Hi everyone! I am a junior developer from Italy, currently attending university in Rome and hoping to complete a Master's Degree in computer engineering by the end of 2020.
I have discovered the DEV community during winter and I have been amazed since. This place is great, not only for content quality, but also because it encourages people to open up, no matter their level or experience or general shy-ness, and this enables to come closer to "stars", or, in general, real people who build the tools on which all of us build other amazing things.
Having academic readings my primary source for learning since I started uni years ago, for the past months i have been reading LOTS of dev blogs daily, starting from this. It even pushed me on starting using my twitter account seriously to reshape my daily news-feed completely by following dev accounts and blogs. I think DEV.to somewhat started all of this - even before the quarantine was a thing here in Italy - and this (rather long) comment is my awkward way to acknowledge it.
So, since I'm here venturing outside my safe zone for the first time in ages (since I was a little kid on some game forum), I think i'll share some details on what I'm actually working during those days:
For my last uni exam, i'm building an interactive visualization based on data from a Marvel Universe wiki, which I crawled and refined through lots of python scripts. My goal is to display a timeline of the events of the shared universe between movies, tv shows and comics, highlighting the temporal interactions between the main characters. As I said, i'm using Python and Django to handle data and D3.js for displaying the actual DAG/timeline.
For work ( I write technical documentation for my company's product, a low-code development platform) I am focused on building a new website for our docs. We choose to migrate from Wordpress to a static generated site, and now I'm learning Eleventy and avidly scouting existing projects to improve my frontend skills in the meantime.
For my thesis, which started this month, i'm collab-ing with my company on developing a client generator for the systems built with our low-code platform. I'm studying Vue and GraphQL.
Wow, this turned out to be a pretty long comment, but I feel kinda relieved for pushing those things out of my head. I apologize for the verbosity and for any mistakes - as english is not my primary language - and I want to thank you again DEV community for encouraging me to write this. Cheers!
I'm a fan of Open Source and have a growing interest in serverless and edge computing. I'm not a big fan of spiders, but they're doing good work eating bugs. I also stream on Twitch.
Hi everyone! I am a junior developer from Italy, currently attending university in Rome and hoping to complete a Master's Degree in computer engineering by the end of 2020.
I have discovered the DEV community during winter and I have been amazed since. This place is great, not only for content quality, but also because it encourages people to open up, no matter their level or experience or general shy-ness, and this enables to come closer to "stars", or, in general, real people who build the tools on which all of us build other amazing things.
Having academic readings my primary source for learning since I started uni years ago, for the past months i have been reading LOTS of dev blogs daily, starting from this. It even pushed me on starting using my twitter account seriously to reshape my daily news-feed completely by following dev accounts and blogs. I think DEV.to somewhat started all of this - even before the quarantine was a thing here in Italy - and this (rather long) comment is my awkward way to acknowledge it.
So, since I'm here venturing outside my safe zone for the first time in ages (since I was a little kid on some game forum), I think i'll share some details on what I'm actually working during those days:
For my last uni exam, i'm building an interactive visualization based on data from a Marvel Universe wiki, which I crawled and refined through lots of python scripts. My goal is to display a timeline of the events of the shared universe between movies, tv shows and comics, highlighting the temporal interactions between the main characters. As I said, i'm using Python and Django to handle data and D3.js for displaying the actual DAG/timeline.
For work ( I write technical documentation for my company's product, a low-code development platform) I am focused on building a new website for our docs. We choose to migrate from Wordpress to a static generated site, and now I'm learning Eleventy and avidly scouting existing projects to improve my frontend skills in the meantime.
For my thesis, which started this month, i'm collab-ing with my company on developing a client generator for the systems built with our low-code platform. I'm studying Vue and GraphQL.
Wow, this turned out to be a pretty long comment, but I feel kinda relieved for pushing those things out of my head. I apologize for the verbosity and for any mistakes - as english is not my primary language - and I want to thank you again DEV community for encouraging me to write this. Cheers!
Welcome to DEV!
Sounds like you'll fit right in