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Welcome Thread - v12

Hey there! Welcome to dev.to!

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  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.

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Amy Codes

Hi y'all! My name is Amy. During the weekday, I'm a systems software engineer and occasionally a conference speaker. Day to day, I work with tools like Kubernetes, Docker, and Go. I love all things distributed systems! On the weekends, I spend my time making Youtube videos: youtube.com/AmyCodes.

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Steve Klassen (They/Them)

Like you need an introduction. #HighFive

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Amy Codes

highFive

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amostatts23

Hey Amy!

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Andrey Galchevski

Hi there, Amy.
Great YouTube channel you got there :)

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Rob Dodson

Heyo!

My name is Rob and I work on the Chrome developer relations team. Specifically I work on the topic of accessibility. I also make YouTube videos! 😁

youtube.com/watch?v=HtTyRajRuyY&in...

If you ever have an accessibility question, feel free to give me a shout 📣

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Jess Lee

PS you can embed youtube videos with this syntax!
{% youtube HtTyRajRuyY %}

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Rob Dodson

Awesome, thank you!

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Jess Lee

Ahh awesome, welcome!!

Do you work with @ginader at all?!

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Rob Dodson

Yep! We both help run accessibility trainings 🎓

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alīna

Hey everyone!

My name is Aly and I am so thrilled to join the crowd! I am cryptocurrency enthusiast and programming geek. I am always looking for experience sharing, so that is what brought me here, I am looking for experiences! Currently I am working on project called Bitcoin Flip Trading game, that combines my passion and abilities. I am keen on to share my experience about developing an app. I can't wait to share my experience with you! :)

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Ben Halpern

Welcome welcome welcome!

If you're new you still have plenty of time to enter the Pusher contest!

🙌 🙌 🙌 🙌 🙌

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Briana Dacoscos

Hey! My name's Briana. I'm quite new to development (completed a coding bootcamp back in December 2017 and now working as a developer in the Salesforce platform). It's been a crazy, wild ride on the #strugglebus since my decision to shift careers... but I love it!

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vhorayarif

Hi. Briana.i am learning python, R and SQL. I am planning to change my career in python coding field
But my bachelor degree in chemistry. Do I need bachelor degree in computer field to get job in coding field. I appreciate your time and your value advice.

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Andy Zhao (he/him)

Hey vhorayarif, I'm not Briana but I decided to get a job in programming without any experience in it. Short answer is that you don't need a degree to have a career in programming (or data, from what you're saying).

I've worked with computers and played video games for a long time and was familiar with tech, but not in a software-oriented way at all. I learned to program on my own for a bit before enrolling in a coding bootcamp, and eventually got a programming job. My take is that it takes a decent amount of luck, but you have to work hard in order to get to the point where luck can help you. Sounds like you're on the right track. :)

Here's a great article about it, from someone more experienced than me:

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vhorayarif

Thank you Patrick

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vhorayarif

Sorry andy.

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Andy Zhao (he/him)

All good 👍

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Yaakov

Hello everyone!

I've been following @thepracticaldev on Twitter for a while, I've been loving the shared discussions and posts, and I have finally given in to the fake comment and signed up.

I'm looking forward to learning and sharing in this warm and fuzzy community.

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Ganesh Siva • Edited

Hello Everyone!!

Dev's Awesome articles pulled me to this place. Let me enjoying it...

I have been writing codes past 5 years. Especially in the area of Laravel PHP, Vue JS.

Learning Docker, Kubernetes, DevOps..

Looking dudes who masters in Laravel and VueJS..

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BERRAMOU azz-eddine

Hello everyone,
I'm Azedine software engineer, from Morocco.
I'm working at void.fr as Drugal developer.
I'm new here I found Dev.to page on facebook, I like it and I start to read articles.
I really like this community.

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Steve Klassen (They/Them)

Hey Azedine! I love the void.fr domain. Two-letter TLDs are awesome, right?

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BERRAMOU azz-eddine

Yeah, it's awesome. A little bit creative.

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deji adesoga

Hello everyone. My name is Deji. I'm new to programming(9 months). I started with php, but I've delved into the world of javascript. I'm currently taking an online course on javascript,but I would like a suggestion on how I can improve on javascript apart from the online course I'm currently taking.

I studied business administration in school, so it's been quite a transition for me. I practice everyday in the hope that I'll get a developer job within the next 5 months. That is the goal I set for myself.

I'm also a writer, I write sports articles when I'm not coding. It's good to be here.

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Seunghoon Choi

Hi guys!
I'd love to be a member of this warm community!

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Ben Halpern

Great to have you!

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Tarek Bohdima

Hello !

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felicityfmn

HI! I am a developer working in SAP at the moment dealing with UI5 in the front end, gateway/backend in ABAP and CDS. In my spare time I make abusive chatbots on Slack API and I'm trying to learn how to make them on twitter. I like to muck around with CSS and UX since aesthetics aren't overrated enough in my opinion. I mess around with drawings and animation as well! My current obsession is making an OCR webapp work to make company expenses reports easier. This will prove that I am actually valuable to my company and not just a frustrated artist who wants to code.

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Ben Halpern

My current obsession is making an OCR webapp work to make company expenses reports easier.

Sounds aw some!

Welcome to the community!

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Kwaku Eshun

Welcome 😊

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Ryan Sharkey

Howdy!

Currently working in Ruby on Rails and stumbled upon this community via @thepracticaldev Twitter account.

Looks like you have a bunch of really knowledgeable and friendly developers here.

-Ryan

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Steve Klassen (They/Them)

How are you liking Ruby on Rails?

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Ryan Sharkey

I have been at it for about 9 months now and have successfully completed two new projects. It is tremendously dev friendly.

I had the pleasure to go to Railsconf this year in Pittsburg and I was blown away at the amazing community of people all working to improve this framework.

I have found my home for now and I am loving it.

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Elliot Derhay

Hello

I started following DEV on social media before I knew what it actually was. I'll probably mostly be a reader (as I am on social media), but this does look like a great and fun place to get into discussions and begin writing posts.

As for what I do, I currently work within the WordPress realm. The most recent things I've started learning include Vue and React (to see which I like better), and Laravel more recently. I do still have a ways to go in learning to work with SPA-type projects, but it's been fun so far.

I was also learning MeteorJS for a while, though I haven't yet found a specific need for it -- as fun as it is to work with.

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Elliot Derhay • Edited

I guess I should mention which I like better of the 2 front-end frameworks.

I'm leaning towards Vue currently, but I do see what makes React attractive to other devs -- specifically, being able to keep logic and markup together for a lot of different purposes.

Coming from the "no mixing HTML and JS" side of things, it's been a little a bit hard to adjust to mixing the 2 (even if JSX isn't really JS + HTML), but I'm at least more open to it now.

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Joris

Hi all,

I'm Joris, a dev from the Netherlands. I've been building sites for quite some time now and currently specializing in embedded software development.

I'm looking forward to being part of this cool and welcoming community.

If you have any questions about web dev, embedded systems and low level programming, living in the Netherlands or anything else, let me know!

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Panagiotis Peikidis

Hello there,

I'm Pek, a game developer in NY.

I've been into programming since before high school and been doing it professionally for the last 8 years. Currently I'm mostly doing Unity 3D consultation.

The Practical Developer has been an inspiration to me. In fact, I'm currently running a curated programming newsletter named Morning Cup of Coding which I believe a lot of developers here would like. I share programming articles that focus on learning something new and very technical on a daily basis.

Somehow I missed the transformation to dev.to, but now I'm here and looking forward to participate in it :)

-pek

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