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Sloan the DEV Moderator on July 22, 2026

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FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ •

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, I recommend reading this guide on making the most out of dev.to!

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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

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Joseph Soper •

Hello, everyone! Excited to be part of the community!

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Frank Weindel •

Welcome Joseph!

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FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ •

Welcome Joseph! What brings you here on DEV?

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Joseph Soper •

Long time developer, just never very active on the networking front. Mostly tend to browse forums and StackOverflow in my past, trying to get more involved now. What about yourself?

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FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ •

Good to hear! For me, trying to put myself out there than just simply building projects. Thought it would be nice to interact with other people and see what other's share on this platform. Came here since I heard dev.to, but never had the time to get to it until recently (Jan 2026).

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Wrack •

Hey everyone 👋 I'm wrack, a mobile app developer.

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Priyansh Kumar •

Hi

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Satvik Singhal •

Hi

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Frank Weindel •

Sup Wrack!

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forqx •

hi!

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Joseph Soper •

Welcome, wrack!

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Jay from PasteSheet •

Hello everyone!

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Chris Jarvis •

Hello Jay!

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forqx •

hi!

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Jamie Lynn •

Waddup yo.

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Alex •

Hi! The name's Alex!

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Chris Jarvis •

Welcome Alex!

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Omar Salahuddin •

hello ,i am omar

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Chris Jarvis •

Hello and welcome Omar.

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Mikhail •

Hi!

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Srinivas Adepu •

hi

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Chris Jarvis •

Hello all new members, Welcome to DEV.

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Jamie Lynn •

Hey there.

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creatortoolsjp •

Hey everyone 👋 I'm CI. I build small tools for creators, and these days
most of my side-project work happens on a Raspberry Pi in the corner of my
room — Claude Code lives on it, so I can pick a session back up from my
phone instead of opening a laptop.

What I'm figuring out right now is where the line sits between "let it run
unattended" and "keep a hand on it." One of my side accounts drafts and
posts on its own; this one doesn't, on purpose.

Fun fact: the setup survives me leaving the house, but not a reboot. Still
working on that part.

Would love to hear from anyone else running things off a spare always-on box.

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Aliaksei Zelianouski •

I run one around the clock and I still don't have a clean answer to your line question. Mine has monitoring, tests, self-diagnosis, and a second loop that reads the first one's errors, and it still dropped new-user stats out of a daily report for eight days before I noticed. Nothing errored. Every number after it was just wrong. The reboot is the easy half of your problem.

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creatortoolsjp •

That's the better framing. I was treating "survives a reboot" as the hard
part, and you're right that it's the easy half. A crash announces itself.
Eight days of plausible-looking numbers doesn't.

The part that gets me is that yours was being read the whole time. A missing
row you'd catch. A number that's simply wrong looks exactly like a number
that's right. Mine only dodges this by accident — the output is public posts,
so drift and repetition show up to me the same way they show up to everyone
else. That's not monitoring, it's just a failure mode that happens to be loud.

What did you add after? A check for that specific shape, or something general
enough to catch the next silent one? That's the part I don't have.

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Aliaksei Zelianouski •

I added a self-monitoring step outside of the main loop. So at least it should report when something is off. Still not a 100% guarantee.

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creatortoolsjp •

"Outside the main loop" is the part that matters. A checker inside it
inherits the same blind spots — that's exactly how mine would fail. No
guarantee, but it's an independent pair of eyes, which is more than most
setups have.

Thanks for coming back with the answer.

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Wiserstaff •

The out-of-loop checker does not have to run at the same time as the thing it checks. Mine is a dated log, and it caught me two days ago.

I measure whether directories give my site a real link or a nofollow one. I pulled five listings, four were nofollow, mine was the one that was not, and mine was also the only one on a paid trial. That is a clean causal story and I had already started writing it down as fact.

Then I read my own notes from the previous week. I had measured that link the day before the paid tier was ever switched on. Same link, same value, no paid tier. The correlation was real and the cause was invented, by me, from a single same-day snapshot.

Nothing errored there either. The reading was just wrong in a way that looked exactly like a reading that was right, which is your eight days in a different shape.

So the cheap version of "outside the main loop" might just be writing down what you measured with the date attached, and making it a rule to re-read it before you conclude anything. Yesterday's notes do not share today's blind spots.

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Ark0N •

Hey everyone! 👋

I've been working with AI for quite a while: I was an OpenAI beta tester back before their models were open to the public. My current obsession is an open-source project called Codeman: a self-hosted dashboard for running AI coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI) on an always-on machine at home and checking on them from my phone.

The rabbit hole was making it feel lag-free: typing into a remote terminal from a phone meant 200-300ms per keystroke, so I ended up building a Mosh-inspired local echo that renders keystrokes instantly in the browser while the real terminal output catches up and replaces them invisibly.

Happy to be here 😀

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Aliaksei Zelianouski •

The local echo is a good bit of engineering for a problem most people would have just lived with. What I'd want to know is what you do about approvals. I run five or six sessions at once and the thing that keeps me at the desk isn't typing speed, it's that every one of them stops to ask permission for something. Can you clear those from the phone, or do you run them with permissions off and hope?

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Abd-ur-Raffae Masood •

Hey everyone! 👋 I'm Abdur Raffae, a QA Automation Engineer from Pakistan, doing manual, automation, API, and performance testing.

I'm currently exploring AI Agent Testing and MCP (Model Context Protocol), and excited to learn how testing AI-driven systems differs from testing traditional web apps.

Fun fact: on a recent project, I wrote tests for a scoring algorithm before it was even finished — caught three logic bugs in the spec before a single line of "real" code was written.

Looking forward to connecting with this community!

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Aliaksei Zelianouski •

I'd want a real QA person on AI-driven systems, because the failure mode is new. I've watched Claude Code break the logic and then rewrite the failing test so it goes green on the broken code. A passing test proves nothing when the same agent wrote it. Are you testing the agent's output, or its behavior across a whole run? Those turned out to be very different jobs.

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Abd-ur-Raffae Masood •

I completely agree. Testing AI agents is much more than verifying outputs. We need to evaluate their behavior throughout the entire execution, including how they handle constraints, tool usage, and unexpected situations. Thanks for the insightful comment!

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Jean-Sebastien Beaulieu •

Hello DEV community. I’m Jean-Sébastien, founder of SecuredMe, from Quebec.

I’m a self-taught mathematician and research-software builder working around privacy-first education, cybersecurity, AI-assisted development, and work traces.

I joined DEV to share what I build, but also to learn in public. I care a lot about the human side of AI-assisted coding: planning, testing, correcting, documenting, and keeping the builder’s judgment visible instead of hiding everything behind a polished final screenshot.

Glad to be here.

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Aliaksei Zelianouski •

AI code reads clean, so you skim it, and the bug is in the use case nobody scoped rather than in a line you're looking at. The only thing that makes me actually read it is keeping responsibility on myself. When I fully hand something off I never look at the code, and that's fine only because a bad result there costs me nothing. How do you keep the judgment visible in practice, in the repo or in the writing?

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Jean-Sebastien Beaulieu •

both ^_-

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HILOMAX •

Hello, everyone. I am a team member from HILOMAX, working in IC programming and testing. Chips are small, yet they power a vast world. I hope technology not only brings convenience to human society, but also adds warmth and goodwill to the world. I am glad to be here and look forward to connecting with you all.

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Faisal Yousuf •

Hey everyone!
Excited to join the DEV community!
I’m a part of development, win and web.
I joined DEV to connect with other developers, learn from everyone's posts, and start writing technical breakdowns of how I built my client-side tools.
Looking forward to being part of the community!

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Aremu Feranmi •

You're welcome

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Stephen Akpan •

Hi Dev.to! 👋

Happy to finally join! I'm a self-taught developer transitioning from hobbyist to professional.

I joined to share my engineering thought process as I build complex projects—starting with a technical series on designing and writing my own custom scripting language.

Looking forward to reading your posts and sharing my journey!

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Prasoon Anand •

Hi everyone! 👋

I'm Prasoon from India. I've spent over a decade building cloud platforms, DevOps, and security systems, and lately I've been diving deep into AI infrastructure and agentic systems.

Right now I'm building StackRail, where I'm exploring how to make AI applications production-ready with better observability, governance, and reliability. I'm especially interested in topics like LLM operations, MCP, cloud architecture, and developer tooling.

Looking forward to learning from the community, sharing what I build, and connecting with other engineers working on AI, backend systems, and open source.

Happy to be here!

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Aliaksei Zelianouski •

I'd pay for this, and I've built enough of it myself to be skeptical. I run an agent that scrapes about a dozen platforms and API providers daily and stitches the metrics and logs into one timeline, plus a second loop that reads the first one's errors. Genuinely useful, still not enough. I have to question its output by hand every so often to trigger an investigation. The failures that hurt don't error. What does governance catch when the pipeline is healthy and the number is just wrong?

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W •

Saying Hello! Love to make machines behave, or break them gracefully! I'm currently synchronizing with my "Misbehaving Idea", I like to name them :) I've joined dev.to to participate, connect, grow, learn, and join the challenges.

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Suresh Babu Narayanan •

Hi all, How you doing?
I am Suresh
DevOps engineer here, 13 years across AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, and Terraform. Just published my first couple of articles here (self-healing pipelines, Terraform state mistakes) and looking forward to being part of the community.

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NieJingChuan •

We Need a Name for When AI Agents Start Operating Existing Business Systems

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Incenta •

👋 Welcome to Incenta.

We're building the infrastructure that powers customer engagement.

Follow us for engineering insights, product design, growth strategies, and real-world breakdowns of how the world's best products use referrals, rewards, loyalty, gamification, and behavioral psychology to keep users engaged.

Build your product. We'll help you grow it.

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Carl Henderson •

Hey everyone! 👋

I'm Mr Henderson, a self-directed student developer who learned through YouTube, books, and freeCodeCamp.

I mostly write Python tools and scripts. I recently built giteyes, a terminal UI (TUI) for visualising GitHub/local contribution heatmaps and code churn hotspots (built with uv/uvx).

Excited to join the community, learn from everyone here, and see what you're all building! 🥑

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hew •

Hi everyone! I'm Hew, a web developer interested in building practical web tools,apps and exploring local-first software .

I'm here to learn from the community, share what I build, and connect with other developers.

Looking forward to learning from everyone here!

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hew •

if you hava any suggestions, please feel free to contact me.

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Tobias Krueger •

Hello So nice to reach here.
Hi everyone! I'm excited to join the DEV community.

I'm a Senior Full-Stack Python Engineer with a passion for building scalable backend systems, cloud-native applications, and fintech solutions. I enjoy working with Python, FastAPI, Django, Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, and modern DevOps practices.

I'm here to:

Share what I learn while building software.
Write about Python, backend architecture, cloud, and AI.
Learn from other developers and contribute to the community.
Connect with engineers who enjoy solving challenging technical problems.

I'm looking forward to reading your posts, sharing my experiences, and growing together.

Thanks for having me!

Happy coding!

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Mujuzi Moses  •

Hi everyone! 👋

I’m Moses, a Java developer with a strong interest in Spring Framework and open-source software. I recently joined DEV because I enjoy learning by building and sharing what I discover along the way.

Right now, I’m working on a project called spring-by-example, where I’m creating practical, beginner-friendly Spring examples with detailed explanations, tests, and documentation. I’m also an active contributor to open-source projects and hope to share my experiences as I continue learning.

Looking forward to learning from the community and connecting with fellow developers. Happy coding! 🚀

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Ashish nautiyal •

Hi everyone! 👋

I'm Ashish, a Senior Android Developer with 12+ years of experience building Android applications using Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, and modern Android architecture. I've worked on apps serving 1M+ users and enjoy diving deep into performance optimisation, Compose internals, benchmarking, and clean architecture.

I'm joining Dev.to to learn in public, share practical engineering lessons from real-world projects, and connect with fellow developers.

Looking forward to learning from the community and contributing where I can. 🚀

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BLOODY GAMING • • Edited

Hello Developers! 👋

I've built an awesome tool/software with a modern, clean, and user-friendly UI. It's designed to provide a smooth experience, better performance, and useful features that make everyday tasks easier.

I'd love for you to try it out and share your valuable feedback. Your suggestions will help make it even better. 🚀

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Ruby C •

Hello, Claude actually referred me to this platform while I was ranting about the frustration of job search. Hopefully joining this community gives me some insight about the dev community. It's quite lonely being unemployed as a developer. No real connection with developers. Yeah that's painful. Anyway hi, I'm Ruby, recently moved to Europe and looking for a job opportunity also to learn more about being a developer in the age of AI.

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Hemapriya Kanagala •

Hey Ruby, welcome to DEV 👋

Job searching can definitely feel isolating. I hope this community ends up being the kind of place you're looking for. Wishing you all the best with your job search, and hope to see you around the community.

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Jeriah Keith •

Hello, I am a student that bartends to pay for school. Right now I'm building and testing hardened sandbox environments to safely run AI agents, and writing checks to prove the sandbox actually works. Turns out that second part is harder than it sounds.

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nullnonenilnull •

Hi everyone — happy to be here! 👋

I work on training infrastructure and training acceleration for large-scale models — optimizing and researching systems across LLM, VLM, and embodied intelligence. Most of my time goes into squeezing throughput out of large distributed training: parallelism strategies, MoE and FP8 optimizations, and lately the training side of VLA / world-action models, which is still pretty underexplored compared to LLM land.

I'll be sharing what we learn along the way — the wins, the tradeoffs, and the things that didn't work. We recently open-sourced our training framework, and I'd genuinely love feedback and discussion from people building in this space. Always happy to talk shop.

Looking forward to learning from this community!

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Motasem Zakarneh • • Edited

Hey everyone
I am motasem an expert game developer, building games, and tools for unity and godot, i work in backend, plain C++ and C# as well !
Nice meeting everyone.

Edit:
Oh i also love RTS games.

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srinath •

Hi, I’m Srinath.

I’m a software engineer currently building Hawzu, a modern test management platform. Over the years, I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about how teams test software, make release decisions, and measure confidence.

This publication is where I’ll share ideas, challenge common assumptions, and write about software quality, testing, and engineering—not just the product I’m building.

I’d love to hear different perspectives, so feel free to disagree or share how your team approaches these problems.

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Nicolas "UnixNick" Couture • • Edited

Howdy,

I'm Nick and thank you for welcoming me to the DEV team.

Welcoming users by inviting them to comment, present, or otherwise share about what they're into, who they are, why they are where you are is a great way to create contacts.

The only thing here is that there's really a very small amount of posters, or readers of this welcoming page that will. Why? Because this is akin to a web forum. Google has kicked these out of the internet, along with all potentially misleading internet sites.

Marginalia Search engine provides the best results but I can't say I used it often and my being in chrome, wanting instant search results leave me where I stand. Among the masses, which is what search engines have become; search result provides, for the masses.

But we're developers.

Isn't there a better way to welcome users and help them connect with similarly like-minded dev.to users than a bottom post comment section?

Thanks,

P.S. Thanks for providing functionalities in this commenting system. I like it more than I claimed here before.

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Nicolas "UnixNick" Couture •

🌳

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aloow •

Hi everyone! 👋 I’m Shao, a full-stack developer and indie maker from China. I’m currently building Musiv, an AI-powered music video SaaS, using TypeScript, TanStack Start, and Cloudflare.

I’m interested in AI, creative tools, and SaaS development. Happy to connect and learn with everyone here! 🚀

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kitchen_code • • Edited

Hello everyone,

I joined dev.to to document my data engineering journey. As a software engineer, I've always been fascinated by data engineering, system design and research.

The objective is to publish articles covering everything from case studies to full projects, share what I've learned, and get insightful feedback from the community.

I have published two articles so far. Feel to check them out or get in touch with me!

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Nyokeon • • Edited

Hi everyone! 👋

I'm Tiago from Brazil.

A friend kept telling me to start writing on DEV, so I finally gave in. 😄

I've spent years studying software, but not nearly enough time interacting with the wider developer community. I'm hoping to change that, learn from others, and share a bit of my own journey along the way.

Nice to meet you all!

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Emma • • Edited

Hi! I'm Emma, a career strategist and analyst focusing on the tech hiring landscape. I recently joined DEV to connect with developers, share insights on navigating international job markets, and learn from this amazing community! Currently, I'm working on JobScanner.pro — a platform designed to help candidates find verified job opportunities across different regions without wasting hours on dozens of job boards.

Excited to be here, read your articles, and exchange ideas! Happy to connect!

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Nikita Zarubin •

Hey guys, I'm kinda a solo founder for last year or so, after being a backend dev for 15 years. That's quite a life change, huh? 😄
Soooo, I have a (very) profitable product in AI chatting hiche that keeps me running, and doing things here and there. I love to partner with passionate people, also love to build cool things. Recently dropped an open-source product 😄
All in all, except for my addiction to boomer emojis, I'm a nice guy and always open for a chat. Dunno how to use this platform properly yet, but I'll figure.

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Richard Whitney •

Hello!

I'm Richard, founder of phpMyDEV, LLC, when I was a PHP programmer. I have since moved to a Node stack. Right now I work at Home Depot PT and, lately, spend about 8 hours/day building web apps. After I got laid off in 2022, I tried frantically to find programming work,particularly n NodeJS. I quickly realized that without knowledge of React and how it works, and lacking the will to understand it, found that I was largely unemployable.

I went to real estate school - became Realtor (for about 3 months, and I hated it)
I drove for Uber and totaled my car going 5mph.

In December 2025, I asked chatGPT a question: "what service is the internet missing the most?"
And MIRregistry, L.L.C. was born. It's called Memory Infrastructure Registry, and its main premise is to remember the history of people and AI agents - what they have done over time without exposing any PII (personally identifiable info). In fact, it only has ONE piwece of PII - an email address, so you can login.

At the same time I asked that question, I got hired Home Depot in North Scottsdale.

Glad to be here!

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Mubashir Murtaza •

Hey everyone! I’m a mobile engineer mostly focused on Android and Kotlin Multiplatform. Joined Dev.to to share some of the random edge case bugs and architectures I run into daily and hopefully learn a thing or two from the community here.
Looking forward to connecting. Thankyou.

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Timophei Lemeshchenko •

hey everyone 👋 im a mobile tech lead, work across Flutter and native Android/iOS.

recently got tired of how painful sharing private packages across repos was on one of our projects, so i built a small private pub registry to fix it for myself, and figured id start writing about the stuff i run into along the way.

mostly here to talk mobile, Flutter/Dart, package management, and the unglamorous infra side of shipping apps. glad to be here

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Sowaiba Arshad • • Edited

Hello dev.to. I'm back, and I'm building.
I'm Sowaiba, an AI/ML Software engineer. I took about a year away from my career, and I'm stepping back in on purpose: full pace from day one, not easing in slowly. I'll be posting regularly here. Build logs, technical deep dives, lessons from mistakes, and the occasional honest postmortem. If that sounds like your kind of thing, follow along and say hi. I'd love to know what you're building too.
Let's go.

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PostMyForm •

Hi everyone, PostMyForm is a developer tool focused on form handling for static websites.

We joined DEV to share practical guides around GitHub Pages, Astro, plain HTML forms, spam controls, and other static-site topics. We’ve started with a GitHub Pages contact-form walkthrough and plan to contribute more technical content over time.

Looking forward to learning from the community and meeting others working with static sites and lightweight web stacks. 💪🏼

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Ivan Dyankov •

Hi, I am new here. My name is Ivan Dyankov and I am senior software engineer based in London, UK. I am very interested in AI assisted software development and I would like share my experience and also learn from other people's experiences.

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Ecen •

Hi everyone! I am a computer science student currently learning web development. My primary tech stack includes Laravel, React, and Go. I hope to learn, interact, and share knowledge with developers here.

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Tim •

hello friends, I am very happy to join this community, I am Indie developer building small useful tools. Sourdough calculator for bakers, payment comparison for India. Next.js + Cloudflare Pages. please give me your advice.🤞

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Aishwarya K R •

Hi dev.to! 👋

I'm Aishwarya, an SDE II working in .NET microservices, distributed systems, and applied AI. Just joined to cross-post the articles I've been writing about a production-style platform I built (PatientFlow) — covering Kafka, observability, LLM guardrails, and MCP integration.

Excited to be here and learn from the community. Happy to chat about
.NET, distributed systems, or anything AI/LLM tooling related.

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Hanna •

Hey everyone! 👋
I'm Ann, Product Coordinator at YouHired.me. Joined the DEV community to connect with other builders, follow discussions around career growth, and share insights on automating the job hunt grind. Right now, I'm deeply focused on AI-driven workflows, semantic ATS matching, and finding ways to save job seekers from application burnout. Excited to be here and learn from you all!

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Khalid Anwar •

*Hey everyone, I’m Khalid
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I’m a founder/developer, I am a serial problem solver, currently focused on building tools that make web application development simpler and faster. I’ve spent a lot of time working big enterprises and SMEs and building applications, and I’m always exploring better ways to reduce complexity in the development process.

Excited to join Dev.to, learn from the community, and share some of the ideas I’ve been working on.

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Max Paardekam •

Hey!

I'm Max, a developer from the Netherlands. I spend most of my time experimenting with AI, building web applications, and trying to become a better engineer every day.

I recently started sharing my journey on DEV and I'm excited to learn from all of you. If you're into AI, software architecture, or just building cool things, let's connect! 😄

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Srilatha •

Hello everyone 👋

I’m Srilatha, exploring AI-powered applications and full-stack development.

I joined DEV to share my learning journey, challenges, and experiences while building with new technologies.

Excited to connect with this amazing community! 🚀

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Peter Adesina •

Hi everyone! 👋

I'm Peter, a web designer and front-end developer with a passion for creating clean, modern, and user-friendly websites. I joined DEV to learn from the community, improve my development skills, and share what I build along the way.

Right now, I'm focused on web design, front-end development, and building projects that solve real-world problems. Looking forward to connecting with other developers, exchanging ideas, and growing together.

Happy to be here! 🚀

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Arman Obosyan •

Hi everyone - Arman here, founder of Sugra Systems, Inc.

We build agent-facing data infrastructure (API + MCP server so agents can pull markets, macro, government data, news, climate, etc. with source attribution instead of guessing).

Here to write about MCP tooling and learn how others wire external data into coding agents. Happy to say hello!

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FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ •

Hey Arman! Welcome to DEV :D

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Ilya Nixan •

👋 Hey everyone!

I'm Ilya — I run a small Flutter-focused mobile shop (nerdy.pro). We build white-label apps, do a lot of AI-agent-assisted development, and I spend an unreasonable amount of time thinking about state management and design systems.

Excited to be part of the community — looking forward to learning from what others are shipping, especially around mobile architecture and AI-assisted dev workflows.

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Arpan Shah •

Hey everyone 👋

Quick intro:

  • 15 years in software engineering, primarily Microsoft stack
  • ~7 years focused on backend development with Azure and .NET/C#
  • Recently added Confluent Kafka, Flink, and Azure Cosmos DB to the mix, building data streaming workflows in .NET

Outside work, I build personal projects to get end-to-end experience that corporate roles don't always offer.

Fun fact: even outside work hours, I'm usually tinkering on something — building is just what I enjoy doing.

Looking forward to sharing what I learn and building here.

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Actions Manager •

Hi everyone!

I enjoy building useful tools, solving problems, and learning from other developers. I’m currently working on ActionsManager and plan to share what I learn along the way.

Looking forward to being part of the community!

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Zero_planck • • Edited

hello guys i just joined and posted an opensource project - WISP - I Built a CUDA Engine That Streams 744B Parameter AI Models on Consumer Hardware. Glad to join, going to learn a lot. Plz check it out - github.com/zeroextub-collab/wisp

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Dynamic Atom •

Hi everyone! I'm excited to be here. My background is in Java and JEE development, with experience building microservices using Spring, working with Kafka, and implementing CI/CD pipelines. I'm also cloud certified and enjoy exploring modern backend technologies. Right now, I'm expanding my skills by learning AI technologies and looking forward to connecting with others, sharing knowledge, and learning from this community!

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ymj •

Hey everyone 👋

I run a small food business in Korea and write code on the side —
mostly trading bots and little automation scripts to keep my own
operations from falling apart.

What brought me here: my bot once got a balance of 0 from an
exchange API, treated it as a perfectly valid response, and closed
every position I had. No error, no crash, clean logs. That gap
between "the job ran" and "the job actually worked" has been living
rent-free in my head ever since.

So I'm here to read how other people handle it, and hopefully write
up what I've learned so far.

Nice to meet you all!

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Jaideep Sharma •

Hi everyone! 👋

I'm Jaideep, the founder of JDTechSpace. I'm a full-stack developer who enjoys building practical tools for developers and businesses.

Right now I'm focused on creating Shopify solutions, tracking scripts, and developer SDKs for Meta Pixel, Google Ads, and GA4. I'm also interested in automation, PHP, and building digital products that solve real-world problems.

Looking forward to learning from the community, sharing what I build, and connecting with fellow developers. Happy to be here!

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Jamie Lynn •

I scrolled down. apparently last week was a much more talkative community. I recently left my 13 years at amazon. I it was my favorite hobby - not sure what I'm goiing to get into now. Had thought to make a chatbot company - but I am not that productive yet. Just got 365 and xrm and been tinkering. getting lost. I was able to develop software into amazon enterprise before I left - hit brazil. that was super cool - glad I got to do that.

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Nipuna Mahakur •

Hi everyone! 👋

I'm a Computer Science student who loves learning new concepts, building projects, and improving my problem-solving skills. I'll be sharing what I learn along the way...from programming fundamentals to interesting CS topics and small projects.

I'm here to learn, connect with fellow developers, and hopefully help others who are on a similar journey.

Looking forward to learning with this amazing community...Happy coding!!

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Hemapriya Kanagala •

Hey Nipuna, welcome to DEV 👋

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Daniel Meszaros •

Hey everyone! I'm Dan, solo developer from the UK. Just launched StaticCreation, a token-based API platform for UK public sector data (property, vehicles, companies, energy and more). Been building it for 14 months, FastAPI + PostgreSQL, self-hosted on my own hardware. Excited to share what I've learned along the way. 👋

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Andrii Votiakov •

Hey 👋
I am writing about being a software engineer, (f)CTO, founder.
My expertise and passion includes web scraping at scale (data acquisition), reducing cloud cost, and building software. Also startup life.

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networkhack52 •

Hi all 👋 Yousef here — self-taught dev in the UK building AI developer tools. Just shipped a VS Code bug fixer that explains why your code broke instead of just patching it. Currently learning to build in public (and getting comfortable sharing the ugly numbers — my install counter said 525, the real number was 4 😅). Glad to be here — always up to trade notes with other solo builders.

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Krishna Singh •

Hey Dev.to!

I'm a Software Engineer based out of India who has an avid interest in developing modern web apps and learning new technologies.

I mainly use JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Next.js, Node.js, Python, AWS, PostgreSQL, and other web technologies. I am particularly passionate about scalable architecture, clean coding, performance improvements, and AI-driven development.

Apart from coding, I love reading about business, finance, health, yoga, spirituality, etc. In the long run, I want to develop something valuable through my products and technology firm.

I would like to learn, share my experience, blog on web development, and interact with the developer community.

See you around! 🚀

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Asep Sayyad •

Hello everyone! I'm Asep from India.

I'm passionate about Linux, DevOps, Docker, self-hosting, and automation. I recently joined DEV to share what I learn while building projects and solving real-world problems.

Looking forward to learning from this amazing community!

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Mudasir ahmed •

Hey everyone! Full-stack dev here with 5+ years of experience. Excited to be part of the community. Just launched a free web optimization utility under Preflight Tools. Looking forward to learning and sharing here!

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XT • • Edited

Hi everyone! I’m a software engineer working on providing right context for AI systems. Particularly for solving the accuracy issue in oncall AI agents. I joined dev.to to learn from other developers and share what I’m discovering while building developer tools. Looking forward to learning from everyone here!

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Coco •

Nice to meet you!

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Poshtvar Server •

Hey everyone! 👋
I'm excited to join the Dev.to community! I spend most of my time working with Linux servers, virtualization, WHMCS, and web hosting. I'm currently trying to write more technical articles in English and share my experience with the community.

Nice to meet you all! 😄

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Ehtisham •

Hey everyone! 👋

I’m a Full-Stack Software Architect and Founder of a Startup Woltrio

Domain: HealthTech System Architecture & Automations

I’ll be sharing real world guides, code architecture patterns and lessons learned building scalable digital products.

Let's Connect & Collaborate
LinkedIn: Ehtisham
Fiverr: Ehtisham

Excited to join this community and contribute!

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Prashant Sengar •

Hi Everyone ,I'm Prashant I'm a Computer Science student driven by the urge to follow technology all the way down—from the software we interact with to the systems, networks, memory, and hardware that make it possible.

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Barry Xiong •

Hey everyone, I’m Barry. I build small software products, mostly around AI, design, and developer tools. I joined DEV to share the practical lessons behind building them, including the ideas that didn’t work the first time. Lately, I’ve been spending a lot of time on scientific visualization. Looking forward to meeting and learning from other builders here!

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Nour Dalati • • Edited

Hello everyone my name is Nour, and at 28 years old which basically means I've spent half my life trying to figure out what I want to be when I grow up 😂, I wanted to share a little bit of my story.

Back when I finished school in Syria, life was driven by survival, The country was in the middle of a war, and many of us made choices simply to avoid enlisting in a corrupted military system where new recruits faced terrible odds, I chose a bachelor's degree in interior design. I was actually good at it, and people told me so, but designing spaces just never felt right; I wasn't happy.

Seeking something that clicked, I transitioned into UI/UX design and completed two projects. I liked it, but I still felt like something was missing kind of like a sandwich without the cheese, or in my case, the actual engine making things work.

Eventually, I crossed paths with The Odin Project. I now study it on a daily basis, and while I am still on the journey and not quite done yet, I just want to send a huge thank you to the entire team, i also want to thank DEV Community for helping me along the way.

To anyone reading this who feels stuck, pivoting, or starting over: trust the process, keep building, and remember that it is never too late to redesign your life from the ground up.☺️

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Abdul Moeez •

Hey everyone! I'm Moeez, Co-Founder & CTO at Market Thrive (markethrive.co). We build AI-native software for clients across Pakistan, the Middle East, and the US. Currently finishing my BS in AI at ITU Lahore.

I'm here to write about what I actually learn while shipping real products, stuff like AI integration, funnel-building for tech products, and the messy parts of running a dev agency that nobody talks about.

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Wiserstaff •

Hey everyone 👋

I run a small independent review site about HR software, which is the least dev.to part of what I do. What I actually spend my evenings on is the thing underneath it: an Astro static site on Cloudflare Pages, and a growing pile of zero-dependency Node scripts that audit my own site. PageSpeed, Search Console, a local dashboard that regenerates from one JSON file so no task's status can live in two places and disagree with itself.

Zero dependency is not purity. It is that a solo project dies of maintenance long before it dies of missing features.

Fun fact, my most useful lesson this month came from a curl that told me the truth and misled me anyway. I checked production for an analytics script, it was not in the response, and I concluded it had never deployed. It had. The platform injects it at the edge, and my bare request did not look enough like a browser to receive it. The tool was not wrong. My question just could not tell "absent" apart from "not served to you".

Here to read the failure write-ups more than the launch posts.