Welcome Thread - v11

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Welcome!

1. Leave a comment below to introduce yourself! You can talk about what brought you here, what you're learning, or just a fun fact about yourself.

2. Reply to someone's comment, either with a question or just a hello. 👋
   

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Comments

[Ben Halpern]

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]

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

[Ben Halpern]

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

[Víctor Adrián]

Whoa! Cheers! :D

[Donald Merand]

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)]

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

[Donald Merand]

:) 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 

[Lea Reimann 🦄]

Hi all!
I'm Lea, a web developer in training for over a year now. I'm not very proficient with any specific programming language yet but I can use some and do so in my day job. I try to code in my free time too but there are often too many distractions :P My next project is a React Native app, even though I haven't used React a lot yet (wish me luck!)

Hope you all have a nice day :)

[Ben Halpern]

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 🦄]

Thank you very much! :)

[Andre Barreto]

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

[Lea Reimann 🦄]

That is very true!

[Blek Ulv]

Good luck, Lea!

[Lea Reimann 🦄]

thank you! :)

[Carlos Fabara]

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

[Lea Reimann 🦄]

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

[Mohammad Salem]

Good luck with React Native!!!

[Lea Reimann 🦄]

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

[xDeveloper]

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.

[Lea Reimann 🦄]

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

[Raul Guerrero Carrasco]

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 :)

[Lea Reimann 🦄]

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

[Syed Zulqarnain]

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

[Lea Reimann 🦄]

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? :)

[Lorenzo]

Hello! Good luck with your project

[Demi Lee]

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!

[Ben Halpern]

Awesome to have you!

[Colin Principe]

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

[Bertoldi]

Hi from another long time lurker!

[Mitul Patel]

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[Tobias Fuchs]

Hey guys,
I'm from Germany and working at a digital agency as a Backend Developer :)

[Martin Delille]

Hi! My name is Martin and I'm a senior developer in C++/Qt!

[Scott Hannen]

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]

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.

[guido dimasi]

Hi guys,Ciao.
I'm a .Net Developer from Italy, lurker for a while maybe an active user in the future.