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Welcome Thread - v14

dev.to staff on July 24, 2018

Hey there! Welcome to dev.to! Welcome! Leave a comment below to introduce yourself! You can talk about what brought you here, what y...

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CharlotteTusset

Hello everyone, I'm Charlotte, I'm currently doing a 6-months bootcamp to become a web dev! I ended up here because I want to learn more and read more about tech news, languages such as PHP, JS, Ruby, etc. By the way, I'm looking for a traineeship in Amsterdam to start in December! My favourite non-coding hobby is probably music (not playing, more gigs and listening)! Cheers!

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Tom Hazledine

Hi Charlotte. I think there's a strong correlation between having an appreciation of music and being interested in code. My degrees were in music, and now I'm a developer. I used to think I'd had an unusual journey, but I keep meeting people who've come into the industry the same way!

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jose-torres-chang

These may be spam, but can't avoid replying on your comment, I was a musician for 15 years, leave it couple years ago to start software development, glad to hear that there are more people like me. People always seems to be shocked about my career change.

Cheers!

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Steven Torrence

Fellow musician recently turned developer here!

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Dovy Paukstys

Musicians make the best devs. I’ve seen it again and again.

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Damien Cupif

Hey Charlotte, welcome to dev.to, I am also new joining the community :) I hope your dreams will come true in finding your internship in Amsterdam! I love listening music too, what is your favorite? Cheers and good luck learning!

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kip • Edited

Hi everyone, I'm Kip, I don't like to comment very much because I dont have the good knowledge and experience to do that the most of the time and my english is bad too, but I'm trying actually. I'm feel better reading the amazings entries that exist here, the save button is my best friend ! Thanks everyone for share their experience, tips, advices, knowledge, guides with all, is all that I can say with total confidence. BTW I love 'Friends' TV show, I had to say.

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Ger Breen

Hi kip
Good to know about the save feature, will look into site now.
Also I had a friends T-shirt from the studio in NYC when I was in school and it was one of the coolest with the new York skyline, have not thought of that trip in years. Thanks kip 😁😁

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JZ

Hi Kip - Friends is by far one of my all time favorites! :)

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Ben Halpern

Thanks for being a great part of the community Kip!

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Touseef

I had to reply to u just because u said u love FRIENDS tv show, I am a die hard fan myself :)

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Mayur Patil

Hahha.. F.R.I.E.N.D.S πŸ˜ƒ

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X &Y

Hi everyone, I'm Osama not "bin ladin", I'm currently trying to learn C++ cause I'm computer science student "2nd semester" and I need some help, my favorite movie "interstellar" TV " person of interest" Music "X&Y" By Coldplay, thanks bye.

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Osama.getLastName() != "Bin Ladin"
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1chan • Edited

Hi, I also like β€œperson of interes”!

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Yoric

Hi everyone, I discovered dev.to through Hacker News. All the articles I read were a pleasure to read.

I'd like to enter such a community to share thoughts, news, tips and tricks about programming.

I am a 40 yo developer from France, but I'm currently living in Asia with my wife and our baby (she's from Philippines). We traveled through China, Thailand, Vietnam and Philippines so far.

Tech gadgets i bought (and love):

  • Inmotion V8 Unicycle
  • DJ Mavic Pro drone

Drama I watched:

  • Hana Yori Dango
  • Signal

US series I watched:

  • Dexter
  • Breaking Bad
  • Walking Dead

Anime I loved:

  • Monster
  • Elfen Lied

Books I am reading or read recently:

  • 12 Rules for Life An Antidote to Chaos
  • The Obstacle Is the Way
  • 100 ways to motivate yourself
  • Autobiography of a Yogi

Sports I love

  • Table Tennis
  • Tennis
  • Trail running

I wrote my first article: Remember why you love to code

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kip

Hacker news is a good site to explore and get amazing info!

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Ogechi Ike

Thanks for sharing your article! I like Dexter, Breaking Bad, Psycho Pass, Black Lagoon, and Atlanta myself.

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Ben Halpern

So great to have you. Great first post.

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Angel

Oh Monster is a great series! I love it! I want to see it again.

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Jaybhatt216

code geass > other anime
for me

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Nitin Srivastava

Hello Everyone, I am Nitin. I am a Software Engineer by qualification and right now running my own software company. I have good experience in the eCommerce area. I am looking forward to build up my knowledgebase and at the same time will try to contribute to the community.

My hobbies are - painting and cartooning.

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Wesley Randolph

Hey Nitin, I am really looking into the eCommerce space right now with one of my current businesses. I believe it will be the best addition to grow at this point. Welcome to dev.to

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DT

Hi everyone. I’m David. I’m a web developer based in Accra, Ghana (West Africa). These days I code mostly in javascript (node.js with express.js). I’m here for the great articles and discussions that always teach me a thing or five. Favorite non-coding hobby would be music. Rap music mostly but I’ll give anything a try.

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Jermaine

Good to have you here David. Any companies in Ghana working with Node/Express?

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DT

Hi Jermain. Yeah a number of startups (like mine) are. Many that come out of the MEST incubator. Not many of the bigger companies though.

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Angelique Barth

Hi Everyone, I'm Angelique, I finished bootcamp(full stack web development)about a year ago. Im having trouble with JS and hoping someone can recommend a link or any advise. I do have enough experience creating websites, worked with Github, heroku, Id, Xd, Sketch, HTML, CSS and backend - Ruby/Rails. Im also looking for an intership in New York. Looking forward to chatting with all of you.

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Mikias Abera

Hi Angelique. Have you used freeCodeCamp? I found their challenges really useful in levelling up my JS skills.

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Angelique Barth

I heard about it, but havnt tried. Will look at it now. Thanks!!!

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Muhammad Ahmad • Edited

If you would like to do a complete course on Javascript, Codecademy is a good place to begin with. They have a task-based learning system. They make you implement every concept you learn before moving on to next one. It really helps in understanding the concepts.

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Jess Chandler

Hi, Angelique!

Wes Bos has a fantastic short piece on javascript with 30 little projects to show you how it works. It's called javascript30.

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Nick Taylor • Edited

Yeah check out @wesbos ' JavaScript30.com. He also has a great free course thanks to Mozilla on CSS Grid. Check out cssgrid.io. If you enjoy listening to podcasts, Wes and Scott "El Toro Loco" Tolinski have a great one called Syntax. And lastly, he did an AMA on dev.to a while back that might interest you.

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Jordan Husney

Hi. I'm Jordan. I'm the co-founder of Parabol, an open-source SaaS application for conducting on-line retrospectives and other meetings with your team. I was inspired to join this community by @andreasklinger 's tweet sharing dev.to went opensource. I enjoy writing software for multiplayer collaboration: I love building the tech that makes building Google-docs easier. I work a lot with GraphQL, extending it for pub/sub state distribution.

Fun fact about me: after starting an office-less, fully-distributed company I'm having a hard time imagining ever working in an office again. I value the flexibility and focus over the social atmosphere.

Fun second fact: the late musician Prince used to live with my parents, and my dad wrote a book about the experience

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Ekim Kael

Welcome!
I'm interested in your experience in starting a business without an office. I hope we'll have a chance to talk.

Feel free to share all this with us

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Jordan Husney

Happy to speak! I'm likely to go out on paternity leave any day now (another exciting thing going on in my life) but feel free to write at jordan@parabol.co and we'll set up some time when I'm back.

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Tori Pugh

Agree about being office-less, once you leave that social environment it's difficult to want to go back.

Welcome!

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Cory Swainston

You are an interesting guy. What exactly do you mean by office-less? My jobs have had varying amounts and degrees of office

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Jordan Husney

You're too kind. Thank you.

We all work remotely. Currently there are 5 of us:

  • I'm in Los Angeles, CA
  • My co-founder is in Brooklyn, NY
  • We have a developer in San Diego, CA
  • We have another designer and developer in Dallas, TX
  • And a designer in Zagreb, Croatia

We work hard to make it work. Having the personal flexibility to work when we want, where we want is important to us. We work on 3 different teams, Growth (Marketing and Sales), Product (Design, Implementation, Support and Testing), ExCo (Finance, Legal, and Human Resources). One key is having a fixed cadence for all of our teams. We start each week with a Structured check-in meeting to discover if any of us are blocked on anything and setup ad-hoc meetings if we need to jam together. If something gets real harry, we might fly to visit one another. But that happens maybe 3X per year.

There are a growing number of these sorts of companies: Invision, Zapier, Hot Jar, and so many more.

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mfoman • Edited

Just became 23, reading implementation of DDD. Looking for connections, friends, foes and rivals! Hit me up, I want to trade knowledge. #HappyBirthday

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Tim Smith

What tools/technologies do you like to use?

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mfoman

My development environment is a mix/match of VSCode w/ vim and docker(compose).
I learn/use whatever is expected of me, or when new tech comes out(right now a laravel/react stack).
I create a list of what i'd like to explore like "kotlin" and "reason".

What takes up most of my time now is reading about domain-driven design and microservices.
And I do like to read theory/patterns more than I like new libraries and other tech hype(because there's something new everyday).

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Tim Smith

Nice! I played around with Laravel and built a web app with it. It was kind of cool. I just went with Vue to keep things simple. I prefer React and I’m learning Node and Express and then I want to rebuild the app using that stack.

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mfoman

Laravel intergrates well with Vue as well, so no wonder!
At some point I will try to make something in Vue, but feel I like i don't have the time for it at the moment.

Also a part of the reason is I've yet to try frameworks such as GatsbyJS/Next.js which was developed with reactjs/nodejs in mind.
They focus more on server-rendered and isomorphic components in which I find interesting/confusing.

And I'm about to get in the mindset of Reasonml, the new language also built with React in mind.

Btw, if there's anything I can help with don't shy away from asking - I feel I learn the most by interacting with people other coders.

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Tim Smith

I built my portfolio site using Gatsby and the NetlifyCMS. It's pretty cool. Gatsby actually doesn't interact with a database. It just creates static files on the HTML build and those sit on the server, so I liked it a lot when I was starting with React. It essentially allowed me to build a React app with "dynamic" information but no back-end. If you want to check out out, I put the links to the site and the code below.

I liked the idea behind laravel, but I prefer Javascript to PHP so I want to get into Sailsjs or something like that. It just creates an MVC architecture for the Nodejs app. Sailsjs is built on top of Expressjs.

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JZ

πŸ‘‹Hi everyone, for the past couple of months I've been digging the articles and resources here; great work! I'm a growth marketer at Dropbox where I work with email and notifications to improve our activation process for new Dropbox Paper users. Where my email marketers at? :)

Non-coding hobby?
Hmm... I really enjoy bio-hacking nutrition. I'm always game to talk about it.

Cheers

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Peter Kim Frank

Hey JZ, welcome to the DEV community!

I'd be really interested in learning more about emails for growth marketing, on-boarding, re-activation ("we miss you"), milestones, etc. Do you know of any resources that would be a good start for me to start reading?

Also... I'll bite (pun?). Care to expand a bit on your bio-hacking efforts?

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JZ

Thanks for the welcome, Peter.

Some of my favorite and go-to resources are:

  • reallygoodemails.com/ (tons of ideas for email content and design; as well as interviews)
  • jwegan.com/ (fantastic resource for growth marketing)
  • Hacking Growth (really good book to read on building the thinking behind growth marketing)

Hahah - nice pun. One of the bio-hacks I've come to implement and adjust is the incorporation of bulletproof coffee in the morning. I usually drink these on days when I'm intermittently fasting. Awesome recipe - 1 tbsp MCT oil, 1 tbsp grass-fed butter or ghee, 1 - 2 cups of coffee. Keeps me pretty full through dinner.

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Peter Kim Frank

Just bought a copy of Hacking Growth on Amazon. Will check back in after I read it πŸ‘ŒπŸ½

I'm compelled by the idea of Bulletproof coffee (and keto) in general. I'll give it a look.

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Mahesh

Hello Everyone, I'm Mahesh, I'm a Mechanical Engineer by education. I'm a budding developer(a complete noob :P) and I want to connect with the experts in the industry as well as my peers to learn from them to be a good Software Developer. My other hobbies are Reading(Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Mythology), Watching Movies(Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Mythology).Cheers!

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Ryan Palo

Hi Mahesh! I'm a mechanical engineer too! Welcome to Dev.to :) Let me know if you have any questions or need anything. Hopefully you find some good articles -- and maybe even share your own!

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Mahesh

Hello Ryan! Thrilled to know that you too are a Mechanical Engineer :) I have been following your articles and they are awesome! Oh yes! Now I know that you are a mechanical engineer, I won't hesitate to ask questions when in doubt or whenever I am stuck ;) Your articles are a great help for beginners.

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Ryan Palo

That's awesome, I'm glad my articles were helpful. I'll try to come up with more! And definitely feel free. I'm always happy to try to help :)

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Mahesh

Thanks a lot. As of now, I'm just a newbie, I know a tiny bit of basic python. I'm trying to learn automation using python as my entry point to the field. I will go through your articles, learn and try to start my own automation project. I will definitely ask for help when stuck.

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Ryan Palo

It sounds like you might really enjoy Automate the Boring Stuff by Al Sweigart. It's free to read online!

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Massimo Regaglia

Hi! I'm Massimo, I'm from Belgium and I'm a almost brand new in the dev community.

I'm actually following a 6-months bootcamp in web dev. I like to learn new stuff and develop new skills.
Previously I was creative/art director in several advertising agencies. But after 8 years to work in advertising I wanted to do something else , so here I am...
During my free time I like coding (of course :-)) and I like to play music (electronic stuff), running, bicycling, ...
(Sometimes my english is shitty don't blame me it's not my mother tongue)

Cheers!!

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Tori Pugh

What are you learning in your bootcamp? What bootcamp is it? Hey if you can speak another language your already a step ahead. Welcome!

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Rina Schwartz

Hi everyone,
My name's Rina, and I'm here to learn more about coding. My goal is to become a fullstack developer. I'm doing some pre-bootcamp programs now. I seem to have become addicted to JavaScript.

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Nick Taylor

Hi Rina, welcome to dev.to. πŸ‘‹

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Rina Schwartz

Thank you!

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Ruzanna Boryan

Hi everyone! My name is Ru and I used to be a psychologist. Half a year ago I have decided to learn web development and now I'm here)) I live in Russia and I also hope to improve my English by reading posts here and writing some.
Now I'm learning JS, HTML/CSS and reading about jQuery :D
Wish me luck) I do really like it!)

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Md Abu Taher

Great!
So what is your goal for learning web development? Like what motivated you to move away from being a psychologist? Or, are you learning so you can do something for your psychologist works? :)

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Ruzanna Boryan

Hi!) I worked with children for two years as a psychologist and now my main goal is to figure out how exactly I can teach them programming languages using funny games. That why I'm learning now)))

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Md Abu Taher

To be honest, that is one of the greatest goals. I really appreciate how you want to shape the future of many people. :)

What has been your struggle so far with your goal?

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Ruzanna Boryan

Thanks!)
Well, the struggle is pretty hard for me =) It's unusual to start thinking differently
Now I have learned about html/css and learning JS. Writing easy functions and websites and I like it a lot!

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Md Abu Taher

If you want to learn better, maybe join FreeCodeCamp?
If you want to teach kids, maybe check how others are doing at tynker.com and similar sites.

Hope you have a great journey ahead.

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Arturo Espinoza Quintero

Hello everyone, I am Arturo, I'm a college student here in Puebla, MΓ©xico. I ended up here because I want to learn more about the technology that is been using it at the real world because the college teach some older knowledge. My favorite non-coding hobby is videogames, anime and series

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Will Adams

Hello y'all, I'm a former and future software engineer, came here to seek guidance and advice getting back on the horse. I previously worked for the Department of Defense, and now work at Looker. Besides coding I like road trips, camping and playing video games. Love the articles and discussions here, finally decided to sign up :)

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TMcSquared

Hello Will, welcome to dev.to! :)

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Juan F Gonzalez

Welcome Will, great to have you here :D

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Jack Elendil B. Lagare • Edited

Hello! My name is Jack. I'm an information systems specialist with a focus on Amazon Web Services, web development in PHP and Node.js, PostgreSQL, and DevOps.

I've been looking for a forum for free-flowing discussion related to software development and when I saw dev.to, I thought of trying it out.

My favorite non-coding hobbies (yes, it's difficult to just put one)? Photography, Traveling, and Writing.

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Vldsz

Hello, guys! I'm a beginner .NET developer, which I've discovered by chance and I really like it. Also, I'm on my second year of my Master's degree on Cyber Security. It's been a while since I've entered a community, but this one seems fun and the posts here are great, so here I am. As for hobbies, I enjoy several things like reading, sports or music festivals, but I'm still searching for something to put passion into. I'm writing this while having a glass of wine, so Cheers!

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Alex Gwartney

Welcome do the community.

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Vldsz

Thanks!

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D2C.io

Hello, dev community!:)
We are D2C.io team and would love to help anyone to get started with Docker containers and cloud technologies.
We provide ready-made stacks to start in a couple of clicks as well as individual configurations for your applications.

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Ravern Koh

Hi everyone! My name is Ravern! I am currently studying Cybersecurity in Singapore after being hyped up by the government to join this course 😎.

My passion lies in web development, both in the frontend and the backend. I know Go, JavaScript, Swift and Python. I also love learning new languages, having recently picked up Ruby and Elixir.

Besides coding, I also love to play frisbee and guitar 🎸. Cheers!

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Paul Liferenko

Privet, dev mates!I'm Paul from cold Siberia (cuttently living in Kiev, Ukraine).

I'm working as full-time python backend developer since Jan, 2018. I'm kind od switcher: before full-time coding I worked as head of marketing. (BTW now I can hating all marketing things with PRO-level).

My Python path was started in 2015, when friend - Java EE developer recomends me try Python, when I was 'crying' on his shoulder about why I can't work properly with JS (my God, this semicolons(;) broke all my passion to coding).

So 3 years later I'm proud to be Python dev, who have minor experience in Erlang and Go. Now I have bootcamp as fullstack dev aaaand... They told me ES6 already have no semicolons (much of time). Damn))

So why I'm here? I want to come my passion to JavaScript back, because it stops all of my progress. I guess I have kind of "mental block" for JS. Hope you, guys, can help me there

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rindra36

Hello everyone, I'm Rindra. I'm currently a student in software engineering. Sorry for my bad english. That's a pleasure to read posts in this website. I'm interested in mobile development but also in other development language. Thanks all for sharing tips and advices. Also, I don't comment post very much (still student so not having much experience). Thank you for the welcoming. Cheers!

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Sophie Obomighie • Edited

Hello everyone, I am Sophie Obomighie, currently a third year student of human anatomy from the university of Benin, Nigeria.
I have practical experience with WordPress, HTML, CSS, Python and django but I'm mostly Python now. I intend to fully transition from medical sciences to programming or at least major in biomedical engineering because I've falling in love with programming.
I decided to join this community because of my resolution to be more intentional about my learning process, to have a reliable community to get help from and to improve on my technical writing skills. Aside programming and school, I volunteer for tech communities like Developer's students club (mobile.twitter.com/dscuniben), The GirlLEAD project (m.facebook.com/girlleadproject/), WAAW foundation
(waawfoundation.org) etc
I also try out Karate in my free time. I feel excited to be here.
Love, Sophie.

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Arik

Hi Sophie! Great to have you! Glad you fell in love with programming. I can totally relate to that

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Sophie Obomighie

Thank you for the warm welcome, Arik.

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Shreyas

Hey dev.to community...I am Shreyas, been in IT industry for 17 years. I have worked on several technologies and in several roles from developer to architect. Yet I feel I have so much to learn from others and community like dev.to helps in achieving that. While I am here to learn, I would be contributing whatever I can. Planning to write a note very soon. Watch out for same.

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Hazem Abu Baker

Hello everyone,

I'm Hazem. I born in Syria, grew up and living in Jordan and originally I'm from Palestine.

I discovered dev.to through Github trending and I'm so clade to join the dev.to community.

I’m a lead software engineer based in Jordan and Saudi Arabia working with Tam Development LLC. One year ago, we came to Amman - Jordan to open a new software development branch.

I had a good experience in software engineering, database development/administration, 3D industry asset virtualization, managing teams and maintaining our modern family-oriented culture.

My favorite hobby is video games (Blizzard Entertainment games) and I really love farming, fishing, hanging out with friends, music (especially bob marly) and finally and unfortunately, I love high speed.

Thank you all for sharing your knowledge. And I will be happy to help and to be part of this awesome community.

If you are located in Jordan or Saudi Arabia and you need help regarding software engineering please feel free to contact me.

Thank you all!
Hazem.

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Carlos Alfaro

Hello! I'm Carlos, and I found out about this community through a youtube video from google chrome developers channel. I'm currently learning web development, and I'm super excited to become a part of this fantastic community. I have a background in audio engineering, and I love playing music as a hobby.

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Clayton Ray

Oh, cool. I used to do a lot of audio engineering in my teen years. I don't do much now. I run sound for my church but they play over tracks

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Zoe • Edited

I am learning full stack web development. Trying to cram all of that code into my tiny little brain in 12 months. Wish me luck. I decided to learn web development because I realised I had a passion for it. It started with the idea of blogging and creating websites through wordpress. I wanted to make it more personal, but then when I started looking into what makes a website I wanted to create it. Three months into my course :)

It is very difficult to list all of my hobbies, there are too many and I have been saying for a while that I need to cut them down. There are too many excellent things to like and do.

I look forward to reading some more articles.

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Josh

Hope to see you around here Zoe!

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Krista Handel

Hey all! I recently graduated from a 7-month boot camp. I completed their front-end program. Very excited to be job hunting now!! I love JavaScript, React and Express.js. Now that I have time I hope to start reading again, and I might pick up The Culture series by Iain M. Banks.

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syedmeesamali

Hi everybody. I am syed meesam ali. I'm professionally a civil engineer but was always interested in programming and started with Visual Basic to program a simple structural system (civil engineering related). I developed more interest in programming when i started using VBA in Excel to automate various tasks and found out that almost anything can be automated with programming. Used MATLAB sometime to also program basic stuff related to engineering. Recently I developed deeper interest for Python due to my interest in big data analysis as well as AI. I have taken many courses from edX and still continuing my learning primary from edx as well as some UDEMY courses. Currently devoting myself to learn in-depth JavaScript as a front-end developer as well as enhance my Python knowledge and looking forward for ways to bring my multiple interests into something composite.

Programming literacy I strongly believe is a super must for future learning in any field. I also am currently teaching VBA for Excel to some students and in future want to develop courses in programming to teach in the most simplest ways.

I am trying to maintain my own Excel advanced page on facebook at: facebook.com/exceladvanced/

I want to be more active in programming and really would love to be part of any active community where people encourage and help each other reaching higher levels of experience and understanding.

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sebastiano

Ciao! I'm Sebastiano Italian, venice city.
I am now living in Japan, Tokyo I just start to study coding and I am having a lot of fun! my English is not really good so please forgive me.
I start this adventure with same online basic tutorial course of HTML, css, JavaScript.

I am 43 years old and I wish to become a web developer, maybe is to late but try anyway!!

JavaScript is the one I really needs some help!!

thanks !!!!!

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Maxim Lysakovsky

You are not alone Sebastiano, I'm the same age and trying to start my career over. Keep it up!

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sebastiano

Thanks man! I will! You to!

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Alex Nite

Hey hey everyone! My name is Alex and I discovered this site on Twitter, and I signed up because it looks really cool! I’m excited to join this seeming welcoming and chill community. I am currently loving React and I hope that I can continue to learn more and practice my skills! :))

Some hobbies include, dancing, piano, and just having a good time. Thanks for reading!

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Anna Rankin

Welcome, Alex! Good to have you :)

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Jaydeep Borkar • Edited

Hello everyone, I'm Jaydeep. I've just started my web development journey and looking forward to a great community experience. I'm exploring machine learning and NLP as well, their applications to help people are what that drive me. I like discussing about philosophy, physics and music.

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LucyGlo

Hi, all! I'm Lucy from the USA, and after I got my BS/IT degree I started as a tester/documenter. I tracked test results in dBASE III, and then my boss brought me a new tool - Access, and it was Windows-based - ooh! I then went through VBA and VB and have been working in C#/WinForms and C#/MVC for a few years. I still love solving puzzles as a career, and getting to help make other people's jobs easier so they can go home on time.

When I'm not coding, I sing with a local women's chorus. Now I'm the music librarian, and have build a Windows application that tracks seasons, songs, singers, attendance, and who has what copies of which songs. I've also started an MVC app for the same data, so I can take attendance on my phone. Sooo... what is this "non-coding" you speak of? :)

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jpasholk

Hey everyone!

I am slowly learning webdev in my free time and would love to transition into a developer role one day.

I used to blog about iPhone apps and games as well as Jailbreak tweaks. I also ran a Jailbreak news podcast for a while, which is sort of what got me into webdev.

After using WordPress for a while I began to crave more. A friend turned me on to jekyll and I’ve been playing around with it since.

Currently trying to focus on the basics and get a good foundation with semantic HTML5 and CSS3, then I plan on moving to SAAS/ SCSS then move on to JavaScript (which confuses the F out of me).

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Steve Emmerich

Hello everyone, I have been a full stack JS Dev since about 2012. Before that I was a contract game Dev working in unity3d, and C#. Now, I work as a tech lead for an ionic project, mostly managing other developers. I don't get to program as much as I like, but it's still great to be in the thick of things, and help out my devs when they need it.

I joined dev.to mostly because I have been enjoying the content everyone makes and wanted to be a part of the community.

For the non-coding hobby it used to be video games, but now it's helping my autistic son learn to talk.

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Karan

Hello everyone, My name is Karan. I am from Nepal. I am 26. Currently, I am working on the Salesforce platform and before that I worked on big data for a year.
I am currently trying to be a full stack developer and develop some amazing projects.

I spend most of my time on my laptop and when I don't it means either I am sleeping or I am reading a book (though I watch Impractical Jokers and play Clash Royale on my mobile as well [only when I am bored]).

I also read and practice Mathematics and find Mathematics very very beautiful. I will be joining Masters soon.

I have a 9 to 6 job, so I spend most of my time in my office.

I found this website in hacker news and I am liking it a lot.

I am hoping to meet new people and learn new things.

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Amanda Rogers

Hey, I’m Amanda! Currently I’m re-teaching myself HTML & CSS. I took a class and learned the basics about 2 years ago but decided to restart with Codecademy, my notes, and the internet in order to build my website. I’m a Multimedia Artist but really like logo design and branding. Still trying to break into the industry though le sigh
Any tips and tricks for beginners will be greatly appreciated!

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Amanda Rogers

Oh, and my favorite non-coding hobby might be listening to podcasts (is that a hobby?)

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sunbingfeng

Hello everyone, I am Bill, from Shenzhen, China. I knew dev.to by accident when I was browsing the github trends.

I love programming, and I have been a coder since 2011 after graduated.

My blog URL is bingfeng.me, and all comments are welcomed.

Nice to meet you all again, and I believe this great community will bloom fast.

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Pierre Vannier • Edited

Hi all!
I’m located in France (Montpellier- South). Like cats (I guess like everyone too) I have had a pretty atypik background as developer, manager of a Music Shop, Director of an IT/Computer Science school, lastly Director of a Tech consulting Firm (coaching a community of 60 engineers).
This dev.to seems a great idea.
Looking forward to talking with you.
Pierre

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Chris DeLuca

I folks, I'm Chris. I'm a web engineer living in New York City working in the medical field. I've recently starting doing a deep dive into machine learning, and my strongest language is JavaScript. In my spare time I write and perform comedy.

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Hiram

Hi fellows devs, I am here because this site and the community publishes excellent posts about development. I am a dev mainly focus on PHP/Laravel & Android. Also I am trying to learn as much as devops as I can. So if you are looking for a kind of devops padawan I'm very interested! Please let me know if I can help you too! Happy coding and beers!

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JeB

Hey guys, great to be here.
I have been enjoying various articles from here for half a year anonymously and finally decided to join the community and give back.
I'm a full-stack developer at Philips and I love open source.
My main work is with Java for backend and Angular for frontend but I love discovering new technologies.
Oh, and my non-coding hobbies are guitar, drums, kite-surfing and D&D.

Cheers!

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Juan F Gonzalez

Funny thing I "learned" in college how to do Backend with Java and the Spring framework and later add Angular for the Frontend (even with some Android on it).
Now personally I enjoy much more the Frontend work and being doing stuff with JavaScript both Node and React. Funny how the stack changes hehe

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Jorge Rubio C.

Hello everyone! I'm Jorge. I'm a long time reader but joining the community now. I'm a former physical therapist turned software developer. I've been coding full-time for about 3 years now. I've had many hobbies in my life but the ones I keep coming back to are music and DIY. I've also become really interested in meditation and mental/physical health in general and how those affect my work and life. Later!

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Nicolas Peugnet

Hi, I'm Nicolas from Paris, I discovered this website with this post.
I love learning new things and make stuff, especially when it's about programming.
I also play the flute and love bicycles.

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Lon Ilesanmi

Hi all, I'm Lon. I write mostly Javascript, but recently I've been getting my hands dirty with a bit of Go. So I'd love to learn a lot of more on that. I was referred here by one of my mentors. Cheers!

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jmuceda

Heeeelloooo!!!. I'm Juan Manuel, from Madrid(Spain). I'm a middle aged man who wouldn't like to get lost in this incredible era full of technology. This is the reason I have come here. I'd like be in contact with people related with IOT, SOAP/Rest service, Big Data, etc ...
Among my hobbies, I try to improve my English (apologies for my mistakes) and run (have just begun a planning to be in shape)

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Mihai-George Sturza

Hi guys! I'm Mihai, I'm 15 years old and love to code! I'm learning computer science and cpp at my high school and in my spare time I'm doing web development, I love to go to contests and recently went to America for a great computer science contest(i know i'm a show off :D). I came here from a great tweet about social platforms for programmers! My favourite non-coding hobbies are entrepreneurship, cars and music! Have an amazing day :D!

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Ger Breen

Hi everyone,
I'm in my second year of Comp science after giving up the full time job and going after something I want to do.
We have covered basics like html, javascript, css and this year php and Java.
Loving the course but my code is deffo not up to scratch. Came here to learn from others and get ahead in college and work.
Hobbies hmm, we have a one year old so time for hobbies has really gone out the window, but recently started cycling a bit to de-stress and bouldering which are both great for the head. Swimming is next on the list I can't do two lengths.
Thanks everyone

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arbeitandy

πŸ‘‹Hello everyone, I'm Andy. I have been working as a Linux System Engineer for seven years, then went back to college and graduated with a Computer Science degree. Currently, I am looking for an SRE position in the SF Bay Area. During my preparation for interviews, dev.to showed up for so many time in Google Search results. I think I must join this community because it looks original and fun!

I can't live without coffee, books, and python. Now let me look around to see where I can contribute.

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Bijay Pathak

Hello everyone, I'm Bijay. I am a python enthusiast, just getting into the world of python. Devops, Machine Learning and Networking are the topics that I am currently looking into along with django framework for web development.
My favorite kind of music is classical music specially of Beethoven and Debussy. Hope to expand my knowledge in this realm and thank you everyone for sharing the experiences, advices, tips and many more. Looking forward to talking with you all. :)

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Nested Software

Welcome to Dev.to!

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Jacob Cavazos

Hello, I am Jake. I have a B.S. degree in Chemistry and spent about four years working as a research assistant in a theoretical and computational biophysics and chemistry laboratory. The bulk of my work was performing ab initio quantum calculations and simulations on small biomolecular systems, namely peptides and disaccharides which was a lot of fun because I got to run my jobs on some of the most powerful high-performance computing clusters in the world. After that, I couldn't find any opportunities that I enjoyed so I freelanced as a web developer learning a little PHP and MySQL. Then I became a little more serious and learned Bootstrap, Ruby on Rails, and JavaScript (jQuery AJAX Node ES6 React Webpack Vue) all of that was fairly recently and I was able to combine it with my Linux experience from the computational lab so I'm just about to start a new job in San Jose, California as a DevOps Engineering Consultant. I am working on the AWS Solutions Architect and Kubernetes certifications as well as learning Go and Python. I ended up on this website because I clicked a link on my Twitter feed. My non-coding hobby is amateur black & white photography.

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Ryan Boris

Greetings Everyone!

My name is Ryan and I have started a new career on the path of web development after teaching chemistry for almost ten years. I am currently part of the Grow with Google Scholarship which is hosted by Udacity and I am about to finish the frontend development program soon and will be starting the Computer Science/Fullstack Web program with Lambda School at the end of this month. I am interested in aspects of all languages, however, my current focus is centered on JavaScript and its frameworks. I also have an affinity for aspects of deep learning and artificial intelligence topics as well. I found my way here from the trending repositories section on GitHub and immediately it caught my attention. As a person currently in a career change to this sector of work, I am honestly quite nervous and looking for advice and wisdom from members of the community - and I just can tell right from the start that this community is going to be the place for me to find such advice without worrying about how long I have been developing for or how I learned to develop. I look forward to meeting and learning from everyone!

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Frederik πŸ‘¨β€πŸ’»βž‘οΈπŸŒ Creemers

Hi Ryan, Welcome to the community. We all strive to build the most welcoming, helpful community, so I hope/think you'll feel right at home here :).

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Keenan Shumard

Hi all, I'm Keenan. I'm currently a little over 1.5 years out of school for CS & IT, and over a year into my first grown up job at a large company. I'm currently in a rotation program that allows me to switch roles every six months or so, to help with my personal development and find my niche. I also like to fiddle with home automation, so you'll hopefully be seeing a few Home Assistant posts from me as I learn the ropes.

Favorite non-coding hobby is probably flying drones, even though I'm taking a bit of a hiatus at the moment due to my last one getting munched on by a dog. Happy to be here!

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Brett Cimbalik

Hey everyone, my name is Brett. I have tinkered with programming for a while but, in an effort to level up and solidify my skills, I just finished a 6 months coding bootcamp at Northwestern University. I am excited about using Javascript more and, now that the bootcamp is over, have been starting to deep dive more into React. I do hear a lot of good things about Elm and have been curious to try that out as well. Outside of coding, I really enjoy playing guitar and makin' music. Looking forward to chatting with you all!

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Diego

Hi All !

I'm Diego and I'm from Argentina. I've been developing for 6 years in PHP and JS with MySQL databases. I have three years of experience in AWS production services and I apply to the AWS Solutions Architect Associate this June.

What I see in my roadmap is putting a strong work in learning more about devops, already use Jenkins, Ansible but I wanna know more about Python scripting(just a beginner now), dockers, etc. For the other part I wanna start sharing thoughts with others in the fields and experience about the different situations that we afront every day in our jobs.

Also i'm starting as digital nomad too.

Happy to help every time that I can, I runned a free workshop in my city about AWS Architecture, with uptime as the objetice(balancers, scalability and more) and I'm thinking to do more around the globe.

Regards !

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Cory Swainston

Hey guys, excited to join the community. I'm a junior in college studying software engineering. After two internships, I'm still trying to figure out my future -- I love coding but it's hard to find that same magic in a 9-5 job. I came here from Practical Dev Twitter, and I love the coding community. Counting on you guys to help me along my journey

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Rebecca Townsend

Hi all! I'm Rebecca, I'm a Javascript engineer. At work, I build React Native mobile apps, and in my own time I build full stack React web apps, and I'm learning Swift for iOS. When I'm not coding, I like to read, rock climb, weight lift, and toy around with the Raspberry Pi. I made the career switch to software a year ago, so I'm still learning a lot, and loving every second of it!

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Levi VelΓ‘zquez • Edited

Hi everyone.

Im Levi, from Venezuela. I'm Director of Engineering at MO.

Have more than 13k rep on stackoverflow. I love to try help others because there is not any better way to learn than teaching.

I already created my first post, you can check it out. Try to teach other about my experience building platforms from scratch and obviously learn from others. This is such amazing community.

This is my personal blog. You can find articles about python, django, etc.

Main techs:

Python
Django
AWS (ton of them)
Ionic
Angular
Docker
devOps (in general)

What's your favorite non-coding hobby? Swimming.

Cheers.

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Archonic

Hi folks! Just heard about this site from Github on twitter. I'm primarily a Ruby on Rails dev but dabble in Python and am looking to learn Go and Rust. Hopefully, this site is a good way to stay in the loop on trends and make my coding experience more social. I've developed a boilerplate SaaS app (2 actually, see my Github) and am thinking about doing a video series explaining various features and choices in a modular way that could apply to any Rails app.

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Ishan

Hey everyone!

I'm Ishan and I'm from India. I'm 17, currently in my senior year of high school. I've had the good fortune of bagging an internship at a local EduTech company. I work with Python, Django, OpenCV, Vue and Electron.

However, I have a terrible work ethic and am horribly disorganized. I'm hoping to improve myself in those regards and make some dev buddies along the way.

I'm a huge fan of alt-rock music, dreampop and shoegaze. In my spare time, I like to read. Right now, I'm reading Jack Kerouac's On The Road, and loving every line of it.

I also love to watch movies and anime. I like movies like Ruby Sparks, The Perks of Being a Wallflower and Scott Pilgrim V/s The World.

I hope we'll all get along well! Cheers!

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Dhairya Khale

Hello everyone! I'm Dhairya. I'm currently learning Data Science on my own, and will try to make some cool projects using that. It's my long sought idea of a project with analysis of soccer games, players, etc, since I love this game so much.

By the way, as someone who is trying to learn his ways into this field, I am absolutely loving this site! Kudos to the creators and developers involved. And the community here seems to be amazing and so welcoming. I genuinely love this!

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Nikolaos • Edited

Hi everyone, I'm Nick, I work as a junior software engineer at a fairly large company in Europe.

I don't remember what brought me here but I can bet it was Google now feed, and I couldn't be more grateful for being here.

My dream is to contribute code to an open source project but I guess I am afraid that I don't have the technical knowledge to do so, and certainly I don't have the time at the moment. Also, I have no idea where to start from.

My favorite non-coding hobby is photography.

Nice to meet you all!

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Shyam Bhattarai

Hi Everyone!
I'm Shyam from Nepal and I'm super excited to join the Dev.to community. I think this is the first dev community I have ever joined. I used to read the posts from the fellow devs in dev.to and they all felt very positive and encouraging. I have found that the altogether vibe of the community is inclusive and I'm so glad to be a part of the team.
Hope I can contribute to the community in every possible way.
Have a great day/night wherever you are!

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Sanjiv Barnwal

Hello everyone, I'm Sanjiv Barnwal (Shaw), I'm currently working with a London based digital agency named DuBSEO, from last 5-years on SEO, PPC, and Social Media Marketing. I signed up here with Dev.to because I want to learn new idea more and more about digital marketing, tech news, languages such as PHP, Magento, Laravell, and Node JS etc. By the way, I'm looking to contribute as a guest blogger here with unique information about search engine updates and social media updates and how to fix them! My favourite hobby is helping business with onpage seo changes (not paid)! Cheers!
Sanjiv Barnwal (Shaw)
Digital Marketing head at DubSEO London

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Thomas Lefebvre • Edited

Hello there, I'm Thomas πŸ‘‹

I've followed dev.to twitter account for some time now but I've never taken the leap to sign up in here.
My co-worker @nickytonline is always telling me about this awesome community and I thought I could help and bring some positive things as well, especially now the codebase is open source.

Aside from coding, I like fishing. I find it very relaxing and helps me recharge away from the screen.

Have a wonderful day,
Thomas.

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Nick Taylor

Noice. Cool that you finally joined. I think @ben and his crew may have a few issues in the recently open sourced dev.to repo if at some point you want to tackle one πŸ˜‰

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Akshay Nandwana

Hi developers, I'm Akshay. My love for open source brings me here, from this tweet by GitHub
I am looking forward to DEV-Android repository and would like to start contributing. Nowadays, I am exploring Android and me also into the communities for which you can watch my video on the Google Developers India channel here I am open for all kind of discussions, Let's connect

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Susheel Kumar B B

Hello World!!
This is Susheel, currently working as Research Engineer in Hyundai Mobis Technical Centre Of India and engineering the In-vehicle Network Data for Telematics Applications in Hyundai and Kia Cars.
I would like to explore various technologies not just to some field...web related..data science..etc.
I am passionate photographer so this is my favorite hobby!!

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Sasha Ilieva

Hi everyone, I am a front end developer for about 4 years now and I started learning React about a year ago. Recently I've been working on a project using React which I think is the best way to learn.
I know the react community is quite big and growing fast, and I think it's wonderful everyone can share their experience and knowledge in the name of a developing technology.
And my favourite non-coding hobby is ... I have a few actually - I like to travel and photograph and also I am very passionate about interior design, graphic design, UX, etc.

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Kwaleyela

Hey there, I'm Kwaleyela, I'm a 16 year old currently teaching myself how to code :-) I found myself here because I want to learn more about technology and coding, my favorite non-coding hobby is Music (I'm a rapper & song writer) _^

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Peder Johnsen • Edited

Hei!

I'm Peder, a full stack developer based in Wales (UK), but hailing from Norway, currently working full time at an exciting tech company here in Wales. I love helping people so I'm here to help where I can, and to possibly read some interesting articles and perhaps learn something new myself!

My favourite non-coding hobby is composing music (though this could be coding related too :D)

I found dev.to via GitHub.

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Arik

Welcome aboard Peter. Great to have you!

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WarrenLuke

Hello everyone,My names Warren. I'm currently in my 3rd year of study at Nelson Mandela University in South Africa. I'm a software development student doing my diploma and looking to pursue my degree next year. I learnt about this site through my Google news feed. Looking to learn more about the different languages out there to add to my list and always up for new challenges. Hope to learn alot from all of the fellow developers on here!!

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zeddotes

Hey all, I'm Zain. I'm an experienced developer primarily focused on front-end technologies for most of my career but never shy away from backend work. Especially a fan of JS for both ends.

I'm looking forward to learning new things and contributing as much as I can to the community. This seems like a great place and I've been having a blast since I joined.

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Jose Carlos Correa • Edited

Hi everyone my name is Jose Carlos, but everybody call me joss.

I'm a Mexican Fullstack developer looking for share a little bit of knowledge and also learn a lot from you, I've ever was in the developer environment. I am currently working as an assistant teacher at Ironhack. And to start well, I would like a couple of recommendations, I want to learn a new language, I use javascript as the main one and I want something interesting for the backend. What do you think about elixir?

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Prozac01

G'day! Hi y'all I'm Sergio I'm a techy guy from Sydney, PHP and Python developer who is trying to move to the devops world. I came here following a trail of crumbs about Event Sourcing. I'm far from being an expert but if there's anything that I can help anyone with I'll give my best. Thanks a lot for all the super useful content you all share here.

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Peter Kim Frank

Welcome, Sergio! You might enjoy browsing the (all-time) most popular articles submitted to #devops. You can check them all out here: dev.to/t/devops/top/infinity

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Komane Sam Jr.

Hello everyone, I am Sam. I'm currently doing 3 year degree in mathematics and computer science. I ended up here because I want to learn not only from the classroom but also from other people. My fav non coding hobby is playing video games. Chao😊