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Welcome Thread - v68

dev.to staff on April 08, 2020

Welcome to DEV! Leave a comment below to introduce yourself! You can talk about what brought you here, what you're learning, or just ...

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Thomas Bnt

Welcome to new members of DEV ! 👋

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Bernard Baker

There are plenty of posts that have great content. And you can adjust your feed preferences.

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Thomas Bnt

Yeep

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Dinesh Kumar

That's awesome

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Jeremy Marquart

Hello Thomas. Thank you for the welcome message! My name is Jeremy...

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Alexander

Thanks you and hello to everyone else

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Rodrigo Oliveira • Edited

$ ./helloworldv2
Hey dev.to people! I'm Rodrigo (aka MDK, mdkcore); posting here as I've just posted on some old welcome thread :p

linux and game development are my passion, also, I like c/c++, python and shell scripting, still learning some programming languages (like go and rust) and trying to finish my new VPS setup to migrate all my stuff.

my friend told me about the site, and I hope to learn a lot and help everyone here!
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Carla Breden

Hello!
I am new to the coding world and am intimidated a bit, but curious nonetheless to learn it. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated! I should back up a bit by saying that I am not totally new to the coding world as I am the Director of Customer success for the wonderful company @Feldroy. I take care of a lot of different things that encompass the company, with the exception of the technical coding part of things. So, that's why I am here, to be able to better assist with our customers' technical questions.
Whew, I did it! As intimidating as it was, I feel good about taking the first step into this new world. Cheers everyone!

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Audrey Roy Greenfeld

Cheers, Carla! That's awesome that you're getting into learning to code. You have the kind of eye for detail and structure that would make you a great coder, and I'll help you however I can!

Some things that may help you on your coding journey:

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Carla Breden

Thank you for the pointers, Audrey!

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Marcel Barba

Hello community! I've been reading and enjoying quite a few interesting posts here for a while now and thought i'd get on board.

Keep on posting relevant and enjoyable articles on tips , obsticles and solutions - i'll try to join in when i get the chance.

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Bhavsagar

Hi, I am Bhavsagar a Self-taught developer.

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Paul B.

Hello everyone!
I'm making (and hopefully, going to finish) a game with Godot Engine. I also tinker some static web development.
There are so many interesting posts here I don't even know where to begin!

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Kaninchen

Hello. I'm a nerd who want in future works in Gamedev. I really love video games. At this moment I creating a 2D Game Engine in C++ using SFML, sol2 and others usefull libs.

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Ben Halpern

Good luck in your evolution as a game dev!

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Rodrigo Oliveira

yay, SFML!! <3

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Jo Dunham

Yo! Name is Jo, and I'm new here. I love a whole bunch of coding things, especially fun stuff. I found this place by clicking someone's link. Just starting out my first full time software developer job in a week using Python (which I've been cramming this week since I haven't learnt it before now). Before now I've learnt Ruby and Rails, Javascript and the MERN stack, plus the obvious HTML and CSS that go with web dev stuff.

So tell mw what's fun to do around here and what are some post I should definitely read?

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Debra-Kaye Elliott

Hi everyone wave, I'm Debra-Kaye, a Graphic Designer. I've always been interested in Information Technology (design and programming) and studied I.T. at university, but coding didn't stick and I never got into the field. Now I'm re-learning coding through self-study as I aspire to become a Frontend Developer.

Looking forward to connecting with and learning from you all :).

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mrsturner

How is your self study coming along? Where are you studying? I am on a self study right now as well. Currently I am on edX

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Debra-Kaye Elliott

It's going okay so far. Would love to have a friend on this journey though. I'm doing Frontend Master's Web Development Bootcamp. After that, i'm going to do freeCodeCamp.

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Jeremy Marquart

Hello, my name is Jeremy. I am new to coding/web development/programming languages. I am eager to learn and build skills. I welcome any advice concerning these topics. Thank you ahead of time for your input and I look forward to meeting everyone and maybe collaborating on some projects! Have a great day!

Best,
Jeremy Marquart

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ihatetawnyswain

newbie here too. cheers!

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Vipin Sharma

I help professional Java developers to learn language features so they become better developers and can work on challenging projects. Excited to join dev community, will start posting my blog content here.

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codebond

Hi I'm saud from codebond.
My personal account chouglesaud is showing spam.

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Ben Podgursky

Hello! I've lurked reading posts on dev.to for a couple years, and finally decided to jump in and introduce myself.

I'm a software engineer (mostly big data -- so much Hadoop) turned startup entrepreneur over the past 6 months. I dabble in personal OSS projects, and mess around answering questions on Quora, but mostly I work : ), so I figured the best way to introduce myself was to post what I've been building.

(the tl,dr is, I feel passionate about helping empower everyone at a company who can script. We've tried to make it easy for anyone to build cloud-native internal tools, whether they're a full-time dev, or spend 2 hours a week hacking in Python).

I've gotten a lot out of the posts I've read here, and hope I can contribute back now and then. Look forward to getting to know everyone (or at least some of you).

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Vanesa Perea

Hello! I'm learning to code and web design. This year I want to build my portfolio so I've joined Dev community to get out of my comfort zone and write some articles about my learnings in this long journey :)

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Adeoluwa Adeboye

My name is Adeoluwa Adeboye from Nigeria.
I am a Data Science, Machine Learning and Web Development Enthusiast. So I will be dropping posts related to this areas. I am open to remote Internships and Collaborations.

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Angela

Hi Im Angela, I got interested in learning HTML CSS java bc i thought I was going to make a website and make money dropshipping or something...my blog turned out alright...website did not!!! I have zero formal education in CS or any of this but i had such a fun time learning how i broke my website over and over and over again and had to learn some stuff to not sound like an idiot to the wordpress chat ppl AGAIn! lol so im challenging myself and taking tutorials on freecodecamp and i hope someday to make beautiful websites! or games or something! thanks for being here with me ppl!!!

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Leslie

Hi everyone!

I'm Leslie and I'm teaching myself to code and taking data science and python courses currently so that I can switch from sales to software development or data science. Very interested in learning from everyone and taking on some of the daily challenges to further sharpen my skills!

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Sven Frese

Hi everyone 👋
I'm a Full Stack Developer working on web apps on the side all the time. I'm mostly using Angular with serverless backends these days :) Looking forward to diving into the great content here and joining the disussion!

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Analyze Secure Insights

Hey I just read your post you said that it wasn't like you were a gardener or something but that's what I was doing in the beginning not by choice cause that's what my dad was doing and he would have me help him it take a lot away from me my time and education and I wish I would of had the internet a long time ago it would of helped me then when I needed it school was never very much for me I feel like I'm starting from scratch all over again but I have learned some things but it isn't enough to get me going

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Roneet Michael • Edited

Hi everyone! I'm Roneet Michael but you can call me Mike. I've been reading a lot of posts on dev.to for a long time and I enjoyed reading thoughts of professional developers. I finally decided to create an account here. I was a digital marketer for last 4 years and now I have switched to programming. Currently I am learning C Language as a part of my College education.

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Vinod Ralh

Hey just joined.. great to see something with quality content and without a paywall like Medium. At the moment trying to get my head around Angular to support a side project on bushfire recovery and stumbled on this site. Cheers!

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Ilir Kosumi

Brace yourselves. Another member has joined the community =)
Hi fellow DEVs, Ilir's my name, I live and thrive for Quality (or in other words I'm a QA Engineer) with an overabundant obsession in DevOps and Linux topics. I stumbled upon DEV.to while procrastinating on github.

A bit about me:
I'm currently living in Munich, speak 2 foreign languages (including English) and enjoy helping people.
I consider myself as a Type C personality with a wee bit of B-type in there (for those of you who believe in it :))
I also play video games on my Personal Computer (with an increased recent activity during the covid19 lockdown).

Cheers!

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Zinwota Timothy

Hi! I am Timothy, a budding software engineer and my language is Java. Good to be here!

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Yash Lotan

Hello Everyone
My work brought me here, I was told to write a documentation for bitbucket pipeline that I implemented for the company I work for so, instead of writing the documentation/tutorial in google sheets as previous devs of the company did, I decided to write a blog post and share it with the world so everyone can benefit from it. First I resolved to write the blog on medium but it required a stripe account which isn't supported in my country. Then I came across the articles from dev.to from which I realized this is the place which is developer centric and I will write the documentation/tutorial on this platform

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Yousuf Muhammad • Edited

The reasons for me being here is that i want engaged my self in greatest world researcher discoveries that can even change the world for a better place and bring peace and unity ,that is my will and my ambition.

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Stanley Maingi Kiio

Thank you. I'm currently working on JavaScript. I look forward to developing my skills and become an ethical hacker some day.

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song.of.traitors

Hello! Cool story, Ape. Could you give any advice to youths?)

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Yor Jaggy

👋 Everybody

I'm a passionate for IT, I work as a researcher on biomedical fields and also in data science. I'm not already an expert, but I'm on the path.

I have seen a lot of interesting posts and I hope to contribute someday to the community. Thanks for being in this amazing matrix.

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Adeleye jeremiah

Hello guys... I am Jerry from Lagos Nigeria, always ready to learn, presently I need someone to put me through on styling React form and developing authentication with react and react router, I wouldn't mind redux too

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Morgan Linton

Hi everyone, great to be here - thought I'd give a short intro on my journey as a dev.

I started building playing around with coding when I was 13, back in 1994. My friend and I took a UNIX class in Berkeley taught by an John Muster, the guy who wrote the awesome book, "UNIX made easy." That class was a lot of fun and really kicked-off my love of getting under the hood with computers. After that I took a C class and that gave me the final push I needed to decide I wanted to really go further in software eng space.

I decided to go to college for Computer Engineering + Computer Science (Carnegie Mellon) and most of the coding I did then was C and Java. After college I worked for a cool digital music company (Sonos) but decided I was sick of coding and wanted to get out in the world and spend more time talking to and interacting with people. So for nine years I worked in Sales, it was a blast, I helped launch Sonos' business in Asia, Australia, Latin America, and Canada, traveled a ton, saw the world, and got inspired to start a company.

We started our company (Bold Metrics) in 2012, I was our CTO for the first two years and then as we raised more funding we hired someone to take my place. Fast-forward to today and I still work a lot with our engineers but mostly as a VP Eng helping things stay organized and making sure we're rocking as a team.

I still code, mostly in Python, but most of the coding I do is for myself and my own projects. I recently started learning COBOL because I read about the immediate need for COBOL developers and wanted to see if I could help out. I love learning new programming languages, after COBOL - Go is definitely next on the list.

Okay, well this ended up being a lot longer than I expected but, no point in going back and deleting things so if you made it this far, thanks for reading, I'm happy to be here and look forward to contributing to the community!

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Adegoke Temitope

Hello, am I, Tope, by name. Dev.to Is like a morning news stop for me, read through post almost every morning.

I love playing games, tho I won't call my self a gamer, passion for making life easier with programming.

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nipa-it

Hey guys,

I'm just a new user from Italy! I've found this social network by case, I still need to learn how to use it but I really like, It's a merge between medium and facebook, I like it!

I'm a medical doctor from Italy and I'm in my 30's.

Hope to have nice and good time here around you!

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Eugenia Evtushenko

Hey all :)
I'm Eugenia, working at Akveo, a company of enthusiasts and just awesome people. I am working on UI Bakery, a low-code development platform.
Here at the dev community, I hope to get some practical knowledge, tips and hints from strong professionals.
Happy to meet ya all!

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Wojciech Korzeniowski

Hello, my name is Wojtek and I've been doing web development for more than 4 years, mostly in Rails and React.js. I want to use dev.to as a platform where I can store my TIL notes and handful protips related with software development in general.

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Dave Cervi

Hey guys,

My name is Dave, and I'm a software engineer from Dublin, Ireland.

I am the founder of CodeScreen, a developer assessment platform.

Mainly a backend engineer (Java, Kotlin, Clojure) but also have done a fair share of frontend development (Angular, TypeScript, etc.). Big advocate and passion for serverless.

I came across a couple of interesting posts on here over the last few weeks, so I thought I would sign up to read more cool articles and hopefully contribute too!

Happy to be here and meet you all!

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SHORI • Edited

Just a regular guy with a strong interest for music and bitten by the coding virus since few years with a tendency for lateral thinking and lot of crazy ideas to "make the world a better place" ;). Posts from DEV community in various places jogged my interest until I decided to jump in. Voilà. :)

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Pawl

Hello guys, pawl over here am a computer engineering student from kenya. Am a tech enthusiast am learning java and Android development, cant wait to explore what dev.to has to offer me. Cant wait to have a great run with y'all

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jejikenwogu

Hey folks!

I'm an Architect at a gaming company in the bay. I've been coding for about 10 years now. I'm trying to take control of my career and:

  1. Identify and shore up deficiencies.
  2. Grow.

Since this is such a broad and general undertaking, progress has been slow. Any helpful tips are welcome!

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Victor Sauceda

A immersive bootcamp participant at the Unloop Studios located in Seattle, WA. A Re-Entry program for returning citizens that have been recently released from prison. Using AWS for our Cloud Platform, MongoDB as a Database and React as a framework for the front end

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Analyze Secure Insights

Who or where am I supposed ask questions to? I don't know what to ask I don't know what to do I don't know what to start with I want to code but I been having a hard time with it some things I'm trying isn't helping me cause I have been trying to use some apps to help me learn but when they start getting to hard I will stop using it I want to do a project I want something that will help me and it would be able to help others cause I have a hard time with things I don't have that much time for things and some things I'm not allowed to do but I have been trying to learn and some of the things is costing me money there is some one else I have talked to but he hasn't been having it that hard with everything it isn't costing him anything I don't know how he is doing it I know I haven't done much I have been trying to get it

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Hotnation

About me ? I'm not ready to discuss that but what brought me here ? Yes. So , I saw this tweet about an open source project someone is working on and I love it, it something that will be useful and fun. After I finish reading the article , I saw another one again . This one is all I want at this moment and I want to comment then I have to join and now have joined I don't know how to get to my previous page . I expect after the login it should redirect me to my favourite article I want to comment on but it brought me here 🙄.

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marybello

Hello, I am a beginner in full stack development, i have covered the basics of html, css, git and introduction to javascript. i have issues working with javascript and i also look forward to working with fellow beginners and receiving help from web instructors

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Ekeson1

Hello to every member of this family. My name is Ndubueze from Nigeria. I'm new into coding. i'm into full stack web development. I want to be good in coding. I will appreciate any advice from anyone or any material or whatever you think that can help me progress. Thank you all.

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Mikal

Hi DEV-ionardos

Am medically 'retired' from my former profession; looking to transition in tech!
I wish to setup a CIC (in UK it is a Community Interest Company [a social company]); to support the underrepresented groups in #tech :-)

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Roben Kleene

I’m Roben I’m a programmer, mainly for macOS and iOS with a bit of web. My main interest in creative apps, e.g., Photoshop, Procreate, Cinema 4D, etc... I make a live updating app for web developers, meant for those with a user-interface bent (repla.app), I also write have a blog (blog.robenkleene.com). Hoping to share tips and tools with other programmers here. Cheers!

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Anuj Bansal

Hi everyone! 👋

I am Anuj, a Software Engineer with 3 years of experience.

Currently working as an Educator and Curriculum designer at an EdTech startup teaching students JavaScript and various other things.

Hope to learn a lot and help everyone here!

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Rob Wilson

Hi, I'm new to Dev, I usually participate in Stack Overflow to ask and answer questions. I used to like blogging but can't be bothered to setup a blog using Wordpress any more, then stumbled across Dev whilst reading about a good example of a 'fast site'.

I'm contemplating writing some technical posts here, although I don't like the idea that I can't monazite the posts (ads)?

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steveellwood

Hi!
Joined the community after I saw this mentioned in the indieweb dev Slack channel.
AFter being a retired ex-technologist :-) lockdown made me look for something more constructive than gardening :-)

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athanasu

Hello community👋!

I've been reading dev.to for some time now and I thought that it would be good to get involved, learn and share knowledge (especially in the times we live in)!

I started working as a Full-Stack Engineer 5 years ago but the last 2,5 years I've been working as a Front-End Engineer (mostly) using multiple JS frameworks.

See you around!

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Marco Bravo

Hi everyone! Happy to be here! :)

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Diego Fernando Rojas Quintero

Hello, I am Diego Rojas, I am a mechatronic technician in Bogota, Colombia and I am new here; The first thing you should know is that I don't speak English very much but I would like to know more about programming. I would be interested if someone could guide me, to do community projects and learn many more programming languages.

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I came here because of a Blockstack tutorial.

I have a question: Are touch events supported in iOS Safari or not? The Apple website says they are, but caniuse says they are not.

(I already introduced myself but devbot told me to introduce myself again.)

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Harshita Ramchandani

Hello everyone Harshita Ramchandani here. I'm a student who is curious to learn new things in tech currently I can call myself a decent developer in field of web development and I am a budding learner in field of Machine learning. I love writing motivational blogs and I am here to start with technical blogging.

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krdnz19

Hello Im new

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Pawl

Cool story thats a long journey u have got there ad the experience phew! 👍

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Marija N.

Hi everyone! Happy to be part of this community!

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Givaramahfoud

hey hey glad to join ;)

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Lucas Souza

Hey there, I'm here trying to make myself more sociable and build some content, if I had some discipline to stick on it.

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Tallan Groberg

Thanks for following me!

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mrsturner

Hello! I am a mother and wife who wants and NEEDS to become a full stack programmer and needs to become far better at it by practice. I want to practice.

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Ben Halpern

Great to have you and be part of your long journey

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Ben Halpern

Great to have everybody!

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joampi

Hello Community , pleasure to be part of this DEV team.. Blessings

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greatontime

Hi I am developer from Thailand . I know this website from facebook . I am always looking for new tech stack to improve my skill.

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Mikael Kaya

Hello everyone!! Glad to have found Dev.to

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Nick Taylor

Welcome to DEV!

Spiderman swinging by to say hello

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ihatetawnyswain

Hi everyone! My name is Tawny. Somehow found my way here after starting the #100daysofcode challenge. No idea what I'm doing but I'm just gonna jump right in and roll with punches.

interweb hugs xx

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Daniel Truemper

Hi, I'm Daniel, Engineering Manager for Search at GetYourGuide in Berlin. I'm working in the search domain for 12 years now, before I was working as EM Search in Zalando. I joined to cross publish my technical blog posts about Search here. Since moving into management I realized the power of written communication, so that is something I want to do much more of.

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Felicia Dixon

Just joined. Excited to be a part of this new community. Currently a participant at Un-loop. Expanding my knowledge and skill set as a programmer in the Seattle area.

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Dmitriy A.

Hello everyone! Very excited to be here, thank you for welcoming community
Fun fact — I speak JavaScript

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Matteo Reda

Aloha my friends!

Yet another web developer

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Andressa Agnhesi

Hello everyone! :D

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Estefania Castro Vizoso

I would like to keep updated and learn as much as possible 😄

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Smart Church Pastor

Hello World! Great to be here. Let's innovate. Iron sharpens iron.

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megabank9

I am thrilled to join this Welcome Thread!!!

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Boris

hello dev

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Sid Mundhe

Hi Team