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Welcome Thread - v388

Sloan the DEV Moderator on August 12, 2026

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Welcome everyone to dev.to! Glad you are here and hope you are well! I am a DEV Community Moderator and my primary goal is to support everyone on dev.to and ensure everyone is having a good time!

To get started,

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Feel free to introduce yourself and welcome others by replying to at least 2 people! It would be greatly appreciated! :D

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

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agaura

Hi,

I’m Abhishek, a software developer with expertise in .NET and Angular. I’ve worked on SaaS-based products such as CRM and HRMS solutions for clients, gaining experience in building practical software for real-world business needs.

Going forward, I want to explore and build more innovative and scalable SaaS products that solve real-world problems. I’m currently expanding my skills in AI, Generative AI, and RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), to integrate these technologies into SaaS products to create smarter, more advanced, and useful features.

I’m excited to share my learning, experiments, projects, and development journey with the community.

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O-O1112

Hi, I'm O-O1112, a software engineer passionate about pushing technical boundaries and innovation.
Proficient in Python, JavaScript, C#, Lua, and PHP, I love leveraging AI to boost creative and coding efficiency.
Creator of Block Engine, an open-source polyglot engine enabling single-file multi-runtime execution with automatic variable state pipeline.:)

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Jari Huttunen • Edited

Hello from security engineering!
I've been living and breathing IT and cyber for 20+ years, mostly Linux, infra, vulns, and security engineering.
I'm one of those people who can start with "I'll just test this quickly" and end up tinkering until 3 AM just to get this one thing more done before going to bed. Yes, I like it a bit too much.

I'm not much of a blogger, but I do enjoy building, breaking, automating, and poking at things until I understand how they really work. That's the engineer's blood running in my veins.

So I'm probably going to start sharing some of the stuff I get enthusiastic about. Expect home labs, cybersecurity, weird experiments, open source, and probably the occasional "this seemed like a good idea at the time." revelations.

Looking forward to seeing what everyone else is working on here!

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Aliaksei Zelianouski

Your own firewall being the thing that blocked the experiment is a good opening problem for a homelab post.

One datum for when you start pushing captured payloads through a model: the refusals are uneven. Fable and Sol would not touch offensive-security work for me - auditing my own box, attack-surface work. Opus does it, and it is what I used to solve the hacking challenges at a cybersecurity conference CTF this year. Is anything in the Cowrie pipeline handing samples to a model yet, or is it all VirusTotal and Urlhaus?

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Jari Huttunen

Not yet. At the moment the pipeline is still pretty traditional: Cowrie -> captured sample -> VirusTotal / Urlhaus. There are others like MalShare and Cuckoo too which accept payloads.

The AI part hasn't made it into my pipeline yet, or even my mind. I was primarily focusing on just observing and reporting, but AI-assisted malware analysis would definitely be an interesting expansion.

Maybe local AI agents could be more obedient when it comes to analysing samples? A captured payload plus the Cowrie session context could give an agent quite a bit to work with, and probably consume a ton of tokens. Especially for explaining what the malware is doing, extracting IOCs, and correlating it with the commands the attacker executed. That would certainly enrich the reporting quality. I have to start searching for such an LLM.
Now that you mentioned this, this might be a fun next rabbit hole.

(comment refers to my post at dev.to/jarihu/i-made-my-honeypot-d...)

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Phúc Phùng

Hi everyone! 👋

I'm a software engineer from Vietnam with experience in C#, Java, C++, databases, and building developer tools.

Recently, I've been exploring AI coding agents and how they can maintain useful context across sessions.

I'm currently building Lean AI Memory, a small open-source project that uses Markdown + Git as memory for AI coding agents.

The idea is simple: start with a minimal set of rules and let real-world usage and the community gradually improve them.

Looking forward to learning from the community and sharing what I build along the way! 🚀

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Aliaksei Zelianouski

Markdown plus git is where I landed too. Though mine only work because the agent wrote them for my own problems and keeps refactoring them - I cannot picture importing someone else's rules, community-improved or not.

The other half of it: a rule in a file guides, it never forces. My strictest one, never use em-dashes in anything published, held maybe half the time as written text and only became reliable once I moved it out of the model into a hook that strips them after every write. Does Lean AI Memory separate rules that are advice from rules that have to be enforced?

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Andrew Avery

Lean AI Memory sounds great, especially "start minimal and let real-world usage improve the rules"; that's basically how good schemas evolve. Do you handle conflicting edits when two agents update the same memory file, or is it single-writer for now?

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Haoxiang Li

Hi everyone! I’m Haoxiang, an independent builder working on AI games and evaluation systems.

I’m currently building Kai, an AI Liar’s Dice game and arena where I study LLM behavior, harness failures, and model evaluation. Fun fact: it started as a bluffing game and gradually turned into a benchmark-debugging lab.

I’ve just joined DEV and published my first two field notes. I’d love to meet other builders working on AI agents, game systems, or evaluation. Looking forward to learning from everyone here! 👋

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Aliaksei Zelianouski

A bluffing game that turned into a benchmark-debugging lab is a familiar arc - I run a werewolf game where the models have to deceive each other and it went the same way.

They turned out to be bad at lying on purpose. Hiding a role works fine, but almost none of them builds a strategy around a lie, and the moment one tries, every other model piles on. Does bluffing survive in Kai, or does the probability tool eat it?

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Qassam Abumwies

Hello everyone
I'm a teacher from Palestine who loves tech. I'm not a coder myself but i have a desire to learn and build apps that suit my own use cases. And since i can't really code and don't have the time to learn i've went down the ai coding route. I'm always ready for advice. Nice to meet you all .

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Aliaksei Zelianouski

Apps that suit your own use cases is the category where this actually works. Which project you pick first matters more than the coding, though. I have a home automation setup I built this way and have never read a line of its code - fine, because when it breaks I flip the switch by hand. Anything where a bad result costs me something, I still end up reading what the model wrote.

Start with something where a bug is only annoying. What are you building first?

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Andrew Avery

Hi everyone! 👋

I'm Andrew, building PromptSpend, an open-source LLM cost calculator that tries to get the actual arithmetic right (compounding chat history, cache-write costs, promotional pricing that expires, that kind of thing), backed by a catalog that re-checks itself against vendors every morning.

Just published my first piece here, about the specific ways pricing calculators like mine get the number wrong, including one we got wrong ourselves, in public, on our own product.

Excited to be part of the community and see what everyone's building.

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Aliaksei Zelianouski

Publishing the one your own tool got wrong is rare. The gap I keep hitting sits upstream of the arithmetic though - you cannot know the output length before the call. I track cost per call on a side project that runs a lot of models, and on thinking models about 60% of billed output turns out to be reasoning, roughly a 2.5x multiplier over the visible answer, and it moves run to run.

So I stopped projecting single requests and bound the session instead: models are banded by effective output price, and the band decides how much can run. Does PromptSpend take a reasoning estimate from the user, or carry a per-model multiplier?

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Ömer ExpressGo

Hi everyone! 👋

I’m Ömer, joining from Istanbul, Türkiye. I’m interested in technology, web development, digital projects, and learning how people solve real-world problems with tech.

Happy to be here and looking forward to learning from the DEV community, sharing ideas, and joining the conversations. 🚀

Nice to meet you all!

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Chethan Raj

Hi everyone! 👋

I'm Chethan, a Senior Lead Consultant working primarily with Azure, Dynamics 365 FSCM, C#.NET and enterprise integration.

I'm here to learn, share practical experience, and connect with other engineers and architects working on cloud and enterprise systems.

I'm also starting a technical writing series on Azure Architecture — From Zero to Production, covering architecture decisions, enterprise integration, Infrastructure as Code, and production practices.

Looking forward to learning from the DEV community!

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Asada Shinsaku

Hello, everyone! 👋

I’m Asada Shinsaku, a software engineer who loves coding—sometimes more than my code loves compiling.

I’m really happy to be here. This community already feels warm and welcoming, and I’m looking forward to meeting you, seeing what you’re building, and sharing the occasional debugging headache.

I hope we can support one another, help our projects grow, and celebrate those rare, magical moments when everything works on the first try.

Thanks for having me. I’m excited to be part of the community!

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Saif Ali

Hi everyone! 👋

I'm Saif, a BS Information Technology student interested in Cloud Security and GRC.

I'm currently building practical projects in Python, Network Security, Linux, and Security Automation while documenting what I learn along the way.

Looking forward to learning from the DEV Community, sharing my projects, and connecting with other developers and security enthusiasts! 🚀

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Fábio

Hi everyone!

I'm new to the DEV Community and I'm really happy to be here!

I'm currently studying Systems Analysis and Development (ADS) in Brazil. I'm still at the beginning of my programming journey, but I'm really enjoying learning and building new things.

So far, I've been studying C, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, algorithms and programming logic. I've also worked on some Arduino projects using C/C++, including a small Arduino car project.

I'm also working on improving my English, so joining an international developer community like this is a great opportunity for me to learn both programming and English.

I'm looking forward to meeting other developers, learning from you guys, sharing my projects, and improving along the way.

Nice to meet you all!

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Yann • Edited

Hi There!

I've been doing front-end stuff forever… I'm a big fan of hand coding CSS/HTML, but I've been dabbling in Claude code recently for TDD (and writing my PRs 🤣) and it's definitely sped up my workflow (and I've always hated writing tests 😅).

I run a web design studio by day, maintain an open source CSS framework by night, and put out a newsletter about CSS/HTML features based on Google’s Baseline once a month. I'm also working on a stealth startup right now… I'm not sure it's appropriate to link to all this here though, so I'll keep it mysterious 😁

Nice to be part of the community! 👋

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Katsuhiro Yamakawa

Hi everyone! 👋

I'm Katsuhiro, an engineer from Japan. I've been writing technical articles in
Japanese for a few years, and I've just started publishing English versions
of them here.

Most of what I work on these days is the workflow around AI coding agents —
how to hand work to them without losing track of what's protected, and what
kind of documents are worth keeping when an agent writes most of the tests.
I also spend a lot of time in a terminal-only setup (NixOS, tmux) and
occasionally build small hardware things with a Raspberry Pi.

English isn't my first language, so writing here is partly practice.
Looking forward to reading what everyone's building!

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Thomas Casali

Hi everyone! I'm Thomas, computer science teacher at a technical high school in Italy by day, indie dev after hours. I build web and mobile apps for sports events and for my school, mostly solo, which means every lesson I learn is paid for exactly once and forgotten twice. Lately I've been working on fixing that second part: a memory system for my AI coding sessions, so what I learn in one project survives into the next. First article about it coming next week. Fun fact: some of my students find bugs in my apps faster than any test suite I ever wrote.

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Cryptosafekit

Hi everyone! Glad to join this community.
I run cryptosafekit, a site focused on crypto hardware wallet reviews and cryptocurrency asset security guides.
I’m currently learning WordPress performance optimization, web security defense and Google SEO to grow my independent site.
Looking forward to exchanging ideas about web development, e-commerce and crypto security with all of you 😊

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Yehor • Edited

Hi everyone!

I’m Yehor, a software developer interested in AI, automation, and building useful digital products.
I work with TypeScript, APIs, backend systems, Playwright, and browser automation. Recently, I’ve been exploring how AI agents can generate quality content, automate complex workflows, and still keep humans in control of important decisions.

I’m currently building tools that combine AI, content workflows, and reliable browser automation.
I’m here to learn from other developers, share practical lessons, and document what I build along the way.

Looking forward to meeting everyone! 🚀

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Mahesh U Naidu

Hi everyone! 👋

I'm Mahesh, building VedIntel™ AstroAPI, a Vedic astrology computation API. Started as a fix for a third-party dependency in my own product that turned out to have real accuracy bugs, grew into its own thing.

Mostly working in TypeScript/Next.js these days. Looking forward to sharing what I'm building and learning from everyone here.

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AtaList • Edited

Hello,
I'm new here, I'd like to share my story on building our platform, hope it'll help people understand all the pain.
Meet Atalist: your new way to discover the experts, events, and people around you.
We're available on the web, ios and android.
Let me know if you want any information.

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Sebastian

Hey everyone,

I'm a tech lead from germany, always trying to learn something new and share something with the world.

I am currently working in EdTech trying to support students in their struggles with the help of, who guessed it, AI. Originally a frontend dev, I now work in all fields relevant for web applications, and as a good jack of all trades, I am not exceptional at anything, I just know who to talk to.

I am going to share my learnings on the job, be it fundamental knowledge I gained over the years or just quick realisations from my current work day. And more importantly I am hoping to start discussions and learning from all of you.

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Crygodi

Hello everyone!
I'm John, a developer and builder who enjoys learning new technologies and turning ideas into real projects.
I joined DEV to learn from other developers, share experiences, and connect with people who are passionate about building things.
I'm currently exploring web development, APIs, backend architecture, and game development.
Looking forward to learning from the community and getting to know everyone.
What are you currently building or learning?

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ΛXXӨ • Edited

Hi DEV 👋, I'm Althaf

I’m here because I’m passionate about building things with code and exploring how technology can solve real-world problems.

I’m especially interested in full-stack development, cybersecurity, automation, AI, and understanding how systems work from the inside out.

I’ll be sharing what I learn while building — projects, experiments, useful tools, security research, and ideas around creating smarter and more secure technology.

Always learning. Always building. Always breaking things to understand how they work.

Github - github.com/axxodeveloper

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cloudcosttree

Hey everyone, glad to be here. I'm a solo developer working on CloudCostTree, a CLI that helps you understand and experiment with what your AWS infrastructure will cost before you actually deploy it. Been heads down building it for the past few weeks and figured it was time to actually join the community instead of just lurking.

Been learning a lot about AWS's pricing internals along the way, turns out a lot of it is way more nuanced than it looks from the outside.

Looking forward to reading what everyone else here is building.

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Edward Calanni

I’m Edward. I’m deep into SEO, GEO, AI search and referral traffic.

If that’s your thing, you might want to hit follow. I’m planning to share the good stuff only: experiments, findings, weird data and tactics actually worth testing.

No recycled “10 SEO tips” here 😎

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Samuel Gauthier

Super excited to finally jump into the conversation here!

What brought us here: We’re the team behind Heavnn.io, a global tax & legal platform built specifically for location-independent remote workers and digital nomads. We joined to connect with the dev community and share practical knowledge about remote work setups.

How we can help: We know cross-border taxes, dual residency rules, and multi-country income can be a massive headache when you're coding from anywhere. Drop any tax, residency, or remote-setup questions in the replies, and we'll gladly break them down for you!

Fun fact: We spend as much time untangling international tax treaties as developers spend trying to exit Vim.

Say hi if you're currently nomading or working remotely from another country! ✈️💻

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TrustScoreAgent

Hey everyone 👋

I've lately build TrustScoreAgent, a free and open reputation layer so AI agents can check whether a service is reliable before they call it. I've been heads-down building it and I'm finally poking my head up to start writing here, mostly about the trust and reliability side of agents.

What brought me here: I read a lot more dev.to than I contribute, and I'd like to fix that. Keen to learn from how people here explain hard things simply.

Fun fact: most of my better design decisions happened on a walk or running, not at the keyboard.

Glad to be here.

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Inolas

Hi, I'm Inolas just starting out with dev.to. I found it randomly while searching something else about computers but i guess it's a place that i always wanted. I am learning Software Engineering and currently in my 3rd year and i am so excited to explore this crazy place, well that's it for now.

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kachence

Hi all,

I'm a full-time data engineer and a part-time prediction markets bot builder.

Glad to join and connect with other developers! I will be sharing what I build here and will hopefully find like-minded individuals who also are passionate about prediction markets.

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Fathia Gbadamosi

Hi everyone👋
I’m Fathia, a Computer Science student and developer who genuinely loves coding and building things. I’m currently learning Python, Django, and DRF, and I’m excited to grow my backend skills.

I’m joining this community to learn, connect, share, and meet other people passionate about tech. I’m also trying to remind myself that learning isn’t a race. Instead of constantly feeling like I’m behind, I want to enjoy the journey, learn at my own pace, make mistakes, build projects, and celebrate my progress.

I’m really excited to be here and looking forward to learning and growing with you all! 🚀

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Aarush Karak

Hey everyone! I'm Aarush Karak — a high school software developer from Toronto, Canada, focused on spatial computing, AI, and full-stack development.

I'm the founder of TheCoderBros, a platform engineering fellow at Hack Club (Stardance), and a 1st-place TSA State Champion in Video Game 3D Design. I love building at the intersection of the web and 3D — my favorite project is HELIOS, a browser-based AI operating system with hand-gesture navigation built on Three.js and MediaPipe.

My blog covers spatial computing on the web, React Server Components, PostgreSQL internals, and CLI tooling — plus the occasional deep dive into my open-source projects like astro-tasks (a Python CLI developer dashboard, shipped on PyPI).

You can find me at aarushkarak.vercel.app or on GitHub @3ni8ma. Excited to be here and happy to connect!

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Kamil Abdulfatau

Please I want to learn full stack development please who can help and one problem is I’m 14years

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S.Babas

Hello everyone!
I'm a solo backend developer with a strong passion for DevOps. I'm currently building NuxiPro, a SaaS designed to declutter our Kanban workspaces from completed tasks.

Eager to learn a lot here on DEV.to, gather insights from your experiences, and share my own journey as I build in public!

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Maki Vlach • Edited

Hello!

I am Maki. I got into the software development ever since the age of 10. I had multiple motivations back then - one of them being my father who was a hero to me. He was always able to repair the computer that I've broken by downloading free computer games, which was mind-blowing to me back then.

Another motivation was the fact that I loved playing computer games such as Heroes: Might & Magic III, WoW, etc. I also loved to watch the tv show Star Gate. I loved how they have managed to save the world by understanding a computer program minutes before disaster.

So I decided that I also want to save the world by helping others, as well as making my father proud and perhaps one day - become better. And it paid. The gift that was given to me by the universe started to pay off - persistence.

I spent years of studying on my own, creating projects, working for companies bigger and smaller and step by step becoming better in what I do.

At some point I have reached level where I can tell that I made by father proud and now - the other goal remains - make this world a better place.

Thank you!

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Kestrion

What's up, Kubernauts? 👋

Kestrion here. I joined DEV to share practical Kubernetes lessons and experience for small and medium-sized engineering teams—especially those running production workloads without a dedicated platform team.

I'm interested in the unglamorous but important parts: safe deployments, tested restores, sensible costs, upgrades, and keeping platform complexity proportional to the size of the team.

Lately, I’ve been wrestling with Karpenter and Istio. Those two never seem to sleep—and apparently, neither do I :-D .

I'm also here to learn from how other teams approach these problems. What cloud-native challenge is taking most of your time right now?

Fun fact: I also maintain a free CKA study project in Spanish.

Very quick question: AWS or Azure?, don't fight for it.

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Valerii Sakara

Hi everyone! I'm Valerii — I audit algorithmic trading bot code for a living: entry/exit logic, order management, risk handling, fee-honest backtests. Before offering this as a service I audited my own live bot the same way, and I've since filed 40+ public responsible-disclosure issues against open-source trading bots, looking for code that behaves differently than the README or the backtest claims it does. Just started sharing some of the recurring bug patterns here — glad to be part of the community!

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Chukwuemeka Andre Ozomma

Hi everyone!

I'm Andre, a full-stack developer working mainly with React, Next.js, Tailwind, and Shadcn UI. Currently building PatientCare, a patient management system, and I just finished writing a two-book series on AI-assisted development — teaching the fundamentals first, then bringing AI tools into the workflow once there's something solid to judge them against.

Excited to be here, read what people are building, and join the conversation on how AI is actually changing (or not changing) the way we write code day to day.

Looking forward to being part of this community!

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Emirck Candelo

Hello everyone! I'm new around here, I'm 24, and I want to start a devlog of sorts where I document my progress as a programmer. I hope to both give and receive feedback on whatever I’m working on or posting.

I'd love to make friends with people who are also just starting to grind, since I'm one of them. I'm about to finish university, but honestly feel like I don't know anything, so it's time to do my part. Greetings to everyone!

If you just want to meet people and shoot me a message so we can suffer together, you're more than welcome to haha. 🤘🏼

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Kamil Abdulfatau

Please I want to learn full stack development please who can help and one problem is I’m 14years

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stillrefactoring • Edited

Hey everyone!

I'm a software engineer, and I'm mainly interested in backend development. I work mostly with ASP.NET Core and Java/Spring Boot, and I'm currently learning Express.js and diving deeper into SQL.

I recently joined DEV to start sharing more of what I'm building and learning. My current project is a personal file drive, and I'm planning to document the process as I build it, while also trying to fight my tendency to start too many projects and never finish them.

Looking forward to discovering what everyone else is working on and learning from the community!

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CheckoutWorks

Hi everyone!

We are CheckoutWorks, a Shopify development team helping merchants solve real-world store problems and build better ecommerce experiences.

We work with Shopify themes, Liquid, APIs, apps, integrations, and custom development. We'll be sharing practical guides, technical insights, and lessons learned from building and maintaining Shopify stores.

Looking forward to learning from this community, connecting with other developers, and sharing what we discover along the way.

Happy coding! 🚀

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Brently

I’m Brently, I work for a small law Immigration Law Firm. I am here to build my skills so I can confidently implement new more efficient workflows, improve our current processes, and expand our use of available technology. The firm continues to grow, and I want to ensure that we are able to scale with it! Excited to see what I will learn from y’all!

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Vo Viet Hoang

Hi DEV community! 👋 Glad to be here! I focus on Technical SEO and AI-assisted development (Vibe Coding) for building micro web applications. Looking forward to sharing and discovering great insights here!

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Elias Muse

Hey everyone 👋 Happy to finally be here.
I'm an AI music creator — I spend most of my days turning text prompts and lyrics into songs with an AI music generator, then editing them into something I'd actually want to listen to. My background isn't traditional music production; I got here by being endlessly curious about what these tools can and can't do, and just... not stopping.
Why DEV.to? Honestly, I've been lurking for a while and kept noticing that the people here explain how things work, not just that they work. As someone who lives on the creative side of AI but keeps bumping into the technical side (prompt structure, audio formats, little automation scripts to save myself time), this feels like the right room to learn in — and eventually give back to.
One thing I find genuinely fascinating: how much a tiny change to a prompt can swing the whole mood of a track. "lofi, rainy night, 85 BPM" and "lofi, rainy night, 85 BPM, slightly out of tune" produce two completely different feelings. It's turned me into someone who takes notes on adjectives. I now have a document that is, unironically, just a curated list of moods.
Looking forward to reading, asking questions, and sharing what I learn along the way. Nice to meet you all!

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Christopher Semler

Hey everyone! I’m Christopher. I recently graduated with my BS in Software Engineering from Western Governors University and I’m making a career change into software development. Right now I’m focused on full‑stack learning, building my portfolio, and getting ready for my first dev job. I’m here to connect with other developers, share progress, and chat with people on the same journey. Always happy to talk.

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Sardor

👨🏻‍💻 Howdy! I'm Sardor, an indie dev from Uzbekistan who loves building software that solves real problems 🚀

Teach stack

  • Python
  • Frontend (React + Typescript)
  • bash

Skills 💡

  • Web Development
  • Web Design
  • Prompt Engineering.

Tools 🛠️

  • Git/GitHub
  • Supabase
  • Vercel
  • Clerk
  • OpenCode
  • Figma
  • Framer
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Douglas Masho

Hi everyone! 👋

my name is Douglas, a full-stack developer from Windhoek, Namibia. I split my time between client work and building things on the side, mostly stuff that started as "this annoys me enough to fix it." Been lurking around here for a bit and figured it was time to actually say hi. Looking forward to seeing what everyone's building.

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Harry

Hi everyone, I’m Harry 👋
I’m an independent developer working on a few open-source tools, mostly with Rust, Python, and Vue. I joined DEV because I want to share more of what I learn while shipping desktop apps instead of leaving everything buried in commit history.

I’ve just published my first post here about MangoDisk. Looking forward to meeting other builders and seeing what everyone’s working on.

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Ichimura Tomoo

​Hi everyone! I'm Ichimura, a Web Engineer from Japan.

I'm still at the beginning of my career, but I write Java for a living by day, and by night, I'm completely obsessed with Rust 🦀.

When I'm away from the keyboard, I love going cycling to refresh my mind 🚲. Excited to connect with you all!

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Cristina M

Hi everyone! 👋

I’m just getting started in web development and joined this community to learn, improve my skills, and connect with other people who enjoy building things for the web.

I’m currently experimenting with HTML, CSS, WordPress, and a bit of JavaScript, taking things step by step and learning through small projects.

Looking forward to learning from the community, sharing progress, and hopefully helping others as I gain more experience. 😊

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Alireza Rabiei

Hey everyone 👋 I'm Alireza — I've been building full-stack web apps for about 8 years now, mostly PHP/Laravel on the backend with TypeScript/Next.js on the frontend. Over the years that's meant a pretty wide mix of work: enterprise software for Iran's Construction Engineering Organization, core contributions to Rahmam LMS, and running my own e-commerce store, Hoogallery, which I built from scratch and still operate.

Lately I've been on a bit of a deep-dive: rewriting Hoogallery's backend from Laravel to NestJS, not because it needed rewriting, but because I wanted to really understand NestJS properly, and there's no better way than rebuilding something real, business logic and all. I'll probably end up posting about that here — the architecture decisions, the things that don't translate cleanly between frameworks, that kind of thing.

Happy to be here, looking forward to seeing what everyone's building.

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BruceJames • Edited

Hi, I'm Bruce 👋

I'm a software engineer passionate about building developer tools and AI products.

Over the years, I've worked with Go, Rust, TypeScript, distributed systems, and modern web technologies. Recently, most of my time has been spent exploring how large language models can solve real-world problems instead of just creating demos.

My current project is MeeLang, an AI-powered Chrome extension that provides real-time translation for Google Meet. The idea came from a simple problem: multilingual meetings are still surprisingly difficult, even with today's AI. I wanted a solution that could translate conversations while people are still speaking—without requiring meeting bots or complicated setup.

Besides building products, I'm interested in:

  • AI and LLM applications
  • Developer tools
  • Distributed systems
  • Rust & Go
  • SaaS and indie hacking
  • Product growth and SEO

On Dev.to, I'll be writing about what I learn while building AI products—from engineering challenges and Chrome extension development to product launches, growth experiments, and lessons learned as an indie developer.

If you're working on AI, browser extensions, or SaaS products, I'd love to connect and exchange ideas.

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Muhammad Usman

Hi I am Muhammad Usman, a passionate software engineer who is currently working on his problem solving skills and makes projects in MERN Stack. One of my projects is vconnect.fun, its a real time messaging web application inspired from the WhatsApp and currently in beta version. The other project is cocode.fun that is collaborative code editor that was built for fun as I and my collegues spend time while coding and it has microphone and chats feature as well .
I am here to build connections and work with other fellows

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Omar

Hi guys, I'm a cloud engineer focused on AWS and I'm working on specialising in cloud security. I started my tech career in the AWS Re/start boot camp and it been all cloud and AWS since then. Full Terraform and Kubernetes proficiency loading. Looking forward to meeting like minds.

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CraftBee

Hello Everyone ! 👋

I'am CraftBee a game dev begginer i search for devs to share me on the learning and help me to start i think and i love horror games and stuff like fears to fathom by rayII and lighting horror experiences I hope i find a friend that shares me on that...

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Artem Golub

Hi all, Im a data engineer working with AWS, Snowflake and other databases, Python. I build data pipelines and solutions around AI. Not really building anything of my own at the moment, just looking for contract work.

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Christoph Dieck

Hey everyone.

I'm Chris, a systems engineer and web developer from Germany. I build cloud infrastructure and TypeScript applications by day, and pave actual patios and run electrical cables by evening. Same problem-solving mindset, very different tools.

Tech stack is mostly TypeScript, React, Astro, AWS, and Docker. I self-host what I can on Proxmox and automate what makes sense.

I'll be writing about practical patterns and architecture decisions from my projects.

Looking forward to seeing what everyone's building.

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liyfez

hello

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Baaz

hi

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Godstockss

hii

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Pranav Warrior

Hello Everyone

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roseehacks321

Hello everyone I'm new here. and would love to know your experiences and share mines. Hope you all are doing well.

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𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐚𝐳𝐲 𝐆𝐢𝐫𝐥

Welcome everyone!!

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Mohammed Shareefuddin

Hi Everyone,
I am Mohammed Shareefuddin, software engineer with Java, Spring Boot, Microservices.
love leveraging AI to boost creative and coding efficiency.

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Alex Oliinyk

Hey all! Long-time lurker, indie web dev building small browser tools. Here to learn from the community and share the occasional deep-dive. 👋

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Sahil Chhabra

Hi

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David Cook

Hi everyone! I joined DEV Community to learn, connect with other writers and creators, and explore new ideas. Looking forward to being part of the community and learning from you all.

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Nasr Maswood

Hi everyone!

My name is Nasr and I'm building an Voice AI startup in Saudi Arabia.

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Phil

Hi everyone, I am an independent developer with over 20 years of coding experience, familiar with various technology stacks, currently maintaining some websites, and also developing new applications.

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FontFiesta

Hi Community Iam ShaRiz a web dev contributor, looking forward to have some fun with AI integrations. Hope community will have space for folks like me
Happy Coding Buddies

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Franjola

Hi everyone!
I’m a developer who’s passionate about software architecture. I’m here to learn from you all and share what I discover along this long journey.

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Shane McGuirt

Yoo hoo

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Muhammad Arshad • Edited

Hi everyone,
Experienced WordPress & Shopify developer here
lets discuss this on a quick call or chat if that works for you

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Marcell Fernandes

Hi!

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dreamylighting

hi

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muhammad tauqeer Asghar

I am thrilled to join this platform,I am SEO expert having experince of multiple seo skills.

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Madhan

no thoughts, just vibes 🫡 glad to be here! hype to see what everyone’s shipping and steal your debugging luck 🪄

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Dana Čermáková

hi

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sloth

Hi, I'm sloth. dev.to is good place to share ideas and open source projects, so I joined.