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dev.to staff on April 29, 2019

Hey there! Welcome to dev.to! Leave a comment below to introduce yourself to the community! ✌️ Here are some ideas to get you started: You can...

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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 it’s hype to use

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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! I’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 Brandão

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 it’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. I’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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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

You’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. You’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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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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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 😁.

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

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Cubicle Buddha

That’s wonderful. I would love to teach hands on coding. For now I’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 I’m a lead dev of team of 9.

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Andy Zhao (he/him)

I recently finished a contract position, and wasn't really sure what to do with my life. I heard from some people that programming might be a good thing to learn, so I went and did it for six months. I think it was good to try it on my own, and would recommend the same for anyone interested in programming.

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Nuno Neves

My passion for technology has grown quickly since I was young, even before high school. As such, the curiosity about "how computers work" pushed me to this new technology world.
By being autodidactic and dedicated, I ended up experimenting different types of programming languages such as PHP, javascript, Java, C+ and C#...but I quickly realized my fascination about Java, which defined my professional path.

But technology isn't my only passion. I love travelling and Crossfit.

Why travelling? I love to travel because it allows you to meet new cultures, taste new foods and learn to respect the differences, which I believe opens new horizons in my personal growth.

Why Crossfit? It is a very challenging sport that allows me to prove that I can exceed my self and conquer my fears and new challenges.

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Oliver Gomes • Edited
Hello Guys!

I am Oliver and here's is a bit about me:

  • Studied Aerospace Engineer at college and same time dabbled with coding
  • My love for coding was crazy so ditched Aerospace and went full on Developer pursuit
  • Did an internship for an amazing startup for 3 months then moved on to a full time Software Eng. role.
  • Beside spending most of my free time on learning new tech, I do photography, art, sometimes make tutorials.
  • Here's my tiny Youtube Channel youtube.com/channel/UC3DN9JNd6-DhV...
  • Find me on Github github.com/oliver-gomes

Cheers!!!!

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Anurag Bhagsain

Hi Oliver. I checked out your Youtube channel. I like your speed code video. 😉
Keep it up.

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Oliver Gomes

Thank you for checking it out and glad you liked it! 😄

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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

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Stacy Cashmore

Hey All,

I've been in development since the mid-nineties - at school it was something that interested me and it seemed that I could make a living doing it (and was better than the alternatives given to me by my careers advice teacher). Due to major anxiety issues, however, I have always tried to keep my head down and stay invisible.

Well, I've still got those issues but decided it's never too late to push yourself to try new things!

I've recently started to talk at conferences about the human side of development. Both the ways that I have gotten through challenges in my career, and the mistakes that I and my team have made - and what we have learnt from them! And, thought that maybe these would make blog posts as well!

So now all I have to do is get the courage to write the first one :)

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Jesse M. Holmes

It's such an important topic, and I can't wait to read your first article! Welcome to the community.

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Stacy Cashmore

Thank you, Jesse!

Just trying to figure out how to split it up (or in my anxiety terms: procrastinating because of fear :)) and it'll be written and posted!

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☪️♓🅰️♏⛎🇿🇼Mutezva

Hi. I am a learning FrontEnd web developer and excited to be on this awesome platform. As the saying goes "If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.", I really want to go far.
Thank you.

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clare

Hi Im Clare. Started teaching myself html/css and JS around 6 months ago so im a complete beginner. Previously worked in healthcare but a brain injury forced me to consider new options. After doing a few Intro to Programming courses i definitely caught the bug!! Hoping to learn as muuch as possible!

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WKABK

Hello :),

I just discovered this place.

I am a mathematician with mostly self-taught front end developer skills (HTML, CSS, JavaScript). Working in psychological research I used to program with MATLAB, while my university studies I used Java.

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Alexander Kolyakov

Hi!
I found Dev.to trying to figure out core Vue.JS concepts.
I need to create UI that I designed two weeks ago and I'm completely new to JS frameworks. I used to be tech. support and tester and now came to design and frontend development.

Excuse my English, my speaking/writing level is rather bad.

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Jason C. McDonald

You'll find there's no judgement here on the speaking/writing level. There's no better way to practice the language than to use it. Welcome!

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Ryan Cooper

Hi all! I'm a GIS Analyst working for the Raleigh's (NC) parks department. I don't know that I'd call myself a developer, but definitely am excited by all the ways I can use code to create my own custom tools for working with and visualizing spatial data. I've been reading lots of interesting posts linked back to Dev.to and finally decided I should join the conversations going on here. I intend at some point to share some posts about my experiences using Python and JavaScript to do all sorts of fun stuff with maps. In the meantime, looking forward to learning more from y'all here!

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Lev Dubinets

Hello! I have now read too many great posts on this dev.to to not have an account here. My background is in cloud and distributed systems. I worked in AWS prior to leaving to explore open source software, blockchain, and figuring out how to improve cloud technology.

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Richard Griffiths • Edited

Hi everyone,

Been a lurker here for a while, thought I'd say hello.

Been coding since I was 33, am now 42 and in my 3rd role.

I've mostly been in desktop old fashioned work with winforms,. Net and sql server.

However I'm interested in graph databases, constraint based programming and neural networks - these areas interest me as they feel like they would be converging interests I could use to solve interesting problems.

Currently exploring sql graph for a configurator validation tool for one business.

I'm not as keen on front end work as many others, I prefer to hang around back end, data stuff and code generation, middleware and the like.

As for advice for others, novices and otherwise, older books like code complete 2, pragmatic programming, programming pearls and the like are all valuable reading. And the newest cleverest stuff is often, very often stuff from the 60s and 70s from what I can see, except with more horsepower.

That's all for now :)

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David Leuliette 🤖

Hi 👋, I’m a french front-end engineer based in London. As a developer, I love building things that help make user’s happy. As a person, I also love making developer’s lives easier through coaching, mentoring, and automation.

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Joshua de Guzman

Hi! I am new here in dev.to! Hope to contribute meaningful articles in this platform while I continue learning and help others out.

Currently I develop mobile apps, feel free to visit my portfolio @ jmdg.io.
I wrote the apps using Kotlin/Java for Android, Swift for iOS and leaning towards making my new apps with Flutter!

Hope to get in touch with you all soon!

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Nick Taylor

Welcome to dev.to! Looking forward to your first post.

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Joshua de Guzman

Thank you, Nick!

So far so good. Been having fun and leaning here at dev.to -- it's really a good place to share interesting topics!

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Bernard Craddock

Hi I'm Bernard running a startup pumpedfuel.com , I'm seeking anyone who has experience, knowledge, tips and/or pointers they can share writing vehicle embedded apps Android Automotive, Apple Carplay or Automotive Grade Linux - regards

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FluffyJ

Hi all! My name is Jan and I'm from Ljubljana, Slovenia. I've always been fascinated with computers and everything that came along with. When I first came across programming, I was about 12yo, and had a great chance to learn Pascal, but putting it of, never came throught. So it took me about 16 years to realise, that I want something more challenging than my regular job(I'm currently working in a paper factory in four shifts 'oh, the irony'). So I went back to school (Higer Vocational College, Informatics) and got the basics in C#, SQL, HTML/CSS...
Learning is a bit slow,because I have two kids(a toddler and a baby), but it's motivating, because I'm not doing it just for myself.
I came across this platform by accident and couldn't be happier about it. So I hope, that in the future, I'll be able to contribute and help other devs and devs to be, to grow.
Got a couple of hobbies to: playing games, reading and every possible technology I can study.

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Michele

Hi, I'm Michele from Italy. I love programming since I was a child.
I'm here to learn something new and get some inspiration.
I wasn't expecting to write a presentation, I've just signed in to turn on the dark theme but I'm happy to be in now.

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Anurag Bhagsain

Hello everyone. I'm Anurag.
Right now I'm in my 2nd year of college. I always wanted to be able to programme. I first started with Android Development. I had no programming experience and because of that, I actually found myself copying pasting code from courses(yes it's a harsh truth). I learnt a little bit of C++, Java, Python.

To be honest I actually wasted my first year trying different things like Android, Selenium, Competitive programming, blockchain, designing etc.

In November 2018, I started with Web Development. Completed a course on Udemy (Web Dev Bootcamp Colt Steele). This course got me interested in Web Development. Then I took a couple of courses on JS (Jonas) and React (Mosh Hamedani). Built a few projects two full-stack web apps with Node & React and PHP & React.
Nowadays I'm looking into React Native (coming back to mobile dev 😜)
That's all about me. 😛
I would love to connect with other developers so I can learn more 😊
Have a great day :)

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Ahmet Eren Yatkın • Edited

Hello lazy devs, I'm Eren, a fullstack developer who loves javascript both on backend and frontend but forced to use php and c#.

I work in a Dutch Company in Turkey as a developer and I'm currently using VueJs & Php Symfony for a Campaign app. Before I worked in a education service provider and I have built games with VueJS and NodeJS.

I play Apex, Rainbow Six Siege, Division 2 on my free time, also basketball & go to the gym.

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Rickard Engberg

Hi! I googled the Joel Test as I do from time to time. I'm interested in clean coding, both learning more about it and discuss, teach and blog about it. I google the Joel Test for inspiration, as many people reflect on it and I found Alex Fawkes post of reflections The Joel List: 20 years later here on Dev.
So basically, I'm just trying to widen my horizon by interacting with people about clean coding and, for that matter, coding techniques, principles etc.
I'm currently working as a software developer at a large Swedish bank, using Delphi Pascal, c++ and c#.
Looking forward to interacting with the Dev community.

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Nazmi

Hi fellow Devs!
I've been reading Dev.to and loving this place alot. Good tips and knowledge here!
About me, Im a father of two who was an engineer before transitioning to a developer in 2017!

Im currently a software developer at Silicon Jungles.
Love coding and building stuffs!

and I'm a BIG avid lover of React and VIM!

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Sarah P

Hi! Found this community through a great JS data graph post. After doing Frontend Development and running a small agency for about ten years. I took a partial break (I can't ever entirely quit) to recover from Open Source community and life burn out. Now I'm rested and enjoying exploring Hydra JS, Firebase, and other cool things while looking for full-time work.

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nano-c • Edited

Hi! I'm a human working in robotics. I want to move into CS. I've dabbled in web dev, know C++ as long as I don't have to do memory management, and really like scripting. I develop using a proprietary language at work.

I'm currently taking a coursera course on compilers to prepare for an MSCS I am starting in a couple of months.

As a person, I'm passionate about LGBT rights and my vinyl collection.

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Savas Vedova

Hi all!

I've started to see dev.to articles more and more and yesterday finally I decided to join when I saw how welcoming the community is :)

What I liked so far a lot is that the community seems to be super helpful and interested, which is something you lack in most of the other communities. Keep up the good work!

I am a fullstack engineer, specialising in modern frontend technologies like React, and golang, nodejs in the backend. I love developing tools, it's basically my passion. I started programming when I was 12 years old, so I guess that makes me a self-taught person :)

Looking forward to engage more with the community!

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Jasper Beachy

Hey Everybody,

My name is Jasper, I started programming in college, didn't major in it because the department wasn't very good but I've been continuing do so ever since and I'm currently in a coding bootcamp. Hoping to get a real coding job soon :)

When I'm not learning coding, you'll probably find me yelling at the TV about the football match with more passion than a Brit.

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Shubham Lad

Hey Everyone. I'm Shubham. From India. I'm mechanical student but found interest and passion in web development & programming stuff. Well I am beginner and I want to become professional in web development no matter what hard work it takes I am ready to do everything. Hope you all people here support me in this mech to web developer journey. ❤️

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Karan Shah

Hi! I'm a Developer turned Entrepreneur with close to 10 years of experience.
Started my career with PL/SQL development, Shell script Development (Meanwhile becoming Red Hat Certified) and then Java Development, and what not!
I'm also AWS Certified but now have transitioned more towards an architect/advisory role for many companies who come to us for their tech needs.

Looking forward to sharing my knowledge and interacting with you all.

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Varun • Edited

Hello Peeps,

I am Varun, a web enthusiast by passion and profession and currently working in Singapore. I love playing around with web tools and technologies and building web apps that works on desktop, mobile and anything in between.

I am really moved by the love and passion for technology possessed by this platform members, and that dragged me here. This platform is a one stop solution for keeping pace with ever changing technology trends, helping each other and making new friends.

Looking forward for any recommendation from the front-end folks for the new joiner.

Cheers and Beers!!!

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Guntur Poetra • Edited

Hi everyone, I'm Guntur. I am just so excited about writing my experience about code. The first time I learned HTML in high school, I got a hug from her (my senior). Soo, I continue to learn about code, cause woman has always code and man should compile it. Haha

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Tony Sargeant

G'day fellow Devsters & their big, fat, black, cats & a handful, or so, of the cat's scrawny, wormy, mangy, worthless, mongrel gutted kittens. I'm tryin' to get my head around, coding and the various platforms & applications that are out & about in the Developer Community. In my previous employment, I had buggar all use for a computer, I was much better at kickin' a crooks door down, at daybreak. So it came to pass, that the Karma bus, was passin' by, a few years back & I was busted up, as a passenger, in a roll over accident & lost a heap of physical prowess. So rather than sit around, lettin' day time TV, turn my mind to mush. I convinced myself that a bloke, may be able to turn a quid, on-line, whilst tryin' to preserve, what's left of his, tiny, little fistful, of gray matter. Keep grinnin'.

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Vuild

Welcome. You can & will be able to make a good living. Start by reading everything you can & engaging with the smartest people you can (for right now you are stuck with me until you can find those of greater intellect).

Focus on the results, not learning, make things, don't be online for the sake of it, Make more things, get traffic & attention or users to them. Read more. Make more things.

Keep doing that mostly. Hours & hours a day & then a breakthrough you have no idea how it happened. That is the startup success story of many.

Let me know what you are trying to get your head around & I'll push you on to the path going the right direction.

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jundymek • Edited

Hi guys. I am a police officer from Poland... After work hours I master my programming skills...😏 I am in love with python but currently, I learn some javascript and react. Maybe I will become software/web developer someday...😊 At least I hope so. Keep your fingers crossed. Thanks in advance 😃

Here is my GitHub account if anyone wants to look at my projects.

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Zoran Zlokapa

Hello everyone! Name’s Zoran, or Zoka for short. I’ve been doing web design and frontend coding for more than 15 years now and I’ve decided to share with you my experience, knowledge and new stuff I learn.

I’ll post my first post shortly. It’s a history lesson and advice in one :)

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Jarret Curtis

Hey! A good friend told me this is the place to start. I dipped my toes into programming last year and I was just contacted for a job... I feel like I'm in way over my head. Hopefully you guys can be a life raft.

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TJ • Edited

Hi everyone I'm TJ.

I am a beginning software developer. I have been learning for about 2 years now, going through FreeCodeCamp. I have my Front End Certification, and JS Algorithms and Data Structures Certification as well. These are the legacy certifications from FreeCodeCamp. I am currently learning React and who knows what will be next.

I currently work in the Commercial Aviation and have been for quite a while, it is what my background is in. I am a Private Pilot, but I have not flown in years. However flying is like riding a bike, pretty easy to hop back into it. When it comes to Aviation in general though I know a lot about operational items. If you ever have the one off questions about anything Aviation related, feel free to ask.

I have a huge passion for tech outside of work and programming is just one of many. I just realized about a week ago I have enough experience to get a job as a Front End Developer lol. Still trying to figure out where all this will take me, but I just find it fun. I also have a small business where I do a lot of repair work for computers and phones for people.

I stumbled across Dev.to when just Googling some random thing I needed a fix for while coding. I liked the community and decided to join. Not huge on the Social Media thing, but I do want to get more immersed in the software field.

Some questions for conversation:

  • How did you get to Dev.to?
  • Where did you start?
  • How long have you been working on on software development?
  • What is your current end goal?
  • What industry did you previously come from? If applicable.

I will enjoy talking to everyone.

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Placide IRANDORA

Hello Devs!
I'm Placide from Rwanda. I've been coding since 2014 and I'm currently learning JavaScript Frameworks such as Angular.js, React.js, Node.js, and React Native. I hope I will learn much from you and vice versa. Happy coding!

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Sohail

Hi.. dev.to ! I am kind of beginner and want to learn more of web technologies. And the web itself.
I came across dev.to onto my news feed.. in google app.
I have developed some basic projects with MEAN stack..
And still learning..

Excited..!!!

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mouradsoso

Hi everyone ,i'm Mourad from morocco
full stack developer ,
i came here to stay updated
i found dev.to by luck when watching a conference about rails on youtube
i did'nt know there is a great content & community ,
so i hope this will be my next most used app
thank you

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Vuild

Hello. Welcome.

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Nyczmbi

Hey! How is everyone? My name is Damian. I am very passionate about becoming a web developer here in NYC, my home town. I'm currently going to school for web development and admin, with about a year left. Any advice or guidance is welcome. Thank you all in adavnce !

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Apurv Khare

Hi all, I am a software engineer.I am interested in web and mobile app development. I am new to JavaScript and been learning it for quiet sometime. I also like to explore its popular framework like React, Angular and Vue. I think JavaScript is the language for now.

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Prabhakaran Karthikeyan • Edited

Hi! I'm interested to join a community without any formalities.I'm currently working with django and also i'm also interested in learning js. Since, Dev.to was working with react js , i joined to discuss with him and other members . Thank you.

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Aerie Minor

Good Morning Dev.to community!
I’m Aerie and I actually came across this via my former teacher sharing the site🤓. It seemed pretty interesting and as a beginner, I feel that I’ll gain some great insight💡 and knowledge📚, from the community. Looking forward to meeting and potentially working with you!

Have a great day 🙂,

Aerie

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Radek Novak

I started my career as SW developer in 1986 year on 8bit computer with OS CP/M and Z80 assembler. Next it was MSDOS, Turbo (Borland) Pascal, DBase, FoxPro, Windows, SQL, C++, Visual Basic, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, PostgreSQL, .NET, C#, ... From 1998 freelance developer. Today I'm mainly using C# and WPF with MSSQL. Now I decide to learm some modern JS framework - Vue.js and Quasar. And articles about Vue.js found by google lead me to dev.to web.

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Jyothi Gupta

Hi All, This is Jyothi from UCL. Will be happy to be part of the team for interaction and guidance on programming industry !!

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tip2tail

Hey all

tip2tail here. Technical support analyst in a backline support team, but also develop certain internal solutions for use in the business.

Tend to develop in C# for desktop apps, and Symfony (PHP), JavaScript etc. for our internal web systems. Also use a vaguely BASIC-like proprietary language as well in the day job.

I read an article here and liked what I've seen so far!

Away from the keyboard, I'm a passionate believer in Scottish Independence!

Saor Alba

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I don't really remember how I found this, but I already love it. Seems kind of similar to Medium but better.

I'm a developer in my spare time working on Python modules and webpages. I just try and make people's lives easier and inform them on the dangers of what they may be encountering on the web.

Fun fact: I do almost all of my programming on the online IDE repl.it. It's really great, you should check it out.

I got into programming originally when my brother asked me to design a Raspberry PI indicator light system in Python to see the status of the internet and his systems. It's been taking off ever since, and I've learned a whole other language in the process (JavaScript).

I hope to get to know you all, and have a lovely day!

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James

Hello, I'm James. I'm a computer science teacher in a UK school. When not doing that I'm sat behind my own PC writing C++ and attempting to make video games.

I found this place via my phone's news aggregator and it's nice finding a place that's text based rather than discord or YouTube based.

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Siddaiah M

Hey Dev.to.
My self Siddaiah :. After reading a couple of good articles from dev.to and hearing nice things about the community I decided to give the site a try.
Actually i was searching for projects to work on . And i want to know how i can be freelancer.
Please suggest me!!

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lucas kardonski

Hello Everyone, My name is Lucas and I'm from Panama.

I'm working on an Open Source project of a Serverless CMS and Static Site Generator to build and deploy sites easily and for free. It provides a user friendly GUI (thats also static) to help you add posts and pictures to your static site. It's also fully mobile compatible meaning you can publish directly from your phone.

Built with ReactJS, Amplify, GraphQl, DynamoDB, Lambda

github.com/gkpty/almost_cms

Please download the repository and use our framework

We are looking for collaborators and any type of feedback. We want to give something back to community by developing this tool and keeping it Free for ever.

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lucas kardonski • Edited

Adding some more info about my self. I have an MBA from ESADE Barcelona, I've been an entrepreneur for most of my life, but recently (6 months) got into programming and web dev.

I like to surf, love nature and animals, play futbol, Diving, treasure hunter (found silver coins from a 1600's Spanish galleon, play te piano, drums, music producer, barista trainer, coffee roaster, and love to meet new people and share ideas.

I also have a Rum Company and have won many awards.

facebook.com/ronduranartesanal/

Me and my brother started the open source project. Its a new way of making and managing static sites with a serverless framework we developed.

Happy to join dev.to community!

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Phule Yatish Chandra • Edited

I am Senior Professional /Oil Technologist (Chemical Engineer )with 38 years experience in Edible Oil Industry and Soaps & Detergents Industry about Processing,Erection,commissioning and Quality Control.

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Alluxco

Hi everyone, I am Hung from Holland. I am 53, a little too old for learning coding, but it guess it is never too old to learn right? I jumped from Angular to Vue 2 months ago and I really enjoy it. Trying doing some node.js as well.

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edijaloedoc • Edited

I was brought here by Google, there was a card on my search page that had to do with job search and travel. I'm learning the FullStack process, I'm focused on MEAN. Fun Fact: I can nap anywhere.

I started programming to switch industries, and hopefully make a more meaningful impact on the world and within. I love it. It's refueling my passion for technology and everything in between. It's already changed my life in so many ways. Nonlinear has always been me.

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Tomislav Buljević

Hello everyone! My name's Tomislav, and I actually joined up after I read an article by a fellow developer on here.

Working mostly on eZ Platform and Pimcore. Pimcore is a recent acquisition in my skill-set, so I'm actually still getting to know it better.

Anyway, glad to be here, hoping to learn something from all this.

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José Silva

Hi, my name is José Silva and I live in Porto, Portugal.
I'm a Frontend Developer and I work at Jumia Pay.

I found dev.to searching for articles online and it seems to have a very good community!

Last month I wrote my first article on Medium and I'm planning to write a post here with the same content!

I'm working full-time with Vue.js for about 2 years.

Currently, I'm trying to improve my skills in Docker, Component-driven development, reusability, Lerna, Storybook, unit and functional testing.

Outside of work I really like to go to the gym, beach and hiking :)

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Awais Akram Mughal

Hello! I'm Awais Akram Mughal. Yes the descendants of the Mughal Empire from the era of subcontinent 😋, I have a bachelor's degree in computer science and I'm in love with React and React Native, I started my professional career in January 2018.
Currently I'm working as a freelancer.
Found this amazing platform to learn new things and improve my skill set. I'm happy to be here.
Thank you!

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Vashishtha Kapoor

Hola All!
I am Vashishtha and I started blogging back in 2015. Ever since I started blogging, I got in touch with many wordpress enthusiasts who motivated me to learn PHP, SQL and coding stuff. I am good at solving problems with code, design and marketing.
I love writing especially about design (specifically WordPress).

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Ajit Desai

Hello There techies, Ajit Desai here from India.
It's Great to be the part of this awesome community. I love coding with JS, learning now framework React and Mongo with Node.
Hope to meet some awesome people here,let's build Something awesome by helping each other,and make this world a beautiful Place.!
Thank you everyone 😍💓

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Nicolò Rebughini

Hi everyone, I'm Nicolò and I'm self teaching full stack JavaScript with vue and node in my spare time.

I spent the last ten years working as a video post production tech: it's impressive the amount of automation you can implement in video workflows such as mastering and quality control. After having enjoyed that, I crawled back to full on IT to wear the hat of a sysadmin managing multiple mongodb clusters and plenty of email servers.

I'm slowly catching up with ten years without documenting myself about anything: it's like drinking from a firehose (last time I seriously wrote code jQuery was the new cool kid). Right now my pet peeves are docker and more generally DevOps culture.

I've decided to jump in this community to grow alongside fresh and experienced people alike.

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Eddie

I was having issue with laravel i searched online and got a link to this page with the fix to my problem. It actually worked. I never knew we have such a community.Am currently diving deep into Laravel am traditional django developer.
I love playing games and meeting new people.

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Ismael Jimenez

Hi Everyone!

I'm a software developer from Latin America, I have been working in Frontend development in the last years, and what a rabbit hole, but is fun! and challenging.

I always pass by Dev.to to keep getting fresh content, so now I decided to join the community and maybe write something :)

Anyway happy to be able to learn and contribute.

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Sarah Katz

Hi! I'm Sarah. I'm here because I've been blogging a lot about my job search and someone recommended I cross post some of my blogs here. I'm excited to start doing that (hopefully my blogs will help someone else in their search) and to start reading all of the awesome content here!

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Wesley Goldsborough

Wassup everyone?!? I'm a website building Javascript lover in sunny Fresno, California. I'm currently rebuilding my company's website and then I'll be focusing on building web applications. Learning a ton about Wordpress right now which is fun, but I'm itching to get back into programming with JavaScript building web apps.

You can check out my site at wesleygoldsborough.com

My latest code fling was creating this little app in 6 hours >> github.com/wesleygoldsborough/phon...

Looking forward to being a part of this community.

Cheers!

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Oz Ramos

Hi! My name is Oz and I've been working on a set of tools to help people with disabilities use the web by using head tracking to control a mouse cursor (it's all JavaScript).

There's not really a lot of information on how to do this, so I thought I would start sharing some lessons learned. Basically I'm taking a bunch of ideas from the Kinect community and applying it to the web.

I have a bunch of hands-free experiments (everything from drawing to 360 YouTube to a dashboard to control physical real life robots and desktops) on Glitch at glitch.com/@browsehandsfree, and here is a GIF wall of some of these experiments:

Handsfree GIF Wall

Anyways I can't wait to start learning and sharing ideas with everyone and becoming a more social developer!

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niketanjain

Hello everyone!
I am Niketan from India. Though I am doing code from more than 4 years (a cold & old technology), consider me a newcomer when comes to the latest buzzes. I have the inclination toward Open Source and Python at top. I love to build my knowledge every day with tech-articles on technology (Maybe some of the people here have written an article and I may have come across :) ) Don't forget to recommend good articles on learning technologies and languages. Happy Coding!

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Lordreads

Hi guys what's up my name Lord I am learning code right now, I started like 3 month ago, I decided to learn programming because I friend of mine is a full stuck developer and he talked to me about it so I got interested in the field so now I'm on my way to become a web developer and also it would be cool to make games! I'm from Costa Rica by the way!

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Emmanuel Udoh

Hii. I'm Emmanuel Udoh from Nigeria, i am a beginner actually.really want to learn web Dev. And programming

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Vuild

Welcome Emmanuel,

Everyone is a beginner at some things.

Build your own website, try to get some traffic to it is the best advice I can give.

This is good instruction on timeless quality:
stuffandnonsense.co.uk/blog/design...

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C • Edited

Only because it takes a woman nine months to have a baby, it doesn't mean that if you get nine women pregnant, you can have a baby in a month. Now change "women" for "developers" and "have a baby" for "build a project" ✌️