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Welcome Thread - v32

Hey there! Welcome to dev.to!

Pusheen Hi
Leave a comment below to introduce yourself to the community! โœŒ๏ธ

Here are some ideas to get you started:

  1. 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 and say hello or ask them a question. ๐Ÿ‘‹

  3. Or answer this question: How did you get into programming, and what would you recommend to a newcomer today?

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Jess Bodzo

Hi! Dev.to started popping up on a lot of the aggregators I read to keep current. It also seems to be suffering less from the immense degradation over on Medium 0_0 (Anybody else remember how high quality the writing was on Medium when it was new??)

Anyways, I've seen some of the folks on here posting in the Fediverse and I am happy to be here!

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Jesse M. Holmes

We're happy you're here, too!

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Jess Bodzo

Thank you Jesse.

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Elie Vangu

Fait Divers and not fediverse ! Don't deprecate my french please...
Welcome to Dev.to

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Jess Bodzo

I'm not entirely sure what you mean in the first part of your post. I support the Fediverse :)

Thanks for the warm welcome!

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Elie Vangu

Oh sorry i was thinking it was such kind of buzz words taked from french that itโ€™s hype to use

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Oliver Leaver-Smith

fediverse = federated universe (i.e. mastodon/GNU Social)
But really interesting that fait divers means โ€œnewsโ€ in French ๐Ÿค”

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Yago Azedias

I have a good felling about dev.to, I still am a new user, but my first impression is the it's better of good if compared to Medium

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Jess Bodzo

Well I hope you enjoy your time here! There is definitely a lot of talented folks posting on this site :)

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Qosim Mahmud Folaranmi

Hello

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Cesar Melchor

Hi everyone. I'm Cesar. I was first introduced to code in my summer job in high school. I worked for a nonprofit and we had to build a website. So that was my first introduction to html/css, but I wouldn't get my first computer until my first year of college. That's when I began working with Java and other programming languages.

I work with C#, java, sql, javascript. I am currently falling in love with working on the front end. I am looking into animations and React.

Aside from tech, I like to play basketball, play video games, and go hiking.

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Cubicle Buddha

Welcome! Iโ€™m a fellow video game fan and React lover. Glad to have you. :)

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Jesse M. Holmes

I love your name!

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Pelumi Adebayo

Oh my,oh my....you are a lot of things.

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Dwayne Crooks

Hey everyone. I'm Dwayne :). After reading a couple good articles from dev.to and hearing nice things about the community I decided to give the site a try.

I'm currently (as of April 2019) learning how to design and implement programming languages using the book "Essentials of Programming Languages by Friedman and Wand (3rd Edition)". It's difficult but rewarding learning from the masters.

My day job is as a full stack web developer for a Point of Sale software company. On a day to day basis I work with Ruby, PostgreSQL and JavaScript (React/Redux) among other tech. I dream of the day I get paid to work with Elm or Haskell or Rust.

Aside from that I enjoy playing basketball, running, cycling, swimming, hiking (I'm pretty active) and living a plant-based lifestyle.

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Biodun Olayanju

You're welcome, Dwayne. Plant-based lifestyle? Can you please explain that?
I love your profile.

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Dwayne Crooks

Sure Biodun.

With respect to my diet, I don't consume any animal products. Learn more here.

With respect to everything else, if there is a plant-based alternative I'd gravitate toward that option because it's usually better for the animals, the environment or us humans.

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Juliya Gannon

Hello everyone, I'm Juliya.

I'm a self-taught developer dwelling within Texas.
I started dabbling at the tender age of 12 playing Neopets (of course), eventually progressing onto creating MySpace Profiles as a young teenager.
I've done a whole lot of freelance client/contract work throughout the years but thankfully last year I began gearing up for a much needed change professionally. These days, I am up to my eyeballs in Warhammer 40,000 Miniature Commissions and am starting an organization that will provide digital services and solutions to local metal bands free of charge.
I randomly stumbled upon the site but liked it immediately, mostly for the design. I'm sick of most sites looking the same XD

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Erika Heidi

OH MY! I was crazy about Neopets. I was a bit older, thou :P like, 19 or something. hahahahaha :)

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Anderson Brandรฃo

Nice to see you here!

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Mat Herron

Hi everybody! My name is Mat, and I'm from Lexington, Ky. I'm currently working to earn my React certification from Codecademy and eager to contribute to open source projects. Before this, I ran a record label for 10 years and worked as a freelance journalist for more than 15 years. I have a soft spot for nonprofits, and am passionate about and LGBTQ rights. Married to a great guy and bossed around by a rambunctious mini-Schnauzer!

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lucas kardonski

Hey Matt, Any cool open source project you recommend?

You can check my project github.com/gkpty/almost_cms

Its an open source and free, serverless CMS and SSG. Its changes the way you make static sites

Built with ReactJS, Amplify, GraphQl, DynamoDB, Lambda, Amazon SDK.

let me know your thoughts

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Savas Vedova

Hey this is actually pretty cool. I am building something similar, maybe we can chat about ways to collaborate? Check this out: stormkit.io, basically itโ€™s a serverless hosting targeting modern web apps with server side functionality. It has built in support for ssr. Right now it could be used together with headless cms like prismic and contenful to build modern e-commerce/news websites. Was also thinking to add more features around this use case based on the demand. Iโ€™d love to hear your feedback

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lucas kardonski

Hey Savas, Thanks for reaching out. Checked you project out, it seems very cool too!

Our project is fully open source, you can check our code
github.com/gkpty/torus_cms

Any ideas on how we could collaborate?

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Savas Vedova

i will come up with some suggestions tomorrow :) its late here and im using the mobile phone so i could only read the readme file :) I will write you back once i can check more in detail. Peace!

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Mat Herron

Hi Lucas! Just getting started so I dont have any recommendations quite yet! Will check out your project!

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lucas kardonski

Thanks Mat, appreciate it

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Ryan Cooper

Welcome Matt! I lived in Lexington from 2011 to 2017. I was just dipping my toes into learning how to code at that time otherwise we might have crossed paths! Have you taken any of the classes or workshops at Awesome Inc.?

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Mat Herron

Nice to meet you Ryan!
I was running a record label during that time, but I have just completed a React course through Codecademy. I haven't taken courses at Awesome Inc., but know of their program and respect what they do. Excited to start contributing to the React and JS community!

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Mat Herron

Hi Ryan!

I've posted some repositories on my Github page. Take a look when you have a moment. Any and all feedback appreciated!

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Karno

Hi, I'm Karno from Nagoya, Japan. I am working as a researcher about security auditing and communication, and I am not a software engineer now, but I've being interested into software engineering since childhood and I have the degree of information engineering. I am really desired to become a software engineer and I hope this place would be a first step of my new career.
I am learning English language but this language is very difficult for me and I am still repeating trials and errors. Please let me know if you have any information about a good linter for English. Thank you.

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Cubicle Buddha

Youโ€™re doing a fantastic job already in your language skills. I wish I could be multilingual. And I wish you the best of luck in your pursuit of a career In software. Youโ€™ve chosen an excellent place to learn. Welcome!

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Nathaniel

Thanks

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Nathaniel

Pm me some apps to stop a spy on my friends phone and spy on the messenger spy

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Erika Heidi

Hello folks!

I'm Erika, I've worked as software engineer for most of my career, been focusing on devOps last couple years and now working as technical writer at DigitalOcean. I love writing! I came here because I was looking for a place where I could share some of my personal ideas related to our field, basically something to replace Medium because frankly, they're the worst.

happy to be here :)

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Arik

Super happy to have you here!

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Tim Vogt • Edited

Hi My name is Tim Vogt and I tech Kids to code. Because I want to stay on top of new development and to get more development skills myself. So I can get a remote job in between gigs. Fun fact I have Dyslexia.

I got into programming after a gig wich was an large AWS project on sending newsletters and consulting for a large shop/intranet/companywebsite min php. So I decided to do more Django and Python projects because this made more sense ๐Ÿ˜.

I recommend python and study python classes and try to make sense of them.

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Cubicle Buddha

Thatโ€™s wonderful. I would love to teach hands on coding. For now Iโ€™ll have to get my teaching itch scratched by posting articles on here. But if I may ask, how did you get involved in teaching? Do you do it at a school or a college? Or at some kind of volunteer club?

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Tim Vogt

Sorry for late reply, I teach kids in the local library and now online. We work with microbit scratch an Python turtle. And I give some private lessons. At day job Iโ€™m a lead dev of team of 9.

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Travis Simpson

Hello! I'm Travis. I came across Dev.to while doing some self-study on Vue some time back, and I really liked the layout and the information passed through here. I've been creeping for a while and figured it's probably time to step out of the bushes! I *officially got in to software development at the end of 2017, with Lambda School, which I completed in June of last year. After that, I went on a 5 month hiatus journeying in to a Congressional Campaign as a tech consultant. I took December as a "vacation" because...campaign life was a killer to say the least! Since then I've been rebuilding what I learned and actively looking for my first dev role. Obviously took a wrong turn somewhere, heading in to May with no luck so far, so I hope to learn a lot from the community here and hopefully land my first official dev role very, very soon!

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engmms

Hi All,
I am Mahrous , I am old developer
programming language for me as my Girls
I change them from time to time :))
I start with C++ in 96
then php,MySQL,Asp,VB6.VB.net,JavaScript,Java
now, I fall in love with Kotlin,Python,Kivy and last one Flutter,Dart
my old dream was the flight
but now I am just a programmer