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Welcome Thread - v390

Sloan the DEV Moderator on August 26, 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,

Any questions about DEV and want to get answers from a DEV Community Mod? Leave a comment and come chat here!

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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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Design Rivers Studios

Hey everyone & thanks so much for the opportunity!

I'm the founder of Design Rivers Studios, where I'm building mobile apps and experimenting with new ideas as an indie developer.

I'm almost done with my first Android app, Torchly, a simple and modern flashlight app. I'm learning a lot along the way about Android development, product design, testing, and getting an app ready for launch.

I'm joining DEV to connect with other developers, share what I'm building, learn from the community, and hopefully document some of the journey along the way.

Looking forward to meeting everyone and discovering what you're all working on!

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Melk

Welcome!!

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Deezy

Thanks for having me in y’all group of fun.

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Martzcode

Hey everyone! 👋

I'm a former auditor who caught the coding bug and made the full jump into dev, funny enough, spreadsheets and stack traces have more in common than I expected 😅. These days I split my time between backend dev (Java, Spring Boot, Quarkus) and frontend (Angular, TypeScript), with a soft spot for BI and functional analysis too.

Right now I'm building Touria, a tourism analytics platform, in collab with Calyps and on the side I'm teaching myself Rust, dipping into AI, and poking at cybersecurity basics (send help, or send resources 🙏).

I'm also on the hunt for my next role as a developer, ideally in Canada/Québec or French-speaking Europe. Excited to be part of this community, feel free to say hi, especially if you're also a career-switcher!

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Gustavo B. de Abreu

Welcome!😃

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Petros Papatheodorou

Hi! How's Rust been treating you? Did you have a hard time with understanding its concepts, given your other programming background?

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Martzcode

Hi! It’s completely new to me and quite different from Java. Luckily, I enjoy learning new things! I’ve also noticed that the applications built with Rust are really fast and lightweight.

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Petros Papatheodorou

I think sticking with it will pay off, keep it up!

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Martzcode

Thanks, I really appreciate the encouragement! 😊

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Anjila Deshpande

Hi everyone!

I’m the founder of Wizlix Technologies, and we’re building an AI-first company and platform powered by AI and reviewed by humans.

I believe this is the right community to get honest feedback from engineers who understand performance, scalability and optimization.

We’re building Flozari.com, and I’d love for engineers here to take a look at what we’re working on and share your thoughts.

What could we improve?
What would you optimize?
Are there any performance or technical areas you think we should focus on?

We’re completely open to feedback, good or bad and would genuinely love to learn from your experience.

Thanks in advance to anyone who takes the time to review it and share feedback!

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Babade

This is a really interesting use case. I took a look at Flozari, and one area I’d be curious about is how the automation pipeline handles scaling when there’s a sudden spike in comments, DMs, or webhook events.

I’d especially be interested in how you handle Meta API rate limits, retries/duplicate events, and queueing for high-volume interactions. I also think the balance between deterministic workflows and AI-generated responses is an interesting optimization problem — using predefined responses where possible while reserving AI for interactions that actually need contextual reasoning could help with both latency and inference costs.

I’ll keep exploring the platform, but those are some of the areas I’d be looking at first. Great work so far!

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Babade • Edited

That makes a lot of sense. I particularly like the approach of keeping deterministic flows separate from AI-driven interactions rather than putting an LLM in the middle of every request.

One thing I'm curious about is how you handle queued events when they become stale. For example, if several comments or interactions come in during a spike and get queued, do you have any prioritization or expiration strategy so that an outdated interaction doesn't get processed after the context has already changed?

I'd be interested to hear how you approached that trade-off between reliability, latency, and maintaining the right conversation context.

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Alisson Todesco

Hey everyone! 👋
I'm Alisson, an Systems Analysis and Development student. I have practical experience in industrial process automation (SAP GUI Scripting & Excel VBA) and data intelligence with Power BI.
I'm currently transitioning careers and joined the community to share knowledge about software development, read tech articles, and accelerate my studies in Python and SQL.
Fun fact: I really enjoy using automation to eliminate repetitive manual tasks on the shop floor!

Great to connect with you all! 🚀

(disclaimer: used Google Translate for this continuous learning step lol)

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Earl Grey

Welcome! Dev.to is a great place to share knowledge. I've gotten some great feedback and lots of different perspectives which has been so helpful!

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Victor Augusto

Bem-vindo, Alisson! VBA e SAP GUI Scripting eu conheço de perto, ainda mexo com Visual Basic num ERP legado. É subestimado, mas resolve muito problema de automação com pouco código. A passagem de automação de planilha pra pipeline de dados costuma ser bem natural, boa sorte nos estudos de Python/SQL.

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Adharsh K

HI Alison

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AutoSMO

Hey everyone 👋

Full honesty: I'm not a backend engineer. I run a social-media marketing API
platform on the business side, so I see integration problems way more than I
write the code for them. Resellers plug into our API and the same issues keep
coming up — double orders from timeouts, stale catalogues, partial deliveries.
I've been writing those up (with AI's help, disclosed on the posts) to share
what actually trips people up in practice.

Here to learn the engineering side properly from people who live in it.
Happy to be here!

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Guan YongXiang

Hello everyone! 👋

I'm a backend engineer and a long-time Java developer.

Recently, I've been spending more time digging into things like concurrency, I/O, performance, and some of the unexpected problems that appear in real systems.

I joined DEV to share some of those experiences, learn from other developers, and hopefully have some interesting discussions along the way.

Nice to meet you all!

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Andi P.

Hello everyone! Greetings from Hai Phong - my new base of operations and life. So far I am really enjoying the move from Indonesia - even if the weather is somewhat the same!
I'm digging into python and trying my best to stay on top of the AI wave!

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Luca Mancini

hey, i’m luca a software engineer from milan currently working on operately. i’m here to write about product design, useful ai, and clean boring code. fun fact: i can spend longer naming a project than building the first version.

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Vo Viet Hoang

Welcome to DEV! Great to have you here!

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Mary Macharia

Hi everyone! 👋 I am joining the community as a software engineer. I am here to expand my skillset, learn from all of you, and connect with fellow developers and tech enthusiasts. Looking forward to growing together!

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Rob de Roy

The best way to learn is to be where the people who know their stuff are.

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Mohith Dande

Hi, I’m Mohith, a Computer Science student and aspiring software developer passionate about building practical solutions with technology. I enjoy exploring AI, app development, and new technologies, while taking part in hackathons and collaborative projects. Outside coding, I’m into anime and music.

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Ogi

Hi all. I run a few small businesses solo and hand most of the work to AI. I mostly write up what broke — index numbers, API bills, accounting bugs. Glad to be here.

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Aliaksei Zelianouski

Read your indexing post. Diagnosing the redirect loop, then spinning up a fresh blog and finding the exact same structure on every healthy Blogspot - that five-minute check is worth more than the other 80 posts.

I hit the same wall from the engagement side. For a while an agent of mine posted daily curated content to my channels. Flat zero, while the pieces written from my own work did all the numbers. Its job is distribution now, not writing.

One question about the rebuild: if the pipeline only writes what actually happened, who does it happen to?

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Devon Drake Pinkston
  1. Names Devon. I'm not a huge fan of people in general but I do my best to be a good human. A big part of what brought me into the 'software' community is actually trying to create things without being burdened by intentional sabotage that I frequently experience in the physical world. I've learned a good deal about source code over the last five years and now I'd just like to be part of a community of open-minded, polite people.
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whaiman

Hey, I'm whaiman 👋

Fullstack & Software Engineer. I mostly write Python and TypeScript, with some C++ when I want to get closer to the metal.
Lately I've been into low-level and systems-y stuff - networking protocols, secure remote execution, tamper-evident logging.

I prefer figuring things out from first principles over reaching for a framework or a generated answer - that's more or less how I approach everything I build.

Happy to be here - looking forward to seeing what everyone's working on.

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Tiago Vilas Boas (Montanha)

Fala, pessoal! Sou o Tiago, Staff Software Engineer de São Paulo. Tenho estudado e escrito sobre Agentic AI, arquitetura e AppSec, especialmente os desafios de colocar agentes em produção com segurança. Voltei a participar mais ativamente do DEV para compartilhar aprendizados reais e conhecer quem também está construindo nessa área. O que vocês estão explorando por aqui?

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Basit Tijani

Hi everyone! 👋 I’m a distributed systems engineer with about 6 years of experience, mostly focusing on high-throughput backend pipelines, concurrent Go systems, and technical innovation.I joined Dev.to to share my open-source projects (currently building tooltrace to help debug LLM tool calls) and connect with other devs obsessed with engineering fundamentals. Looking forward to learning from everyone here!

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Harry

Hi everyone — I’m Harry 👋

I build open-source desktop tools and spend most of my time bouncing between Rust, Python, and Vue. My current projects are MangoDisk (disk cleanup), FlashVoice (local voice input), and MoneyPrinterTurbo (turning scripts into videos).

I joined DEV because the messy parts of shipping software are usually more useful than polished launch posts. I’ll share bugs I hit, cross-platform lessons, and decisions behind releases. Glad to be here!

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Danil Galeev

Hi everyone! 👋

I'm Danil - a software architect. Most days mean full-stack systems: SaaS, integrations, and the edge cases that only bite once you ship to real users. I hop between languages rather than owning one stack.

Lately I've been deep in agentic systems - the practical side of running always-on AI agents: memory, context management, and the plumbing that keeps a long-running agent from falling apart under its own weight.

Glad to be here. Anyone else fighting the good fight against flawless AI harnesses - or have you somehow cracked the whole thing? Let's trade war stories. 👋

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Marcin Polak

Hi! It's great to see ppl working in a very similar space as I do! My agents are basically working near 24/7 in Docker containers. The failure I'm hitting most of the time is not model forgetting, it's a retraction. A decision I've made and reverted keeps being honored. How do you handle the memory invalidation?

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Alexey

Привет, Dev.to community!

I'm Alexey, an economist, trader, and algo-trader with a deep passion for the intersection of quantitative finance, blockchain, and autonomous systems.

I'm currently pursuing my Master's at Petrozavodsk State University (PetrSU), Faculty of Economics. My research is focused on the "Evolution of the Investment Profile of Cryptocurrencies: An Empirical Analysis of Structural Shifts and Market Institutionalization."

Simply put — I study the moment when crypto stopped being "casino" and started behaving like a mature asset class.
And more importantly, I build systems that allow this new asset class to be managed by AI agents without losing control.

I believe that within 5-10 years, AI agents will manage a significant portion of small and medium-sized business operations — from trading portfolios to routine business processes. But there's a huge problem:

People are afraid to let AI act autonomously.

That's exactly why I founded AF Labs.

We are building a trust layer for autonomous agents. Our stack is:

Lumen — on-chain intelligence (whales, scams, liquidity data).

Regula — pre-execution deal validation (market regime, position sizing, drawdown).

Palisade — a protective guardrail layer with kill-switch, limits, and audit logging.

It's a system that allows agents to act, while humans stay in control.

On Dev.to, I plan to write about the engineering and economics of AI agents:

How we build real-time validation systems for autonomous trading.

How structural shifts in crypto markets affect algorithm logic.

How to design "guardrails" that actually work (not just theory, but code and tests).

My empirical research on crypto market institutionalization.

I'm not here to sell. I'm here to learn, share, and build in public.

If you're building something with AI agents — whether it's a trading bot, an automation tool, or just curious about agent safety — I'd love to connect.

Check out our demo on the website (link in bio) or just drop a comment below.

Let's build systems, not predictions.

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Samu Durán

Hello, Im a software engineering student, I am on my last year, and I want to start knowing more about the community I'll be working for a big part of my life, so I am very excited, it's a pleasure to be here!!

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Bryandero98

Hey everyone! 👋 I'm Bryan — backend/TypeScript dev who spends most of my
free time on open-source.

What brought me here: I just published my first write-up, about
PacketForge — a shared-memory API so an AI coding agent's decisions and
technical debt don't vanish the moment the session ends. I also maintain
cliguard, a CLI contract-testing tool on npm.

Currently learning: MCP (Model Context Protocol) and building semantic
search with pgvector — first time going deep on embeddings.

Fun fact: I mostly hunt for real open-source issues to fix, not bounty
farms — so if you've got a gnarly issue in a TypeScript/Postgres repo,
I'm probably lurking nearby. 🙂

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Gustavo B. de Abreu

Hello everyone, my name is Gustavo!
I'm a software engineering student in Brazil, and I'm here on a recommendation from my university professor. I hope to learn a lot here about how to ask the right questions!

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Marina Sousa

Hello, guys! I'm Marina, from Brazil. This year I started learning about computer science in general and started my bachelor's degree in computer science, right now I'm focused in Front-End, specifically HTML, CSS and JavaScript since I'm just starting. There are so many areas to discover and I'm trying to at least get to know a bit of everyone. I liked Python very much, because it's "easy". Also tried to learn a bit about Linux and its commands, so much information, but alright, it's fun to learn. Here to get more knowledge and befriend incredible people!

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Victor Augusto

Bem-vinda, Marina! Começo de curso é a melhor hora pra experimentar um pouco de tudo mesmo, você sente do que gosta antes de se fechar numa área. E não desanima com o Linux não: no começo é muita informação, depois os comandos viram reflexo. Pra front-end, as tags #beginners e #webdev aqui no DEV têm bastante conteúdo bom pra acompanhar. Bons estudos!

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saji1970

Hi I am Saji an Architect and a Product Designer. 30 years in payments and banking infrastructure - card platforms, payment gateways, fraud systems - most recently at Chase. On theside I build open-source things: mdc-lite (an embedded encrypted key-value store) and MDC, a conversational data engine with a DNA-inspired archival storage tier. github.com/saji1970

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Vinicius Rodrigues de Brito

Ei, eu sou o Vinícius.
Estou começando minha jornada na área de tecnologia e atualmente estou estudando Gestão da Tecnologia da Informação.

Tenho estudado lógica de programação, algoritmos e Python, buscando entender cada vez melhor como a programação funciona na prática.

Ainda estou no começo e tenho muito a aprender, mas decidi começar a compartilhar minha evolução por aqui.

Pretendo usar o DEV.to para registrar o que estou aprendendo, compartilhar algumas descobertas e, futuramente, mostrar meus projetos.

Se você também está começando na programação, vamos evoluir juntos!

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James

Hello all. I am Nomad.

Native of Columbus Ohio and love to code (and eat my taco bell)
I'm a freelance and independent website designer for over 20years. I've been actively following CSS, HTML and web design projects for over 20 years now. I like to showcase my unique website templates .

Nice to meet you alll.

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Ashutosh Shukla

I finally found a place to belong, mess up and rebuild everything from scratch!
Hey devs, I'm Ashutosh Shukla, 7th sem tier 3 college student, highly optimistic about devops & cloud job market.

I hope you would love what I'm going to do here. Thankyou for being kind enough to read this. Happy evening!

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Ownware

Hey everyone! I run a small one-person software shop building self-hosted business apps — plain PHP, no build step, the kind of software you install once on a $5 host and own forever.

The thing I'm most nerd-sniped by lately: making business software operable by AI agents. Every app I ship carries an MCP endpoint with scoped read-only keys, and a few weeks ago I watched a buyer's own AI agent crawl my store, read the legal pages and security.txt, and effectively vet me before the human paid. Felt like meeting the future's purchasing department.

I've written a couple of posts here about what a read-only MCP key can and can't do to an app — happy to swap notes with anyone wiring agents into their own products.

Outside of code: music production and an ever-growing homelab. Glad to be here!

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Rakete

Heja there!

I'm obviously new here and wanted to leave a 👋
I'm the architect behind the future open source cms: birkly.io
If you are pro: flexibility, simplicity, fairness
and contra: dependencies, lock-ins, overload,
then you might like birkly as well 🙃

other than that, I'm looking forward for interesting people, projects and thoughts in here.

Greetings from Denmark 🇩🇰

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ABDULLAH BIN MUGHIRA

Hey everyone! 👋

I'm Abdullah, a Software Engineering student and full-stack developer from Pakistan. I'm currently building with React, Next.js, Node.js, and MongoDB while exploring AI, developer tools, and open source.

I joined DEV to learn from other developers, share what I'm building, and document the things I learn along the way. 🚀

Looking forward to connecting with everyone here!

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Abdul-Hammed Adeagbo

Hi, I’m Abdul-Hammed 👋

Software Engineer & Product Builder focused on web, mobile, cloud & DevOps.

I enjoy solving technical problems and turning ideas into working products.

Currently building MyToolkitBox.com 🚀

Sharing what I build, learn & solve.

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Rhonda Bradley

Hi there!👋🏻 I’m Rhonda, and I’m currently pursuing a Bachelor’s in User Experience with the goal of becoming a UX unicorn. I love exploring how design, usability, and code all come together to make products people actually enjoy using.

I hope everyone has a wonderful day and I’m excited to learn from this community!

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Takeshi

Hello!
I am a full-stack and AI developer from Taiwan with years of experience working on international freelance projects. However, living in Asia limits my ability to participate in U.S.-based projects, as clients there generally prefer local developers. Therefore, I am looking for a collaborator based in the U.S., Canada, or the U.K. to work with based on a fair and transparent partnership.

  1. Collaboration Method (Simple and Secure)
  2. You would create a new Gmail account and a new account on a platform like Freelancer or Upwork, then share the login details with me.
  3. You would install AnyDesk on your computer and share your ID/connection number with me so I can access and use those accounts from your machine.
  4. Earnings and Revenue Sharing
  5. You will receive 15% of the total revenue from completed projects.
  6. The revenue-sharing ratio may vary depending on your level of involvement (e.g., project management, client communication).
  7. For example, if the monthly revenue is $1,000, you would receive $150.
  8. No financial investment is required; all that is needed is trust and smooth communication.
  9. Please feel free to send me a message if you are interested or would like to discuss the details.
  10. I look forward to working with someone who is motivated, communicates well, and is open to a mutually beneficial partnership. Thank you for your time.
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Kodentra Dev

Hello everyone!

I’m happy to be joining the DEV community as Kodentra Dev.

I’m an indie developer who enjoys building software, exploring new technologies, and turning ideas into real, useful products. I’ll be sharing some of my development experiences, things I learn along the way, and hopefully a few useful insights for fellow developers.

Looking forward to meeting new people, learning from the community, and being part of the conversations here. See you around :)

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Tristan Mirza

Hello everyone! 👋

I'm excited to join the DEV Community.

My background is in software engineering, fintech, AI, Web3, and product development. I enjoy building scalable platforms, exploring new technologies, and sharing lessons learned from real-world projects.

Looking forward to learning from the community, contributing where I can, and connecting with fellow developers around the world.

Happy coding! 🚀

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Tristan Mirza

Hello DEV Community 👋

I'm Tristan from Indonesia, founder of Neuraltan.

We build AI agents, automation systems, custom software, Web3 infrastructure, and cybersecurity solutions for businesses.

My interests are:
• AI Agents & Autonomous Systems
• Software Architecture
• Cybersecurity
• Web3 & Blockchain
• Product Development

I joined DEV to learn, share engineering experiences, and connect with builders working on real-world problems.

Looking forward to meeting fellow developers and founders here. 🚀

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Funrcubabe

Hi everyone! I'm a Data Developer joining DEV to share my learning journey, architectural notes, and practical solutions from real-world data projects.
I'll be writing mostly about:

  • Data pipelines & ETL workflows
  • Database performance & optimization
  • Tips and tools for modern data development Glad to be part of this community. Feel free to connect or drop a hi!
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Mateusz Kornas

Hey everyone 👋

Mateusz (Matt) from Warsaw. Around 16 years in front-end — long enough to have shipped jQuery plugins to a bank in 2010 and to still be arguing about component APIs today.

Angular has been home for most of the last decade: RxJS, NgRx, Nx monorepos, and a lot of time on design systems. The work I'm proudest of is unglamorous — a UI kit built on the Angular CDK with a virtual scrolling component and form controls that had to behave identically on a Surface Hub and on a phone. Turns out "works everywhere" is a much harder requirement than it sounds in the ticket.

I just launched mk-kit.dev — [one line on what it is]. Alongside that I'm building AZ Widgets, embeddable Web Components that drop into anyone else's site (Shadow DOM, no framework runtime, no layout shift), and Gastronaut, a multitenant SaaS for restaurants that started as an ordering system for a single sushi place.

Fun fact: nothing sharpens your bug triage like a restaurant owner calling you mid-dinner-rush.

Happy to talk Angular architecture, design systems, or what breaks when you ship UI into a page you don't control.

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Tanay Haldar

Hey everyone! 👋

I’m Tanay, a developer and student from India.

I’m currently co-founding a mobile software/gaming studio where we build and ship Android apps, so a lot of my time goes into working with Java, Kotlin, mobile performance, and navigating app store deployments.

Outside of app development, I love participating in competitive coding challenges, contributing to open-source translations on Mozilla Pontoon, and tinkering with AI tools.

I joined DEV to share what I build, learn from fellow developers, and dive deeper into software development as a whole. Excited to connect with you all! 🚀

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Ibukun Olawore

Hi Everyone,

My name is Ibukun and I’m a Technical content writer, Documentation Specialist, and Back-Office Virtual assistant with 7+ years of experience helping businesses research, write, organise, document, and manage the work behind their operations.

I’m comfortable learning new software and looking forward to learning more from Developers here.

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Diksha Anand

Apparently, optimizing for Google wasn’t enough. 😄

So I went down the AI rabbit hole.

_Now I’m somewhere between SEO, AI Search, GEO, AEO, LLMs, prompt engineering, content intelligence, and building AI products.
_

6+ years of SEO experience and a growing obsession with figuring out how content gets discovered, retrieved, trusted, and cited by AI.

I’ll be sharing experiments, frameworks, failures, and things I discover while building. Let’s build in public. 🔥

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Jay Yanez

Hi everyone. I'm Jay. I have been writing software for 30+ years, the last ten or so as a software engineer, going from Turbo Pascal and Delphi to C#, Java and lately Go and Rust. I joined to read what other people are building and to write about my own projects now and then.

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Victor Augusto

Welcome, Jay. That Turbo Pascal / Delphi to C# arc hits home. I still maintain some Visual Basic on a legacy ERP, so I've got one foot in each era too. Curious what pulled you toward Go and Rust after a decade on C#/Java: a specific project, or just wanting a different set of tradeoffs?

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Junwon Lee

Hello everyone!

I’m cpprhtn, a software developer based in South Korea. I’m actively involved in several local open-source communities.

In my day job, I mainly focus on developing and optimizing AI inference systems for air-gapped (isolated) environments. Beyond that, my core technical interests cover AI, DevOps, System Monitoring, Security, and Performance Optimization especially making models and workflows lighter, faster, and more secure.

I joined dev.to to share my engineering journey, exchange ideas with global developers, and get feedback on various side projects I’ve been working on after work.

Excited to be here and looking forward to connecting with you all!

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Jean Baptiste MUGISHA

Hi everyone! 👋

I’m a Software Engineering student and developer from Rwanda, currently training at The Gym Rwanda.

I enjoy building software that solves real problems and makes people’s work easier. My journey has mainly focused on frontend development with React, JavaScript, and TypeScript, while I’m also exploring the backend with Node.js, NestJS, APIs, and databases.

The more I learn about software engineering, the more I realize how much there is to learn. 😅 And that’s exactly why I’m here.

I want to use this space to learn in public sharing what I build, concepts I discover, problems I face, mistakes I make, and solutions I find along the way.

I’ll be writing about web development, JavaScript, React, TypeScript, Node.js, NestJS, databases, backend development, and lessons from my journey as a software engineering student.

I don’t have all the answers, but I’m here to learn, build, share, and hopefully help someone else along the way.

Looking forward to learning from you all and growing together.

Glad to be here! 👋

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Presendapp

Hey everyone! 👋

Just shipped my first side project: Presend, a set of free no-signup APIs (hashing, validation, security headers, etc.) built on Cloudflare Workers. Just published my first dev.to post about it — excited to be part of this community!

What brought me here: wanted to share what I built and get feedback from other devs. Always happy to talk APIs, edge computing, or DX-focused tooling.

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Ken Kaneki gh

Hello World! Ken here, checking in from the UK. I'm a full-stack developer currently spending most of my time optimizing digital workspaces and employee portals (mostly using React and Node). Looking forward to connecting with other devs, reading some great tutorials, and contributing to the discussions here!

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Andrew Williams

Hi everyone 👋
I'm a senior software engineer with more than 9 years experience in this industry. I measure things that are supposed to be measured and usually aren't. Currently building browser-based testers that publish their own error bars. Interested in gaming, development and instrumentation.

Glad to be here!

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TrustKernel_PlugOS • Edited

Hello everyone, it's a pleasure to become a member of this community.

We are a global trusted computing company specializing in secure operating systems, trusted execution environments (TEE), confidential computing, and privacy protection technologies.

For over a decade, our security foundation has been applied to smartphones, connected cars, IoT devices, and enterprise platforms, cumulatively protecting over 1 billion devices.

We hope to share our security technologies and products with the community and receive your feedback.

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The Bitcoin Act

Hi everyone! 👋

I write The Bitcoin Act, a twice-weekly newsletter covering Bitcoin law and regulation: US legislative moves (CLARITY Act, GENIUS Act), EU/MiCA, and regulatory shifts globally.

What brought me here is wanting to connect with people building things in this space, not just writing about it, curious to see how devs on here are thinking about Bitcoin infrastructure, compliance tooling, or just the broader regulatory landscape.

Looking forward to what everyone's working on!

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Tooba Mehmood

Hi everyone — I'm Tooba, an AI Automation Engineer transitioning from a design background into building AI agents and workflow automation. Here to share what I'm building and learn from this community.

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Harkirat kaur

Hi everyone, Harkirat this side so I am a 3rd year college student still learning and a long way to go yet and participating in a lot more eof hackathons to get experience and learn . I have till now learnt about frontend and backend and learning towards more indept concepts and ai/ml agents too. Would like to learn from best and looking forward to have agood time

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Snezzi

Hey everyone! I’m Suriya from Snezzi. We’re building an AI visibility platform and an AI SEO agency, so a lot of my time lately has been spent figuring out how search is changing with AI. 😄

I joined to learn from other people building in this space, exchange ideas, and hopefully have some interesting conversations along the way.

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edmilson granello

Olá!
Sou Edmilson e estou começando minha participação aqui na comunidade.

Trabalho com desenvolvimento em C# e Visual Studio e estou desenvolvendo o Projeto W_Move, uma aplicação na qual tenho explorado não apenas o desenvolvimento das funcionalidades, mas também os problemas e desafios que aparecem durante o desenvolvimento de um projeto real.

Minha intenção aqui é compartilhar experiências, soluções, dificuldades e aprendizados que possam ser úteis para outros desenvolvedores.

Espero poder aprender bastante com a comunidade e também contribuir com aquilo que venho aprendendo na prática.

Um abraço a todos e nos vemos por aqu

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Loveth Beatrice

Hey everyone! 👋 I’m Loveth. I’m a developer and social media marketing strategist, with a strong interest in Reddit and community-driven growth. I enjoy learning new things, connecting with people, and exploring better ways to help brands build genuine online visibility. Excited to be part of the community!

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Saloni Khule

Hello guys,
I am Saloni, a recently graduated EXTC engineer. I'm currently exploring DevOps and getting hands on with different tools and technologies while figuring out which areas i enjoy the most.
I'm also really interested in contributing to Open Source. I had love to start contributing to real world projects, learn from other developers, and understand how things work beyond just building projects on my own.
Coming from an electronics and telecommunications background, I have also had some hands on experience with Siemens SIMATIC PLC S7-1200 and LabVIEW. I’ve worked on basic PLC applications and built a testing application for contactors using LabVIEW.

P.S. One thing I am hoping to find here is a community where I can learn from people with completely different backgrounds and perspectives.

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Kelvin Uneze

Hello! I'm Kelvin Uneze, a web developer, open-source contributor, technical writer, UI/UX designer, and graphic designer. I actively contribute to open-source projects, including documentation and development within the Kubernetes and KubeStellar ecosystems, helping improve technical documentation, developer resources, and community-driven initiatives.

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Daniel Abdouroihamane Ibrahim Mhadji

Hi everyone, I'm Daniel from the Comoros. I know most of you have never heard about this amazing country of four beautiful islands 🫠. But never mind 😊; we'll get to know it afterwards. I'm a full-stack developer, merging with data science, and interested in AI and ML. It's great to be part of this amazing community. Thank y'all 🤝🏽

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Ranajit Dhar

Hey everyone! 👋

I’m Ranajit, a self-taught AI Engineer from India. I’ve been building with Generative AI, multi-agent systems, RAG, and cloud technologies, mostly with Python.

I’m especially interested in building AI systems that can actually do things, not just chat. 🤖

Recently, I’ve been working on rdai, an open-source Python SDK and multi-brain AI orchestrator, along with several autonomous AI projects and hackathon builds. I’ve also had the opportunity to win and reach the finals of a few international hackathons. 🏆

Joined DEV to learn from other builders, share what I’m building, and hopefully contribute something useful to the community.

Excited to be here! 🚀

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Tech Discovery Apps

Hey everyone! I'm a software developer building custom apps, bots, and AI tools. I joined to share tutorials from projects I'm working on and connect with other devs. Looking forward to learning from this community! 👋

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Tim Raveling

Hi everybody! I'm Tim Raveling, a senior developer (been programming for almost 30 years now) who does mostly web and mobile stuff for work, and gets into it with C++, Go, and Rust for fun. I love working in the terminal, and have built a bunch of weird little terminal tools to help me with various things (available for free on my Github or linked from my website).

Happy to meet you all!

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Kaustubh_Negi

So... how many “Hello World” programs does it take before you can officially call yourself a developer? 👀

Apparently, I’m still collecting the required number.

Hey everyone! I’m Kaustubh, a first-year B.Tech CSE (AI-ML) student at Yenepoya School of Engineering & Technology, Bengaluru, and part of the Kalvium program.

I’m exploring AI/ML, software development, developer tools, and open source, mostly by building things, breaking things, and occasionally figuring out why the thing I just built is breaking. 😭

Over the past few months, hackathons have become one of my favourite ways to learn. I’ve worked on:

🔹 DayFlow – an HRM system for the Odoo × NMIT Hackathon
🔹 L.A.S.A. – a Local AI Smartphone Assistant for the iQOO × ReSkill Hackathon
🔹 RepoXray – a zero-dependency codebase analyzer built entirely with Python’s standard library

And apparently I haven’t learned my lesson yet, because I’m currently jumping into PromptWars and another AI Innovation Hackathon with a six-member team. 😭

I joined DEV because I want to learn from people who are further ahead, share what I build, and document the things I inevitably learn the hard way.

I’m still very much at the beginning of the journey, but I’m looking forward to seeing what everyone here is building, learning from the community, and hopefully contributing something useful along the way. 🚀

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Vasilis Mantas

Hello everyone, I am a cybersecurity specialist focusing on threat detection.

I am really into malware research and reverse engineering and I am trying to push myself to write about my analyses in order to do more analyses and hold myself accountable! 😅

Glad to be here! 👋

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Mumtaz Sanjar

Hi everyone! 👋
I'm Mumtaz Sanjar, a freelance Web & App Developer. I work with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, WordPress, Xml, Java and I enjoy building real-world web projects.

I'm here to learn, share development experiences, and connect with other developers. Looking forward to being part of the DEV Community!

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abdullah

hi everyone, abdullah here, a blockchain engineer excited to contribute to Midnight's privacy-focused core, build with Compact, and connect with fellow builders here. Looking forward to shipping together

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aLopes

Hi everyone! 👋
I'm Isadora, a Computer Engineering student from Brazil.

I recently joined the Microsoft Learn Student Ambassador program, and I am super excited to start my "learn in public" journey here with this amazing community!

My main focus right now is AI-assisted development and Cloud. In fact, I actually just published my very first article today! It is a practical cheat sheet on how to use GitHub Copilot as a true pair programmer to stop writing repetitive boilerplate code.

If you are into AI tools or just want to code faster, I would love to hear your feedback on it:

I am looking forward to reading your posts and connecting with anyone studying AI or tech in general. Have a great week, everyone! 🤖☁️

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Jay

hey guys, I’m Jay.

I’ve spent most of my career as a full-stack engineer, and I’ve always enjoyed exploring different things on the side.

In the early days, I built a few Windows Phone apps, along with a browser-based space shooting game, various automation tools, and some home automation setups. These days, I’m the founder of Taption, where I work on AI transcription, subtitles, translation, and video localization.

Outside of tech, I also play piano. Interestingly, I didn’t enjoy it nearly as much when I was younger as I do now.

Looking forward to meeting other developers, expanding my knowledge, learning what everyone is building, and sharing some of my own experiences along the way!

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Andras Sarro

Hi everyone, it is great to be here. I have been working as a developer for the last 5 years mainly working on mobile SDKs, Spring Boot services and frontend clients written in Vue.js. I have some thoughts and experiences to share, and I would like to read and learn from you as well.

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Neekhil Vatsa

Hi Devs,
I am an ex Amazon/Adobe PM (12 years), on a career break currently, to build freely and feed my curiosity. Great to be a part of this community. Available to learn and help if i can to anyone interested!

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Nikolai

Hi everyone! 👋

I'm Nikolai, CEO and co-founder of Vibromera — a small family engineering company in Porto, Portugal. We build portable instruments for dynamic rotor balancing and vibration analysis (Balanset).

I'm a programmer by training, but my path took a detour: I joined the family project to build its website and ended up spending 13+ years balancing rotors in the field — mulchers, industrial fans, crushers, CNC spindles. At one point I even ran my own mulchers clearing corridors for power lines and pipelines. Now I'm back closer to the code: our Windows measurement software, the web side, and lately — weaving AI tools into daily engineering and customer support work (that's actually what brought me here).

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Tuna Celik

I'm Tuna Celik. I've been building software for about three decades — today as a Solution Architect at Carl Zeiss AG, and as founder & CTO of Monkey's Studio. Along the way I've been a principal engineer, an architect, and an entrepreneur, but the through-line has always been the same: I like systems small enough to understand completely.

Most of my open-source work is single-purpose infrastructure written in Go and C# — the kind of tool that does one thing, carries few dependencies, and leans on the language instead of fighting it.

A few things I build and maintain:

  • Locking-Center — a distributed lock server. Lock a key, do the work, unlock it; one holder per key, everyone else queues FIFO. One binary, and client libraries for nine languages.
  • Kertish-DFS — a distributed file system for a single computer farm, with no single point of failure, scaling to exabyte levels.
  • Xeora — a web & micro-service framework for .NET I've worked on since 2003 and open-sourced in 2016.

What I'll write about here: the decisions behind these — concurrency, tiny wire protocols, persistence that only ever fails safe, and the trade-offs of keeping things deliberately simple. I care as much about the when not to use this as the features.

If you'd like a concrete example of how I think about a problem, start here:

👉 The wait queue is just a channel — how a distributed lock server falls out of a single Go channel per key.

Say hi, or tell me where my designs are wrong. Both are genuinely welcome.

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Denis

Hey everyone! 👋

I'm Denis. My background is in business and systems analysis, with more than ten years of experience in banking and fintech. Today, I design AI agents and data-intensive systems with complex business logic for a B2B marketing platform.

Here on DEV, I plan to write about the architectural decisions behind these systems: tool contracts, structured outputs, the boundary between LLMs and deterministic code, evaluation, and agent harnesses.

I'm also interested in learning how other teams approach similar problems.

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Victor Augusto

Banking, systems analysis, complex business logic: that's most of my day too (insurance ERP). The tool-contract and structured-output boundary you mentioned is something I'd read about. Welcome aboard.

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Gin • Edited

Hey there everybody! I'm Gin, I'm a Software Developer and have been coding for 5 Years.

Been heads down building an Android keyboard from scratch for a while now. 9 months, every single day, somewhere around 60k lines of code at this point. Fully offline, zero network calls, no AOSP scaffolding, built the whole input engine myself.

Something actually really interesting happened with me while I was building this (although a lot of other things as well 😆) so here's a fun story about my own experience. I accidentally reinvented a research paper without knowing it even existed.

So basically I was normally using a keyboard one day and I kept hitting typos while writing out something and I was so fed up with this problem that I decided to take it on my own hands to fix this. The thing about typing on a keyboard is that your finger never actually hits the letter dead center, its always a little off. The keyboard has to guess what you meant based on how close your tap landed to each key. I needed a way to do that guessing well, so I built my own system for it. Took forever to get right, tons of trial and error, rewrote it more times than I want to admit.

Then months later I randomly come across a paper called CATKey. Read the abstract and my stomach kind of dropped, it was basically the same idea I had built, except it was published research from actual researchers. I didn't copy it, didn't even know it existed till after mine was already working. Still not sure if that means I got lucky or if it means the idea was just sitting there obvious enough that two separate people landed on it without knowing about each other. But this paper was really quite old and was kind of like a prototype of what I made and my own version was automatic and much more accurate. And I actually fixed the problem I went out to solve, through benchmarks I realized that my own product had achieved a word accuracy rate better than any keyboard I've ever used, and the best thing about it? This system had no auto-correct, it corrected you before your finger even landed on the screen

Anyway also once posted on X every day for 35 days straight trying to get some traction. Got basically nothing. Turns out nobody cares about bug fixes they cant see lol. Learning that one the hard way this year.

Glad to be here, always down to talk to people actually building stuff. I'm very interested to hear about other people's stories and experiences about Product Development!

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CoinKong

Hi! I joined because AI suggested this as a alternative to medium for follow backlinks rather mediums backlinks that do not follow. Basically AI said dev.to probably is a better blog site for in general just writing about anything even. That’s what brought me here AI!

I am CoinKong yet Gord the creator of CoinKong, passionate about it. Here on this post to say hi and welcome myself to dev.to! Excited to post about CoinKong here!

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Usama Razzaq

Hi
I am Usama Razzaq

Full-Stack & Mobile Engineer specializing in Flutter & Laravel. Passionate about building clean architecture, offline-first mobile apps, and scalable REST APIs. Currently creating developer tools and digital resources to simplify mobile development.

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Prasad V

Hi all!

Myself Prasad, twenty-odd years in this industry, wearing different hats — developer, architect, mentor, and these days building my own thing. The through-line has been caring more about how software gets assembled than about any one language.

Which is how I ended up in dependency tooling: lockfiles, transitive resolution, advisory databases, SBOMs, and the license text nobody reads until legal asks about it. A narrow corner of software, but a reliably strange one.

What brought me here: I keep hitting things I'd rather write up once than re-explain in Slack every few months. The one I can't let go of is that npm audit and pnpm audit can read the same lockfile on the same afternoon and hand you different numbers — and neither of them is broken.

What I'm learning: how differently each ecosystem answers "what is a dependency, actually." Maven, npm, pip and Go modules resolve so differently that the same project has four genuinely different shapes depending on who's looking.

Always glad to hear from people working on security, compliance, software quality or architecture — those four keep colliding in my work, and the collisions are where I learn the most.

So, to start somewhere: what's your dependency-scanning setup, and do you trust what it tells you?

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Aaron Perez

Hola a todos!!! Soy Aaron, Estoy iniciando como desarrollador nativo en mi lindo Mexico me trae por aca unirme a un hackathon es un placer estar aqui, con emocion de aprender nuevas cosas y espero algun dia poder contribuir o aportar algo Util para todos ustedes.
Psdt: la IA y yo despues de varias riñas ahora somos un buen equipo jajaja.