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Welcome Thread - v36

dev.to staff on July 29, 2019

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Diana Maltseva

Hey, there!

My name is Diana and I haven't published a welcome thread yet. And it seems to me that time has come.) I have been a tech blogger since 2015 and I love my job.)

On Dev, I have already published 44 posts and am going to write another article soon. I'm interested in IoT, blockchain, programming, including technologies, software solutions, and software engineering practices.

Have a nice day to everyone!

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John Mackay

Hello

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Ambrose Byamugisha

hello

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laserblue

Diana,
With 44 articles written and an interest in software solutions and software engineering practices, can you tell me if Dev has a great indexing method that would allow me to find the exact article I need to read just when I need it? I'm looking for something like Socratic Arts' ExTRA(Experts Telling Relevant Advice) system. socraticarts.com/solutions/technol...

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Diana Maltseva

You can search for information by various tags such as devops, techtalks, app dev, and more.)

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Xuqian

Hi

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Ben Halpern

I'm 17 years old developer that coding in Js, C#, Php, Java, Pascal

Damnnn impressive list for so young!

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Taylor

That is wayyyy impressive!

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BHARATH BATTULA

That's an impressive tech skill's

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Soledad Unda

I love the initiative! We young developers have to work extra hard to account for our age.
Keep it up!

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MuhammedCham

I am Muhammed Cham an aspiring developer

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Farid Aditya

Hello MuhammedCham

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MuhammedCham

Hi Farid, I am new here trying hard to become a developer, currently taking up course through Pluralsight and andela sponsored by Google for its certification. Hope all is well with you.

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DrMixerGED

Hi, Muhammed. May I ask how you are enjoying Pluralsight? I have considered them and many others. I just want to learn the best way possible. Thank you.

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Abdul Console

Hello محمد‎

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Abdul Console

Hello Muhammed

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Kaylee

Hello everyone, i want to learn how to code but i am not sure how to commit what i learn to memory any suggestions?

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Scott Josephson

Definitely rinse and repeat for committing to memory. But try not to repeat exactly the same way twice. Mix it up, add complexity for practice, delve into how the thing works.

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Kaylee

thank you for that advice. Do you happen have any suggestions on a good desktop to handle learning how to code? Ive learned to avoid HP as it seems theyre terrible with being heavy Disk and CPU users.

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Scott Josephson

If you just want a machine that will help you learn coding basics, all you really need is a good internet connection, assuming you're doing your study on the web. If you were working solely from books, you could reasonably get away with any old machine that didn't have trouble starting up.

What are some of your learning goals?
What languages/technologies are you interested in?

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Kaylee

Well just reading is where i am realizing im not learning i learn how to do a few things then move on and months later i forget everything. I want to start working in projects (random ones from the internet) to get real practice but I honestly want a smooth experience I work full time and dont really want to deal with a slow or problematic computer as I work on projects to try to learn how to program. I understand how specs work but what ive realized is even with good specs depending on that computer it may still run slow or have issues.

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Scott Josephson

Again, it depends on what kinds of technologies and workloads you plan to work with, but all speed issues will likely come down to processor speed and memory. You can even offload some of your computer strain by working with an IDE on a virtual machine, like cloud9. So even without a lot of $ to spend you could get a decent used computer and figure out an efficient way to run it.

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Lily

Hello,

I'm new to developing, but I've been very happy doing it all day every most days for almost a year now. The quirks of JavaScript have brought me lots of joy.

I'm just really starting to become productive. You know when you start out and aim for the stars and end up just jumping up and down on the spot! I'm not yet getting out to orbit but I've learnt to aim at things that'll build me a rocket.

I'm here to reach out and grow. I realise to move ahead I'm going to need others, independence is causing drag.

Thanks, Love you, Later xox

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Michael Tharrington

"I'm not yet getting out to orbit but I've learnt to aim at things that'll build me a rocket." Haha, this is an awesome analogy!

Welcome!

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Lily

Thanks Michael :)

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Rocco Farrell

Nice keep it up.

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Eduardo Yáñez Parareda

Welcome, keep working hard!

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Salman Saleem

Hello, I'm Salman Saleem! I'm a software engineer graduate and digital marketing strategist from profession. I have a strong programming background, so I'm happy to help anyone facing technical challenges.

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Michael Tharrington • Edited

Welcome Salman!

Definitely check out #help here - dev.to/t/help as that's a place where folks are meant to post technical problems they need help with. Consider following that tag if you want to help out folks facing issues.

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Salman Saleem

sure thing man

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Jim Louis

Hi,

My name is Jim. I've been a sysadmin since forever. I currently delving into Kotlin, more in-depth Python, Ansible and Kubernetes.

As I learn more I hope to publish on Dev.

Glad to join the Dev community.

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Michael Tharrington

Welcome to DEV, Jim! Hope to see some of your writing on the site.

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Nicola

Kubernetes! Can't wait for an article on that! Nice to meet you anyway Jim!

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Farid Aditya

Hello, nice to meet you all
I come from Indonesia, I can't wait to learn from all of you. it's just that I am not proficient in English, so I'm sorry if in discussing many grammatical errors.

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Sung M. Kim

Welcome Farid to DEV 🙋‍♂️

Don't you worry about the grammar mistakes and ask & share your knowledge 🙂
Should there be a problem, people here are nice to ask what you'd have had meant or help you to improve your post/questions.

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Farid Aditya

thank Sung M. Kim

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Daniel Macdonald

Welcome, Farid!

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Farid Aditya

thank you Daniel
Are you from Germany, Wah from childhood I really like the German national team, what's more since being trained by Jurgen Klinsmann until now being trained by Joachim Löw, besides that I also like Dortmun, Neuer, Muller, Ozil and others.
By the way, is this a coding forum? or the football community?

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DrMixerGED

Farid, don't worry at all about your English. It is excellent. Honestly, some of the worst English now comes out of America. Best of luck to you in your coding journey.

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Johan Smarius

Hi there,

My name is Johan and I am an experienced (lead) software developer and architect for .NET solutions. I am also a teacher. I love clean coding and test-driven development.

Have a nice day to everyone!

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Nick Taylor

Welcome to DEV Johan! 👋 @turnerj and @jamesmh are great follows for .NET but also in general great follows.

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James Hickey

Thanks Nick! 🤜🤛

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James Turner

Cheers Nick!

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Eric Ahnell

Hello! Found out about this place via Twitter. I'm here to see more of the programming community, share and learn!

I have prior experience teaching with the power of tailored analogy. It worked well for algebra tutoring, so I imagine it might be effective here too.

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Ben Halpern

Sounds like you’ll fit right in Eric!

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Fabiana Farias

Hello! I'm Fabiana from Brazil. I'm a bignner in programmer and I have fineshed the Angela Yu Web Bootcamp at Udemy. So I was searching for frontend and backend's mind maps to concatenate my skills. Then I found one of dev.to's artichles. And now I'm here ready to learning more.

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Yechiel Kalmenson

Welcome Fabiana!

We're so glad to have you!

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Fabiana Farias

Thank you!!

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Melanie Phillips

Hi Fabiana!

That's awesome! Let me know if you find any awesome mind maps. I'm interested in finding some too :)

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Fabiana Farias

Hi Melanie!

Actually, I was searching for a concept's map, but I found a diferent map in this post by javinpaul:
dev.to/javinpaul/the-2019-web-deve...

But it was very useful to me anyway! :)

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Vaughn Itemuagbor

Hello, name's Vaughn, James Vaughn...😁

First time Tech Blogger, with an interest in Core JS and PHP Laravel. With a strong background in Design, I am looking forward to bringing my unique perspective into the dev community.

Let go!

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Michael Tharrington

Haha, gotta love that intro! 🍸

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Lukáš Irsák

Hi Vaughn, loving JS and PHP too!

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John Kapantzakis

Hello everyone!

I am John and I am a web developer from Greece. I haven't wrote any post yet but I am planning to do so asap!
I am here because I am intrested in participating in a community like this! I want to learn something new every day, and I think this is the right place! :)

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Sebastian Stamm

Hi John, great to have you here! I am looking forward to reading your posts! Do you already have an idea what you want to write about?

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John Kapantzakis

Hi Sebastian, thank you for the welcome! I think I would start by writing a post about my favourite javascript resources (books, tutorials etc). What do you think?

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Sebastian Stamm

Sure, go for it! If you do that, I would also love to hear some takeaway from every resource (e.g. "in 'Javascript - The Good Parts' I learned how to do truly private variables by using scopes")

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Harry Theo

Hi all,

I am Charis a Javascript Developer from the small island of Cyprus, enthusiastic about Progressive Web Apps, responsive design, vibrant interfaces, interactive web and mobile apps.

I started writing a blog on Medium about 2 months ago and I am planning to release some articles here too in the near future.

Hope to bring some value to this community and absorb some as well.

Have a good day everyone!

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Mahesh K

Welcome!

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Frankie Nicoletti

I'm Frankie and I'm a startup backend/Golang dev and professional coach. I've recently started blogging - my primary topic is engineering management. I'm working on an online course for dealing with impostor syndrome. Oh, and I do platform engineering at Mix.com.

Somebody recommended this site to me today and I LOVE the aesthetics. Hi folks!

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Michael Tharrington

Hey hey Frankie!

Hope you dig it here. If you write anything Golang related please be sure to tag it with #go (dev.to/t/go) ... likewise, the same goes for imposter syndrome (dev.to/t/impostersyndrome) and any other topic you may write on.

So much of discoverability depends on using these tags! Just a general tip!

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Aleks

Hi everyone!

I'm Alex, Python & JS Developer from Russia. I was wondering how to measure my own level of expertise and that's how I found dev.to!

I have a few years of experience as a software developer in different companies around the globe. Most of the companies were start-ups or software development wasn't their main business. I've started exploring new job opportunities recently and while updating my resume I was wondering what level of experience should I put for different roles.

In the most cases, I was employed just as a software/web developer, but in the end, I had to deal with the wide range tasks: managing databases and clouds, designing the whole IT systems from scratch, coding everything, etc.

Pretty much in all companies, I was the only developer, therefore I needed to convert employer's ideas to the working code (or whole IT system) from scratch. It even happened in my first job when I was just an intern.

Should I call myself senior developer, if I have just a couple of years of experience? Should I state roles in my resume as 'Software Developer, DevOps Engineer, System Architect' for every company or just official titles?

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Marc Jerome • Edited

Hi!

I'm jerome. I'm a computer science student. I'm very familiar with java and OOP but I was stuck at tutorial purgatory so I transitioned to python. Made some websites with django and flask already. Now, I'm still hungry for ideas so I joined this community.

Hope I can explore cool things here!

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Vicente G. Reyes

Welcome to DEV Marc Jerome!

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Marc Jerome • Edited

Happy to join :)

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Mrinal Patra

Hello DEV community!

My name is Mrinal and I'm a software engineer primarily working in C#.

I am generally interested in all kinds of tech and language and always eager to learn more, so hopefully I am in the right place!

Please feel free to suggest me things to follow :)

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Ben Halpern

Welcome Mrinal, great to have you! Definitely peruse the c# tag for individuals to follow.

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Mrinal Patra

Done! Thank you!

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David Saintloth • Edited

Google news put a post from here in my feed. Thought I'd say hi, I blog on a wide range of societal, scientific and engineering related topics at my blog: sent2null.blogspot.com

Coding focus now is fullstack service building, ML, AI.Workflow

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Anwar

I think I missed a lot of welcome thread, here we are!

Hi everyone, Khalyomede here, I am a web developer the day, a side project maker the night, and I love to try out new things, and always find easier or more intuitive alternative to do something.

Very happy to be part of this community ✌️😁

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Michael Tharrington

Hey Khalyomede,

Glad you caught this one! 😀

Loving the web dev by day/side project maker at night tagline. Sounds like a superhero. 🦸‍♂️

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Praveen Bisht • Edited

Hello,

Praveen here, I'm a front-end developer from new delhi, India. Currently learning about firebase with react and implementing auth via social logins.

You can checkout the demo here or the repo from here.

How has your experience been with Firebase? Is there something I should know about since I'm thinking of using firebase to build a side project later.

Thank you🙌

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Mahesh K

Welcome!

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Jen Miller

hey,
I am Jen and originally from Canada, but now live in the US.

Primarily, I work in J2EE technologies, but I am passionate about front-end and try to do it whenever I can.

Have been an on-and-off blogger for years & recently got together with a bunch of friends to start Canosie Labs to help share our experiences with the dev community through writing blogs and making videos.

Thanks!

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Ben Halpern

I am Jen and originally from Canada, but now live in the US.

Same! Halifax -> NYC for me.

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Dipo Ajayi

I currently work as a UX/UI designer. I also develop simple websites using Wordpress. I know tad bits of codes here and there but as far as programming go, am basically a beginner. I trained and worked as a Database Admin too. I have recently started learning how to code and out here looking for all the support and materials that I can get.

I am currently taking a Web Development course by Angela Yu on Full stack web development.

Thanks.

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Ben Halpern

welcome!

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Akijunior

Hello. My name Is Luiz and I have interest in learning more about aplications of coding for the health and machine learning. My favorite languages are python and PHP with Django or Laravel, and I love write and read, specially about fantasy's stories.

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Michael Tharrington

Writing fantasy stories eh? That's super cool. I totally feel like there was someone around here that wrote a how-to for nim or maybe vim in the style of a fantasy... gonna see if I can dig that up.

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Nodira Ibragimova

Hello Akijunior.

Thanks for sharing about yourself and good luck!

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Mark Reynolds • Edited

Hi everyone, great to be here. My name's Mark from Leamington Spa near Coventry, Warwickshire, UK - used to live near Bristol. I started with PHP, but my career went more in the direction of digital marketing, SEO, web design, PPC, email marketing etc and only now am I looking at PHP once more. I've been playing with PHP/MySQL for over 15 years, but never actually done enough to be fluent, so I'm here hoping to learn more. I have used PHP a few times a year, but often work with other developers to execute any projects. I've always been more comfortable with procedural, but feel I need to get much more comfortable with object oriented PHP. Am I the only one scared of OOP?

Hope your week's been great so far.

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yusufcodes

Hey Mark. OOP can be scary initially, but I feel like once the understanding is there, it can the coding experience much easier.

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Mark Reynolds • Edited

Thanks Yusuf. That's good to know. I have never got far enough to find out! But hopefully will soon.

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Usman Ramzan

Hello Everyone!
I'm Usman and i've recently joined Emumba as DevOps Engineer. I love to travel,read and learn about new things.
I believe that one should play an active role in his community irrespective of the outcome.

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yusufcodes

Hi Usman. Great attitude you have there - welcome to the community!

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Kevin Bridges

Hi all! My name is Kevin and I'm a Release Engineer by day and an aspiring web developer by night. In my day job, I'm a TFS Admin and I do a bit of PowerShell scripting. For the web dev side, I'm currently trying to learn Vue and Express. I'm not that good at the web dev stuff and I'm currently going down the YouTube, Udemy, Pluralsight rabbit hole. This stuff is good, but I need to face my fears and just start building already. I'm hoping to follow some smart people here and hopefully get some much needed direction. Currently I'm trying to evaluate using NUXT + Vuetify and am scouring the web for examples. I doubt I can provide much help with any web related questions at this point, but I can probably help out with any Git related questions that people may have.

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Sung M. Kim • Edited

Hi Kevin. Welcome to DEV 👋

Yes, it surely is daunting to learn the front-end technologies and you usually end up going down the rabbit hole 😞

But you can ask questions and follow/focus some tags you are interested in.
Say, #vue and follow/say hi to the Vue tag mod, Dave Follett 🙂

And have fun learning & sharing with other DEVs

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Kevin Bridges

Thanks Sung!!

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Gaffen

Hey all,

Was persuaded to sign up because I wanted to discuss the death of RSS and how tech might preserve independent podcasting.

I'm interested in open source, decentralisation, podcasting, and would like to get into amateur robotics and hardware projects more. I get tired of everything I work on living behind a screen :P

When I'm not building websites or apps for Spritz Creative, I'm blowing off steam by shouting my head off with Hearse Pileup

I'm working on getting back into blogging too

Nice to meet you all :)

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Michael Tharrington

Digging the tunes!! Listening to "Pretty Shiny Things" - this rocks!

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Gaffen

Hah, thanks! I'm trying to get an album out end of this year/early next year; will surely post an update then :D

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Thomas Hewitt

Hi all,

Fun fact about me: Onions are my favourite vegetable.
Currently learning all I can to improve my JS and PHP skills
In terms of what brought me here, I wanted to give back to the community but also I wanted to be able to take what I know and learn how to concisely explain it to others in order to really solidify that knowledge.

Cheers

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Jess Lee

FAVORITE vegetable??

WILD.

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Thomas Hewitt

Honestly couldn't come up with anything more interesting so scraped the barrel and used my favourite vegetable. When you hit rock bottom the only way is up.

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Ahmed Abu Qahf • Edited

Hello everyone!

My name is Ahmed, and I'm from Egypt. Just graduated from the university with a bachelor degree in computer engineering. The degree program covered lots of topics such as OS, mobile applications development, database, embedded systems. I'm still confused which track to take but I'm hoping to become either an android or web developer. I learned about the android development in uni, and now I'm starting to watch an online course about web development.

The programming languages I used are C, C++, Python, Java, JavaScript, and I used frameworks such as ReactJS, ReactNativeJS, NodeJS, ExpressJS

Joined the DEV community to get some advice about jobs tracks and to develop my skills, and become the best version of me.

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Chris Achard

Welcome to DEV Ahmed! (a month late; but better late then never :) )

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Ahmed Abu Qahf

Thank God. I almost though the post was invisible.

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prashanth_kumar

hello world ...
its me prashanth ..
and i bet u dont know me 😂

btw does this community has dark theme?

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Ben Halpern

Yep, go to /settings/misc

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prashanth_kumar

yeah done thanks ...

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Mike Kennedy • Edited

Hey everyone!

I'm Mike and am excited to be here primarily to learn from all of you. I'm a digital marketer working for an agency who has been dabbling in code for over 15 years. I know HTML but want to master front end development. I love building websites and learning the ins and outs of tech. Open to exploring new languages I know nothing about!

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Fede Balbuena

Hello everyone, I'm Fsbalbuena from Argentina.
I am a React developer who loves innovation`s strategy and customer experience.
For me, progress is not tech, but what allows us to live the life we ​​love, in our own way. So, I don't focus on the code, but on the solutions.
What do you think about that?
Thanks!

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philyphish

Greetings!

My name is Philip and I work in the automotive manufacturing industry. In my job I build single page applications using Vue.js to aid in production.

I'm a YouTube taught developer and I'm excited to a part of the dev community and learning best coding practices.

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Michael Tharrington

Welcome Philip!

Really hope ya dig the site.

That profile pic is awesome!

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philyphish

Thanks Micheal!

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Hayden Young

Hey guys!

My name's Hayden and I do a lot of full-stack work, as well as breaking into some Game Dev a la ROBLOX and Unity. I've been working for about a year and a half as this, with my knowledge of Node having developed some time early last year.

I'm new to DEV, but I hope to get more active. :)

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Chris Achard

Welcome to DEV Hayden! do you have any tips for ROBLOX or Unity? Those are two things I've been interested in for a bit, but haven't started with yet :)

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Hayden Young

Heya Chris!

Well, for ROBLOX, I recommend having a look through a bit of Lua code (it was kind of hard to get to grips with Rbx.Lua when I started). Also, don't even think about doing anything like client-side raycasting or anything on it if you break into... things that would use that. Do it server-side with RemoteEvents.

As for Unity, I've still not spent much time with it but C# is nice and easy to understand, and the exposed APIs from UnityEngine.* are brilliant, they make things really easy to script!

Anything else, I'd be happy to help!

(I'm now on to Kotlin, with a couple years work in JavaScript & TypeScript :) )

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Chris Achard

Good tips, thanks!

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Joey Burrow

Hey DEV,

I work at Tray.io, we're building a visually programming tool for DIY enterprise automation.

NB: Engineers please read "Tray is if this then that for Enterprise"

We like to keep eyes peeled and fixed on the bleeding edge so we can bring new knowledge to work with them so we're hoping to learn a lot from this new community.

I write a little on the side about what we build and life at Tray and which I'd love to share here too!

Hope to hear from loads of you, peace
J

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Jalena Hay

Hi Everyone!

My name is Jalena and I am a UX Designer looking for my first Full Time job. I have been doing client work and bootcamps for over 2 years. My background is in the arts - I have been a textile designer for over 10 years ( fun fact - i draw the patterns that are printed on fabrics, currently for J Crew!)

I am looking for any full time positions, open to contract to hire. Excited to meet new designers as well. Thanks!

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yusufcodes

Welcome to DEV, Jalena!

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Raman CreativeIT • Edited

Hey there! I'm a front-end developer with a 9-year experience in building React, Angular, and JavaScript projects. I'm also an active open source contributor. Nice to meet you! Hope, I will be welcomed here! :)

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Eixi

Hello
I'm Elsa and I'm a game/web dev student from Finland. I really liked this pages design and the community seems welcoming so I decided to join. I have experience in HTML, CSS and Javascript and I am interested in almost every aspect of programming and tech. I love to create but I am not a writer so I don't know how much I am going to write here or anywhere.

Have a pleasant day!

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Niko Heikkilä

Welcome to DEV and enjoy your stay, fellow Finn. 🎉

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Eixi

Terve vaan!

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Brian DeVries

Hi everyone!

My name is Brian. I work as an electrical engineer in Western Michigan, USA.

I currently work with the .NET framework primarily, but my interest and knowledge of JavaScript and web development has exploded in the last month or two and I'm excited to see how this knowledge shapes my career.

Happy learning!

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Chris Achard

Hi Brian! This is a bit late - but better late than never :) I grew up in Michigan! (near the thumb) - it really does have a lot of neat places.

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Brian DeVries

No problem Chris, thanks for the reply! I really enjoy Michigan. I came here for college, but I grew up in Colorado. Where are you located now? I'm a big fan of your posts on dev.to!

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Chris Achard

I'm down in Indiana now (not too far :) ). Same story here - came to Indiana for college, then just stayed 😅

Glad you like the posts! I'm working on another crash course right now actually 🎉

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Brian DeVries

I think that's a pretty common theme as of late. :P Well keep up the great content, I'll be looking for your next posts!

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Carolina

Hi everyone,

My name is Carolina, I'm a system engineer with some years of experience, specially with front-end tecnologies, and I want to improve my skills and keep learning =)

Glad to join the community.

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Michael Tharrington

Welcome to DEV!

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Carolina

Thank you! =)

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RobLinx

Hey everyone!

I'm freshly back from yet another awesome That Conference. A couple of presenters are on dev.to, so I came to check it out. One of my personal goals is to become more involved in this wonderful community, so I'm here to learn and interact.

Thanks for having me!

Rob

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Jess Lee

Awesome! Welcome to the community :)

Who were the speakers?? If you know their dev usernames plz tag them so I can creep 👀

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RobLinx

Here are two... more as I re-find them!

Brandon Satrom: dev.to/bsatrom
Cassie Breviu: dev.to/cassieview

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Jess Lee

Thanks for the love @cassieview & @bsatrom !

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Michael Wilson

Hello, I am new to coding. Recently completed a full stack bootcamp (6 months MERN) at Georgia Tech. The class was good and met some great people. Now I need to hone my skills. I use sites like codecademy, udemy and pluralsight. I just want to get better and more confident.

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Víctor Gil

Hello all!

I am a Java backend developer with a broader set of interests such as frontend (mainly Angular).

My current pet project is about implementing event-driven microservices using Apache Kafka (code to be uploaded to GitHub soon).

You may checkout my latest video --> youtu.be/iQC-9qxhfOk

Cheers!

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Mj Tapiru

Hello DEV World!

I'm a Web Developer. I mainly code in javascript.

I'm hoping to read articles about tech and thinking here in dev.to

ALSO I WANT TO GET STARTED ON GAME DEV. So if anyone has any tips or links- anything at all, I'd love that. Well if you can mentor me then that would be soooo awesoomeeeee.

Hoping to read and write the best posts!

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Phillip Kent Knight • Edited

Hey everyone,

My name is Phillip and I just got here.

Like a good millennial, I got my HTML start in the 2000s on myspace, geocities, and the like... I've held a variety of digital focused roles for political campaigns and nonprofits, over about 10 years in my very random career.

My current day job is about using the web to connect people with their leaders, around the world, to be advocates in the fight against extreme poverty. I do a bit of developer coordination, product and project management, front end coding... and administering (read: hacking the shit out of) campaign tools.

I'm always trying to up-skill - and always falling down new rabbit holes of curiosity... I'm currently focused on beefing up my JS skills, including learning new frameworks like VueJS... I've also had beginner-level experience with Python, and C, as well as a little bit of hacking away at PHP. Hobby projects have included rpi and arduino. And for bonus nerd points: I'm also a licensed Amateur (ham) Radio Operator.

Look forward to exploring this community, connecting, and learning. :)

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Lucas Rocha

Hello guys!

My name is Lucas and I'm 19 years old, last year after I finished High School I decided to attend a Coding Bootcamp in Barcelona where I learned HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, JavaScript ES2015, SQL, git, GitHub, Heroku, and Ruby on Rails, and it was one of the best decisions of my life, being able to learn new things and in the end build an awesome product was so amazing, I felt so accomplished after the Bootcamp.

Right now I'm learning some IOS development using Swift and my goal is to release my own app at the App Store until the end of this year!

Very happy about joining this amazing community! 🤗

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Tim Berberich

Hey, I'm Tim, and I am learning Python! Saw this on the CodeNewbie Podcast website and thought I would get involved. Currently interested in getting involved with open source to build my skills. I have some experience with HTML5 and CSS3.

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Nicola

Hi to all!

I'm Nicola Castellani a FullStack developer based in Verona, IT.

I have a Degree in Computer Science and I work as developer since 2014.

I've worked as Fullstack/Mobile developer for a middle-sized company wich works with the global pharma industry.

After 3 years as employee I've decided to work as a Freelance developer for several companies, focusing on the FrontEnd side of their applications, improving the appeal and performances of different React/Angular based web applications.

Currently I'm working with a single company with Angular 8+, improving their tech stacks.

In my free time I love to develop games with Unity3D
(here you can find some examples)
, making music with FruityLoops (here you can find some examples)
or just improve my skills in coding.

Here you can find my profiles and personal websites:

nicawd.herokuapp.com
github.com/NicolaLC
linkedin.com/in/nicola-castellani-...

I'm here on dev.to to help and learn, maybe I could solve someone problems in the future! ^

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Mel

Hi! My name is Mel. I recently started my journey toward a career in coding and began to teach myself JavaScript a few months ago. I know I have a long way to go but I'm hopeful. I live in NYC - looking for other coders here that want to chat or develop something together!

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Michael Tharrington

Hope you enjoy the site! NYC is also home to DEV!

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Mithun Josalyn Gonsalvez • Edited

Hello World!!!

First post here.

I'm a developer, primarily coding in java... Here to learn and hopefully to contribute a bit.

Thank you all 🙃

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Alejandro Macari

Hello, I hope everyone is doing fine!

My name is Alejandro and I have been coding for about 3 years now and never really got into de dev community and know I plan to go in and enjoy with all of you.

I plan to write some articles from time to time about the tech I enjoy, the things I build and the experience I gather along the way (you can expect mainly web development or Linux stuff)

Hope we have a great time together

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yusufcodes

Hey Alejandro!

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Bryan Monsalvatge • Edited

Hey all!

My name is Bryan and have been readings articles on this site for some time. Figured it was finally time to make an account and join. I have begun to blog on a more regular cadence, and I am hoping I can contribute some to the wealth of knowledge already found on this site.

My main interests are DevOps, Automating all the things, iOS development, general development, and AWS.

Looking forward to get to know some of you.

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Jess Lee

Awesome! Welcome to the community :)

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Bruno Oliveira

Hey all!

I'm Bruno, a developer working with Java for close to three years now!

I worked as a problem setter and editorialist at Codechef, where I learned a lot, both from algorithms, as well as from a writing perspective.

Since I feel I've learnt a lot and keep growing as a dev, I figured writing about stuff that interests me and/or I find at my daily job, in here, can help me to both consolidate knowledge and share something useful with the community.

Cheers :)

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Coding Sam

Welcome to this awesome community! 👍

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Marcin K.

Hello! My name is Marcin and I am a software developer from Poland. I currently work in Golang and Ruby. Apart from programming, I like working out, watching UFC or some science videos and reading books.
I joined dev.to to get to know interesting stuff and hopefully share some too ;)
Here is my first post.

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John Stryker

Hello. Just heard about dev.to today - I guess that the rock I've been under has been stronger than I thought. Learning at ThatConference at Wisconsin Dells for a few days. Been a technologist in one form or another since the mid-70s. In other words, I'm old.

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swatiparge

Hi,
My name is Swati and I am a front-end developer.
I got interested in web developing when I was doing a mini project in college from then I am just getting more interest and now I'm interested in learning to react, angular.

Thank you and Have a nice day everyone

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Michael Tharrington

Welcome!

Quick tip: consider following the react - dev.to/t/react and angular - dev.to/t/angular tags as this will make more of these posts show up in your feed.

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sreekumartmsk

Hello Dev Community, I am a software engineer with hand full of experience, who enjoy coding, solving problems and learning cool stuffs.
Happy to land here!

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ferceg

Hi all,

My name is Ferenc and I work as a web (BE PHP) developer but I have some experiences in other fields (Java, Android, .NET and some more). I started programming when I was 12 on school C=16, C=+4, C=64 computers - it was a very-very long time ago :)
Unfortunately my everyday tasks don't offer too many intellectual challenges nowadays so I started to learn Rust and this provides me with a lot of frustrated and successful moments :)

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markplotlib

Hi all. I'm new here, a Computer Science Graduate Student at Seattle University, with a Master's in Quantitative International Economics, and a novice at Data Science Storytelling in Python. Seeking internships and entry-level opportunities. Looking forward to meeting people!

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Hugo Loza

Hello community!!

I'm glad to join. I'm a Software Engineering that loves to develop and with high passion doing software engineering and architecture.
It will be great to read all your great comments and really hope I can share good thoughts too!

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Eugene Ghanizadeh

Hellow

I am Eugene, and I have been a programming since I was 12 as an enthusiast and for 14 years now more professionally. I have been working in a range of companies from startups, super-small companies to ones big enough that you need to constantly learn and adapt to modern scaling and devops challenges, have worked as a programmer, designer, product-manager, team-leader (which is the short-form of "a link to HR department that also knows code so can do HR better with other programmers"), etc.

Currently I am working with a few startups in Munich, Germany, and am on a personal quest to try to make programming much friendlier to super-lazy-programmers by learning on how we can get rid of the "mud-work" and bring the fun and intellectually challenging aspects of it to the fore-front.

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Jerome Cukier

Hi! my name is Jerome and I learned data visualization by blogging about it and writing tutorials. That wasn't my original plan, but one thing led to another and that got me a job in the Silicon Valley, and eventually I became a bona fide engineer. Since I've been working in tech, though, I have written much less. I owe all of my success to sharing what I learned. I hope to be able to share again through dev.to.

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Michael H.

Hello all,

my name is Michael, I live in Stuttgart, Germany. I thought I'd introduce myself and say hi to you all. I've been an avid reader of dev.to for a couple of months and really appreciate what you are doing here. I've already learned so much just by reading new posts here and I look forward to taking the next steps in my personal programming journey.

I'm here for the "love of programming". In my day job, I'm the head of the language department at a community college here in town. Right now we have a strong focus on language classes for refugees and migrants coming to Germany and we coordinate funding programs for language classes by the federal government. At night I love to code and I try to learn something new everyday time. I'm not a developer by profession but programming has become a fascinating part of my life. I currently focus on C# and Javascript, but I've also dabbled in Python and Java.

Hope you guys will have a great week. See you soon, Michael

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Ben Halpern

I've been an avid reader of dev.to for a couple of months and really appreciate what you are doing here.

Welcome! Thank you!

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Martin Omander

Hi all!

Over the last few months, I have ended up on this website more and more often. I love the content, so after a few months of lurking, I decided to create an account. Gosh, who knew there was so much more Javascript one could learn? This website opened my eyes.

I enjoy teaching others how to use serverless technologies to solve their problems. Right now I'm working on a video series, and will post about it in the future.

All the best,

Martin

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Ben Halpern

Over the last few months, I have ended up on this website more and more often. I love the content, so after a few months of lurking, I decided to create an account.

Welcome Martin! That is exactly the journey we expect folks to go on, so we try not to be pushy with lurkers, just giving them a gentle nudge to join in. 🙂

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Matt Layman

Hi,

I'm Matt Layman. I'm a long time Python developer, but I have a general love for all kinds of software and languages.

I've been writing on my personal site for 11 years, and I thought I might share some of that content here and interact with this community.

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D3zibel

Hey guys!

My name ist Stefan and this is my first post und dev.to so far.

I am 23 years old, and I am currently working with Angular, TypeScript, Ionic und Spring at work and I am trying to get to know node.js in my free time. I was already working with Java in combination with Android so I am developing apps most of the time.

I hope that I will have a good time with you guys :)

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Jose

Hello all,

My name is Jose. I joined Dev because it seemed like a good community from the few posts I read. I am currently in the U.S. Navy (helicopter pilot) and will be transitioning to the civilian sector within a year. I am currently part of the Flatiron online full stack dev program and have loved everything I have learned so far (some HTML, CSS, lots of Ruby and Rails so far, React is next). Fun fact is that I started coding when I was 8 years old but took a 33-year hiatus to pursue the passion of flying.

I love helping others and can't wait to see what I can learn from everyone and I hope that I can add value and contribute to the conversations in this platform.

All the best always,
Jose

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Angel Young

Hello! My name is Angel. My goal is to be a front end developer but I an currently working as a Shopper for Amazon Prime Now. I have been looking for a job in the industry for over a year and I get jaded that I will never be able to break in. I have been building apps to build my skills and getting volunteer work. I feel like I am not doing enough to stand out to employers. Any help or advice will be welcomed. If I had tried it before, I will let you know.

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Sam Texas

Hey All! Happy to have joined here. I've seen the posts from Hacker News and elsewhere and decided to join up. Coming soon I will start posting my own thoughts and learnings about development, automation, leadership, and avoiding complexity in your organization.

Cheers!

Sam

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Buck Spencer

Hello fellow software affiliated folks,

I work at a very large company but I also do consulting on the side.
My strengths are in a few different languages and anything I don't know can usually be quickly solved with a google search ;)

I'm just looking to see what the community is up to and maybe even snag some extra work or give advice to anyone who will listen.

Feel free to reach out!

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Camilo Rincon

Hello All,

My name is Camilo Rincon, today is my first day in the community, I am based in Bogotá, Colombia. My current position is Frontend Developer at Amadeus, I have been working in web development since 2008.

I want to share my knowledge and experience with all of you and of course I would like to learn from all of you. Currently I am learning about automation , so any book, blog , video , will be very welcome.

Regards,

Camilo R

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Yechiel Kalmenson

Hola Camilio!

Welcome to DEV! We're so glad to have you!

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Pavlo Tyshchenko

Hello,
great, professionally, strong and cheerful
DEV community!

My name is Pavlo. I am full stack web engineer with specialization in Drupal with 11+ years of experience.

I have been reading dev.to a couple of years already and here I am now!

I will be very glad to join DEV and share my experience. Of course, it will be very interesting for me to learn something new from You, awesome DEVs!

Have a nice day, everyone!

P.S. I love short domain names! Briefly and to the point :D

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Brad

Hi,

I'm Brad, and I'm a full stack Typescript dev. I usually work with Angular, Typescript, Express, and MongoDB. I'm a Linux guy and a Pixelbook fan (currently on one now!)

I came to dev.to as a way to get development focused articles without any pay-walls, or ad-spam 😄. So far I love the platform!

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Michael Tharrington

Welcome Brad!!

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Gustavo Rago

Oh well, i don't know what to write about me, i'm so bad at this (that's why i'm a developer lol). I'm a native iOS and Android developer, and a fullstack web developer. I live in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

I'm really excited about a community focused on developers. I'm not exactly the "social network" type of guy, but i hope to contribute some way to this great community. Cheers!

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Chris Achard

Don't worry about being bad at writing - this is a great start :) Welcome!

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Gustavo Rago

Thank you Chris!