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Welcome Thread - v87

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Welcome to DEV!

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

  2. Reply to someone's comment, either with a question or just a hello. 👋

Great to have you in the community!

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Gordon Reeder

Um, Hello. So I was doom scrolling through a news feed and came across a question: "What is your favorite Linux distro and why"? Since I am a Linux user, and bored, I decided to respond. In the process I seem to have created a Dev user account. Um, So, here I am. I think I'll stick around and see if i can learn something.

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Jacob Dierkens

Welcome! I love the term "doom scrolling" by the way. The first time I heard it, I felt that it quite accurately described not only what I was doing, but also how I felt.

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Roberto Urita Jimenez

Hello Gordon.

I believe that as a linux user, you never stop learning. And the best way to lear is to teach.

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saintlux897

Hello

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Rogelio Plascencia

Welcome!

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𝐃𝐋 𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐝 (𝗱𝗹𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗱.𝗶𝗼)

Hi Gordon!

So what is your favorite distro any why?

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Gordon Reeder

Xubuntu. Because it's what I use and it passed the Wife and Kids test. Probably not what you were expecting to hear.

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𝐃𝐋 𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐝 (𝗱𝗹𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗱.𝗶𝗼)

Actually, if I had to pick a favorite it would be Ubuntu in some form or another, for the same usability factor. I rock Manjaro on my workstations but mainly for hardware compatibility.

Thanks for sharing!

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Jay Patel

Hey DEVs,
I am Jay Patel. Pursuing 3rd Year of Computer Science and Engineering with Specialization of Big Data and Analytics (with IBM). I love Networking with Devs and Learn from them :) So, If you are also like Minded then What are you waiting for? Let's Learn Together 😊

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Katie Nelson

Hi everyone, I'm Katie the #welcome moderator.
My unofficial title: DEV cheerleader 😊

I want to welcome all of you to the DEV community and let you know that you'll find lots of help and support here for all your coding needs.

Don't hesitate to ask questions or contribute new ideas with your own post.
If you are interested in posting, be sure to read my post:

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Tumelo

Well hello there. I'm code-curious, read an article about how hip it is to be part of a dev group and here I am.

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Katie Nelson

Well, welcome to DEV where the hip people are 🤣

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First Guide LLC

okay

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Aayushi Sharma • Edited

Hello Developers

I am Aayushi Sharma from India curious to programming and have a bad habit of coffee.

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Michael Tharrington

Cheers to bad coffee habits! ☕️

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Nick Taylor

Welcome to DEV! 👋

Whale hello there!

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Arjun U S

hello

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Thomas Bnt

Welcome here 🙌🏼

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rwparrish

Yes. Coffee!

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Poulami Chakraborty

Hello,
I am Poulami - a product designer. I have dabbled with frontend development from time to time for my side projects & hobbies. I am now looking forward to take a more active approach towards learning - specially by documenting what I learn.
I have learned a lot from posts on this platform and looking forward to being part of the community :)

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Brandon Marrero 🇺🇸

Hello, Poulami! Welcome!

I definitely think that this is a great platform to document what you learn. That is something I missed in my introduction post. Getting more involved with the community definitely makes things feel real and less isolated.

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Poulami Chakraborty

Hi Brandon!

Welcome to you as well :)

Looking forward to learning from you and others on this platform!

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Michael Tharrington

Heyo! 👋

Welcome to DEV. 🙌

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Ryan

What is good everyone.

I have been mostly lurking for the past few months. Due to COVID I have been at home with not a whole lot to do, so I have decided to start tackling the Daily Challenges posted here by Dev.TO and upload them to a Git repo. This is to motivate me to keep coding and tackling fun problems at the same time.

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Gordon Reeder

The daily what now? Where are they? I can't seem to find them.

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Ryan • Edited

Daily Challenges Link
It isn't always daily per se, but a few a week at least. Almost 300 already so a nice backlog of challenges to keep you busy.

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Michael Tharrington • Edited

Glad to hear you're digging the challenges! 😀

Also, one trick about the Daily Challenges — you can type in dev.to/challenge and it'll take you to the latest one. Same goes for dev.to/welcome actually.

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kilroyandy

Well hey! Nearly at the end of my 100 days of code journey and now thinking about the next 100. JavaScript is my new love again and I'm excited to dive into node.js and poke around. I'm thinking of writing a post here just about what I've learnt and how I'm making use of things so any tips/ideas or if I shouldn't add to the noise do lemme know! Happy to be here 😊 Andy

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Michael Tharrington

Hey Andy!

Here's a helpful post for folks new to DEV in case you need any tips:

If you have any questions about anything, don't hesitate to ask!

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Trivi

Obi-Wan hello there

Hi everyone!

I'm Trivi from Spain (olée 👏). I'm network computer systems administrator and software engineering student. I hope to learn a lot, write interesting articles, and, above all, to enjoy a lot with all of u!

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Michael Tharrington

Heyo! Welcome to DEV.

And that's gotta be one of my all time favorite GIFs. It works for me every time.

https://media.giphy.com/media/BoBOKNtlR8rTi/giphy.gif

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Trivi

Hahaha yeah thx! It's a fantastic gif, I'll use sure!

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Yuan Gao

Hello! I'm Yuan, Python developer, and two time CTO. I joined here to share knowledge and read about programming topics.

Fun fact about myself: my crowning achievement over my entire career remains that one time I converted a minifridge into a sous-vide cooker, and cooked steak in it. No other achievement has come close ever since.

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Ana Carolina Barreto

HAHAHAHAHAH i love that! Was the steak good?

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Yuan Gao

yep, really good. I used it a few times but eventually I went and bought a proper immersion circulator when the prices came down

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marie-inabnit

Hi guys!

Been here for a few days, but never said hello, how rude of me! 😳
I'm a junior dev girl, (previously a photographer/films composer/cellist... still at it, tho!) working essentially with React but also very curious about other technologies in general.
Happy to join the community, and I hope that I can help when possible! 😁
(Sorry for the grammar, english is not my main language 😅)

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Katie Nelson

Bonjour Marie, bienvenue chez DEV!

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marie-inabnit

Merci!😁

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