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Hi all. My name is Franco and I'm from Italy. I love coding, and not by chance I have a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science. My biggest passion is web development. I love HTML, CSS, JavaScript and web performance. Every time I build something for the web I ask myself: «How can I made it better and faster?».
Hey Franco Nice to meet you, I am new here and was just noticing that you had a CS degree. I am in the process of getting my CS degree but I am just starting out so I am really new to things, unfortunately. If you don't mind me asking, do you think the degree has helped your success in the industry a lot or not so much?
Hi Ryan, nice to meet you! Getting the degree has helped me a lot, since I was able to learn very difficult things that are fundamental for the field of CS. If you have any other question doesn't hesitate to ask!
Welcome!
Thanks Jesse, looking forward to meeting people.
Some days ago I published an article that try to answer the question if it does make sense to take a degree in a Computer Science major. I wrote down my experience and points of view. Ryan, I warmly invite you to read it! francoscarpa.com/articles/degree/
Good mantra to have 🙂
Yes. I love refactoring my code to ensure it's as DRY as it can be. Performance optimisation is key. :)
I just want to let people have the possibility to enjoy the best experince possible.
Welcome Franco!
Hello, Franco! 👋
Welcome, Franco!
Hey Franco, what resource would you recommend most for learning about web performance?
Check out web.dev, Google’s Why Performance Matters and Jeremy Wagner’s Web Performance in Action.
As soon as I come back home, I’ll show you my personal resources ;)
Hi Franco
Hello Franco how are u. See your Post. U are a great web developer but keep tight for it, it will take some time to make perfect into web designing.
Join me I will help u :)
I'm not absolutely perfect, I've so, so much to learn :) Coding is a never ending journey.
Welcome!!
Hello
Welcome, Franco!
Hello, nice to meet you!
Hi Franco nice to meet you. I'm super excited about new experiences.
welcome my big brother
The secret to making it faster?
Code it in assembly!
No, code it in machine language: 0011011010111011... 😁
Benvenuto, Franco!
Given you are a web developer, might I take the privilege of introducing you to WebAssembly? :)
Given your mantra, here's a blog post that might be worth a read: cliffle.com/blog/bare-metal-wasm/
Happy hacking!
Thanks, Ganesh! Well, I read something about WebAssembly some months ago and I found it really interesting. However, I’ve never deepen my knowledge about it. I’ll surely read the article you linked! You can absolutely introduce me to WebAssembly. 😊
Djikstra did nothing wrong.
Nice to meet you Franco!
Hello! :D
Hi Franco! is awesome that you love coding too, hope you will get better and better in web development. one question, do you know backend too?. Greetings from Venezuela.
Hi, Orlando! No, I’m sorry, I have knowledge only about front-end web development. Have a nice day!
Hi all! At this point, I might have already bored everyone hehehe. As many of devs here, I am going through an intense learning process.
I am 31 years old and decided to give up my job to really focus on conversion and become a front-end developer asap.
I am not quite sure how I came across Dev.to but I know I just fell in love of it. I felt like this was the right social network to be. Since it is not just for questions nor to show off projects or look for a job like Linkedin. It feels like a secure place to learn and share within the developer's community. A really nice and welcoming place. Thank you :D
Hi Nadine, I am new to the community and I just wanted to say I can fully relate to the struggle and how difficult it can be to learn new concepts and ideas. I am 37 myself and after 20 years of house, painting decided I wanted to go to school and pursue my original adolescent passion, computers. So just wanted to say I can relate and wanted to say thanks for sharing.
It is so brave to take this decision after so many years focused in a profession! Congratulations for taking the step forward. I am here to cheer you up too hehe
Welcome, Nadine! Your commitment is inspiring, and I can't wait to see where it takes you!
Also, I've been meaning to ask you about the hashtag in your Twitter bio, #CodeGrils. 😄
Grills have the right to code too! If they had hands... Hahahhaa
I will correct it right away thank you!
I didn't want to mention it here for everyone to see, but you can't have DMs open because so many people on the internet are nitwits. It's the second time I've had to face this conundrum in a week's time. I suppose there could be worse problems to have!
Sorry Jesse, I don't fully understand your message about the DMs. Lost in translation I am afraid.
I have corrected the #.
No worries!
Welcome to DEV!
Great to have you here, Nadine!
My pleasure
I'm a fellow career changer 2.5 years after making the switch! While scary and overwhelming at times it has been totally worth it and communities like this make it even better!
Hi Nadine! I agree, after searching different articles on dev.to I felt comfortable to join too. A great place to learn and share ideas.
Definitely, it feels good to have people to share :)
Welcome to DEV!
:)
Congrats on deciding to focus on front-end dev! Coding is such a fulfilling livelihood, and now is a super exciting time to learn (especially in the world of JS). 🏆 🏆
Hey all,
My academic background is electrical engineering and software development. My passions are empowering people through technology. I live in Senegal, West Africa, where I work to foster entrepreneurialism among underemployed youth.
I am also a C# enthusiast. As a side hustle, I am working on developing a curriculum to teach computer programming here in Senegal. My friends here have a lot of great ideas, and I am hoping this curriculum will empower them to bring their ideas to fruition.
If you are interested, I regularly write C# tutorials at wellsb.com. You can also follow me on Twitter @bradwellsb
Glad to have you here, Bradley. Feel free to get involved in C# articles on the site and share your knowledge with the community.
Hi Bradley,
Great to see a fellow EE here! I am inspired to learn more about your venture. All the best.
-Chaance
Great to have you!
Total newbie here. Actually found this site thanks to the google app in the pixel launcher. Pointed me to an article and here I am. I'm looking to transition into a career in web design.
Hi there! Nice to hear you are also in a career transition. I am going through the same :D
It's refreshing to hear I'm not alone in that! From the looks of it you've made a lot of progress in a little time. Which gives me hope.
Sure! If you put time in it, you will improve super fast. However your perception won't be that hahaha
You came to the right place! Folks are generally super friendly and there's lots of beginner-friendly content as well!
Welcome to DEV. We have a lot of resources and articles on web design available, so I hope you find everything you're looking for.
Welcome! You've come to the right place. :)
Hello there!
Welcome!! I've also been going through a career transition for the last 1 1/2 years. Wishing you all the best!
Hey Raxath!
Just like many others it seems, I'm also here to transition into a different career path - good luck to both of us!
Hiya all! I’m Alain from Italy. I’m a proud dad and guitar player that become a dev because of a C64. Currently I’m in Sheffield - UK working as a web team leader at TheFloow. I’m still eager to learn new stuff and to give back to dev community what I received during all these years.
A fellow guitar player, nice! 🎸
What type of music you like playing?
I'm so bad at replying to comments... anyway mostly blues and rock-blues
Same here music-wise! Blues is the way to go. 😎
I brought here just a couple of my guitars, an 82 Made in Japan Fender Strat and a Yamaha APX 6.
OOooo nice guitar selection there! I mostly play my acoustic electric (a Washburn) right now and sing a lot.
In fact, my band just recently posted a video of us from our first show if ya are interested. I don't play my guitar that much in this one, haha, but our lead guitarist is awesome!
Cool video!
I have been trying to get back into playing the guitar, but I don't have a ton of time to devote to practicing. What style of music do you play?
And it's awesome that you became a dev because of C64! I grew up on fairly new technology, but I have a passion for old computers. I'd love to pick up a C64, Apple II, or anything like that!
C64 was awesome at that time. I still have my original ( working ) one in Italy. Probably I will buy the replica they recently put out on the market, just to give my kids a glimpse on 80s IT
Hello Alain,
Welcome. I'm only a few miles up the road from you in East Yorkshire. I grew into my C64 from my ZX81. Although only a novice player, I do pick up my guitar for a few minutes whenever I need a mental break from coding.
Hi Stuart! Nice to know! Any nice meetup to suggest? When this will be over I really hope to go back to the Dev-ops and Ruby ones in Sheffield
Hi Alain, no sorry, I don't tend to go to meetups etc.
Hoping you remain safe & well.
Nice! We also have a guitar player on the team, @michaeltharrington 🎶
Similar story here. Loved writing "databases" on the C64. Two small children myself so not much time for the guitar any more.
Hi, I'm Emma!
I currently work full-time as a front-end dev. I'm here to learn new things and improve my blogging skills.
I also have created a habit tracking Trello Power-Up called Streak - if you have any feature suggestions/critiques please let me know!
Hi! I'm here to also improve my blogging skills so hopefully we'll both be experts by the end of the year 💪
I took a look at Streak and it looks awesome 🎉 I've always been fascinated about using things like Trello instead of classic full-blown apps, and this is a really neat application of that idea!
Welcome!
Feel free to make a #showdev post about Streak 😊
Thanks Ben! Finally got around to it: dev.to/emma/streak-habit-tracker-f...
Hey everyone! My name is Skye, and I'm an upcoming junior in college studying Computer Science. This summer I have a web development internship with a local tech company that is challenging and improving my skills every day! I'm here because I see a lot of DEV.to articles on my twitter feed and decided to join the community!
Good luck with your internship! Don't be shy about using the #help tag to seek answers from the community if you're stuck on anything.
Thanks! This seems like a great community to be a part of so I definitely will use it to my advantage.
Welcome to the community! Would love to hear from you how the internship went. Maybe an article idea for later 🙂
It's going great right now! Maybe I will write about it at some point...
Hi All, My name is Chetan and I'm from sunny California
I'm an engineer turned company operations guy and I started Macrometa 2 years back with my cofounder Durga Gokina to create a new geo-distributed cloud that runs your apps and data across a network of data centers closer to your end users. So instead of your App or API having a single lonely backend thousands of miles and hundreds of milliseconds away from your clients, browsers, and devices, our cloud puts the database and server-side code 10-20 milliseconds away by distributing, synchronizing and orchestrating your data worldwide.
Macrometa is a CRDT database - it uses some new database techniques like Conflict Free Replicated Data Types, logical time keeping and Convergence (instead of consensus) to help provide strong consistency gaurnatees across very large network distances and latencies. It allows you to have local read write latencies - yet synchronizes accurately and deterministically.
Learn more at macrometa.co/macrometa-in-2
Welcome!
Macrometa is fascinating, I'll admit to not even realizing such a set-up is possible. Look forward to learning more, and welcome!
Thanks Peter for the warm words - I appreciate it.
If you have interest in some code - here's a repl of doing some things like creating a DB that runs across LA, Virginia, Frankfurt and Mumbai India
the code does some inserting and querying. There is a geo loadbalancer in front of this makes sure you are routed to the closest database location based on where you are making the request from.
Repl.it here --> repl.it/@ChetanVenkatesh/Programmi...
Docs - dev.macrometa.co
Let me know if you have any questions of feedback
Hi! My name is Sajjad, I'm from Iran. I enjoy coding and theory, and I love free software. I have a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and I'm starting a Master degree in the same field. I love hacking together chatbots and I've created a lot of them!
Very cool - welcome!
Show the community those chatbots!
They are in my native language (Farsi) and are published on Telegram, where would it be appropriate to share them?
Maybe share some info about the making of, to help others make?
Sounds great, I'll get to it once I found my way around
Hi all! My name is Peter and I'm from South Korea, Texas, and Illinois. I studied Economics at Yale and will be working in consulting in Washington, D.C. come this fall. I am excited about web development and data science, particularly in its applications for government tech! I love Ruby (and bare with Python)!
I want to build things that give more power to more people!
Yes! We are open-source and are definitely excited about finding ways to give power to the people. You might enjoy this post from yesterday.
From one Peter to another, welcome! :D
Hiya Peter, welcome to dev.to ^o/ 👋
There are many folks (web or other kinds of) development.
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