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Welcome Thread - v44

dev.to staff on October 09, 2019

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arctouch-thiagosantiago

Hi everyone, my name is Thiago and I am a Software Engineer. I started my carrier as an Android developer but in the past few years I’m focused on iOS, but I like to always learn new things too as Flutter (Dart), React Native, Go, Augmented Reality, and other crazy things. I’m from Manaus but I was living in São Paulo and now I'm living in Florianópolis. In my free time I like to read, play video games, practice sports (now that I’m here at Florianópolis I want to learn to surf too ) and between these things some doses of Netflix, but the most part of my free time I spend with my daughter and wife.
So, this is a little bit about me. 😬

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Chris Achard

Welcome Thiago! I love React Native :) - haven't had much experience with Flutter, but I hear it's good as well. Good luck learning to surf!

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erinoggz

Hello Chris. I'm having a hard time learning react native but I love it so much. I'm really interested in it.

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Chris Achard

It can be tricky for sure... what are you having the most trouble with?

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erinoggz

The Use of props in multiple pages and the navigation systems. Most tutorials I have on navigation are using a very old version.

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Chris Achard

Ah yes, that can get tricky. I tend to use Redux (or something else) for that - but yeah, it can be frustrating when tutorials are out of date (libraries move so fast!)

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Laura Gyre

Hi, I tried to post this already, but maybe it didn't go through? I have some background in web design, but am not working in tech currently. I recently decided to get more serious about app development, specifically doing a few Udemy courses on Flutter. I'm learning a lot and love it so far, but I feel like working alone I'm missing out on some important things like learning to communicate about coding, network, collaborate and other related real-world skills. I've also found it surprisingly hard to find discussion communities, especially ones that are friendly to beginners, so I'm happy to meet you all!

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Asha Coleman • Edited

Hey Laura,

The same thing happened with my post! I had to rewrite it for some reason, but I totally understand what you mean about it being lonely sometimes. I would feel lost on where to start with learning new stuff and feel like I don’t have any one who can help. Hopefully we’ll both find that here!

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afhare

Hi Asha— hard agree with looking for community when learning something new. If I can be a resource for you at all, I’m here! 🤓
-alex

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Katie Nelson • Edited

Mine disappeared too! Twice.

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raoufbelakhdar

Hi Laura, Welcome to Dev. I'm also a web designer who just discovered this wonderful community. I hope we will all learn a lot here :)

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afhare

Hi Laura! Glad to see I’m not the only person having difficulties with the posting going through— nice to meet you, and as a fellow beginner, looking forward to chatting about code in the future!
-alex

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Victor

Hi all! My name is Victor, I've been lurking around here for a while and I figured I would finally step up and introduce myself.

In order to exist in our capitalist society, I work for a prominent college and help manage their websites, which are built on Drupal.

For my own enjoyment, I am studying programming languages (currently Javascript) in order to build my own programming languages so that I can make some super weirdo crazy stuff.

Quick Facts!

  • I am self taught, with all the invisible icebergs that I anticipate hitting head-on every day.
  • My GitHub account looks like a junk drawer: @goodnovember
  • My views are my own and not necessarily that of my employer.
  • Trans Rights are Human Rights.
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Missael

¡Hola victor! También soy self-taught en javascript y en mis inicios pensé en crear mi propia librería/lenguaje, la única diferencia es que ni siquiera imaginé el montón de icebergs que supone ser autodidacta jaja Deduje por tu nombre que también hablas español, pero pensándolo bien, no es una idea muy solida. Anyway, have a good day!

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dr. jess

Hi Victor!

I'm self taught (peer taught? youtube taught?) also! I totally understand the invisible icebergs. How have you found learning javascript in comparison with other languages you have worked with?

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Nathan Eggers

Hi Victor! Self-taught programming can be tricky, but it does shape you into the programmer you want to be. I've learned the hard way how college can push you sharply into certain IDE's and programming languages. Sometimes I wish I could go back to self-study... it was slow-going at times though.

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Ben Halpern

Welcome Victor!

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anpams

Hi Victor!
Building your own programming language sounds really cool, please let me know when I can join you in the weirdo crazy stuff!

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Ray Smets

Hi humans,

I love computers. Particularly the networking elements that allow mass, real time data flow. I also love tinkering with micro controllers + sensors in my free time.

Professionally leading the backend efforts in an IoT startup (a little oxymoronic, kind of, but not really)

Cool site and seemingly awesome community goin' on here!

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Chris Achard

Hello back to you fellow human! 🤪 I have messed with hardware (arduino + sensors, etc) in the past... fun! Are you working on any neat projects at the moment?

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Ray Smets • Edited

I ordered a bunch of the new Particle Argon boards docs.particle.io/argon/ but haven't had time todo much with them. Impressive how beefy they are! With so many peripherals baked in. Have worked mostly with Arudino based guys as well in the past.

This is my favorite, strictly person project github.com/rsmets/Motion-Controlle.... MPU 650 accelerometer/gyro chip + teensy 3.2 and leds makes for a buttonless "flow" controller led cane.

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Chris Achard

I hadn't seen the particle argon board before - and that project looks neat! Thanks for the links :)

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Nathan Eggers

Hi Ray! IoT, that seems kinda awesome. I've been doing some deep digging on the topic lately... it's got some real potential. I hope that I will begin to understand networking one day... it's a crazy deep topic which can lead you down the rabbit hole into some deep mathematics like fuzzy computation, wavelets, and graph theory though.

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Essa

Hi human, I love computers too.

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Israa Gargar • Edited

Hello
Peace and Respect
My name is Israa Gargar
I am from Sudan. 🇸🇩
I have just started a software development career
I have a strong background about Agile especially in the scrum
But our market here doesn't value good management skills🙁
...
I have been watching people coding for a while... Therefore because of, I am a knowledge 📖 seeker with 💪 passionate about coding and logic
I decided to start a programming career
Now I am learning react as my target is to go mobile with react native.
So here I am among you holding my golden dream ✨

PS.
I miss The Arabic language in the above Pic 😩

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Essa

Hi Israa. I'm Essa.
Welcome here

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Israa Gargar

Thanks ✨😎

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usalih

Hello....nice bio

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Israa Gargar

😊🤗 appreciate your comment

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Khryseos0

Hello Israa. Welcome to DEV.to. I think it's awesome how you refer to your journey learning technology as your Golden Dream. Very inspirational.

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Kevin Rue-Albrecht

Hi all,

I'm Kevin, a computational biologist / postdoctoral researcher with a passion for open source software development, automation, and DevOps.

My day to day work involves workflows made of R, Python and Bash, but I've also worked with web-technologies like NodeJS and React, and C# and the .NET framework.

I love hearing about new technologies!

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Mats

Awesome to see some Scientists around here! Welcome :)

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Courtney Kirkham

Hi Kevin! What sort of work do you do as a computational biologist?

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Kevin Rue-Albrecht

I work with big data that lab scientists generate from biological samples. Those can come from hospital patients or lab experiments on cell and bacteria. A lot of the time, that means comparing healthy and diseased tissues and cells to identify genes and proteins that are altered during diseases like inflammation or infection.

For that I use mostly open source software such as R and Python packages to write scripts and workflows that I run on high-performance computing clusters, to parallelise the processing of samples on as many cores as I can.

Additionally, I particularly enjoy refactoring, testing, and documenting the code that I write for my project, to openly distribute it with other academics who can use it in their own work, but also contribute back to my repositories like I do with theirs, making software easier to use and more efficient for everyone!

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Anubhav Madhav

Hello Everyone, I am Anubhav Madhav and I am a Computer Science Student at Indian Institute of Information Technology, Vadodara, India. I know basics of C, C++, Java, Python and Web Development. I am interested in Artificial Intelligence, so will start learning Machine Learning very soon. I have also created an Action for Google Assistant, you can try that quiz on your Google Assistant by saying "Talk to Avengers in India", and enjoy the quiz. I am a big fan of Marvel Cinematic Universe. Currently working on a project for Train_Ticket_Booking_System using django framework. This was a bit about me. 😊

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Essa

✌️

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Chris Achard

Hi Anubhav! Welcome to DEV :) What are you excited to learn about Artificial Intelligence?

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T(h)om

Hi,

My name is Tom and I'm Full-Stack engineer out of Chicago. I'm into React, Docker, Node pretty much anything. Looking forward to learning from this community.

I'm looking to make the jump to freelance and would love to hear people's experiences. Such a scary decision to make!

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Biplap Bhattarai

Hello T(h)om. Welcome to DEV.

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Nick Taylor

Welcome to DEV T(h)om!

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Rajitha Gunathilake

nice to meet react devs

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Glad Chinda • Edited

Hi everyone, my name is Glad Chinda and I am glad that I finally get to join this awesome dev community. I am a Frontend UX Engineer currently based in Lagos. I am a lover of JavaScript (TypeScript) and get to work with React and NodeJS in my day-to-day job. In the past I have also worked with PHP and Laravel for building web applications.

I am very enthusiastic about web technologies and always try to make out time to write technical articles and build or contribute to open source projects. When I am not working, I am either reading, seeing a movie, or spending time with friends and family.

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Robert Gold

It's great to see you're utilizing React day-to-day, Glad! Where can we follow your technical articles and do you have a GitHub?

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Glad Chinda

I my articles can be found in a handful of publications on the web — here is a list:

For my contributions and activities on GitHub, you can find my Github profile here: github.com/gladchinda

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Eric Khun • Edited

Hi there! I’m Eric, infrastructure engineer at Buffer. I do all kind of things backend related! I like python and go a lot. If that's interesting, I've just finished to migrated all the applications for Buffer to Kubernetes few weeks ago.

I’ve been working remotely since 2013 now, from different places in the world. I happen to be mostly between Europe and Asia, but Asia is definitely my favorite part of the world!

Nice to meet you all!

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Jesse M. Holmes

Welcome, Eric! It's nice to meet you, too!

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Joel Pagliuca

Been doing a lot more Go than Python lately, but still like them both!

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César Augusto Delgado Rodríguez

Hi,

I'm Cesar Delgado, from Venezuela, but living in Madrid, Spain.

I'm a Software Engineer, and I consider myself a Fullstack Developer.

I've worked with web frontend technologies like React, Polymer and backend technologies like Java, PHP, Node.js Javascript, etc.

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Chris Achard

Welcome Cesar! Glad to have you on DEV :)

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Joan Perals

Hi César, welcome!

I wonder what's your feeling about Polymer? I used to find it so promising but it never got as much adoption as I hoped.

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mg, thx

Hi Everyone! My name is Chloe and I'm a CS student. I am working on C++ as my first language, with an interest in databases, ML, gamedev, and pretty much anything else I can get my hands on. My goal is to expand my view of what software development actually is, and find as many useful bits as possible to craft a mastery of my first love (C++) and generate interest in other languages (I need help loving Java, for example).

I am a BIG BIG believer in community and I LOVE sharing this space with others! My community strengths include engaging with others on nearly any topic and (hopefully) making it a productive conversation via exploratory and investigative questions. Another strength of mine is to offer emotional encouragement for the tough and emotionally taxing task of learning something new! I am so excited to share my strengths with you and learn from you all as we grow on our journeys. Thanks for reading, happy developing!

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Jesse M. Holmes

Welcome, Chloe!

Community is what brought me here. ♥ Excited to follow your journey!

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mg, thx

Hi, Jesse! Thanks for the warm welcome. <3

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Darko Pranjic

Hello everyone,

I'm Darko from Croatia. Working professionally as a Software Engineer for the past 3 years.

How I started
Before professional career I've worked as a Computer technician for the 8 years. At age 24 decided to enroll in college and there found my love for programming and something what my brain likes - solve problems.

Started with building first applications in free time with PHP, Laravel, Javascript, jQuery for my team in previous company.

My first professional job was frontend developer using Vue.js and worked this for 7 months. Then I've started to dig deeper into Javascript stack with Node.js.

Current job and stack
Found current job as a Fullstack developer using React, Node.js, GraphQL. With this job my knowledge has drastically expanded as my team had knowledge and I started to stay in company to learn for few more hours just so that I could have possibility to work remotely.

Now I can say to have deep knowledge of setting up web servers, using most of the AWS services, building Node.js backend, GraphQL, using React Native, React, Apollo platform, Redis, etc...

Free time
In free time spending time with my wife, friends, playing every now and then PES, working out few times a week.

Future plans
Currently learning GoLang. Will try ML.
Hope to start writing blogs, maybe to start with writing about current development problems on what I stumble and how I got to solutions.

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Chris Achard

Welcome Darko! Good to have you here on DEV :) Do you work remotely now, or you're just hoping to in the future? Either way: good luck! It looks like you have a nice list of popular technologies that you can use; looks good!

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Darko Pranjic

Thanks Chris,

Yes I'm working fulltime remote since May. :)

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Vanessa Aristizabal

Hello everyone, My name is Vanessa Aristizabal, I am a Frontend Developer, from Colombia and I live in Medellin, Colombia. I am always learning new things. I am passionate about technologies. Besides code I like to draw and read a lot and I expect I can share here my knowledge and my code cartoons

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Courtney Kirkham

Hi Vanessa! Do you have your cartoons hosted anywhere online? I'd love to check them out!

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Vanessa Aristizabal

Hi!! well I am creating a Gitbook with some of my cartoons but I expect to start moving here my cartoons next month here.
My gitbook have Spanish content
ngchallenges.gitbook.io/project/

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dj-khandelwal

Hello everyone! I am Dheeraj, a student currently pursuing a Masters degree in Information Systems. I have some experience in Java, C++, SQL, JavaScript, and React Native amongst a few other technologies. Outside of tech, I enjoy soccer, hiking, pizza, and beer!

Joined here to learn about Open Source. Open Source is something that has always fascinated me but I have stayed away thus far under the assumption that one has to be super smart, super skilled, or an expert to be able to contribute. Google suggested me an article @sduduzog wrote a couple days back and it's inspired me to try and explore to see if I can contribute as well!

Anyway, Cheers!

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Nathan Eggers

Hello Dheeraj, do not be afraid to embrace open-source. Even small contributions can be welcome on many projects. If you start your own repository on Git-Hub, I suggest using an MIT license or one of the other permissive licenses. The sum of combined effort can exceed the effort of one person. Playing with your own repository can be a good way to learn Git-Hub commands.

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dj-khandelwal

I have worked with Git/Github before, just never used it outside of work/school!
Starting to take a look at Open Source a little bit more seriously now + exploring how I can help!

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Sdu

Welcome and thank you for the plug. This really made me happy.

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dj-khandelwal

Thank you for bringing me here! :)

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Ryan Tiner • Edited

Hi there,

My name is Ryan and I'm here to learn more about Java, Kotlin, Android programming, etc. I'm really looking forward to exchanging correspondence with some of you. I found out about this website through reddit.com.

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Willem Ellis

Hello all,

My name is Willem and I'm here to try and connect more with the developer community at large. I've been developing software in some capacity for almost a decade now. I'm particularly interested in learning more from others about all things freelancing.

Thanks!

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Asha Coleman

Hi everybody 👋🏽

My name is Asha (pronounced like Asia but the “shh” sound) and I am currently a grad student in Media Design switching from a career in mental health counseling. It’s been pretty freeing and people have been very welcoming in the tech community, but with my only knowing HTML and CSS, it’s been really hard for me to do any projects outside of tutorials like freeCodeCamp or The Odin Project. I recently started the 100 Days of Code and didn’t make it through the first week because I didn’t know how to do much and the projects I looked up were beyond my skills. So! I’ve decided to join more communities, make new friends and get messy! I plan to use this site to help find projects, stay connected and give myself time to at least learn JavaScript before I restart my code challenge. I look forward to talking with you all!

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johnGachihi

Hi guys. I'm John Gachihi from Nairobi, Kenya. I'm a CS student. I am a beginner in development (sort of). I have a fondness for android development but also work on web apps from time to time.
I am currently trying to figure out docker, kubernetes and CI/CD.

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Courtney Kirkham

Welcome, John!

Are you learning through a particular program or self taught?

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Jesse M. Holmes

Welcome, John!

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QV Develop • Edited

Hi everyone,

Started as an iOS developer but gradually moved to Android development. Now I am moving to web development in my free time. Like to learn and try to make simple javascript libraries that other developers can use. Always working on side projects. ❤️ Coding and trying to get into streaming my coding sessions.

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Arik

Great to have you here and see what you make!

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QV Develop

Thanks for the welcome 😃

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Michelle More

Hi, this is Michelle from Perú :)

I'm a Front-end Developer with Graphic Design background. I'm looking for improve my career and expand my knowledge in other areas like back-end.

Sure I'll learn a lot here!

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Jesse M. Holmes

Welcome, Michelle!

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Sohail Ahmad

Hi everyone, really excited to join the community. I code daily, learn almost daily and do sketching and drawing almost monthly. In a state of war with myself to avoid procrastination. Hope you guys are good and enjoying your life... :)

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Cristina Ruth

Hello all, I'm Cristina and I have been in tech for 6 years now since I graduated college. I started as an intern, worked my way up the ladder and I'm now a senior dev and lead a team of devs through various development projects from start to finish.

Nowadays, technical skills are on the lower-end of the spectrum for me in terms of learning. I love learning instead about leadership topics and other soft skills like communication, team alignment and working with various people.

Since I started as an intern and wouldn't be where I am today without the mentoring I received, I am a strong advocate for junior dev mentoring, and believe that all companies should expect to hire devs with limited experience and should reserve resources to onboard them and hone their skills.

I also strongly believe in pairing and I LOVE pairing to share knowledge with co-workers or even with the entire team, as applicable.

I found my way here from twitter about how this is a welcoming community. I am looking forward to getting to know the DEV community more and hope I can contribute in some way 😄

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Jesse M. Holmes

Welcome, Cristina! Pairing is essential!

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Calvin Fronda

Hello All, my name is Calvin Fronda and I am a full stack web developer based out Los Angeles. I started my career in 2018 building websites from CMS like Wix, Squarespace and wordpress. I wanted to build something from scratch so I started to self teach myself web development. After burning through every tutorial known to man, I felt the need to go to something more structured so I attended a coding bootcamp in my area. They taught me the foundations, but I'm still learning everyday.

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Chris Achard

Welcome Calvin! How did you find attending a bootcamp? I hear they can be pretty intense :)

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Calvin Fronda

Hey Chris! It was very challenging, but one of the most satisfying things I've ever done. Working in groups and solving problems as a team is very rewarding. You really need to give up a lot of fun things in life, like playing games or going out because of the intensity of the program. Besides that I had a great time and still connect with everyone in my cohort!

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Chris Achard

That's really cool :) - that's one thing I miss about college - the ability to work with friends on some really hard project until 2am, and then feel a huge sense of accomplishment when it's over :)

Glad you enjoyed it!

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Houssem

I can't think of much 😂 ... so Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat.

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Chris Achard

😂 - hm, how about: what's your favorite tech stack right now?

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anpams

I wish I would have thought about this. I can't believe I wrote a whole introduction instead!

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Parth Mangi

Hello Amigos

I write iOS Apps and enthu for all kind of tech-related stuff.

I majorly work remotely and this is my maybe first Remote Community which I have hope to get into it.

You know guys that ideal community in one programmer's mind like StackOverflow.😄

I am here to look out for anything and everything.

Still to be specific:-

1) New Projects and Opportunities to Learn and Grow
2) Long-lasting relations with Remote Workers wanted to know their stories and them.
3) Help ther fellow developers in a community in their projects technically or any way possible maybe like testing, needs a document review, etc.

So yeah this is basically a short version of myself.

Hola Again and I hope to connect with awesome people here.

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Chris Achard

Hello! Welcome to DEV :)

How do you like working remotely? What are the biggest 2 or 3 challenge with it?

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Parth Mangi

Well, right now I am working with on US Client remotely. We have one decided timeframe at which we daily meet and share the progress and tasks in the meeting.

We use screenshotmonitor tracker to track my work and hours spent on GSuite for our professional communication needs.

Challenges of working remotely are that you have to create your own working habits and time schedules as per the country you are working for.

Also, I need to complete the provided task on or before the deadline none the less there is any reason like technical or any delay from client-side then its okay.

Rest is not much challenging to work remotely all homely environment and work at your own schedule does provide more freedom and flexibility over your lifestyle.

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Chris Achard

Those are good insights, thanks! ... yes, timezones can definitely be a challenge :) And I've also felt the challenge of making your own work habits at home. Sounds like you're doing well though!

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Parth Mangi

I am just learning and applying myself.😅

So What about you Chris?

Which technologies are you working on?

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Chris Achard

I love using React and React Native, and either Node with express, or Ruby on Rails on the backend :)

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hilesh aswani • Edited

Hello Everyone, I am hilesh and i work as a professional data engineer. I would love to expand my understanding on other aspects of software engineering and I hope this channel would help me level up my overall software dev skills

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Chris Achard

Hello Hilesh! DEV is a great place to hang out and level up your software dev skills :)

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bANSHEE-dev • Edited

Hello everyone, my name is Andrey, I from Belarus and I am front-end developer, I'm here to learn more about HTML, CSS, JavaScript. I just begginer. I very like fronet-end. My native language is Russian; I also study English. I will be glad to any acquaintances and pen-friends

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Chris Achard

Welcome Andrey! Good to have you on DEV :)

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Rogier Zeebregts

Hi All, I'm Rogier Zeebregts from the Netherlands. Been developing for about 10 years now, so why I didn't join you all earlier, beats me ;-)
My interests are with Frontend (ok, and Backend) developing. Javascript (VueJs/Nuxt in particular), SCSS and Symfony are my strong points. I have some experience in Nativescript (Vue) and also GraphQl.

Besides this I have a passion for music. Listening to and collecting vinyl, to play in my house, as well as playing for an audience as a dj (exclusive vinyl).
Hope to learn a lot from you as well as be able to advise.

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Chris Achard

Welcome to DEV Rogier! What do you think of GraphQL so far? I've done some sample projects with it, but haven't had a chance to use it in a big production app yet.

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Rogier Zeebregts

Thanks Chris. I'm intrigued by GraphQL, but I still have a long way to go! ;-) For me it's also still sampling and testing.

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Moctar Diallo

Hello everyone,
I am Moctar Diallo. I love engineering and chose software development as my passion. I've spent just two years in college then dropped out, just to be able to freely chase high quality educational content from online to learn on. Three years later I'm very confident of my self and here I am! Along the way I specialized into machine learning/deeplearning and now I consider myself as a data scientist.
I am from Dakar-Senegal and I am 26 years old. My hobbies are football(soccer), reading the internet again and again and again😁, and also playing football(again); I also like to walk a lot and meditation which helps me take in shape in a good spirit. That was a little about me. Thanks!

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Chris Achard

Welcome Moctar! Good to have you on DEV :) That's awesome that you've been able to learn just online after those first 2 years of college! Any really good resources you'd like to share for learning software dev?

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Moctar Diallo

Hey @chris sorry for this too late response, I'm not yet quite familiar with the platform dev.to but it is coming!
Speaking about my online courses it was nearly all from the MITOpencourseware. Also some from coursera specially for machine learning and deeplearning courses. That was a wonderful e experience in a path that I never regret following.
Thanks guys for the warm welcoming! I'm pleased!

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Hamza Hummam

Hi Everyone ! my name is Hamza Hummam, I am a Software Engineer ,I Started my career as a Fullstack Web Developer. I have experience as a Laravel, Wordpress and Embedded System Developer.Currently I am working as a Fullstack web developer in Pakistan based IT Company. I really like to learn alot about anything and everything :D .

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Chris Achard

Welcome Hamza! Good luck in your new fullstack web dev career!

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Hamza Hummam

Thank you sir

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Onayemi Hajarah

Hi, this is Hajarah Onayemi from Nigeria :)

I'm a Front-end and Back-end Developer. I'm looking for improve my career and expand my knowledge in other areas like Frameworks.

Sure I'll learn a lot here!

Thanks!

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Chris Achard

Hello, and welcome to DEV! What type of frameworks are you most interested in?

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Caio Cesar • Edited

Hey Guys,

My name Caio Sousa, I'm a Web Developer from Brazil, working mainly on .NET Web Applications. I have experience with classic ASP, Web Forms and ASP.NET Core. I'm also a graduate student where I research Software Engineering and Accessibility. I'm currently learning more about Software Testing, Azure and ASP.NET Core. I enjoy spending time with my family and watching movies.

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Yaser Al-Najjar

Hi Caio,

Would love to see your articles about ASP .NET Core and Azure 😉

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Caio Cesar • Edited

#softwaretesting#acessibility#webdev#.netcore

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Chilusoft

Hi Dev Community, my name is Chilufya Mukuka and I am an enthusiast programmer from Zambia, dreaming to become a professional Software Engineer some day in the future. I write code in Python and Typescript. I have worked with Django, Angular 1 & 2+ and now I am learning how to make APIs with ExpressJS in node. I look forward to learn tons of other stuff from Community

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Chris Achard

Welcome to DEV! Good luck on your journey to become a professional Software Engineer!

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Dana G

Hi there, it's Dana here. So glad I found this community through someone I follow on twitter! I really like how everyone's friendly here.
I'm software engineer now, my whole way to this role looks like this though: ISP techsupport --> ISP system administrator --> network engineer --> system administrator --> software dev --> senior software dev --> devops --> software engineer. Now my goal is become software architect and I have a lot to learn!
Currently working in awesome IoT startup. My favorite languages to use are python and golang.
I spend my free time polishing my drawing skills, I like the idea that one should have something for brain (that's my job), for hands (that would be drawing) and for body (I love walking and dancing).
Alright, that's me, nice to meet you all!

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Chris Achard

Welcome Dana! Yes, I love how friendly people are here as well - it's a great community! What type of things do you like to draw the most?

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Dave Freeman

Hello! My name is Dave and I, too, am a software engineer...at least that's what my HR entry lists :D

I started my professional development career as part of Developer Relations for Palm/HP helping customers write web apps for webOS on the HP TouchPad and Palm webOS phones. Since then, I've stuck around webOS while we weathered many storms only to come out alive as LG's premiere smart TV operating system and new app framework, Enact.

Before that I spent many years consulting for enterprise customers on various IBM products and delivered technical training for some Tivoli security products.

While my path to software development was long and winding, I always knew I wanted to do it and finally made it happen for myself.

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Anton Shumeiko

Hello! My name is Anton, I am from Ukraine.
I am desired to start a new career as a Web Developer.
I already got some pieces of knowledge in vanilla JavaScript, and now trying to get some of React magic) I am working on the MovieDB project right now.
I am motivated self-learner and searching for help, inspiration and useful articles here from you, guys)

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vijaydandu

Hi Anton,

Welcome to dev.to . Is your project similar to imdb ? Do you plan to host video streaming too ?

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Janessa Tran

Hi all!

My name is Janessa and I will be starting my professional programming role soon as a Junior Software Engineer. I started learning full-stack web development through The Odin Project back in January, learning HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Ruby, and Ruby on Rails. More recently, however, I just finished The Road to React.

Outside of programming I like cats, yoga, running, and guitar. Excited to join this community and hoping to get to know some folks here 🎉

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anpams

Hi Janessa,
congrats for your role as junior software engineer!

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Janessa Tran

Thank you!! :)

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Courtney Kirkham

What's The Odin Project?

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Shahjada Talukdar

Hi everyone 👋

I am Shahjada, Senior Software Engineer @eBay.
I joined dev.to few months ago, but never saw this kinda post.
So saying HI 😄 better late than never

I started writing posts already,
Please check out here dev.to/destro_mas

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anpams

Hello!

I'm Ana from Spain, I love cs and robots. I'm starting studying python and trying to not get scared during technical interviews.

My goal is to develop software that would help people, but until I'm rich I'm forced to work selling products for money. ew.

I'm really bad with introductions!!
Nice to meet you all!

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Chris Achard

Welcome Ana! Yeah, technical interviews can be intimidating... good luck!

Hopefully you can find a position where you can both help people, and make money :) They do exist!

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Shane

Hello World! I found the DEV Community through my participation in Hacktoberfest! This is my third year as a Hacktoberfest contributor. I work as a technology coordinator for a library which means I wear a lot of hats :) I'm currently interested in web design, smart-home technology and raspberry pi projects.

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Chris Achard

Welcome to DEV Shane! Have you done any neat home tech projects yet? I'm always kind of looking to get into that, but then get pulled away to other projects 😂

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Jose Arteaga

Hi fellows, I'm José and I'm a software developer. I'm here because I want to learn from you, and everything that I learn since now, I would like to share it with you, because the best way to to speed up the learning process is sharing the new knowledge with others, and it's also a good way to practice and do not forget it.

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Cheeba Medic

I just came across this community. It seems interesting and i give it a try.

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Joe Zack

Welcome!

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Jacob Herrington (he/him)

Hi! Welcome to DEV 🤠

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Gene Hyatt

Hello all! My name is Gene. I'm a frontend engineer for an amazing tech company in Berkshire County MA. Currently we are using React for most of our web apps. The other one is in Angular JS 1 (when I wrote it there was no 2 yet) and that one is almost done being rewritten in React. I also know PHP, python and I love working with node. In my free time I play video games, table top games, hike and all sorts of other things. I look forward to contributing to the community.

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Nitin Reddy

Hello everybody!

I am Nitin Reddy and I am currently an ERP consultant. I worked as a full-time software developer till a few years ago but I continue to contribute to the organization that I work for by writing code. My first for-pay project was in Java, I briefly became an Oracle and MS SQL Server database administrator, then I was a full-time C# developer, a PHP developer, and now write code in Python and Ruby. I developed some apps (internal to the organization I worked for) for Android (Java) and iOS (Swift).

I live in Dubai and worked in Abu Dhabi after my office shifted last year... till a few weeks ago. The daily Dubai-Abu Dhabi commute took a lot out of me and left me with little time to read or do anything at all after work hours. One of the first things I did after resigning was to sign up on Dev.to!

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Chris Achard

Welcome to DEV Ehsan! Glad you could join :)

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Łukasz Kobylski

Hello everybody,
My name is Lukasz and I'm a Software Developer. I have been programing for 10 years. Started in web technologies like PHP, throug frontend (HTML, CSS, Javascript) and now I'm working in backend. I currently work mainly in Go and NodeJS. I like learn new things. In my free time I create something in IoT (RaspberryPi and Arduino). I'm living in Poland but work for Netherlands AdTech company.

Nice to meet you all!

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Thomas Bnt

Welcome to DEV Community ! 🎉

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Shoji Takashima

Hello! My name is Shoji and I am a Software Engineer. Currently busy as an intern at a startup, but trying to do some side projects and learn new technology. I am currently interested in React and have created some things with it, which I enjoyed. Honestly I did not think I would enjoy working with frontend work, but surprisingly it was very exciting. I was primarily focused on being a backend engineer, but have shifted my focus to more of a full stack.

PS: sorry if isn't appropriate place, but my internship will end soon and if anyone knows a lead I would appreciate the help! Thank you~

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Chris Achard

Welcome to DEV Shoji! Sorry, I don't have any good job leads for you :) but good luck!

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Nandhakumar7792

Hi All! I am web developer. I started with C# & ASP.NET and now more focused on JavaScript. I have started revisiting the basics [HTML, CSS & JS] and venturing out into React & Redux. I came to know about dev.to from twitter and was keen to know more about it. Thank you!

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Chris Achard

Welcome to DEV! This is a great place to stay on top of React :) It can move fast! So I like how I can just come to DEV to see what's new and interesting.

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Diego Andai Castilla

Hi! My name is Diego Andai, I'm currently finishing my software engineering studies. I've done research on deep learning but I'm more focused now on software development. What I love most about the dev world is the opportunity to work in different fields, from web pages to airplanes' software.

I also love stand up comedy so if you have any recommendations let me know! Comedians I like the most probably are Tom Segura and Daniel Sloss.

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Chris Achard

Hi Diego, welcome! If you like tech things and standup comedy - here's a standup comic that does nerdy comedy: Matt Parker (this ones's about spreadsheets! youtube.com/watch?v=UBX2QQHlQ_I) I wouldn't call it the best comedy out there; but it's still pretty great 😂

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Sofiane Mekhaba

Hi everybody.
My name is Sofiane, I'm Software Engineer. I'm curious about developing challenged Software. Actually I'm focusing for developing with Java Spring framework.
In fact, I'm her to share and to get the knowledge.
Thanks and have a great day.

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kingfaize • Edited

Hello community.
My name is Faisal. Am from Ghana. As soon as I joined DeV I could not help but notice the warmness of this community. I felt this is a group that can help me put out the ideas that I have in my head to solve real world African problems. If you care about people, then please help me with this project.
github.com/kingfaize/MTNGH-BULK-PA...
On github

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Akanksha Sonkar

Hello fellow developers!

I am Akanksha Sonkar an underGrad studying software engineering in India. My passion for coding initially began with learning basic DS/Algorithms and Competitive Programming and learning AI and DL. I have learnt various languages and made simple projects in java,using spring, C++ and python. And now I am looking forward to make clean and functional applications that will make a positive impact .

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Nate Steiner

Hello, I'm Nate. I followed Chris Coyier here from a twitter post that linked to a dev.to post he made here. I've been making websites forever. Lately I'm interested in VueJS and feeling lucky that I can incorporate it into client work!

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Chris Achard

Welcome Nate! Good to have you on DEV :)

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impostrophe

Oh hi, didn't see you there. I'm a software engineering student. I used to have a business buying and selling games and we had a LAN center type of thing too. One made the money; the other is where we spent all our time. I always wanted to make games but instead I was selling and playing them. No one likes a (bad) idea guy, so now I'm back in school.

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matt short

Hey, my name is Matt and i call myself a dev. i do platform engineering stuff, so think of automated deployments to azure/aws with azure devops/octopus/whatever.

I'm good enough at git, powershell, terraform but looking to fill gaps and add knowledge of good processes.

not sure how many platform devs are on here, it seems to be more software dev, but i'll see if i can't learn some bits and maybe help out of platform stuff comes up.

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Chris Achard

Welcome to DEV Rangsiman! A computational chemist... that's awesome! Do you just use a super big AWS computer (or similar), or is there custom hardware for that?

Every time the welcome thread gets too long they make a new one - so v44 is just the 44th time they've made a new one. It's the latest one currently - so you posted in the right spot :)

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Edore E U

Hello guys am Edore EMMANUEL, am actually new to coding,have been on and off at it before now(procrastinating)...just recently decided to be serious with it,currently using free resources like FCC and one paid udemy course. Well I came here because it discusses about programming (Js precisely ) so anything that will reinforce my will to learn ...I will need love . As am trying to make a career in Tech. I hope to learn alot from you guys post.thanks

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Odwa Cwerhelihle Kula

Hello everyone. My name is Odwa Cwerhelihle Kula and I have just started with my Web & Software Development career. I have recently built a Greeting app with Java and a web page for a non-profit organization running at my community and that is how I am testing my skills. I have fallen in love with coding and I am excited about what it has instore for me.
The main reason why I joined this platform is to interact with other devs and get exposure as much as I can because I love learning new things and being challenged.
For now, that's it form me. Stay blessed everyone!

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Yiming Chen

Hi everyone! I'm Yiming Chen, a software developer from China.

I love programming in Elixir and Ruby. I'm also an advocator for TDD
and other XP practices. I write a lot about all of these at:
yiming.dev/ In this blog, I have also put down some thoughts on
Agile and management as well. So if you can check it out and leave any
feedback you have, I'd be really appreciated.

I've been a dev.to reader for a long time. So I think it's time for me
to contribute back. I'll cross post my articles here. And if you have
any questions about Elixir, Ruby, Testing, Management, feel free to
reach out to me!

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Max G

Hi there! I'm Max. I'm a GCSE student in the UK. I can program confidently in Python 3, and I am in the process of learning basic HTML to make a website showcasing my photography (photography--maxgowers.repl.co). I look forward to sharing ideas and help here at dev.to!

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Ben Sonira

Hi everyone, I am Bensonira and I am a junior web developer since 2018. At this time I work as a php/symfony developer.So I'd like to improve my skills about web technology like React,js and so one. I like also to learn new things from software Engineer and share my experience.That why I join this community.
So this is a litle about me

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Önder Akbaş

Hello everybody,
I am Onder from Istanbul Turkey. I am software engineer.
For a long time, I used Java based technologies.

I participated in different web and backend development projects.
Since the beginning of 2018, I changed my technology stacks.
I learnt React Native, React.Js, TypeScript, Node.Js, ES6, Docker, GraphQL (server:Prima, client:Apollo).
I developed a social media app by using those technologies (waidapp.com)
I love open source projects and I can be a member of good projects.
Best Regards.

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Chris Achard

Welcome to DEV Onder!

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Ben Kincaid

Hey everyone! My name is Ben from Boston Massachusetts. I have a background in automation and devops. Currently I’m on a project developing a serverless application written primarily in python. I’m my free time I try to write automation and configuration for my home lab. Still trying to improve my development skills. Looking forward to doing so with all of you!

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GiulianoL24

Hey there! my name is Giuliano! I'm from Buenos Aires, Argentina. I'm very enthusiastic about Web Dev. Currently, learning new JS frameworks like React and trying to create cool things as a freelancer!

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cuznz

Hello.
Newbie to this type of environment and all things web dev. I wrote some basic web pages 20+ years ago. Looking for recommendations for starting out learning web dev - everything from setting up my system to tools of choice to where to start.

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Cassandre Henriquez

Hey everyone, my name is Cassandre and I'm a Front end developer. I really enjoy UI because of the creative aspect of it. I worked with Angular, jQuery and a few custom js frameworks. A co-worker of mine recommended this community, because I wanted to place to connect with other devs, learn some new things, and pick some challenges. I'm currently learning Java and Vue.js, mostly because it will help me at work, but also because I want to be a full stack dev (not using Node). On a different note, I do enjoy dancing, drawing, going out for dinners and shows & traveling whenever I can. :)

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Ben Sinclair

Not enough developers talk about going dancing :)

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Louis Sayers

Hi all!

I'm Louis, I'm a full stack developer with around 10 years industry experience.

Currently I'm building up JobReady.dev, and helping web developers land their first job in the industry.

That being said, I'm also continually learning, and feel like I'm only just getting started. Joining Dev.to is another new thing for me, and I'm looking forward to being involved in the community.

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Nick Taylor

Welcome to DEV! 👋

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Ujjwal Kumar Sittu
  1. Hi, I Am Ujjwal Kumar Sittu. Android Developer at MNC. I am just 17 years old creating my identity with my codes. I am very much involved in learning Flutter , recently @imthepk(:twitter) has introduced me with Flutter for Web, very much Paasionate about it.
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C:\ourtney • Edited

Hello everyone! My name is Courtney and I am currently a computer science student. Right now I am learning C#, JavaScript/TypeScript and Java. I graduate with my associates in the summer of 2020 and with that I am hopeful to start my career in technology. I am really looking forward to meeting you all!

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Vicente G. Reyes

Hi Courtney! Welcome to DEV!

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Lucas Marinzeck • Edited

Hey, I'm Computer Science student and I just started my career as developer. I've been working at infrastructure area (with Docker, AWS and Linux environments) since the start of this year but I finally switched to dev area, which I was looking for. I currently work with Java but I'm learning React Native as well.
It's good to find a great community that is always trying to help newcomers and spread knowledge.

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Charlotte

Hey! I'm Charlotte, a full stack web developer. I've been working on my own for the past year after leaving my permanent position and it's really given me the opportunity to pick up all the tech I didn't use much in my last role. I've made a move from PHP team lead to getting more into Node and React and I'm really enjoying it. I found this site on Twitter, so I thought I'd join to meet some like minded people :)

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Aslbek Kucharov

Hello to all! My name is Aslbek and I from Uzbekistan I recently began to study web development and as it turned out all this is very interesting. Today I am 17 years old and I have already entered the Technological University and you and chose the profession of an IT specialist

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Binayak Mishra

Welcome Aslbek. Glad to have on board. Like you I am also new here, cheers.

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Wolfgang Born • Edited

Hi folks.
my name is Wolfgang living near Trondheim in Norway. I'm working as a web developer using Laravel, Vue, React and more :)

My native language is swiss german
Otherwise norsk (norwegian), deutsch, francaise and english :)

Nice to be here <3

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Sébastien Michel • Edited

Hi Everyone, my name is Sébastien and I am located in south of France (Marseille area)

I am a former OnPremise IT architect for financial consolidation & reporting information systems (Mainly SAP)

I joined dev.to to write and share articles about IaC and Microsoft Azure as I am learning all this stuff right now. Writing articles helps me on my learning curve and maybe I will get some feedback from the community.

When I am not behind my computer working or gaming, I spend my time with my wife and my newborn boy (1 year old).

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Chris Achard

Welcome to DEV Sébastien! Writing articles will definitely help you learn more about the topic :) It's interesting how I think I know a topic well, but then I go to write an article about it, and have to learn so much more!

Good luck with the newborn! I know how stressful that can be :)