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Welcome Thread - v21

dev.to staff on November 07, 2018

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jess unrein

The Hitchhiker's Guide to Python is a classic, and I would recommend it to anyone looking to get into or expand their understanding of the language! :)

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Andy Zhao (he/him)

Nice, do you think it's readable for someone who doesn't know Python, but knows a similar language (Ruby, JS, etc)?

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Andy Zhao (he/him)

Oh wait, I just realized I totally misread your comment...

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meteoricSkate

Great tip, thanks.

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Paige • Edited

Hi there,

My name is Paige and I'm back in the SF Bay Area after spending five years in France and Denmark.

I'm a Computational Linguist with data-science leanings. I work remotely for a Paris-based startup that is building an ecosystem of language tools.

I just finished a master's in the social sciences with a slant towards data analysis. In a past life, I taught university-level English and translated mobile apps. I spend my idle hours as a craftsperson. Feel free to peruse my portfolio for some of my creative and intellectual undertakings: somepaiges.net

After several years of freelancing, I'm pretty sick of WFH and would love to put down some roots. I'm looking to branch out and eventually find a full-time role in SF as a junior Product Analyst, Data Analyst, Data Scientist or Product Manager. I love NLP and data-driven storytelling. Jupyter/Python/Pandas/NLTK/spaCy and sometimes R.

Interested in garage-band startups, companies with a transatlantic foothold, mission-driven products, lifelong learning and growth opportunities.

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Wei Ji

Welcome Paige! Great to see another Jupyter-loving data scientist coming on board, we're definitely short on #jupyter posts so looking forward to seeing some stories along those lines. There's also a lot of #career posts you might be interested in checking out. What made you decide to go from freelancing to full-time though? I've always wanted to go the other way (full-time to freelancing) and just interested to know why someone would go the other way.

P.S. Love the tiger travel photos by the way! Used to do a lot of bokeh shots myself :)

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Paige

Hi Wei Ji,

Great to hear from you! Thanks for the recommendations and props.

I've been freelancing for awhile because I was very attracted to the digital-nomad lifestyle: i.e., I wanted to live abroad but still work jobs that were relevant for the SF Bay Area. It was a great experience. I was able to learn two foreign languages and see, smell, hear, taste and experience a great deal of new things.

I'd love to see some of your bokehs!

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Wei Ji

Yeah the nomad lifestyle is definitely something I'd like to experience at some point. Did you find it hard learning two new languages? I felt like I picked up Spanish well enough before in South America but not sure if it applies to other Latin-based languages in Europe. Trying to apply for a student exchange to Austria next year (fingers crossed!) so that's why I'm asking :)

Not a perfect bokeh but here's one I dug up from my rusty archive:

Young shoot in rainforest

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Paige

I like it. It is soft-spoken yet speaks for itself.

I didn't find it hard to learn two new languages only because I'm entirely passionate about foreign languages. Spanish is helpful but not necessarily for German lol. You'll find some common threads but not as many as you would between Spanish and French for example... You never know though—sometimes a random skill can come in handy at an unlikely, opportune moment.

Also crossing my fingers for your exchange next year!

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Wei Ji

Yes it's funny how languages work aye. Best way is always to just immerse yourself into a foreign country! Anyways, thanks for your thoughtful comments and once again, welcome to dev.to :D

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sharonsaab

Hi, Paige.

Thank you for sharing your experience. It’s very inspiring to read as an aspiring freelancer. Hopefully I have an opportunity to travel as well. Welcome :)

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Paige

Thanks Sharon! Welcome to you too. What are you interested in and what brought you to dev.to?

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sharonsaab

I want to connect with like-minded individuals and figure out my way around freelancing/working remotely/working abroad—hopefully getting advice from people with experience similar to yours when I’m at that stage. So, networking is the short answer. 😊

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Daniel Uhlmann

Welcome to dev.to, Paige! Nice to have you here.

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Michael

Hi everybody! I'm a junior developer from Scotland, been programming about 10 months now and working as a developer for about 3. I work in .net and PHP/JS at work but at home I dabble in a bit of everything. As I'm self taught I'm trying to follow one of the P1xt guides to set myself up really well for the future.

The number one resource I'd recommend is CS50. I think that's single handedly responsible for getting me a dev job. Fantastic lectures by a great teacher with interesting and challenging assignments!

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Jonathan Kuhl

I too recommend CS50. That course was highly informative and entertaining. Made me wish I could have attended Harvard and gone in person. David Malon was a great instructor. It was the perfect introduction to computer science.

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sharonsaab

Thank you for that recommendation. I’m definitely checking it out. 👍

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Gareth Bradley

edx platform as a whole is pretty swell.

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Almighty Sonoxo

👽 Sup folks

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Ben Halpern

Welcome welcome!!

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Andy Zhao (he/him)

Hey friend :)

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JayCruz

Hello all! I'm an old school Web Designer transitioning into Front-end Development. I've been leveling up my JavaScript game lately by doing the #100DaysOfCode challenge. I'm currently on day 65. My 100 Days of Code Log

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Arik

Welcome aboard!

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JayCruz

Thanks!

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1211 • Edited

Hello everyone,

First thing first i gonna say that my english is awful, but still i hope we could get along each other.

I'm currently a C# developer. But still... a beginner in programming field because i start programming for about 2 month and still not very confident in my skills much. But still i hope to advance my skill more an become a data scientist, especially machine learning. I really fascinate about it when i first heard about how google assistant work in my class since 2016. And decide to follow it when i join Uni.

For TL;DR I'm a noob in programming and hope i could get along with you guys.

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sharonsaab

Hi, 1211. 😊
Your English is great! I understood everything you said. I am also new to programming and very excited about this community.

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Nenne 'Adora' Nwodo

Hi,

My name is Adora and I'm a full stack web developer and google associate android developer. I work in a digital agency called Neukleos and I also work remotely for 3gis (a software company).

I recently started this thing where I give back to the tech community and it has been feeling so good.

You can check my website adoranwodo.com to know more about me, My blog adorahack.com to read my tech articles or my github github.com/AdoraNwodo to use my shared codes or plugins.

I put up a javascript-fundamentals repository (github.com/AdoraNwodo/javascript-f...) yesterday for people that are starting out with javascript and would like to learn the core before taking on any framework. I plan to update the repo everyday till the year runs out. If you have any specific you might want me to write code snippets on, please reach out to me. I'd be more than happy to.

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Mutale85

Hey, I checked your website and i sent you a mail. I would like to learn some a few codes in Javascript. I don know if am allowed to post my question directly here?

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Marko

Hello
My name is Marko. I live and work i Zagreb, Croatia.
I am codin for about 10 months and i love JS and would like to become front-end dev. Its going kinda slow with my college and my job so im looking for ways to learn as much in a short time. Im glad I found this page to help me with my learning.

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Shahidul Islam Majumder

Hi everyone,

I am Shahid from Dhaka, Bangladesh. I like to introduce myself as a JavaScript Engineer. Building web and desktop applications using JavaScript technologies is my passion. When I am not coding I like to spend my time reading blog articles and books. You Don't Know JS is one of my favorite programming book. You can read it too to improve your programming, specially JavaScript skill.

Thanks all.

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sunday victor

Hello everyone,
My name is Victor,
I'm currently a python developer. But still a beginner i started programming about 6months ago, and i have just spent 2 month learning python. I want to become a data scientist, especially machine learning and neural networks, so as to fuel my dream of building smarter home systems, i hope i to get alot of support from you guys.

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Ryan Dsouza

Hi everyone,

My name is Ryan and I'm from India working as a Full Stack Developer.

I love playing the Guitar and an ardent fan of Snooker (an O'Sullivan fan). I love exploring new things that come up everyday in Javascript and also have a great interest in Machine Learning.

I want to contribute and learn from this awesome community :)

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Daniel Parker

Hey everyone, I'm Daniel. I'm an Australian living in Quito, Ecuador with my wife. I work from home as a Senior Software Engineer for enotefile.com. I'm always open to finding new dev friends and having fun and exciting conversations about new and old tech. I also love mentoring junior developers and helping them reach that point where things click and they start to feel confident in their developer shoes.

More about me here danielparker.com.au

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Mutale85

Hello Daniel... Can you please be my mentor? I have been coding just for 1 year and 4 months. Am still having some issues integrating javascript in my project. would love to have an experienced mentor.

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Daniel Parker

Sure thing, send me your contact info to the email address on my website. We can discuss what you're looking for and see if there's something I can help with.

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Mutale85

Thanks. Let me do that

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Vnessah

Hi everyone,
My name is Vanessa. I am a recent engineering graduate interested in learning about web development and DevOps. I've done a few projects in Python and C#. I have also worked with AWS before.
I hope to meet and learn a lot of awesome developers on this platform and share what I have learnt so far.
Thanks! 😊

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Tim

Hi Everyone,

My name is Tim and I'm a full-stack web developer. I finished a coding bootcamp recently and was looking for a community of like-minded folks in the realm of web development, and found dev.to! Currently living in Florida, but will be moving to Portland, OR in about a month. Excited to see what the future holds and meet new people in this community!

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Monika Jandrevska

Hi there,
My name is Monika and I work as front-end and hybrid mobile developer in a small company in Skopje. We work mainly with marketing agencies and the projects are interesting, short, but with very tight deadlines as well.
I like contributing to open-source society, and also experimenting with cutting-edge technologies.
Currently, I am starting my master studies for Software Engineering and also looking forward to learning Ruby on Rails and Python.

Happy to join!

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Daniel Delgado

Hello everyone! My name is Daniel from Los Angeles, CA. New to DEV and also starting out as a Web Dev. Hoping to be a Front End Engineer soon. A book that helped me a lot was Get Ready for a CSS Layout by Rachel Andrews. Great info.

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Batajus

Hi everyone,

my name is Alex (aka Batajus). I'm a junior frontend developer since about 2 years now. I'm mainly using Javascript and Angular at work, but I also try to work with Python, C++ and other cool stuff.
My coding career started 9 years ago at school and I'm very happy about that 🙂

Next to my full-time job I'm working on my master's degree in Computer Science, which is sometimes really tough xD but i hope it's worth it 😇

Currently I'm learning Docker and Kubernetes, but I'm generally interested in every cool technology/programming language out there 🙂

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bga • Edited

Hey, Nerds,
My name is Brhane. I am currently working as "Threat Analyst - Cybersecurity analyst" in the stream of most open source projects.
I am here to share and learn what is in the world of programming and development. I am interested in python, and Javascript. And also frameworks such as Django, VUE, and other more staffs.

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Swarup Kumar Mahapatra

Hello All,

I am Swarup . Its great to join this community which has awesome articles and blogs. I always feel blogs are more valuable than tutorials, since it talks about real experience rather than a robotic tone of steps to do.

About me, I am a Full Stack Developer since 1 year. Before that I had 1 year of Test Automation experience and 2 years of manual testing.
I have recently started blogging. I started blogging in medium , later realised dev.to is the correct platform to blog.

My medium blogs can be found at: medium.com/@swarupmahapatra

I like topics around devops / design patterns / functional programming.
I have programmed in Java , Ruby , Python , JavaScript (in NodeJS)

Question to be answered" What single programming book or resource would you recommend?

Answer:
Book: TDD by Example - Kent Beck
Online Resouce: youtube.com/channel/UCO1cgjhGzsSYb...

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Will • Edited

Hello All,

Will B. here. I've been on the fun ride of growth over 12 years starting professionally in 2006. Starting in print design, migrating to digital and on to web over the years. Thrown many odd challenges and helping with issues way above my head (the fresh set of eyes....always key). I ended up doing alot of front-end "development" over the last 12 years at the same company. However, I've never truly considered myself a developer of any sort. Along this time I've become stale and get by doing the easy server/hosting management, CMS theme molding, and "simple" stuff, analytics, blah, etc.

I'm here now to learn, interact, stay up-to-date and to build a solid foundation to bridge my gaps between front and back-end development.

The starting point, React Fullstack. My daily realms are out-of-the-box CMS's, .net, php and all the css's that make something pretty on top of all the boring server stuff. I feel like a jack of many trades but a master of none (except css)

I look forward to reading and interacting with everyone here in the Dev.to community.

Signed.
The entry-level n00b[ish]

I enjoy: Outside...Backpacking (JMT '16)...Hikes, snow, snowboarding, learning....when I'm not social drinking (the problem. honesty)

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Samantha Friedman

i like the “Learn ___ the Hard Way” series by Zed Shaw. as a chemist who taught myself some Matlab in grad school, i hadn’t been exposed to a lot of the fundamentals of programming. Zed’s Python book introduced me to those fundamentals as well as the Python language. funny enough, it helped me write better Matlab code, too! it also gave me the confidence to learn other programming languages, like PHP and JS, by diving in and just building something. :)

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Alec Missine

Hello everybody,

I would like to share my excitement about the possibilities NodeJS/N-API opens. All kinds of communication between the JavaScript and the C sides of your app are now possible. More details here:

medium.com/@alecmissine/speed-up-y...

I would be happy to connect with those who is interested in speeding up their NodeJS app with C addons. Cheers,

Alec

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Yassine KLILICH

Hi everyone!
I'm Yassine KLILICH, I'm attempting to be a full-stack web developer based on JS/Node.js. And what brought me to this community is there are good articles that person could take benefits from them.

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Nilesh Kumar • Edited

Hi, I am Nilesh, working as an Engineering Manager with ecommerce platform, Snapdeal, based out of Gurgaon, India.

I am a passionate problem solver. Without a challenging problem to solve, it becomes a little boring over a period of time.

Mainly, a Java server side engineer. Have experience with Spring, MySQL, git and Linux. Have experience with CPP as well.

Have started learning Rust. Am here to learn, read, add to my knowledge base. Am very much interested in getting my feet wet in ML.

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Casey Williams

Hey,

I'm Casey. I'm 18 and from England. I've been programming for around 4 years now and am mainly interested in neural networks and machine learning.

I'll be starting uni next year so am in the middle of applications and interviews right now!

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Nick Fisher

Hi all - currently 12 months into building lexico, which started off as a ML-assisted legal review but is now branching off into broader paperwork automation. Based on C#/.NET/VueJS/Azure (with some weird things like WCF thrown into the mix too).

Keen to share war stories/best practice around the whole stack (both technical and non-technical)!

Drop me a note if you're in Melbourne, always keen to meet new people. Just got back from USA too and anticipate will be travelling back there in the near future.

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Andy Zhao (he/him)

Allo, welcome to dev.to :)

I'm sure someone's going to recommend Sandi Metz OOP books because they're great, so I'll go with David Bryant Copeland's Rails, Angular, Postgres, and Bootstrap, Second Edition. This book really gave me a solid foundation of working with the front end and Rails, as well as a ton of Postgres tips, both general and specific to Rails. I recommend it as a book for anyone finishing a bootcamp and plan to stick with Rails.

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iLoreto

Hello all,
I'm here to learn about the newest development tools that are out there, as well as learn about project collaboration and container-based technology. The posts I've read so far have been amazing. Thank you for having me.

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Dale Shaw

G'day / Kia Ora

I am an Australian born New Zealand resident. Therefore I am a "Kaussie" by my definition.

I am a developer, network engineer, trainer, writer and ... a ton else.

I am a huge fan of .NET / C# / Winforms and SQL Server. I'm sure I can pickup and move to just about any other database and most other languages but I like where I am

Oh ... I gotta say that I HATE web development.

Sorry, but mixing HTML and CSS and {xxxx} framework and then adding the back end is for you young guys. I'm 57 ... and prefer things a bit more simple.

I have been mainly focused on one project for the last 23 years so now just sticking my head back out of the sand to see what the real world looks like today.

Dale, MCT / MCSE / MCDBA / MCAD / MCSD / ...
daleshaw.co.nz

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Shakeel Faiz

Hi Dale,

It is good to read about you. Thanks for writing.

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roger-01

Hey Everyone!

I am Rajan, I am 17 years old and I am a Software developer.
I've been programming since 2014, and I know Programming languages such as C++, Python, HTML, etc.

As of now I am developing a Database Engine in Python while learning OpenGL for the development of a Game Concept I have in mind.

The reason I decided to resort to this community is because I believe in the phenomenal power of connections one may have with other people belonging to the same industry. Therefore, I'll be happy to connect with more people with a dream and ambition to make a change in this world.

I have a dream and you may too, so let's make it a reality together.

Thanks.

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Taha Yasin KÜÇÜK

Hi all! I am Taha.
I've been an app developer for 10 years. My main focus was desktop programming in my career for the most part. I participated in big HR projects in Turkey for the state. I was also a part of a rheumatology health project in which C#, WPF and PRISM technologies involved.
Now I changed the course of my career towards mobile app development. I am developing cross platform apps using Xamarin Native. C# and VS are my indispensable environment. I worked with XCode and Android Studio too. But none of which satisfied me in general. I don't want to be a language and IDE religious but I think MS is the most suitable envionment for me IMHO.
I try to

  • keep myself updated what I am working on,
  • write clean and reusable code,
  • be open to innovative ideas even if it requires taking some risks.

I am here to learn something new from you, valuable people. And I'm ready to share what I know with the others.
Happy coding!

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Rouf ur Rehman

Hi,

My name is Rouf ur Rehman and I'm frontend developer.

My career is diversified, I have done Master in finance and having 8-year's experience but I feel, I stuck with the same routine work.

After that, I start learning web developing and studied certificate courses of HTML, CSS3, Javascript.

During my learning, A special thanks to Dev community and other online communities to give an opportunity of learning.

Now I am available for remotely working.

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Jonathan Kuhl • Edited

Good Evening everyone! I found this on Twitter, in a tweet from Brian Halpern, so I decided to see what it's about. I was trained through Revature as a software tester, so a lot of my training is both in Java Enterprise as well as in Node.js. I'm hoping to be a web developer

My recommended resource is Traversy Media by Brad Traversy, he's very knowledgable and he explains the material well. I'd also like to recommend Maximilliam Schwarzmueller's Udemy Angular course. He goes very deep in detail on everything Angular.

Although I've yet to build anything big with it yet, I also love working with the Python programming language.

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Joshua Tuscan

Hi everyone,

My name is Joshua and I'm a partner and Head of Technology at a company called Friends. I've been a developer for over 10 years, focused mainly on front-end, but was trained as a designer. I like to keep up with the community and see what is happening, where things are going, and constantly keep learning.

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Ademola Ayobami Tijani

well, i found this community through google and i am fascinated with the interest of this community, i am learning django at the moment...i am a very happy and interesting guy..i love to learn and work hard always..i am open for any new tech stack

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adam kuhn

Hi folks! Feel like I’m late to the party here but I’m Adam- some know me as Cobra Winfrey via CodePen where I spend probably too much of my idle time whipping up UI animation concepts and CSS illustrations.
I work remotely (from Tampa Bay) for a San Francisco-based API microservices platform called Kong, as a front end web developer.
Mostly looking to level up my JS and advanced CSS skills, which I do through online learning and participating in welcoming communities such as this. Nice to meet y’all :)

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Xristo

I honestly just registered to comment on something. Stack trace: hackernews -> r/programming -> Things Nobody Told Me About Being A SW Engineer -> had to comment on having social skills sometimes backfiring -> signed up

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Gleb Irovich

Hey folks, I am Gleb, a russian guy living in Zurich, Switzerland. I am passionate about web development and did my first steps with python, however lately switched to JS and specialized mostly in Frontend dev. Recently, I got my first dev position as a frontend engineer. I am glad to join the community:)

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German Bobadilla • Edited

Hi everyone, I'm new to web development. Just jumping in here to say that I love JS and Python, and that once I've created a couple of projects on my on, I'll be taking Go for a nice, smooth dance to the stars.

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Ahsan S. Sher

Dear Nice People,

My name is Ahsan. I'm from Islamabad, Pakistan.

I'm Full Stack Engineer working all the stuff with Javascript, Node, React, Typescript, GraphQL, Jest, Enzyme etc.

I personally believe that Go is very powerful language and it is the language of future. ☺️

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harkinj

Hi,
Just joined this via twitter.
20+ software dev experience , started life at the unix command window running scripts to build programs, now I find myself on a mac at the unix command window running scripts to build programs albeit with gradlew :) Lots has changed in 20 years but not the fundamentals have not.
I hope I can learn lots on this forum + contribute as best I can .
Look forward to interacting and posting as I go.
John

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Johannes

Hi there!

I'm a Swedish "developer". I choose to put that within quotes as I work a whole lot with the ops part of the job. Not that I don't get to write any code anymore, but I feel that in my current position, I learn more from the operations than from the code I write.

I'm involved in two businesses, one (Jitesoft) which I am owner and only employee of, and another (KRIG Collective) in which I am CTO and have the main responsibility over most of the dev's and op's.

I started playing around with code back in the early nineties, this mainly due to my father working with computers and stuff, but it was first in my teens that I started to create stuff for real (webpages and smaller games). I always aimed for the game-dev life, which I actually succeeded in after 6 or so years of studies at different schools.

After a couple of years as a game developer, the company I worked for went bankrupt (no, not due to me, hehe), and I started to work with consulting jobs and web + handheld development. five or six years later I hit a wall and after recovery I started my own business.

I'm quite happy with my position and I hope that I can be of use on this site in some way ;)

-- Johannes

Also....
Outside of the dev-life, I'm a married man, 32 years old, father of three monsters, and yeah... that's me... (sadly I don't really know what more to say about me... :P )

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Gloria Felicia | Glo

Hey all, it's Glo, I would love to connect with you on LinkedIn if possible: linkedin.com/in/gloriafelicia & Github: github.com/glo26 | The one programming resource I would highly recommend would be Eloquent JavaScript: A Modern Introduction to Programming by Marijn Haverbeke. :)

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Igor

Hello!
My name is Igor.

I am a web application developer and am currently trying to create my own software development company.

For web development I use VueJS, NodeJS, Angular, Quasar, MySQl, Oracle, MSSQL and other libraries and technologies

I have experience with big data: deploying and using a cluster hashup, data processing (Spark, Scala), a web interface for visualizing the results.

If you want to understand it yourself - try to explain it to people
To study new topics, I try to write and publish articles.

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Volodymyr Liutkin

Hello fellow developers 👋 May KISS be with you!

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Trevor Montgomery

I’m from Indianapolis, and I am a junior dev. I currently work with java, and I’d love to find some great resources to further my skills. If you have any suggestions please comment. I came from twitter. I recently started the 100 days of code challenge in hopes to be a better dev and be better at my job.

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mperaic

hey all; I can recommend Michael Hartl's Ruby on Rails Tutorial; Zed Shaw's Learn Ruby the Hard Way, and Russ Olsen's Eloquent Ruby book as premium resources for teaching yourself the Ruby language and the Rails framework.

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Jesse Gabriel

Hello fellow Dev.to-ers

My name is Jesse and I've heard the sunrise singing (ask me about it sometime). I'm usually a lurker but today I just have the urge to finally introduce myself and hopefully to be a lot more involved with the community.

I just wanted to say 👋 and that I have been super blessed to enjoy the quality posts that people share. I also love the fact that everyone is so supportive of each other... Overall, a nice community that I'd love to be a part of!

As for the answer to the question... 🤔
I would recommend Codrops for all you aesthetically-pleasing-design lovers.

And that's it! I hope to make some cyberspace connections with other passionate people!

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ArthurWHenry

Hello!

My name is Arthur and I'm a student at the University of Central Florida. Currently interested in the best web development practices. So I've been learning JavaScript because I've only ever really known HTML and CSS well.

I'm also interested in machine learning/data science so if you could reference me to some great articles that'll be cool. :)

Fun fact: I like learning about music and play volleyball.

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Halil Ibrahim Kayim

Hi,

I'm Halil from Istanbul, Turkey. I'm a remote software engineer at MojiLaLa Inc., a San Jose based startup, whose main product is Leo AR. Since the application is multi-platform and requires development in 4 different technology stacks solely on the client side, I can say I'm proficient in React Native development, native iOS and Android development, and Unity3D development, which is my main responsibility in the team.

I am interested in anything related to 3D and game dev, but I mainly signed up for this site because I would like to have discussions on any subject relating to programming.

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Ultra_ricH

Hi all, I'm new here! It's quite demoralizing having to originate from a continent where technology inclination is relatively low. I'm very new in software development; specializing in JavaScript and other languages. I hope to learn more in here and to share my tiny knowledge. Thanks

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Dirk MG S

I have a career of designing Integrated Circuits, programming FPGAs, and developping applications. Grew up with Fortran 77, Modula-2, Pascal, and K&R. Loved C. Adored C++. Flatout flabbergasted with C++11 and C++14...
And with those last C++ gems, I'm trying to figure out how far Meta-programming can get me into solving my problems at compile time.
Only to be disappointed to get things to work, and then stop working in new releases of compilers. But I still think it is a good thing to stay on top of this more recent branch of programming.
Although I know I'm playing with "atomic" weapons (to steal Herb Sutter's thunder from his talk on C++, I am also amazed by how the simple things are even more important. Listening to the likes of Herb, Scott Meyers, Howard Hinnen, Daveed Vandevoorde, Bjarne Stroustrup... always makes me realize how little I know.
And here are my apologies to the C++ greats that I haven't mentioned, but still admire for all the things you teach me and the programmer community.

And with this, I'm saying hello to this community, eager to learn from all of you! Up front: THANKS FOR SHARING!!!

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Alin - Catalin

Hello dev.to community - I just stumbled upon this amazing community and I felt I need to signup

My name is Alin, I'm from Iasi, Romania and I'm working on 🍩donut - a chat app that let's you talk with your friends... anonymously.
Also, currently I'm helping out my girlfriend launch TinyGigs - a place for women makers to get new gigs in tech & design.

Looking forward to get to know as many devs on this community!

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Tobias Macey

Hello all! I'm happy to join the conversation. My particular focus is on the confluence of systems architecture, data engineering, and systems automation. I host Podcast.init (podcastinit.com) and the Data Engineering Podcast (dataengineeringpodcast.com) as a way of staying up to date and learning new things from smart people.

I'm happy to help answer questions pertaining to systems administration, data management, and Python.

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Harshad Bhandure

Hi All,

Greetings!!!

I am a frontend developer working on AngularJS.
I have worked on NodeJs, MongoDB and .NET

I read lot of posts here on dev.to and it surely they are very interesting, teaches some cool techniques and always enhances the knowledge.

Love to hear from the people with different mindsets.

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Dominic St-Pierre

Hey there, I'm Dominic, I enjoy building things, been into SaaS since 2008. I just launched a book on using Go to build a SaaS last September.

I'm currently very interested in Erlang and getting starting with FP. Looking forward for joining this community.

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Roland Shield • Edited

Howdy,

I'm Roland Shield and I am attempting, once again, to do this stuff on a (near) daily basis, such that I might make forward progress more quickly.

I stumbled across a blog entitled The Zen of Programming (Ali Spittel) on Medium while thumbing through my phone one evening and it inspired me to get off my duff and so here I am!

I want it all! But I am strapped for time. Sound familiar?
But I want to be able to do the following soon:

  1. Teach basic HTML5 with confidence
  2. Be able to design, write, test, and employ web map apps.
  3. Do the same for data visualization stuff (for instance, I asked for a subscription to Flowing Data for Christmas from Santa). :smile:

If I were to choose one resource, I would choose Ms. Spittel's blog, for reasons described above. But also, I would do the same with FreeCodeCamp and/or Hack Club, depending on the person asking.

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Anna

Hi all! I've a junior web developer working at a serverless startup in Portland, OR. I finished a full-stack Python/JavaScript code school program in the spring and have dived head-first into React and Node and am loving every day of it.

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ZediWards

Hey all,
Currently starting back up learning core web development skills (been off and on for last 3 years). Focusing on Accessibility and CSS right now. I have found a lot of information from the dev.to community, so I thought I would try to participate in sharing the knowledge.

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AUSTIN FTACNIK

What’s up, fellow sorcerers?

Relatively new to coding - I’ve been teaching myself for about 6 months now and have my eyes set on landing a role as a front-end developer in the next 6 months. Focusing mostly on JavaScript & dabbling with React (mostly Gatsby). Any advice is appreciated. Looking forward to learning from you all!

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Roma

Just like yours, I follow different tech blogs, and gizmo updates on various sites. The current innovation and updates of the field lures me to express my views and thoughts on certain topics.

I am looking to contribute a post in your blog and it will be great if you allow so.

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Tomek Buszewski

Hi there! I'm Tomek, web dev from Poland. Currently I work as front-end architect within React and NodeJS stack. Privately, I keep finding out the amazingness of Python and getting to learn Java. When not coding or browsing memes, I like to play video games, read books or watch something (movie, series).

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Jason Reed

Hi, my name is Jason. I'm an American living in Germany. I studied on my own to become a software developer as it has been an interest of mine since I first touched a computer. I've been working in the industry now for a good 10 years, and still trying to learn more. Primarily I work in Java but I've been known to go play with other technologies just to try something new.

Looking forward to see what this community is all about.

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John Jerry Dayne

Hello everyone!
My name is Jerry Dayne.

My quest to being better at web app developer got me here. Am kinda new to coding, Javascript is my playground now, atleast untill we get more familiar with each other.

So, anyone with directives, recommendations, advice or anything that will set me up to being really good at web should please help.

Thank you 😁.

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zangrc

The essay How I organize my knowledge as a Software Engineer brought me here. It's really helpful for me.

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nitish pandey

I a have been a student of computer science components, never really aced any one of them because each of them is fascinating and I have kept on reading up on some of them. I particularly an attracted by the limitless refinement that is possible in deploying software library, language, framework, hardware , design patterns, data mining, data warehouse, BPMN, rule engines.
A few books that I can recall if special liking are design patterns by gang of four, code complete 2, PHP in action (brilliantly written, for any language), C++ by Bjarne straustrope, scalable website by Carl Henderson...I have programmed in PHP, Java and cold fusion + openBD. Keen to tackle an architectural challenge for scale

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aarti

Excited about joining this community. I am a lifelong learner and at the moment interested in diving deeper into networking and operating systems.

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Gareth Bradley

Hey everyone, just joined from a recommendation in Twitter. Wanting to learn F# and Python.

Fun fact: I run Code Clubs at my local school.

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Helen Anderson

Welcome!

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Gareth Bradley

Thanks helen :)

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Cal

Hi guys, I'm a junior software developer from Oxfordshire, England and I'm currently working for a company called Adactus Ltd who specialize in bespoke websites for companies. We mainly work in ASP .Net MVC so C# is my main language which I've been doing for almost 3 years now (in January 2019). I got my job through an apprenticeship so I'm currently doing a degree alongside my work, it's a lot of work and I have almost no social life because of it but I enjoy it so can't complain!

I don't have any projects that I've done on my own, they've all been things at work that I've been part of a team so I've recently decided to build my own site and I'm going down the .Net core route with it. After I've built that I hope to try and get some clients of my own to build websites for so I have more productive stuff to do in my free time.

I look forward to hearing from you all and being part of the community!

Happy programming :)

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Tirth Patel

Hey Everyone, My name is Tirth Patel, currently pursuing Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science. I'm an aspiring Android Developer and insterested in Flutter. Excited to join this wonderful community :D

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__shinji__

Hi there.
Im Shinji, have been living in Vietnam for 7 years. Im from Japan.
Running software company here, I also have own solo projects as follows.

e-lish.io/ The web app learning english for programmers. only jp and vi.
aitemasu.me/ The schedule sharing app - iOS, Android, Web - synced with google calendar. only jp.

After i translate these app into english, I will post it here.
Thanks.

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bruna

Hi there!

My name is Bruna and I'm brazilian undergraduate student moving from humanities background (History) to IT (studying at freeCodeCamp). Programming for me is very interesting and full of possibilities so I'm looking forward to contribute as much as I can!

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Mutale85

Hello Everyone.
My names are Mutale Mulenga.
I am in Zambia, I have been learning PHP for the last 1 year and some months through you tube. and I have created osabox.com a start up company in my country. I am here to learn more from experienced developers and would like to collaborate if given a chance.
Thanks

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Thomas Wood

Hello,

Started coding again after about a decade. Teaching myself swift and working on my first app.

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pierdomenico reitano

Hi there,

My name is Mino and I'm from Pistoia a little city in Tuscany near Florence.

I'm a full-stack developer and I work with Js, Python, NodeJs.
I've started in 2010 UI designer and front-end developer, over time I'm passionate in developent.

Now I'm studying NodeJS with ExpressJS and MongoDB, I'm trying to build an app backend with REST API.

Sorry for my bad English 🤣

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Ion Varsescu • Edited

Hi all, I'm Ion from Romania. I'm a software developer. Looking forward to learn more.

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Roseanna Mcfarlane

Howdy all,
My name is Roseanna. I'm a self taught dev from NZ who is currently living in the Bay Area. I'm interested in modern web technologies, open source and continued learning :3

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Joshua Nelson ✨

Welcome!

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gakiem

Hi all. I'm from South Africa been working mostly as a back-end developer. Currently doing a bit more on the front-end side and upgrading my development skills.

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Thejesh GN ⏚ ತೇಜೇಶ್ ಜಿ.ಎನ್

I am Thejesh, from Bangalore, India. I am a duct tape programmer. I love to code in Python (I am okay with JS). Here to learn from the community. I usually blog at thejeshgn.com

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Adhithya Srinivasan

Happy to join

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Sagar Nangare

Great to be a part of community of developers

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Laneone

Hi I'm Lokesh Poovaragan, my portfolio can be found at "itsmeloki.com", I look forward to any gigs that I can work on pls contact me for work :)

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Ashwin Hariharan

Hi everyone! Discovered this website not too long ago from twitter, so I guess I'm late to the party.

My name is Ashwin, I'm 26 years old and I've been working as a full-stack software engineer with startups in India. I've also been dabbling with quite a bit of Machine Learning / Deep Learning as well. My interests (in no particular order) include programming, user experience, AI, fitness, and astronomy, so if you like these, please hit me up. :)

I had a very long career break -since 2017 - and I just started working again couple of months ago - that's almost like two years! Although I feel like I could have optimised my schedule and could have been even more productive, this break was perhaps the best decision I ever made for myself! ;) Got into teaching, writing and a whole lot of activities. I've been an active member of communities like freeCodeCamp, Code Like A Girl, and Towards Data Science - I write for these publications and also do a lot of editing work - so if you want to exchange any kind of writing tips, feel free to holler at me!

My goal is to eventually switch from full stack into something that's completely data science / deep learning oriented. But as it turns out, it's a whole lot harder than it looks like! I did however manage to do lots of side projects and write blog posts along the way - medium.com/@booleanhunter

The most important thing that I have learnt, after working in extremely fast-paced environments before -

It's super-important to take time to have a balanced lifestyle and indulge in things that aren't related to software - like art, music, or fitness!

I'm curious to hear from y'all as to what are your favourite past-times / activities that you do?

P.S: I'm going to take time and read through all the awesome posts in this welcome thread, and see all the book recommendations. :D

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Jonathan Austin

Hey all! Just hobbled over this while actually about to do readings for a religion course. I'm currently learning how to make a web site using React.js for the front end, Spring REST for some API endpoints and a little Firebase for authentication and database. This is all to create a little job search web app for my honours project. A little victory just happened as I have conquered the forms and authentication hurdle and the whole thing seems to work great! I'll be tackling the other part of querying postings soon. Happy to see some cool stuff on this page! Cheers!

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Ben Halpern

Welcome welcome welcome!!!

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Wasim Elmaweri

Hello my name is Wasim and I'm New here. I'm interested in learning can anyone suggest the best way for someone new to get started. Are there any good books I can read to learn. Thank you in advance

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Kris Triplett

Hey guys! I'm Kris. Software engineer from California. I've been working with PHP, C#, ruby, Objective C, some swift as well as front-end work in Javascript with, most recently, React.

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Tramel Jones

Hey! I've read the code of conduct

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Nathan Reginato

Hey all,

I'm a full stack engineer out of Boulder! I like Golang, C#, and JS.

Does anyone have any good resources on understanding polymorphism?

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Tijani

Hey yoooo everbody, how is everybody doing.Just discovered dev.to and am syhced

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Jay keerti

Hello everyone

Myself Jay,
working on legacy application built on Perl CGI since 1 year.
Love to work in python or Java, have been doing side projects along with work.Dream to work in Bay area😍

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Luis Filipe

To learn and contribute.

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Nelson González Peñate

Hello, I am learning about how to solve efficiently the known problem of superfluous database calls with GraphQL.

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Aliza Rosenfelder

Hi I'm Aliza, and I'm borderline evangelical about freeCodeCamp

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Prabusah

Hello All
Landed here from ponyfoo newsletter.

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Delight63

I'm Mary, a student. Am new to dev. Am currently taking a course on web dev hoping to become a full stack web developer

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OscarJ12

Hello! I'm an Assembly and C hobbyist. Nice to meet you all.

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theHinneh

Hi, my name is Emmanuel, a beginner in programming.
I'm interested in python and JS, and I would love to have mentors here.

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Zahid Maqbool

I am zahid, owner of internetdunya.com.
Let's have fun

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Arogyalokesh Vutukuru • Edited

Hi My name is Arogyalokesh. I am new here...

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Eric Miller

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For people new to webdev, Wes Bos' free Javascript30 course opens up the world of programming by showing how quickly one can make cool apps with html/css/js.

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Alex Gorischek

Hi all! Dev.to seems like an awesome place. Hoping to connect with some JavaScript devs to work on some open source projects with!

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Todd Moses

Hello everyone. My name is Todd Moses and I just joined.

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Yoni Davidson

Hi, I am Yoni Davidson, a generalist SW engineer currently working in a stealth mode startup doing front end and backend and a bit of ML.

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Abha

I am Abha modi. I work in Dena bank.

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Kostas

Hello people, really interesting site. I really like the design.

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Thomas Melville

Robert Martin, Clean Code.

It completely changed how I thought about code and started me on this journey of discovery.

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Blackhawk50

Hi. I'm new to coding. What language should I learn?

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John Afolayan

Hello everyone! I'm John, a web scientist. :)

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Toni Torlakovic

Hello everyone! :)

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Duy Son

Yah, hello world !

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the_aceix

Hi! I go by the name Aceix✌️. My programming started with C++ ..hardcore stuff lol. I'm now doing web(mostly) and mobile(flutter).

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Jeffery Osei

Hello

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Gloria Felicia | Glo

Hey all!! My name is Glo and I'm a UX designer turned coder. I'm currently tinkering with Python & React ~ trying to build my own mobile app. Nice to meet you all :)

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arfaoui ghassen

hey id like to Share something helpful with y guys but i'm still a newbie :( sorry , maybe next time .

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Mustafa Alroomi • Edited

Hi everyone,

How is your days?

I'm new Here but I really like the simplicity of the design.

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meisamsalami

Hi everybody! I am glad to meet you!
Very pretty place!