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Welcome Thread - v387

Sloan the DEV Moderator on August 05, 2026

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Hope you are having a great summer and enjoy your stay here on DEV :D

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Amy Lee • Edited

Hey everyone, I'm Amy Lee. Just joined DEV and excited to be here. Looking forward to learning from this community and sharing what I know along the way. Feel free to say hi, would love to connect!

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Charles Wade • Edited

Hey! 👋 Nice to meet you. What are you currently working on?

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Roberto Ringoli

HEEYYYYY

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Ijeoma Eve

I'll love to connect too; just joined today

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Rudraksh Chauhan

"Welcome! Same here, just started posting. What are you working on?"

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Azan Hyder • Edited

Hello everyone 👋 , im new here... a little on my bg;

i build multi-agent systems, which mostly means watching very confident software fail in creative ways. agents handing the same task back and forth for days and other sloppy work. fun stuff... i know.

Iam writing a series called "The Harness Layer" , includes depth on my research and analysis on verification, hand-offs/handshakes between agents and servers.. and why evaluation from your model passes but the run still fails... take them as my notes for building towards a robust solution for a community driven RnD project.

anyway thats me boring you, what do you all work on, lets talk!🙌

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Aliaksei Zelianouski

Agents handing the same task back and forth for days - I fixed that with a counter, not a better prompt. I run a game where AI bots play against each other and against people, and every step advances on a hard message limit enforced outside the agent. Anything inside the agent gets argued with.

What are you using for the handshake between agents - a schema you validate against, or another model reading the output?

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Azan Hyder • Edited

yeah makes sense. anything the agent can argue with, it will argue with. hard limit outside the loop is the boring fix that actually works. for the handshake im mostly on the schema side, not another model reading the output. so basically, validate the shape at the boundary, treat prose as the failure mode. a second model as judge just gives you a second opinion,

and yes ive watched that rubber-stamp a bad handoff more than once. the annoying part is when every step passes its own schema and the run is still wrong hence failure is not inside either agent, its between, what i like to call, 'the seams'. thats basically what the harness layer notes are pointing out and hope to bring more research to the table soon...

but curious about your AI bot game... how hardened is your message limit? is it fixed per turn, or does it scale with the game state?

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Max

Hey Azan! 👋 I'm new here too and just getting into open source. Your “watching very confident software fail in creative ways” line got me 😂

I'm working on AI-native developer tooling, so your work on multi-agent systems and verification really caught my attention. Keen to check out The Harness Layer!

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Azan Hyder

Appreciate it Max. Fair warning, the series is mostly me documenting ways the tooling loses arguments. Good luck with the AI-native tooling that layer is where half my verification headaches come from anyway.😅

but looking to see if you have anything we interesting we can work on.

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Israel santos

Hello everyone, I’m Israel. I’m a musician and a CAD designer, and I’m finally entering the tech field—starting out in Systems Analysis and Development. I’ve always admired software development, and although I’m just getting started, I’m optimistic about this future career. I hope to learn and contribute to the community in some way.. 😎

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0xzerolight

Hey, Israel! Nice to see a fellow musician :). What do you play?

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Israel santos

Show, Clarinet and Sax

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Ishrat Jahan

Oh, hey Israel santos ,are you new here?

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Cleber Pavin

Hi Israel! I’m also just starting my journey in tech and studying Computer Science. It’s nice to find other people beginning this path too. Wishing you a great journey!

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Hi everyone! 👋
I'm Charlie from Taiwan. I'm currently an undergraduate student working on mathematics, AI, and open-source developer tools.

I enjoy building things around research tooling, CI reliability, and AI-assisted development. I'm currently experimenting with a project called HonestCI, which started from a simple question: does a green CI check really mean the tests we expected actually ran?

I'm looking forward to learning from the DEV community, sharing what I discover, and getting feedback from people building real-world software. Nice to meet you all!

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Joe Lin

Taiwan No1!

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Luiz Fernando C. Castilho

Hi everyone!
I'm Luiz, from Brazil. I'm switching careers into tech after a background in Biotechnology and a Master's in Chemical Biology, where I spent years analyzing experimental data and documenting complex processes with a lot of rigor.

I'm currently studying Systems Analysis and Development, learning Python, APIs, and databases, and I'm genuinely excited about applying AI tools to real development workflows (I've been using Claude Code to automate parts of my own job search, actually).

Looking forward to learning from this community and sharing what I build along the way. Happy to connect with anyone else who's also transitioning into dev from a different field!

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Cleber Pavin

Hi Luiz! Nice to see another Brazilian here. I’m also starting my journey in tech, currently studying Computer Science. Your career transition is really interesting. Looking forward to following your progress!

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Oleksandr | CalculatorAI

Hey Luiz — I came into dev from marketing, so I know that jump well. The
"documenting things with rigor" habit helps way more than people expect.

Curious what you automated in the job search with Claude Code?

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Luiz Fernando C. Castilho

Thanks Oleksandr! Nothing too fancy yet, but the main thing is a workflow where Claude Code helps me track and triage job postings (matching them against a few "deal-breaker" criteria, like remote/hybrid only), and keeps a log in a private GitHub repo via pull requests, so I have a history of what I applied to and when. Still evolving it, but it's saved me a good amount of manual tracking. What about you, from marketing to dev, did you find anything from that background carried over in a similar "surprisingly useful" way?

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isha singh

That's interesting career graph, Luiz. Happy to connect !

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Artclick

Hi everyone! 👋

We're ArtClick, a web development studio based in Kyoto, Japan. We build company websites, WordPress solutions, and custom web systems for businesses of all sizes.

We're excited to join the DEV community to share frontend development tips, CSS tricks, WordPress insights, and lessons we've learned from building real-world projects. We also look forward to learning from all of you and connecting with fellow developers.

Looking forward to being part of the community! 🚀

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Farzam

Hey everyone! I'm Farzam; full-stack & AI engineer, mostly working on systems that need to actually survive production (not just demo well). Been building web/mobile/cloud stuff for 8+ years, more recently focused on AI pipelines retries, failover, human review gates, that kind of thing. Looking forward to sharing what I learn here 👋

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Aliaksei Zelianouski

Retries are the part everyone gets wrong first. Mine only work because every step's state is stored, so a failed step reruns on its own, sometimes on a different provider, without replaying the whole thing. Failover sits above the agent, not inside it.

Where do you put the human review gate - before the action, or after it with a rollback?

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Farzam

Before, in this case. The pipeline writes a QA record of open issues and disagreements, then halts right before anything reaches reporting, only the flagged item blocks, the rest of the queue keeps moving. Rollback felt riskier here since a wrong extraction had already fed downstream steps by the time you'd catch it. Curious about your setup though, does rerunning on a different provider ever produce a different-but-still-wrong result, or does that mismatch itself become a signal?

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Behzad Shabani

Hello everyone 👋🏼

I'm Behzad, a Software Engineer working mostly on backend systems with Go, and occasionally PHP and Python when I have to, but Go is where my heart is. Over the years I've also led engineering teams, from small startups to larger product teams.

I'm a bit obsessive about code quality. clean, readable, maintainable, and extendable code isn't optional for me. That's also why, in the age of AI assisted development, I review every line of AI generated code very thoroughly before it goes anywhere.

What brought me here? I've been reading dev.to posts for a long time, but always as a silent reader and never dared to post anything. I finally decided it's time to be on the other side and sharing my own experiences and thoughts with the community.

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Tiny Spark

Hi everyone! I'm a solo/beginner app dev. I learn to build small, useful mobile apps one at a time. I just released my first app, Dormeil, a bedtime-routine coaching app. I'm new to building in public and I'm here to learn from this community, share what I run into along the way (localization, marketing on near-zero budget…), and hopefully make some good connections. Feel free to say hi !

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Guy Olivier Millimouno • Edited

Hey everyone! 👋

I'm a Data Scientist and Software Developer focused on AI, machine learning, RAG, LLMs, and ML systems.

I'm particularly interested in how we build, evaluate, and scale AI systems in practice.

I'm starting RAG Under the Microscope a series where I dig into RAG systems(3 architectures), test the assumptions behind them, and see what actually holds up when you look closely.

I'm joining DEV to learn from the community, share some of the projects I'm working on, and connect with other people working in AI and software engineering.

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Probal Dhali

Hey everyone! 👋 I’m Probal, a CSE student specializing in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. I enjoy building practical projects with Python, JavaScript, React, and AI/ML technologies, and I’m always experimenting with new ideas and tools.

I recently started exploring more into AI-powered applications, web development, research, and even building my own programming language. 🚀

I joined DEV to learn from experienced developers, share what I build, document my learning journey, and connect with other developers and students around the world.

Looking forward to learning, building, and contributing to the community! 💻🔥

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Charles Wade

Hi everyone! 👋 I’m a Business Development Manager focused on driving global growth through tech solutions, strategic partnerships, and digital ROI. I’m here to connect, learn from others, and share ideas around technology and business growth. Looking forward to meeting everyone!

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Flude team

Hi everyone! 👋 We are the Flude Team.
As Documentation Engineers, we joined Dev.to to share our journey of building Flude (Fast Layered Universal Documentation Engine). It is a software product designed to turn raw source code across various languages into high-quality, structured documentation.
We plan to publish articles about our development process, the challenges we face with documentation generation, and how we are solving them.
Looking forward to connecting with other developers and technical writers here. If you're interested in tooling and documentation, feel free to say hi! 🚀

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azhadsuhaimi

Hey all! Glad to finally be part of dev.to.

I’m a backend dev currently deep in the world of SQL Server and performance diagnostics. Looking forward to reading through all the great articles here and sharing a few learnings of my own!

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Laurent

Hi, I'm just replying to say hi!

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Mohamed Menfalouti

Hi, I'm just replying to say hi 2!

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Advantage Builder

Hey folks! I build automation tools, break them, fix them, and occasionally make them do cool things. I joined dev.to because I appreciate communities where people share real experiences instead of polished marketing fluff. Fun fact: I can spend hours tweaking a scripting engine but still forget where I left my coffee. Happy to be here!

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Dean Lee

Hi everyone — I'm Dean. I write about markets, probability, and the economics around AI: platforms, compute, pricing, incentives. I'm also interested in AI tools as a user: what saves time, what breaks, and what costs more than the demo suggests. Glad to be here.

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Konstantin

Hi, I'm Konstantin from Germany! I work as an IT Security Architect with a focus on IAM and secrets management. The great posts here inspired me to start contributing, and I recently published my first article on building an OpenBao vault for AI agents :-) Looking forward to learning and sharing with you all!

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Miko Builds

Hey everyone! I'm Mikhail 👋
I'm an indie developer and software engineer building CLI tools and practical workflows around AI coding agents (mostly deep-diving into Claude Code, context engineering, and repository security right now).
I joined DEV to share real-world lessons learned from taming multi-agent coding pipelines and to connect with other builders who are figuring out how to stop LLMs from over-engineering or burning token budgets.
Excited to be here and learn from you all!

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Brian Jin

Welcome Mikhail, I am currently researching token budget issue as well for business AI agents.

Looking forward to connecting with you.

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Miko Builds

Hi Brian, token budget is where I keep landing too.
The thing that moved the needle most for me was simple: never let the model type anything a script can write. Project scaffolding, boilerplate, repeated structure - a model does that slowly, expensively, and slightly differently every time. A plain Python script does it in a second, for zero tokens, and the output is identical on every run. Second one is context hygiene. Rules the agent should follow every session belong in a file it re-reads, not in chat history that gets compacted away halfway through the day.
What does your setup look like, single agent or a pipeline?

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Swapnil Ahire

Hello there👋🏻,

I’m currently working in Enterprise storage and presales and post-sales engineering in Taiwan, focusing on areas such as:

Docker, Kubernetes, VMware, Cloud Computing
Edge Computing
Data Center Solutions
Virtualization & High Availability
AI Infrastructure
Enterprise Storage (NAS, SAN)

Over the next few weeks, I’ll be sharing simple technical insights, real-world infrastructure concepts, and lessons from the enterprise IT industry.

Technology is evolving rapidly, especially with AI and edge computing becoming part of everyday business operations.

Looking forward to learning and growing with the community.

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Rickesh T N

Hi all, Rickesh here, joining from Singapore.

I work on computer vision and robotics. Nine years of that was autonomy on real vehicles across four countries, and lately I spend most of my time on world models and evaluation for embodied AI.

What actually brought me here: I spent a while convinced a model was bad at reasoning because I had measured it at 0.31. The real number was 0.70. My parser had been discarding its answers on exactly the hardest questions, because the reasoning trace hit the token cap before the answer line was ever emitted. I had already written up the wrong conclusion before I found it.

That became my first two posts, both circling the same theme: measurement failing quietly while every dashboard looks fine.

Mostly here to read and to argue about evaluation. If you work on eval harnesses or robotics data pipelines, say hi.

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Aliaksei Zelianouski

0.31 to 0.70, and the parser only discarded answers on the hard questions. So the error was biggest where you would trust it most.

I have a daily report on a prod app that quietly stopped counting new users. Eight days broken before I noticed, every number in between wrong, nothing flagged it. There is monitoring on that, and a second loop watching the first loop's errors. Neither caught it. I caught it by not believing a number.

Does anything in your eval harness catch a silent parse failure, or is it still a human doubting a number?

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Robert

Hi! Robert here, from Poland.

I run a one-person digital products studio where an agent pipeline does
most of the mechanical work: research, drafting, illustration, PDF
rendering, publishing, then posting to five platforms. Python, FastAPI,
Celery, Docker, with Claude doing the writing and reviewing.

What brought me here: I keep hitting problems nobody warns you about
when you let agents run unattended overnight. Last week I found four
monitoring checks that reported success while the thing underneath was
broken. My favourite: a shell guard that worked perfectly on every
healthy page and broke precisely in the one failure case it was written
for.

Currently learning how to run that pipeline without silent failures.
Planning to write up the messy parts rather than the highlight reel.
🤩

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Boris Dzhingarov

Hi everyone,

I'm Boris, marketer by trade, developer by vibes only. I run a small agency and for years anything technical meant waiting on our actual developers. Then Claude Code happened. Now I describe what I want, argue with the model until it works, and ship little internal tools that nobody else has to maintain, luckily.

Last thing I vibe coded: a script that checks whether our published pages are still indexed and pings me when one drops. It works. I could not tell you exactly why.

I kept landing on DEV posts while debugging my prompts, so it felt like time to stop lurking. Planning to write about AI search and what LLMs decide to cite, from the non-dev side of the keyboard.

Nice to meet you all!

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SunverseAI

Hey everyone! 👋 I’m Axis, the Lead Architect at Sunverse AI, based in Abuja, Nigeria. I’m currently building Lawyie, an intelligent legal infrastructure designed to bridge the $10B legal access gap for SMEs and individuals across Africa."
What brought me here:
"I’m deep-diving into LLM orchestration (Llama-3), ultra-low latency inference via Groq, and building robust Python backends. I came to Dev.to to share my journey of 'Building in Public' and to connect with other engineers who are passionate about using AI to solve real-world problems in emerging markets."
Fun Fact:
"I’m a 16-year-old homeschooler! 🏠💻 I recently celebrated a personal milestone: architecting an in-memory PDF generation pipeline that uses SHA-256 cryptographic hashing to 'seal' legal contracts. I love the challenge of turning complex laws into clean, executable code.

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Stephen Ingham

Hi everyone, glad to be here!

I'm a Software Engineer and I've joined to share my learnings/experiences on everything and anything Software Engineering/tech related!

Looking forward to checking out and learning from others also, I've released a couple of posts already on chrome extensions and building agent systems if you want to check them out on my profile!

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Muhammad Awais

Hey everyone, I'm Muhammad Awais. I joined DEV a few days ago and am excited to be here. Looking forward to learning from this community and sharing what I know along the way. Feel free to say hi, would love to connect!

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Swapnoneel Saha

welcome to everyone who joined this week. a good way to start is to share one problem you are solving and one lesson you learned. it gives others something specific to discuss and makes it easier to find people with similar interests. i hope you find useful conversations here.

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Ravi Verma

Hi DEV community! 👋 I'm Ravi — a solo indie developer from India on a mission to build small, useful, revenue-generating products instead of chasing hype. I mainly work with Next.js, TypeScript, FastAPI, and local-first AI (Ollama + NVIDIA NIM). Just shipped InterviewIQ, an AI mock interview coach that gives strict, no-fake-praise feedback — happy to share how I built it! Excited to learn from all of you and write about what I'm building. 🚀

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tsing liu

Hey everyone! 👋

Excited to join the DEV community! I'm exploring AI coding agents, LLM engineering, and open source, and I'm looking forward to sharing what I learn and connecting with fellow developers.

Happy coding! 🚀

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Josué da Conceição

Hi everyone. My name is Josué da Conceição; I’m a Brazilian Java and Angular developer. I look forward to learning and sharing meaningful experiences with you here on the DEV network. In my spare time, I enjoy playing soccer and hanging out at a barbecue—just chatting and forgetting about life's stresses, you know? I also like creating content about careers, continuing education, and technology. Best regards to everyone, and sending lots of positive energy 🙂

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ARMAN AVASTHI

Hey all, Arman here, Applied AI and Java backend engineer in Oracle's AI pioneers team. Joined this dev community to learn and share latest technical stuff. I'd love to see how other folks are approaching the probelms in this era of AI and would love to share my insights as well.
Good to be here. Say hi if you're into distributed systems, agentic AI or just enjoy a solid production war story👋🏻

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Mosisa Saba

Hey everyone! 👋

I’m Mosisa (or Mo for short), a USC student and founder building AI products in healthcare and digital media. I joined Dev to connect with other builders, share what I’m working on, learn from the community and hopefully contribute along the way.

Looking forward to meeting everyone and seeing what you’re all building!!!

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CarbonLayer

Hey — I'm building CarbonLayer. We meter what AI training and inference actually cost in power, water, and carbon, tagged to scope and boundary so the numbers hold up under audit, not just in a slide deck.

What brought me here: too many "efficiency gain" claims in AI with no disclosed baseline and no way to check them. Trying to fix that from the measurement layer up.

Right now I'm deep in the boundary-tagged schema — the part that decides what counts as Scope 1 vs. 2/3, and on-site vs. generation-side draw. Happy to talk shop with anyone working on emissions reporting, metering, or ML infra.

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OrFactor

Hello, this is our first time here. We are a software service company with more than 14 years of experience, and we want to broaden our knowledge and let everyone know who we are, what we do, and get to know everyone.

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Aydın Demirel

Hi everyone, I'm new to this community and happy to be here. I worked as a systems and network administrator for many years, and now I own my company. We offer hosting solutions, web design, e-commerce, and Linux consulting services. thank you.

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Janarthanan Soundararajan (Jana)

Hey everyone! 👋 I've been building frontend applications for about 10 years, and I'm currently diving deeper into React, Next.js, TypeScript, and modern frontend architecture. I'm excited to document what I learn, share practical insights, and connect with developers who enjoy solving real-world engineering problems. Looking forward to learning from all of you!

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FR Legends Zone

Hey everyone! 👋

I'm behind FR Legends Zone, a community resource focused on FR Legends. I'm here to learn, share useful projects, and connect with people interested in gaming, open-source development, documentation, and web tools.

Looking forward to being part of the DEV community and learning from everyone here! 🚗💨

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Elgratio Latuihamallo

Hi, I am El.

Just joined and quite excited to learn and share with the communities here! Nice to meet you all :)

I am trying to do a career transition into web dev. So far I've built 2 full stack project for my project based learning.

One of them is a Sentence Repeater with Variable definition feature (link), and the other one is a ProPresenter Simulator with Text Based Editor workflow (link)

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Maz I

Hello DEV Community! 👋

I’m a software engineer working mainly with Node.js, TypeScript, AWS, PostgreSQL, React, and backend systems.

I recently joined DEV to start sharing deeper technical write-ups, experiments, real engineering problems, and things I’m learning around backend, cloud, databases, and AI engineering.

I’m looking forward to writing, learning, and connecting with other developers here.

Glad to be part of the community! 🚀

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Hemapriya Kanagala

Hi everyone 😀

A big welcome to all the new members, and welcome back to everyone who is returning. It is so nice to have you all here. I hope you have a great time, make some meaningful connections, learn lots of new things, and enjoy every step of your journey.

Looking forward to seeing you around and chatting with you in the comments. Wishing you all the very best, and I hope you enjoy being part of this wonderful community 💙

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Hi DEV 👋 I'm Datta, an AI/ML engineer in Los Angeles.

Day job is production RAG — retrieval pipelines, MLOps, private LLM deployments inside locked-down cloud environments for regulated clients. The part I actually care about is retrieval, because that's where most RAG systems quietly fail and nobody notices until a user asks something two hops deep.

That's what got me building hubmesh: a GraphRAG retrieval planner that drops in on top of whatever vector DB you already have — Qdrant, Chroma, in-memory. The premise is that questions like "where was the founder of the company that acquired Slack born?" don't fail because the model is weak. They fail because top-k cosine never retrieves the middle of the reasoning chain. So hubmesh runs a small Personalized PageRank over an entity graph at query time instead of just ranking by similarity. No LLM in the query path, which keeps it around 22ms per query on a 7K-node graph.

I'm also building aegis — an open-source iOS messenger using NIST post-quantum crypto by default, with a sandboxed lab for poking at novel algorithms. Very different problem, same instinct: I want to see the thing actually work end to end rather than read about it.

Here to write up what I learn from both. If you've shipped GraphRAG in production and it didn't beat plain hybrid search, I'd genuinely like to hear that — negative results are harder to find than the success posts and more useful to me.

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Sir. Brian

Hey everyone, I'm Sir. Brian.

I'm a full-stack developer and IT professional based in Kenya, running my own dev agency, Sir. Brian & Co. My work spans payment gateway integrations, SMS systems, cloud migration, and data virtualization, plus IT coaching on the side for people trying to break into the field.

I've been doing this long enough to have opinions, and new enough to this community that I'm still figuring out where those opinions fit. Here to write about the practical, occasionally messy side of building and shipping real systems, plus whatever's happening in AI and dev tooling that's worth arguing about.

Also running a YouTube channel on the side and slowly turning it into a real habit instead of a New Year's resolution.

If you're into payments infrastructure, cloud work, or just want to tell me my takes are wrong, I'm around.

Good to be here.

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Grounded

Hi everyone 👋

I build WordPress plugins, mostly for accessibility and European compliance - the parts of a site nobody enjoys checking.

What brought me here is a bad week. A marketplace rejected my accessibility scanner because some of the WCAG criteria it cited were wrong. I fixed the three they found, then checked all 25 rules against the spec instead of against my memory. Eight were wrong. One of them cited success criterion 4.1.1 Parsing, which was removed from WCAG 2.2 - my tool had been reporting a rule that no longer exists.

What I'm learning from it: a lot of accessibility tooling inherits its criterion numbers from other tooling rather than from the standard, and the errors travel.

Mine did.

Happy to be here. If you build or use automated a11y checks, I'd genuinely like to know how you decide what counts as a real conformance failure versus good practice - I got that boundary wrong and I'd like to hear how others draw it.

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Joshua

Hi everyone! 👋🏽

I’m Joshua Olugbenga, a 400-level Computer Science student at Crawford University and a full-stack developer who enjoys building things, learning from other developers, and sharing what I learn along the way.

I’m currently working with technologies across JavaScript, React, Node.js, Express, MongoDB, TypeScript, and more. Beyond coding, I’m also the PRO of NACOS Crawford University and a Back-End Development instructor with the Crawford Computing Club, where I get to contribute to and support other students in tech.

I’m excited to be part of this community, connect with developers from different backgrounds, learn from your experiences, collaborate on interesting projects, and hopefully contribute something valuable too.

Looking forward to meeting you all! 🚀

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Arif Nawaz

Hi everyone! I'm Arif

Over the past year I've been building Cuebic AI, a platform focused on making self-hosting and managing n8n easier. Most of my time is spent working on cloud infrastructure, automation, and developer tools with TypeScript, Python, and Docker.

I'm here to learn from the community, share what I've been building, and hopefully contribute a few useful lessons along the way.

Looking forward to connecting with you all!

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Balamurugan G

Hello Everyone, I'm Balamurugan. Just joined Dev, When I was searching to learn the nextsteps of Java Backend DEV, I found this Page and it got my attention and now I'm here to learn, share and grab some experience from great Dev's out there. Thank you

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Marcus ma

Hey everyone, I’m Marcus. I’m currently working in AI product operations and exploring AI agents, search APIs, and developer tools. I joined DEV to learn from the community, share practical insights from my work, and connect with people building interesting AI products. Looking forward to meeting you all!

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Anucampa28

Hi everyone,
I’m Anucampa Singh, a tech professional and founder who enjoys building practical tools that make software development more structured, efficient, and easier to trust.
I joined DEV to learn from the developer community, share what I’m building, and have honest conversations around AI-assisted coding, developer productivity, software quality, and the changing way we build software.
Looking forward to learning, contributing, and connecting with people who enjoy solving real engineering problems.

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Fix Quotes

Hi everyone! I’m the developer behind Fix Quotes in Oslo, building privacy-first Windows apps and browser extensions. I’m about to share why I built ClipTurn and CodePrettify, and I’m looking forward to meeting fellow builders here.

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Rick M

Hi everyone! 👋

I'm Rick, Co-Founder and Full-Stack Developer at Fillora PDF.

I'm passionate about building browser-native document tools with JavaScript, modern web APIs, and AI. Lately, I've been focused on PDF processing, web performance, and privacy-first document workflows.

I'm excited to learn from the DEV Community, share engineering lessons from building real-world products, and connect with fellow developers.

Looking forward to contributing and learning with you all. Happy coding! 🚀

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Tim

Hey everyone! 👋 I'm a full-stack developer with 7+ years of experience working with C#/.NET, Python, and TypeScript.

I spent a good chunk of my early career in cybersecurity (platform admin), which definitely shaped how I think about secure, scalable systems. These days, I'm diving deep into AI and automation - currently obsessed with Claude Code and building bots that actually save time.

Looking forward to learning from this community and sharing some of the cool stuff I'm working on. Excited to connect with folks who are also exploring the intersection of traditional dev work and AI! 🤖

Cheers!
Tim

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Erwan Raulo

Hi ! i'm a french software engineer, a former biotechnologist and french navy musician having played across the world. Today I'm a musician, leading a group of 40 persons for competition and a scottish drummer since my 10 years old. i'm also a young dad occasionally 😅.

i love programming, OSS, the tech industry and it's continuous evolving shape.
You can connect here on linkedin

My first post will be about my first OSS javascript package about fail fast mode for tests running across npm workspaces. Stay tuned !

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Jakub Melka

Hi everyone!

I'm a C++ developer and open-source enthusiast with over 15 years of experience in software development.

I'm planning to write mainly about C++, open-source projects, software development and some of the lessons I've learned during my career as a C++ developer.

I am looking forward to being part of the DEV community, sharing my thoughts with others, and, of course, learning from others as well. I hope you'll find some of my future posts useful!

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Joshua

Hi everyone! 👋🏽

I’m Joshua Olugbenga, a 400-level Computer Science student at Crawford University and a full-stack developer who enjoys building things, learning from other developers, and sharing what I learn along the way.

I’m currently working with technologies across JavaScript, React, Node.js, Express, MongoDB, TypeScript, and more. Beyond coding, I’m also the PRO of NACOS Crawford University and a Back-End Development instructor with the Crawford Computing Club, where I get to contribute to and support other students in tech.

I’m excited to be part of this community, connect with developers from different backgrounds, learn from your experiences, collaborate on interesting projects, and hopefully contribute something valuable too.

Looking forward to meeting you all! 🚀

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Rajeev Bagra

Hi everyone! 👋

I'm excited to join the Dev.to community.

I'm a WordPress developer, entrepreneur, and technical writer with a strong interest in web development, business, and mathematics. Lately, I've been exploring how to explain calculus and other mathematical concepts in a way that's intuitive for beginners while also building practical WordPress solutions for businesses.

I'm currently working on:

  • WordPress plugins and starter websites
  • Website and digital asset marketplaces
  • Educational content on calculus, analytics, and programming
  • Affordable web solutions for small businesses

I'm here to learn, share what I've built, exchange ideas, and connect with fellow developers. Looking forward to reading your posts and contributing to the community.

Thanks for having me! 🚀

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K & K Web Services

Hey everyone! 👋 I'm Rob, founder of K & K Web Services — we build WordPress/HTML sites, handle cPanel/reseller hosting, and do custom WHMCS module development for hosting companies. Been doing this since 2005, based in Ladoga, Indiana. Looking forward to being part of the community and talking shop with other devs here.

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John Brad

Hey everyone! 👋 I'm John, an indie SaaS maker. I spend most of my time building tools that try to fix painful workflows.

Lately, I've been deep into multi-agent AI architectures. I recently shipped Roast & Review—a tool where multiple AI personas (a savage roaster, a recruiter, an SEO expert) tear apart your landing page, resume, or pitch deck to give you brutally honest feedback. Also juggling DataMorph and FixrField on the side.

Happy to join the community! I'm always looking to learn from smart devs. What's the most interesting AI architecture or API you've played with recently?

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Cleber Pavin

Hi everyone! 👋
I’m Cleber, from Brazil, and I recently started studying Computer Science.

My professional background is in online sales, customer service, and support, and now I’m beginning a new journey in technology. I’m still at the start of my technical learning, so I created my DEV profile to document what I learn, share academic projects, and connect with students and professionals in the tech community.

I’m especially interested in software development, web development, databases, AI, and learning how technology can solve real-world problems.

Looking forward to learning, building, and sharing my progress here. Nice to meet you all! 👋

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Aftan Ahmad

Hey everyone! 👋 I'm Aftan, a Full Stack Developer. I'm trying to get better at being active on social media and blogging alongside coding. Looking forward to connecting and learning with you all. Nice to meet everyone! 😊

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MuneebAhmedKhan-writing

Hello everyone, my name is Muneeb Ahmed Khan. I have a background in English Literature and I'm now learning application security by myself. I'll be writing tutorials here as I go, documenting what I learn and where I get stuck, in case it helps someone else starting from the same place.

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myflows

Hey, great to connect with a kindred spirit on Dev.to! I’m a tech geek who spends my days deconstructing AI with hardcore system architectures—while occasionally viewing the world through the lens of games and anime. If you also enjoy turning complex LLMs, GEO, or system designs into fun "anime & gaming mechanics," feel free to reach out anytime and let's geek out together!

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Gustavo Barbosa

De Administração e Atendimento ao Código: Como minha bagagem de outras áreas me faz um desenvolvedor melhor
Olá, comunidade DEV! 👋 Sou o Gustavo, estudante de Engenharia de Software na Cruzeiro do Sul, e estou trilhando o caminho da transição de carreira para a área de tecnologia.

Muitas vezes, quem está começando foca 100% em aprender a sintaxe de uma linguagem. Mas, na minha jornada, percebi que as habilidades que adquiri antes de escrever a minha primeira linha de código estão sendo o meu maior diferencial. Hoje, divido minha rotina entre o atendimento de suporte via chat para o Mercado Livre e a construção dos meus projetos de desenvolvimento.

Quero compartilhar como essas experiências fora da tecnologia me ajudam a ser um programador mais completo.

📊 A Visão de Negócios (A herança da Administração)
Antes de focar em TI, concluí um curso técnico em Administração de 1200 horas no Senac. Lá, aprendi a dominar ferramentas como Excel e Word, além de entender a fundo a elaboração de contratos e a gestão de processos rotineiros.

Isso mudou a forma como encaro o código. Não enxergo apenas variáveis e funções, mas entendo o processo corporativo. Quando desenvolvo uma solução — como o sistema de pedidos online que criei recentemente, o Nerd Coffee —, já penso na regra de negócio, na importância de uma boa documentação e no impacto que aquele software terá na gestão real de uma empresa.

🤝 Empatia e Resolução de Conflitos (A herança do Atendimento)
No meu dia a dia no suporte, lido diretamente com usuários, muitas vezes precisando resolver problemas rapidamente e sob pressão.

Lidar com a frustração do cliente me ensinou na prática o que é UX (Experiência do Usuário). Aprendi que o código precisa resolver um problema real de forma intuitiva, porque se a interface não for clara e direta, o cliente final simplesmente desiste e vai embora. Desenvolver software é, no fim das contas, sobre facilitar a vida das pessoas.

🚀 Como estou juntando tudo isso hoje
Atualmente, meu foco principal de estudo de base é Python, criando os alicerces estruturais para os meus futuros projetos e especializações nas áreas de Machine Learning e Cibersegurança.

Porém, já estou colocando a mão na massa! Tenho utilizado a minha visão de processos e o foco no usuário para acelerar o desenvolvimento de aplicações reais. Com o auxílio de ferramentas de IA Generativa, como Claude e Lovable, consigo criar projetos web de forma muito mais ágil e inteligente. Isso me permite focar na arquitetura e na solução do problema em si, otimizando o tempo de codificação manual.

💬 E você?
Fazer uma transição de carreira é desafiador, mas olhar para trás e perceber que nenhuma experiência anterior foi em vão é muito gratificante.

Você também veio de outra área antes de entrar na tecnologia? Qual habilidade do seu antigo trabalho ou formação você sente que mais te ajuda a programar hoje? Deixe aí nos comentários, vou adorar trocar ideias e fazer networking com vocês!

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Raja Nagori • Edited

I'm Raja Nagori, a Product Security Engineer at Splunk and Project Leader for Nightingale an open-source Docker toolkit for pentesters with a large curated toolset for web, mobile, API, network, OSINT, and forensics. I work across AppSec and product security (threat modeling, SAST/DAST, DevSecOps) and also build/learn around supply-chain attack security and SBOM analysis.
Happy to help wherever builders and security practitioners need practical support.

More about me here - dev.to/raja_nagori

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Nihal Technologies

Hi everyone! 👋 I work around data integration and analytics, and I’m here to learn more from the community and share practical insights around data, automation, and modern data workflows. Looking forward to connecting and learning from everyone here!

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Russlan Ramdowar

Hi everyone — I’m Russlan Ramdowar, based in Abu Dhabi. I’m especially interested in the intersection of AI engineering and investment research: reproducible agent workflows, evaluation and calibration, provenance, financial-data pipelines, and keeping humans accountable for the final decision.

I joined DEV to learn from practitioners and share practical lessons—especially the messy parts—about building trustworthy AI systems for analytical work. I’m looking forward to meeting people working on agents, RAG, data quality, and quantitative research. What reliability problem has been hardest in your AI projects?

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andole

Hi all! I'm a coder by heart, programming since many years ago. Currently working on the fastest Go-based embedded scripting language which beats all similar ones in terms of performance. It's been a lot of fun optimising the bytecode VM, and now it is coming to the point of being feature-complete. Hoping to find people interested in this sort of thing 🙂

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Daniel

Hey everyone 👋. I'm Daniel Amah
I've spent the last 3 years working as a blockchain data analyst, and I'm also a full-stack developer.
Currently building Len3, a crypto portfolio analytics tool.
I just published my first writeup here on porting a Python library to Rust and I would love to connect with others building in this space. 👋

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Clinton Bester

HI everyone, Im from south africa, venturing into the software scene, more been in the network and voip side and hardware, want to see what its like on the soft side of the IT world...😎

Still trying to get used to this social media hype...

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Aliza Solomon

Hey 👋 I'm Aliza.
I work on API developer experience and documentation. Spent a long time at Wix on that; now figuring things out on my own.
I'm here mostly to read and talk to people I wouldn't run into on LinkedIn.
Looking forward to learning from everyone and sharing insights.

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AlexClever

Hello, everyone.
I'm Alex. I love electronics and microcontrollers. In my free time, when I'm not working my day job, I develop my own smart home devices. I recently ran into a problem again and decided to share the solution with you.

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Moronkeji Blessing

Hello everyone! I’m Moronkeji Blessing Michael, a tech founder and full-stack engineer. I lead DevsOnDemand and am building Afrixa to deliver scalable digital solutions. I'm excited to connect with the community and share insights on software architecture and fintech innovation.

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calculatorspan

Hey DEV community! 👋 I'm an indie maker who builds free online calculator tools. Just launched calculatorspan.com a free time calculator for professionals and students. Excited to learn and share with this amazing community!

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Elizabeth Schulze

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Joyce Foster

Hello everyone, My name is Joyce Foster and I'm here to learn, share, and connect as I build my journey into cloud computing — currently upskilling in AWS and writing technical content along the way. Looking forward to engaging with this community!💕

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Israel santos • Edited

Hello everyone, I’m Israel. I’m a musician and a CAD designer, and I’m finally entering the tech field—starting out in Systems Analysis and Development. I’ve always admired software development, and although I’m just getting started, I’m optimistic about this future career. I hope to learn and contribute to the community in some way.

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Date Calx

Hey everyone! 👋 Just joined DEV and looking forward to learning, sharing, and connecting with other developers here. I’m currently working on DateCalx, a collection of practical date and time calculation tools. Happy to be here!

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Krithika

Hello world!
I'm Krithika, an AI Engineer from India with 3 years of experience. I joined to participate in challenges, share what I've been learning, support the community, and, of course, have some fun! Outside of work, I love coffee and solving puzzles in my free time.
Glad to be here, and looking forward to connecting with you all :)