i was fed up of the way of doing things (old, slow, inefficient).
I've always been a bit geeky and a tech enthusiastic, so i decided to learn to code.
After fewcourses followed online, i saw that in order to elevate my coding i needed to learn in a more academic way.
Therefore, i decided to enroll in a bootcamp, in my home country in France.

Experience was awesome, i love coding :) that's for sure.
Totally, do not regret this change and the investment.

I finished the bootcamp few weeks ago, now i've joined my girlfriend in a caribbean island 😎.

I've a ton of article to read (mostly from dev.to 😁) a lot of reharse to do with my bootcamp course, a portofolio website to build, a e-shop project for friend and practice practice and again practice coding.

Then, hopefully i will be able to find some freelancing project.

Thanks for this site, i've been reading articles before my bootcamp even without understanding all it helped a lot.
Now, even more helpfull and usefull to elevate my game.
Thrilled to be part of the community.

Wish you all the best and please keep posting great ressources 👏🏼

Stack : HTML5, CSS3, Ruby, Ruby on rails, ES6 MySql (bootcamp stack).
After being comfortabl with these, i would like to learn a JS framework such as React and/or Angular (any advice??)

PS: Sorry for my writing, i'm not writing so much in english, i have to practice and put the corrector in english 😝

Wish you all the best and see you around here.
Cheers.

Alex

Bienvenue Alex! Bonne chance dans vos projets à venir!

Gbenro Selere • Apr 11 '18

Hi all,

I'm sammy, I'm a pretty okay developer proficient with C#, Angular and .NET.
I love my screen, would probably need glasses soon lol :)
I'm currently exploring Java and Other Javascript frameworks/libraries (React, Vue) for personal development. I think I get the basic concepts of React but I'm not fully convinced I should leave Angular4+ behind yet, so I plan to re-do some old projects of mine using React.

Anyway its nice to meet you all :D

Richard Guay • Apr 14 '18 • Edited

Hi,

I've been programming for around 37 years. My first program was on a PDP11 when I was 16. I've been reading and enjoying the articles on Dev.to. I've been learning Vue.js lately and really love it!

Currently, I'm a full time missionary in Thailand and doing freelance work on the side to pay extra bills (college for eight kids, medical issues, etc).

Richard Guay

Serge Lachapelle • May 5 '18

Old fart here... 30 years in this business... from assembler to c to c++ to management then back to web programming... lol Never gets boring...

I am mostly interested in full stack now with Laravel / Vue ... I do dabble like every one else in Node here and there...

Nabil Ashraf • Apr 16 '18

Hi everyone!
I'm Nabil, a Full Stack JavaScript Developer and CTO at Chum Chum Digital Agency Pvt Ltd. I've been coding web and hybrid apps for about more than 2 years. Currently, I'm learning React. Hope to meet people with similar interests. I provide outsource solutions to different clients and companies abroad and local. If you have anything that needs to be made, discussed or designed, give me a shout!

Thanks.

Afekhide Gbadamosi • May 8 '18

Hello Guys!
I'm Aef, a UI/UX Developer for a Hub in Nigeria. I am proficient in CSS and HTML5. Trying to get a footing in Javascript in terms of UX with frameworks like Semantic UI and YOOtheme's UIkit3. Currently learning ReactJS, learnt a bit on Angular. Have a background in PHP and Python only for introduction to programming purposes. Hoping to learn C# in the future for cross-platform desktop and mobile games/apps. Hoping to contribute to the community one way or the other. Working currently on a ReactJS/Express App. Happy to be in this community. Cheers!!!

Cipto Hadi • May 5 '18

Hello. everybody!

I'm Cipto, from small town Lamongan, Indonesia. I have great interest on coding, but have not actually made much money from it. No IT experience on a company. Only two small web projects.

Having experiences mostly on Laravel/Lumen and VueJs. I've created small instagram clone using Lumen(rest api, jwt) and VueJs (using Vuex, vue-router, module-based). Now I am learning firebase. Thanks

Leo • May 6 '18

Hello World!
(I'm a traditionalist :)
My name is Leonid Breido, I'm a programmer from Saint-Petersburg, Russia. C, C++, C#, JS, R, Perl (now not very often :). Started with Borland C++ 1.0 many years ago. Still working. What else? I hope to learn something new and to be useful in discussions.

Kurt J. Strosahl • Apr 26 '18

Hi,

I'm Kurt. I'm a sysadmin / systems engineer. I work in high performance computing, doing everything from cluster management to networking to storage. I'm somewhat fluent in Python, have almost ten years of experience with Linux, and have experience with things like ZFS, MPI, Luster, the Intel KNL systems, GPUs, etc.

Joshua Ferrell • Apr 13 '18

Hey all, I’m new to the site. I am a 36 year old in the midst of a career change. I am about halfway through a bachelors degree in software engineering. My main programming interests are fullstack web development and mobile development. My goal is to work full time eventually doing freelance development or publishing my own web and mobile apps.

A random personal thing is that I am into tabletop gaming. I look forward to getting to know everyone and learning!

Josh

Stanislav Polimac • May 3 '18

Hello, world! My name is Stanislav Polimac. I live in Belgrade, Serbia and I am a database mole recently entering data science field and extensively learning Python. Someone shared an DEV article on linkedIn and one read article later - here I am, hoping to find more and possibly add few in time...

Rajesh Babu • May 7 '18

Hi, I am Raj. Been a web-dev for the last 6 years. Looking to be part of the open source and the blogger community. :) Tired of working on secret client projects all my life. I have also started writing on Medium. Can I share my articles here? Or do I have to write fresh?

Florian Wartner • May 6 '18

He everyone!

I’m florian, a web developer from Lübeck, Germany. In the past I was working for a company called ABOUT YOU (one of the biggest ecommerce-startups in Europe) as php lead developer for the MOVE Tool, which is kinda like a small internal Facebook for the company. Now I’m working as a senior php developer at a small agency called Parrot Media in my hometown :)

I’m very into the Laravel community, hosting some open source projects such as Phpmap and I love to work on backends! ❤️

Kevin Wu • Apr 14 '18

Hi, everyone here, so happy to have an account of dev.to community, I am a new FE developer from Beijing China, trying to improve my English and looking forward to share knowledge and ideas with you guys :)

Bertoldi • Apr 25 '18

Hi. I'm Giacomo and i live near Venice, Italy. I'm a (proud) rails developer but just from a year an a half. Before that i did all sort of things, none of which coding related. Maybe I'll talk about that sometime :)
I was probably going to sign up anyway, but it was sad puppy dog who finally got me!

James • May 6 '18

Hi everyone! I'm James and I'm here because I saw Ben Halpern talk today at the Codeland conference in NY! I started learning JavaScript and basic web development in 2016, am finishing up a 10 month full time bootcamp for full stack JavaScript, and have been focusing on React and Redux lately, but I know there are so many things (like making your website super fast!) that I want to learn. Excited to be here!

Gilbert • Apr 29 '18

Hi everyone. I am Gilbert Torchon and I love to code! I am from Port-au-Prince, Haiti. I am a freecodecamp.com member and I code almost everyday and I just did my first hackaton this month! Heard great things about dev.to so here I am

Eric Cheatham • May 4 '18

Howdy,

I'm Eric, a SRE working on moving away from operations and back into my true love; turning stackoverflow into production code ;)

My true love is python but that doesn't mean I can't use whatever tool best fits the job. Figured I'd actually log in and post for once rather than just only reading this to avoid doing actual work. :P

Raul Guerrero Carrasco • May 4 '18

Hello everyone!

I'm Raúl, I'm Spanish, and I'm new here.

At this time, I'm working as a Full Stack developer, mainly focused on the back-end part. But I love coding and I want to learn different technologies.

I came to this community looking for a way to learn how start with VueJS to improve my skills.

Currently im looking for change in my career and learn new things can help me on my future.

I want to have good moments here, learning from everyone and helping everyone.

P.S. I'm sorry for my English, I'm also learning it.

See you!

alberto casado • May 4 '18

Hi there everybody! i'm Alberto, i'm just a starter in python programming still learning the basics and trying to code on every chance i get, i got here from a post about PyCaribbean on a FB page of Dominican programmers and what i love about python and the reason i start learning is for my curiosity on machine learning.

Cristofer Santos de Souza • Apr 25 '18

Hi all!

I'm Cristofer, a web developer from Brazil. I read lot of stuff in dev.to and now finally create a account to comment sometimes.
Excited to become a part of community and have fun with comments and code :)

edoxtator • Apr 17 '18

Hi Everyone

My name is Ed, but everyone calls me Doc. I'm a Software Engineer with a 30+ year career. I've worked on just about every 'big' platform available (mainframe, mini computer, PC, web) and in all aspects of the SDLC. My current focus is with Python, data engineering. Despite my years in the business, still love writing code, and making new cool things!

Akap Azmon Deh-nji • May 3 '18

Hello everyone!
My name is Casy Azmon, i am an application software developer. I developed desktop, real time web application using Java, JavaScript, Node.js and PHP. I am a B.tech holder in computer sciences and i have been a developer for about 4months now (need more experience). i started learning node.js lately i am enjoying every bit of it. Actually love developing mobile apps but have never done one before because of my limited knowledge in android programming...
Two things making me very happy today:
1). Getting to Know this awesome community and
2). I just got an email say from audacity saying

"Congratulations!

Dear Casy,

We’re very happy to offer you a Google Africa Challenge Scholarship to the Android Developer track! We received applications from many talented and motivated candidates, and yours truly stood out."

cheers!!!!

Micheal • May 4 '18

Hi guys,
My name is Micheal and I am a front end developer. I am not fluent in the programming languages I use yet but I can work some magic with them in my daily work life. I am very much interested in React and I hope to learn it in no distant time. I will look forward to getting some support from everyone and the same goes for me in every little way I can.
God bless us all!!

Mufaddal • Apr 13 '18

Hi, I am React and Spring boot developer. Working in Careem Engineering ( ride-hailing giant in MENA region ). Currently, I am learning Golang. I found stumbled upon one article on Reddit and joined this community. Looking forward to learning with you all !!

Nickie Muigai • Apr 20 '18

Hello Devs,
I am Nick, tech enthusiasts. I am a student with special interest in web development, I poke around web technologies, not proficient in any. Have done small projects for front-end development.
I will appreciate your advice on my question.."Should I continue learning bits in web development languages or stick in, say frontend , and perfect on the technologies used and later learn the backend".
Thank You in advance

Sanjay Shanbhag • Apr 22 '18

Hi all,
I'm Sanjay, and I've been into web development for like three years now. I'm also a Computer Science Engineering student who builds websites in my free time. I recently learned about PWA's and I'm working on building a couple of them as part of the learning process. (Dev.to is an awesome PWA by the way!)
Well, I have been a lurker here for a very long time now, just procrastinating every time I thought of actually signing up. But here I am :)
I have to say, this is an awesome community! Excited to finally be a part of it.
Have a good day everyone!

Alasdair • Apr 12 '18 • Edited

Hi everyone. I'm Alasdair, an experienced developer/architect/consultant from Scotland. I've just stumbled across the site and can honestly say that I'm really enjoying the quality of the blogs and posts.

As well as working with large organisations I'm also in the process of creating a startup focused on simplifying the creation of microservices and making them accessible to developers and quick to start. If anyone would like access please just shout and I'll set up an account.

Look forward to reading more and speaking to some of you soon.

p.s. anyone else in the UK / Scotland?

Regards,
Alasdair

nminnov • Apr 22 '18

I am N Minnov. Life-long student of software development and technology in general. Love to listen and read more than talk or write! Observation, curiosity, introspection and contemplation have helped me become a better developer as well as a better person!

Enjoy deep and philosophical discussions on any subject!

@nminnov on Twitter.

Zack Borschuk • May 2 '18

Hi Everyone,

I'm Zack, a mostly java web dev using Angular 5 and MongoDB. While I have a Bachelors in CS, I feel that my base understanding of programming is severely lacking, much like imposter syndrome. I can do many things, but I have no idea WHY I'm doing them or HOW they're working. So, I'm here to get back to basics for now, and hopefully, in the future, contribute back to the community. Thanks for your time!

James Governor • Apr 13 '18

Hi everyone!

I'm James. I'm actually not a developer, I am an industry analyst but I spend most of my time trying to understand the choices developers make and the tools they use.

I will probably be pretty much a lurker, but hopefully might be helpful to someone here at some point. I know a lot of context, stuff and people.

Zack Borschuk • May 2 '18

Hi everyone,

I'm Zack, a Java centered web developer currently using Angular 5, nodejs and MongoDB. While I have a CS degree, I feel that my basic understanding of programming could be vastly improved. I know how to do certain things, yet, I've no idea WHY I'm doing them or why they work. So, I guess you could say I'm here to get back to basics, and hopefully, in the future, contribute. Looking forward to growing here!

Mahmoud-Mohamed-Elgamily • Apr 27 '18

Ok dev will introduce myself :3
Hello everyone ;D
I'm Mahmoud junior frontend developer , but i love python and i want to learn about data analysis and machine learning ,
currently i am preparing my self to dive into the data analysis .

i found a link some friend shared on facebook about this site and i liked it the moment i joined <3

so i hope i will find a group of people shares the same interests and we can encourage each other :D

Kushagra Sinha • May 2 '18

Hello Devs

I'm Kushagra, a mobile app developer by profession. I currently work with iOS(Swift) / React Native apps.

Love to code and learn new stuff which are cool and useful. Looking forward to loads of learning & sharing in this awesome community :)

Hussnain Fareed • Apr 29 '18 • Edited

Hi all!
I'm Hussnain, a web developer and Ai Enthusiast based in Pakistan. I try to code in my free time. Love to work on new ideas. Excited to be a part of this community.

Hope you all have a nice day :)

Raihanul Bari Tanvir • Apr 16 '18 • Edited

Hi All!
This is Tanvir from Bangladesh. I have been doing API and backend development using Spring Boot for over a year. Dev.to is an awesome community of developers and I would very much like to be a part of it.

Scott Hannen • Apr 11 '18

Hi,

I'm Scott Hannen, a software developer for the past 15 years, although anyone who's done this for a while knows how meaningless a number of years is. I write the best code I can using mostly C#, SQL, some JavaScript, and I'm continually learning pretty much the same stuff as anyone else who uses those languages.

I like to write about what I learn. I'm obsessed with the ripple effects of seemingly insignificant coding decisions and how they can accumulate to make our software more or less maintainable. I write my own blog, but I'll see if it's worthwhile posting some content over here.

How did I not know about this site? I found it by googling "Scott Hanselman."

I'm looking forward to reading and writing.

Scott

Joe Richard • Apr 11 '18

Hi all I am Joe Richard | Coffee enthusiast, Android Developer
An android application developer having a strong understanding of the Android app development life cycle with 5 years of experience in the development industry.

Specialize in developing Mobile applications, primary focus will be on the development of Android applications and their integration with back-end services.

Jayme Edwards 🍃💻 • May 1 '18

Hello folks :)

Thanks for this amazing community, I just found it recently.

My name is Jayme Edwards, and after developing software for just over 20 years, I keep running into frustrated and burned out developers.

Even though I got promoted several times and was successful, I started burning myself out in the first decade of my career before I got into consulting.

So I started a YouTube channel last April to try and help developers with soft skills, and having a healthy mindset for their career.

I'll be lurking around reading articles and commenting, and sharing videos I think are pertinent occasionally.

Most of my videos are in the 10-20 minute range but I had some subscribers recently ask for shorter excerpts you can find under the #HealthyDevTips playlist.

If you have any questions, or suggestions for future topics you'd like me to cover - hit me up here or in the comments on YouTube.

We're all learning this together, and though I've found some things that I think will really help you have less stress and keep growing - I'm still learning things all the time!

Thanks again for having me!

Jayme

PrashanthKR7 • Apr 23 '18

Hey fellow developers,
I'm Prashanth. I am a front-end developer with 4 years of experience. I like new challenges and love to solve problems using code. Not a great coder though ;p . I am here to learn from all of you and better myself and try to be helpful to others like me.

Stefano • Apr 28 '18

Hi,
I'm Stefano, in few words, I'm just a geek ;) working with different technologies and languages. Fell in love with functional languages (F#, Scala and a bit of Haskell) and Bitcoin years ago, arrived here cause I discovered Elm and found some great articles here about it.
Now digging into Elm, try to get rid of (a lot) of legacy js code and moving a monolithic Ruby app to a more distributed (and possibly functional(ish)) system.
Happy to be here and hope you will have a nice day.

/Stefano

Fernando • Apr 28 '18

Hi, It’m Fernando. I’m a lawyer who used to be a CS student and now it’s looking to return to CS again.
I started with Java 2 years ago and I’ve been playing with some Algorithms and Data Structures books and courses (I’m a mentor in Coursera atm), web development, android and ios, kotlin, basic C programming, some interest in Python and Go and probably learning a lisp language (possibly either Scheme or Clojure). I’m even up to learn assembly. I need more time!! 😂

Karl Parkar • May 16 '18

Hi All!:)

I’m Karl Parker. I’m a mobile app developer living in Singapore. I am a fan of technology, innovation, and web development. I’m also interested in programming.
Specialize in developing Mobile applications, primary focus will be on the development of Mobile applications and their integration with back-end services.

mbsyaswanth • Apr 29 '18

Hi all!
I am currently in 3rd year of b.tech in computer science at Andhra University, visakhapatnam.I like and prefer self learning by practically implementing my ideas specific to the technology. I need to do some internship and also project for my academic 4th year. So, I want to know on what I should be doing my project and learn about it in this summer. I think this community is going to help me. Thanks in advance.

Narasimha Prasanna HN • May 1 '18

Hello there! I'm Prasanna from Bangalore, I am a full stack developer (self learnt). Currently I'm trying to craft something with Flutter, it is an awesome UI tool I've ever seen, I've also worked on React stuff, Python and Machine Learning!
Here is my GitHub link : github.com/Narasimha1997
And my website : Narasimha1997.github.io

Thank you all, I'm glad to be a part of this community!

Qarchli Mouad • Apr 11 '18

Hello everyone, i'm Mouad, a non CS background but really interested in tech. I've learnt some front web dev so far and am currently working with Java both SE and EE. I've been such a lurker during my first steps here but now decided to contribute in any way and anytime I can. I've decided to write my first tech related article and did it so far. It's about RSA encryption. Here's a link to it. Any comment or feedback is welcome, indeed, from your feedback i'm going to learn. Thank you very much community.

Belga • May 4 '18

I am a 13yo "game developer" and I make games in my spare time for fun and usually for game jams. I make them with C# in Unity and I always try to learn new tools. I made once a wesite with 3 webpages to troll my friend and since then I started to dive a little bit into the web development world. I am always looking for ways to improve my web dev & game dev skills!

Mariana Lungu • May 8 '18

Hi everyone!
My name is Mariana and I'm a Full Stack Web Developer, or at least that's the title I go by :)
Been working as a Web Developer for the past year with little interruptions. I started to learn to code couple years ago, however, I officially quit my full-time job back in 2016 and went to GA and completed Full Stack Web Development Program. It's been an adventure so far, can't complain. The only complain I have is that "I'm always trying to learn more, and the more I learn the more I feel like I don't know!"

Syed Zulqarnain • May 8 '18

Hello! everyone. I am a fresh developer. I have some experience in Android development and recently started learning react native. I have also built few desktop applications using Java and MATLAB. currently, I am also working on a web development project using WordPress and Themler.
I joined this community because I wanted to get in touch with people of same trade as mine. I am also planning to start a blog because I believe the best way to learn is to teach regardless of how much you know.

Joris • May 1 '18

Hi All,

I'm Joris, a developer from the Netherlands. I've been coding for a while now (mostly sites, full stack) and currently specializing in embedded system and software development.

I'm always working on a ton of side projects, but never have the time i'd like to finish them!

I'm looking forward to be a part of this community.

If you have any questions about code, living in the Netherlands or anything else, let me know ;)

drupallan • May 7 '18

Hello, my name is Daniel I'm from Chile, I have been coding for two years now, as a student and I love it. The thing is the more I learn the less I think I know, I'm happy to be here and I hope I learn a lot from you guys, thank you.

Yegor Ius • May 1 '18

Good reads on this site!
Thanks for the great idea of having these intros. It's good reading through this threat to get a sense of the folks here.
I'm a test engineer. Looks like there are a few test and QA engineers here as well! :)

Eric Hoaglin • Apr 30 '18

Hello everyone,

My name is Eric, I've been programming since the 6th grade, got started with HyperCard/Talk (does that date me? lol). I next pushed my skills forward with using REALbasic (now Xojo) and eventually moved on to Objective-C and now Swift. I do some website management for my tribe (full front-end and back-end dev) using Bootstrap with jQuery to get things looking good, or at least functional (haha). I also program as a hobby using Swift making apps and games, I have 2 apps on Apple App Stores (1 on macOS and 1 on iOS), which I've actually made a few dollars!.

My main passion is native app dev for mac/iOS but the web dev stuff I do is fun at times (frustrating with the browser differences, I'm looking at you IE/Edge!).

My current day job is a temp position at my tribe doing filing in our realty office and web site work (as a contract). Personally I'd love to get a remote job that pays decent, so that I can continue to be with my Grandpa (he's 85) and help pay bills as well as continue to be devoted to some other obligations I have here at home.

Recently I started the freeCodeCamp front end developer certificate program so that I could increase my knowledge about web technology and to help build my portfolio. Over the years I've also learned several other programming languages, mostly all C based (once you know one C based language you pretty much know them all, you just have to get use to the different idiosyncrasies) so to list them all I could say that i know the following languages with (varying confidence levels), in no particular order:

C, C++, JavaScript, Java, Visual Basic, C#, Objective-C, Swift, Ruby, Xojo/REALbasic. I've probably forgotten a few but that's a good list I suppose.

Hope this wasn't too long of an intro or TMI.

Regards,

Eric

Naomi V. • Apr 29 '18

Hi people!
I'm Naomi, a Systems Engineer student. I got here by curiosity and by the interest of learning more. Currently testing the waters with python and reinforcing HTML5+CSS3 knowledge.
It's a pleasure and for all the ones that are reading this I really hope you have a nice one and that all the red points/marks/errors in your programs disappear. Or at least you get to know why is happening and fix it.
Bye

Nitish Singh • Apr 21 '18

Hii guys,
I'm Nitish from India, a web developer and an engineer graduating this year. Very much excited to be a part of dev.to!! :)

P.S. two days back I got rejected in an interview and I was told that I'm not technically sound and they asked me just 2 questions in technical round!!!

Cipto Hadi • May 5 '18

great story. Would you mind sharing the 2 questions? Thanks

Narasimha Prasanna HN • Apr 30 '18

Hello! I'm Prasanna HN, from Bangalore, India! I'm very happy to be a part of this community!

Here is my GitHub profile :
github.com/Narasimha1997

And my website : Narasimha1997.github.io

Brian • Apr 11 '18

Hello World!

I'm Brian, I've been a dev.to lurker for quite some time and I finally felt confident enough to be able to participate and contribute to the community!

I'm currently a cyber security student but I'm trying to expand my network as a freelance web and mobile developer and I'd appreciate and advice along the way.

I've mainly managed wordpress sites in the past but I'm hoping to be able to contribute to more open source projects (I have a soft spot for open source hehe) and participate in bug bounty programs.

Aside from wordpress my favorite/main go-to's are React (Recently started playing with it and I love it!), JavaScript, and Python and I hope to be able to add to the discussion on any of the topics or exploit development even.

That's about all I can think of! I'm horrid at introductions but I'm excited to be here none the less! :)

Eric Hoaglin • Apr 30 '18 • Edited

Hello everyone,

My main passion is native app dev for mac/iOS but the web dev stuff I do is fun at times (frustrating with the browser differences, I'm looking at you IE/Edge!).

C, C++, JavaScript, Java, Visual Basic, C#, Objective-C, Swift, Ruby, Xojo/REALbasic. I've probably forgotten a few but that's a good list I suppose.

Hope this wasn't too long of an intro or TMI.

Regards,

Eric

Billy (Ace) • Apr 30 '18

Hi everyone!
Billy here and I'm glad to have found this community. I've been passionate about programming for a long while now and I'm constantly in search of development. Primary language is PHP but moving on to Python for new projects. Looking forward to collaborate with you all!
Cheers

Rafael de Azevedo • Apr 16 '18

Hello there! I’m Rafael, a recovering graphic designer trying to grasp how to articulate clear Javascript expressions, write standards compliant applications that perform well and give significant technical contributions to forward a free and open Web. Currently getting to know React and the whereabouts of the view layer.

Akap Azmon Deh-nji • May 3 '18 • Edited

Hello everyone!
My name is Casy Azmon. I am an application software developer. I developed desktop and real time web applications using Java, JavaScript, Node.js and PHP. I am a B.tech holder in computer science and have been actively participating in web application development for the past 4months now. I started using nodejs lately and i am enjoying every bit of it. i love developing mobile applications too but have never done one before due to my limited knowledge in android programming.
This two things got me very excited today:

1). Joining and Introducing my self here and
2). Just got and email from Udacity saying

"Congratulations!

Dear Casy,

We’re very happy to offer you a Google Africa Challenge Scholarship to the Android Developer track! We received applications from many talented and motivated candidates, and yours truly stood out"

Am very happy right now to get started with android..
Cheers and have a nice day!!!

Lauren Prentis • Apr 23 '18

Hey all!

I'm Lauren! I'm a relatively new developer in the computational chemistry field. I code in python and C++ but I'm not super well versed in them yet - but it's a process. Glad to be here and have such a supportive community. Looking forward to all the great discussions to help me procrastinate my work!

Happy coding

Juan Carlos Mejías Rodríguez • May 3 '18 • Edited

Hi everyone! A friend of mine told me about the Realtime App contest, and here I am with no idea of what Pusher is :) , but excited with the idea of learning something new. Who knows! Maybe I'll send a project by the end of May. Happy hacking!

MK • May 2 '18

Hi All,

I am MK and iOS development engineer for more than 6+ years now. I am good in Swift, iOS, iPhone programming and in app development.

I have good analysis skill and programming skill but often take long times to complete programming task. Reason is to try to be perfect and do heavy lifting. :)

Also, I can understand and explain complex topic really well but some time I will forget everything. :(

Thanks,
MK

Zack Borschuk • May 2 '18 • Edited

Hi everyone,

I'm Zack and I'm a web developer by day mostly using java, moving towards Angular 5 and Nodejs along with MongoDB. I'm here because even though I have a Bachelors in CS, I feel I lack a basic understanding of a lot of programming concepts. I know how to do things, but not WHY or HOW it actually works. So I'm hoping to get over my imposter syndrome I suppose by joining here, and in the future, contribute back. Thanks for your time!

Julian Vickers • Apr 23 '18

Well, I've been registered a few days so I might as well make an attempt to be sociable.

My Name's Julian and I am a beginner at... well, just about everything. Without going into too much detail I've found myself, ALMOST through a series of happy accidents, in the position of building a very small tech company for the locals in my immediate community. I love to talk about it - maybe too much, so I won't get into the circumstances here.

I am REALLY stoked to see a community like this... the atmosphere here is very supportive and friendly - I'm sure I'm not the only one that feels like I have to have a master's in CS before I can ask a question on Stack Overflow and dislikes the impersonal "cutting culture" nature of most reddit groups.

I very much look forward to learning here. I'll probably listen much much more than I speak (see the above "new at everything" situation) but I appreciate the opportunity to stop in and say "hi" - I DO know how to do that.

Thank you to all the contributors and to the creators of the site, and I'm back quiet!

vaibhavkhetrapal • May 1 '18

Hi All,

I am a DevOps Engineer, working with Chef and related technologies.

Currently, I am working with creating cookbooks for PaaS offerings for our Private Cloud such as MySQL (standalone + cluster) etc.

In addition, my next task is to come up with an SDLC approach with integrated CI/CD using Jenkins, Git (GitHub) and Artifactory.

Glad to join this forum.

Thanks,
Vaibhav Khetrapal

Laurie • Apr 12 '18

Hey guys, I'm Laurie a jack of all trades mid-level software engineer and polygot. Ben's recent post on the Stack Overflow conversation encouraged me to make an account. I enjoy learning new things and helping beginner coders alike! Happy to be here.

Yuval Khachatryan • Apr 30 '18

Hey everyone.
I am Yuval, a mathematician who likes to program in his spare time.
I have some experience with python and C++ and teaching myself .NET programming right now (C# and F#).

Have a nice day!

Djordjije Matic • Apr 16 '18

Hi geeks,how are you all doing ? I just stumbled out of nowhere :) was reading some post when someone "threatened" me to make acc,and so here i am

Joe Hobot • Sep 18 '18

Dobro došao.. :)
(Welcome here..)

Palash Nigam • Apr 18 '18

Hi guys,
I'm Palash. I'm a CS undergrad from India and an open source enthusiast. I'm an aspiring developer who frequently contributes to open source software in order to learn software development. I recently made a cli tool to generate .gitignore files for projects written in any language. Would love some feedback on it.
Also its great to be a part of this community.

Letícia Freire Carvalho de Sousa • Apr 30 '18

Hi, guys!
I'm currently a computer science student and I've already completed a computing technician. I'm trying to figure out which path career in computer science I'll follow and to improve my coding skills, especially in C/C++, but I also love python <3

I'll be glad to learn more about this community!

Prabesh • Apr 15 '18

Hello All,
I am a hobby developer now. With over 15+ year in IT, I used to develop code and do programming in Java.

But for the last 5 years been on the management side. Since I still have the passion and interest on programming I am currently doing laravel and AWS projects.

Excited to become a part of this community!

Andrew Rohne • May 1 '18

Hello.

I'm sort of a developer. I'm an engineer and urban planner by college degrees, but I've been doing programming in some way/shape/form since I was 7 (and wrote my first program on a Commodore 128 - 10 PRINT "HELLO WORLD" / 20 GOTO 10 :-D).

My job is part programming and part data geek. My team and I build and maintain a travel demand model, which is a system used to forecast transportation needs and conditions in the future. We use a mix of software/languages to do this - Cube Voyager (proprietary program) does some of this, and there's a lot that is in Java.

We primarily use R to work with data inputs and do analysis that ultimately goes into the model, and I've built a few websites using PHP and Javascript to display data and help us work with our data. I've also been working in Node.js quite a bit to develop a system to poll some permanent traffic counters as well as trying to improve the public's access to our data (I work for a government agency, so we share what we can).

I also homebrew beer and run.

Anastasia • Apr 12 '18

Hi everyone :)

I'm Anastasia, a senior undergrad CS student at a small university. I'm graduating in December and am figuring out what I want to do in the CS world. I'm interested in working on accessible/assistive technology and have varied experience in different parts of CS--web dev, software engineering, back-end/db, microprocessors (just programming, not building :P), etc. I'm most proficient in Java/back-end stuff, though web dev is also super fun. I'm in an AI class right now but I feel like a lot of it is going over my head, haha.

I found this community through Twitter, and thought it was time to actually start an account since I'm on here a lot anyway!

Mitul Patel • Apr 11 '18

I'm an accomplished Website & Mobile App Consultant and founded company, ProtonBits, in 2012. ProtonBits is a fast growing website & mobile app development company.

We're very proud of our wide portfolio including the recent bitcoin apps developed for two separate international mobile industry clients.

ProtonBits is a team of highly talented Website Application Developer and Android developers supporting the US & european market as well as a global customer base. Foreign markets continue to be an important source feeding our dynamic growth.

We have broad experience in a variety of industries such as bitcoin, automotive and m-commerce. We love to cooperate and build relationships with start-ups in addition to working with established enterprises.

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Archi711 • Apr 23 '18

Hi all!
I'm Arek, I'd call myself a webdev. I love JS, maybe because I don't know it well enough... Anyway, my biggest passion od creating - that's why I code. I'm happy to become a part of that awesome society!

ogrotten • Apr 15 '18

A reddit post brought me here. Neat site.

Gotta just say, tho, the image viewer doesn't jive with the rest of the site.

/me shrugs

Andy Zhao (he/him) • Apr 18 '18

Welcome!

I agree about the image viewer; it would make more sense to have it be a modal pop up or something eh? (Disclaimer: I work at dev.to)

ogrotten • Apr 19 '18

a modal would be perfect. It's the base expectation these days I think to have a modal with gray overlay, then escape to make it go away, with an option for new tab.

Nicole Peery 🌵 • Apr 30 '18

Hi everyone! I'm Nicole, a self-taught web developer and lover of all things digital marketing, blogging, and WordPress. I used to make websites for fun when I was a teenager, but I wasn't encouraged to pursue a career in development because it wasn't a big thing back then. (Showing my age here 😂)

I went to school for graphic design and business, and worked in healthcare database administration for 8 years. In late 2017, I decided to make a career change into web development. I have HTML and CSS down and I'm currently working on learning JavaScript.

Fun fact? I'm from Indianapolis, IN, USA but I recently sold my house and most of my stuff and moved into an RV. I now live in beautiful Tucson, AZ, USA.

Nice to meet all of you and I look forward to learning from you.

Michael Porter • Apr 26 '18

Hello, I'm Michael and I'm trying to make the transition to becoming a software developer. I've come to programming a little later in life and I love it. I've taken courses from Udacity and I graduated the Firehose Project's full stack developer course last year. I'm working on a traditional CS degree in the mean time and reading everything I can get my hands on. I've got a portfolio page at muddybootscode.io