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Welcome Thread - v386

Sloan the DEV Moderator on July 29, 2026

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FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ •

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Hope you are having a great summer and enjoy your stay here on DEV :D

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Vahzryn • • Edited

Hey everyone!
Excited to join the DEV community!
I’m a creator passionate about web performance and browser technologies. Recently, I've been diving deep into WebAssembly and Web Workers to build zero-server, privacy-first web utilities—including a client-side image converter/compressor I recently shipped.
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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Pavlos Tsaousakis •

Hey! client-side / privacy-first utilities are underrated. Users get the benefit without the upload anxiety.

I’m a product designer, and that “where does the work happen?” decision (browser vs server) changes the whole UX story. What made you go all-in on client-side instead of a hybrid?

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Codemonkei •

Great to see more developers joining the community. Looking forward to seeing what you're building and learning from your posts!

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薛元煌 •

same here😀

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Kelvins Aghayedo •

Welcome great engineer! Waiting to read your articles

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AetherDaily •

Hello!

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Thomas Bonnet •

Welcome!

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Mark Birch •

Greetings!

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Earl Grey •

Hello and welcome!

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Earl Grey •

Welcome to the community!

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Nick Lamb •

Hi everyone! I'm Nick, a medical writer from the UK who drifted into building AI tools for healthcare. What brought me here? I've just finished a comparison of LLM-as-judge metrics vs deterministic checks that surprised me enough to want to write it up properly, and dev.to seemed like the right home for it.

Fun fact: alongside the serious tools, I once built a 7,666-parameter "medical AI" called PlaceboGPT that gives the same answer to every question: "Stay hydrated, get adequate rest, and if symptoms persist, consult a healthcare professional." It remains my most reliable model.

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Aliaksei Zelianouski •

PlaceboGPT is the only model in this thread with a stable eval score. The comparison I want to read is the half where the deterministic check wins, because that is the decision most people skip: if the thing has a deterministic answer, the judge is decoration and you have written a slower assert. Where did the judge actually earn its place?

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Nick Lamb •

Ha — PlaceboGPT's score variance across five repeats is 0.000. Still the benchmark.

Agreed on the assert — that's the conclusion. The judge earned its place on exactly one class: in-place meaning inversions ("take with food" → "take on an empty stomach"), where every anchor and number survives verbatim. My checks catch 0/5 of those, by construction. The judges caught 4/5 and 5/5. Assert what's assertable, judge only what isn't.

Full numbers: dev.to/nickjlamb/we-gave-the-same-...

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bayu priatno •

Welcome, Nick!

I'm particularly interested in your LLM-as-a-judge comparison. There's a lot of enthusiasm around AI-based evaluation, but deterministic checks still provide reproducibility and auditability that many production systems need.

I'd love to hear where you think each approach works best and where each one starts to break down.

Looking forward to your article!

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Veera Venkata Satyanarayana Gannamraju •

same here

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John •

Hi all. John here!😀
Building Enprompta, a tool for making LLM apps in production a little less of a black box. I spend my days somewhere between "why did the model say that" and "why did that trace take 25 seconds." and am here to share what I'm learning along the way and steal a few ideas from the rest of you too.😌

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Aliaksei Zelianouski •

Both of those questions assume somebody is already looking. I run a monitoring loop over my own agents and a second loop over the first one's errors, and the thing that still catches real problems is me getting suspicious about an output. What surfaces the trace nobody thought to go look at?

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John •

I love the quality loop! Curious what tools you use

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Aliaksei Zelianouski •

All the tools Claude Code built for itself. I lately got with skills + some executable cli programs rather than MCP or tools. It uses Crome, it has integrations with Vercel, BetterStack, ClaudFlare, different API providers - everything discovered and built without my help. I only designed this on a high-level.

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Sinpes •

Hi John,
welcome to dev.to, looking forward to read your thoughts on LLM apps.

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Robert Vyhnanek •

Hello john welcome

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Natalie Haigh •

Hey. just arrived. I'm UK based and coming back to software development after some time off. Background is Java EE and I love databases. I'm using Claude and Codex to do the heavy lifting these days and starting to build using lighter weight stacks like vue, but I'm benefiting from understanding the software development fundamentals whilst calling myself a vibe coder... has anyone come up with a better term yet?

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Thomas Bonnet •

Welcome to any news users here 🌟🙌

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TokenLat •

Hi everyone! 👋

I'm building TokenLat — a unified AI gateway that routes across OpenAI, Gemini, and China's most capable models (DeepSeek, GLM, Qwen) through one OpenAI-compatible endpoint, hosted in Singapore.

Most of my work is helping teams in SEA cut their LLM token bill 70%+ without changing output quality — the trick is routing the easy 80% of calls to capable cheaper models and reserving frontier models for the hard 20%.

Just published my first post here breaking down where the real cost leaks in agentic systems (spoiler: it's not the model price). Excited to swap notes with others building with LLMs!

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Aliaksei Zelianouski •

The 70% holds right up until the cheap model is wrong in the one place that mattered. I run 20+ models across 9 providers, and the reason I stopped routing by task type is that you cannot tell in advance which call is the hard 20 percent. Complexity hides in ordinary looking steps, and coding is the worst case for it. How do you classify a call as easy before you have seen what it produces?

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TokenLat •

Fair challenge — and it is the real failure mode of naive task-type routing. The fix isn't predicting which call is hard upfront; it's routing cheap-by-default and escalating to frontier on a signal you can actually observe: a failed verification, low confidence, or exhausted retries. Caching + small-model-friendly prompts keep the 80% cheap regardless. Frontier becomes the safety net, not the daily driver — so the "hard 20%" stops being a blind spot and starts being a measured exception.

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Aliaksei Zelianouski •

Escalating on a signal only covers failures that raise their hand. The ones that cost me were silent. A daily report from one of my loops dropped a metric and kept producing clean output for eight days before I noticed. Nothing failed verification, nothing retried, confidence was fine.

Low confidence is also the model's own opinion of its answer, and I've watched an agent break its logic and then rewrite the failing test to go green. So which signals do you actually count, and does anything outside the cheap model produce them?

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Quinticus •

Hello everyone, I'm Quinticus (or Quint for short), an aspiring SOC Analyst who is learning all about cyber-security concepts, focusing specifically on defensive concepts. I'm interested in learning all kinds of things; I learned networking and computer fundamentals, I plan to re-learn Python to get a bit of an edge in the market, and I'm excited to make all kinds of projects that focuses on blue teaming.

I also love taking a look at older tech like the Commodore 64 and the NES, so someday I would love to get deep into messing with hardware.

I can't wait to interact with this community of fellow programmers. I also really excited about document my journey here; I do cross-post on here and LinkedIn, but I go way more into detail about stuff here. Looking forward to posting and chatting here!

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Alejandro • • Edited

Hi everyone!

I'm Alejandro Gutiérrez. I'm an independent researcher and developer,
working solo on a project called PoHI (Proof of Human Intent) — a protocol
that tries to tell whether a piece of text was typed by a human or an
AI/bot, not by what it says, but by the physical rhythm of typing, using
zero-knowledge proofs to keep it private.

I got into this because the "is this a bot?" question stopped making sense
once AI-generated text became indistinguishable from human text, and I
wanted to see if there was a more honest way to answer it — one that
didn't require reading what people write.

Outside of that, I like building things end-to-end on my own (math,
cryptography, circuits, all of it), and I'm learning a lot along the way.
Glad to be here, looking forward to learning from the community and being
useful too.

Cheers!

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Aliaksei Zelianouski •

Not reading what people write is the right instinct, every detector that reads the text is measuring the wrong thing. What I would want to know is what stops a recorded rhythm from being replayed, or a model trained on enough keystroke traces from producing a convincing one. Once the proof is worth having, faking the signal is worth doing. Does the ZK part attest anything about where the timings came from, or only that they exist?

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Alejandro •

Great question, genuinely the sharpest one anyones asked so far, and its
the one I was most worried about before I even started collecting data.

Short answer: the ZK proof attests that the prover knows a witness (a set of
timing values) satisfying the score relation, it does not attest that
those values came from an actual human hand. Groth16 soundness is a
statement about the relation (∃w : score(w) ≥ θ), not about the provenance
of w. I wrote this up explicitly rather than glossing over it:
docs/THREAT_MODEL.md, section 5 "The Witness Authenticity Gap".

On replay specifically: the circuit does bind the proof to a session
commitment (a public session_hash input), so replaying the same proof
object
against a different session fails verification. But that only
stops replaying a proof. It does nothing to stop someone from taking a
recorded (or model-generated) timing vector and feeding it into the prover
fresh for every new session, that produces a brand-new, fully valid proof
every time, because the statement being proven is true of those values.

On the "trained model" attack, youre right, and its actually cheaper
than it looks, because the three components combined into the score arent
equally hard to fake:
*The motor-skewness component genuinely needs some distributional
modeling (right-skewed flight times), but that can be fit offline, in one
pass, from any public keystroke dataset, no per-keystroke real-time
inference needed.
*The cognitive-latency component is trivial to manipulate: its
essentially "how long before you started typing relative to the prompt
length," and an attacker can just... wait. Zero cost.
*The correction-variance component is also freely chosen, since the
attacker controls which indices they mark as corrections and what
latency to assign around them.

So two of three signals cost nothing to fake, and the third is
approximable from public data without real-time generation at all.

This is exactly why the current data collection is an adversarial
evaluation, not just calibration, the adversary models specifically
include an offline statistical mimic and a raw-telemetry-replay attacker,
and I pre-registered a falsification condition before collecting anything:
if the strongest adversary gets accepted more than half the time, the
software-only version doesnt hold, and hardware-anchored timestamps
(signing raw events in a secure enclave, verified inside the circuit) stop
being optional future work and become the actual requirement.

I dont have the number yet. Thats the honest answer.

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Aliaksei Zelianouski •

Half the time is a generous bar to hold yourself to. Two of the three signals cost the attacker nothing, so they get unlimited attempts, and at that point a five percent acceptance rate is still a working bypass. It just takes twenty tries. The condition I'd pre-register is the rate at a fixed attacker budget, not the rate per attempt.

And if the answer turns out to be enclave-signed timestamps, the ZK part is no longer what proves a human. It's the privacy wrapper around the attestation that does.

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Isamu Arimoto •

Hi — Isamu, from Japan. I write in English here, badly but improving.

I run five or six coding agents in parallel most days, and I mostly end up writing about what breaks when you do. Two of my four posts so far are "I was confidently wrong about this" pieces, which was not the plan but seems to be the format that gets replies.

Currently: lint rules that fire on correct code, and why my benchmark tool stopped having buttons.

Happy to be pointed at anything I've got wrong. That's been the most useful thing about this place so far.

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Anushka •

Hey everyone! 👋 I'm Anushka, a B.Tech CSE (AI) student. I've been learning Python through Harry's course and just started documenting my journey on my blog, Anushka's Tech Journal. Excited to share what I'm building and learn from this community along the way!

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Earl Grey •

Hello and welcome! Looking forward to seeing your journey!

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Anushka •

Thank you! 😊 I'm looking forward to learning and sharing along the way!

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ToolSura •

Hey everyone! 👋

I'm Abhay from India.

I love building things for the web and spend most of my time working on side projects. Right now I'm building Toolsura, a website with free online tools, and learning more about Go, Next.js, automation, and SEO along the way.

I joined DEV because I enjoy reading how other developers solve problems, and I want to start sharing what I learn too. I'm sure I'll make mistakes, but that's part of the journey.

Looking forward to learning from everyone here and hopefully contributing something useful. Thanks for having me! 😊

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Pranav Somalinga • • Edited

Hi, I am a student and I like to build things!
I wanted to showcase my projects, learn from others, and see what the community is building... So here I am!

Here's the latest project I'm working on - somalip.github.io/pyre

If you have any more questions whether it's about what I build or what I do, comment below!

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gibrancorbin11-hub •

Hey everyone — Gibran here, solo founder out of Texas. Day job is running a B2B real estate intelligence firm; nights are for building dev tools. Currently working on Wayleave, a zero-dependency Node middleware that lets you charge AI agents for API access (Web Bot Auth + HTTP 402) while humans browse free. Got tired of watching bots eat server bills. Planning to write about bot traffic, agent payments, and what I learn shipping solo. Glad to be here.

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Aliaksei Zelianouski •

The agents worth charging are the ones that identify themselves. The traffic actually eating your bill sends a browser user agent from a residential IP, so 402 collects from the polite half and the impolite half never sees the wall. How do you plan to handle the ones that lie about what they are?

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Ankita Patel •

Hi DEV community! 👋

I'm Ankita! I'm an engineering manager who still builds, currently deep in the "AI writes code faster than we can review it" problem.

My main stack is Python, TypeScript/React, and Node, mostly around developer tooling, testing, and MCP/AI-agent integration.

Right now I'm learning everything I can about making AI-generated code trustworthy, execution-based verification over model opinion, and I just shipped an open-source tool exploring exactly that. Really excited to be here and see what everyone's building!

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Hemapriya Kanagala •

Hey Ankita, welcome to DEV 👋

Congrats on shipping the open source tool! Looking forward to reading your posts and seeing you around the community.

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Ankita Patel • • Edited

Thank you @hemapriya_kanagala ! Glad to be here. Just posted a write-up of a fun bug I fixed in supabase's MCP server if you're into that kind of thing. Looking forward to being part of the community.

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Larbi Sahli • • Edited

Hi community! 👋

I'm Larbi, a software engineer and solo founder. I recently launched Roleframe, an AI resume builder made specifically for software engineers, because I got tired of generic tools that don't understand what we actually do.

I'm here to build in public, share what I learn, and connect with other devs. Excited to be part of this community. What are you all working on?

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Robert Vyhnanek •

Hello larbi

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We Luv Tools •

Hey everyone!

Excited to join the DEV community! I'm a developer passionate about browser performance and client-side web technology.

I recently built and launched WeLuvTools — a free, zero-server suite of online utility tools (image compression, PDF converters, text/code formatters, and more) built using TypeScript, WebAssembly, and Web Workers.

Everything runs 100% locally in the browser so user data stays completely private without hitting any server backend.

I joined DEV to share technical breakdowns of building client-side tools and to connect with fellow developers. Excited to learn and share here!

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Kartik Sharma • • Edited

Hi everyone! 👋 I’m an SEO Expert at Testscenario and a B.Tech graduate in Information Technology. I’m here to learn, connect with professionals, and share useful content about software testing, technical SEO, digital marketing, website optimization, and technology. Excited to be part of the DEV Community!

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Abhilash Eggadi •

Hey everyone!
I'm a second-year engineering student self-teaching backend development. Just joined the community to share some UX frictions and connect with other devs. Ive already found few frictions and studying them. I posted my first post and the next are on the way.
Excited to learn here!

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Wesley Kevogo •

Hey everyone! 👋🏾
I'm Wesley Kevogo, a beginner developer from Kenya 🇰🇪, and I'm here to start my journey into software development from the ground up.

My long-term goal is a little ambitious 😂: over the next 2 years, I want to grow into a Full Stack Product Builder — someone who can go from an idea, to designing it, building it, and eventually shipping a real product.

I'm starting at the fundamentals, so I'm currently focusing on learning things properly rather than rushing through the fancy stuff. HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Git, and eventually the whole stack. 🫡

On the 1st of August 2026, I'm starting a 90-day learning streak. 🚀

I'll be documenting the journey here — what I learn, what I build, the things that confuse me, the bugs that humble me 😂, and hopefully the progress that comes from showing up every day.
I'm treating this as an accountability driver. If I know I have to come back here and say what I did today, I have one more reason to actually do it. 😂

I have no idea exactly where I'll be 90 days from now, let alone 2 years from now.
But we're starting. Let's build. 🚀

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Prolific Virtual Assistant •

Hello Kevogo, glad to meet a fellow DEV from Kenya. The best way to learn coding is actually coding. All the best.

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Wesley Kevogo •

Thanks G 😊

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Pavlos Tsaousakis •

Hey everyone 👋

I'm Pavlos, a product designer, currently based in Greece. I spend most of my time working with early-stage teams on the messy parts of product: what to build, what to cut, and how to make the thing actually usable.

I landed here looking for a quieter corner of the internet where people share what they're building and learning, without the usual LinkedIn polish. Always down to nerd out about product design and digital products in general!

Fun fact: I photoshoot latin dance events on weekends!

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Abhijeet Srivastava •

Hi everyone! I am Abhijeet Srivastava, a Frontend Engineer who loves building software and exploring new technologies. I enjoy sharing practical experiences, lessons learned, and ideas that help developers grow.

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Mira Voss •

Hi all 👋

I build AI agent and RAG systems, and I keep ending up writing down the
failure modes as checklists so I stop hitting the same wall twice.

What brought me here: I just finished scanning the robots.txt of the top
2,000 domains to see which ones block AI crawlers. Expected the big
publishers to dominate the blocking — they don't. Blocking rate is ~19%
and basically flat across ranks. The part I didn't expect: ~9% explicitly
allow the crawlers in robots.txt while the edge appears to block them
anyway, so the site owner thinks they're visible and isn't.

Planning to write that up properly here. Happy to be around.

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Arjun O •

Hi everyone!
I'm Arjun, a CS student. I enjoy building projects and learning new technologies.
I joined DEV to share what I'm learning, write about my projects, and connect with other developers.
Looking forward to learning from you all...!

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Oluwapelumi Akinyeye •

Hi everyone!
I'm Oluwapelumi, I discovered this community through the article shared in the beginner course on The Odin Project. I look forward to learning from you as I progress in my journey towards becoming a developer.

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Justin •

Hello everybody! My name is Justin and I am hear to meet and find my own footing in this AI world. I am starting school and I would love to use this site to further my reading and understanding of coding and the coding world. Also, I am also using this to document my journey as I know this will be a winding road and I would love to look back as to where I started. I hope to meet a lot of people and feel free to email or message me as I am willing to meet others.

Fun facts about me:

I love formula one, race cars, and racing. Gamer occassionally. In a relationship with the LOML. Going to school at WGU. Former musician.

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Taha Mirza •

I think i am late 2 years, but better late than never.
I am Taha Mirza found this dev.to.

I am into open source projects and contribute in gsoc orgs,
with python, cpp, c#, backend

currently i am building open source community to help juniors learn to code and solve.
secondly, i am builing leadhoppers,

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TeKa IT •

Hi! 👋

I'm Koen, a backend developer from The Netherlands, mainly specialised in Java & Spring (Boot) but always looking to learn new stuff. I joined this community to learn from others and to share my knowledge!

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Zoltan Csergo •

Hi everyone!

I'm Zoltan, a WordPress developer with more than 10 years of experience building plugins and performance-focused web solutions.

Recently I've been working on PrismSearch, a fast WordPress search plugin that uses NLP-powered indexing, fuzzy matching, and multilingual support to improve the default WordPress search experience.

I'm interested in web performance, WordPress development, AI/NLP, and building tools that solve real-world problems.

Looking forward to learning from the community, sharing my experiences, and connecting with other developers here.

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Janhavi Thombare •

Hi, I'm Janhavi. IAM engineer, mostly SAML and OAuth, two years on PingFederate before I moved to the UK last year. Currently working towards Okta Certified Professional certification.

I just published my first post here, about why SSO integrations pass testing and then break in production. Writing it made me realise how much of that job I'd absorbed without ever explaining it to anyone.

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Zarko Nikolic •

Hi everyone, I am Zarko Nikolic, from Serbia. Currently working as a Full Stack .NET software developer, but hoping to become soon an engineer cause I am doing my Bachelor degree thesis. My tech stack includes .NET, React.js, Databases, Flutter, Python, Node.js. My biggest hobby and passion is music and music production & Dj-ing. I also love nature, travelling, books, sports..looking forward meeting you all here! 😀

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arkana •

hi dev community 👋

i'm arkana, bug hunter on intigriti, bugcrowd and hackerone. focused on web, api and sometimes mobile.

manual hunting is what i love most, but i also venture into building some tools after doing something by hand enough times to know what's actually worth automating

here to connect with other hunters and security folks, and maybe learn a thing or two from the dev side as well

thanks for the space! 🐛

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Jason Farrar •

Hi everyone,

I'm Jason, and I'm currently learning python and rust and trying to launch an open source project.
It's all a bit overwhelming!
This looks a good place for training and advice, which I need a lot of at the moment, but also encouragement.
For 20 years I worked in the business intelligence field, building and maintaining data warehouses. My move into software development has been fascinating, but it's a far broader area than business intelligence. It feels as if I've gone from 80% knowledge coverage to 5%, and it's taken me 2 years to get to 5%.
Really keen to see how everyone else is dealing with the challenges I'm facing, and looking forward to feeling part of a new community.

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薛元煌 •

Hey everyone! 👋

I’m excited to join the DEV community. I usually work on AI API services and related tools, and recently I’ve started learning how to build and launch products for a global audience.

I’ll be sharing more about the websites and products I’m building, along with what I learn during the process. I’m still exploring and improving, so I’d really appreciate any feedback, suggestions, or ideas from the community.

Looking forward to learning from everyone and connecting with fellow developers and makers!

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Serguei Caraguay •

Hey everyone! 👋 Happy to be here.

I'm Serguei, working at the intersection of EdTech and AI. Right now, I'm building English Coach Pro and designing language model (LM) environments to enhance learning experiences.

On the technical side, I'm currently diving deep into Google Cloud Platform (GCP), sharpening my GitHub workflows, and exploring Deepnote for data analysis.

I joined DEV to connect with fellow builders, share insights on Cloud/AI architectures, and learn from this awesome community. Excited to be part of the space!

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sania junaid sarwari •

Hello, DEV Community! 👋
Hi everyone! I'm excited to be part of the DEV Community.
I'm passionate about information technology, networking, cybersecurity, and professional certifications. I enjoy learning new technologies, sharing knowledge, and writing articles that help others understand technical concepts more easily.
Here you'll find posts about Cisco certifications, networking, cybersecurity, study strategies, and career development in IT. My goal is to create practical, informative content that helps learners and professionals grow their skills.
I'm looking forward to connecting with fellow developers, IT professionals, and lifelong learners. Feel free to say hello, share your thoughts, or join the discussion.
Thanks for visiting my profile, and happy learning! 🚀

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Gul Faraz •

Hi everyone!
I'm Gul, an indie dev. I've worked as a Full Stack mainly on Nodejs and Angular. Later I studied AI and LLMs.
Currently I'm looking to make my own products, for that I've created some chrome and vscode extensions.
I joined dev.to to learn about more frameworks I can use in my work!

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Lefteris V •

Hey all, 32 years in marketing, first time posting here. Just launched ZeroMenial — a free directory of 117+ instant browser tools (JSON formatters, UTM builders, ad previewers, that kind of thing) built to kill the repetitive stuff I used to do by hand. Looking forward to being part of the community here.

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Sinpes •

Hello world! 👋 I'm a graphic designer who fell down the front-end development rabbit hole (React, CSS, pnpm). I'm super passionate about the intersection of design and code. Right now, I'm focused on building out Sinpes, a tool to help web devs swap expensive enterprise fonts for high-quality open-source alternatives. Glad to finally join Dev.to

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Serge Ravelomahefa •

Excited to be part of the DEV community! 👋

Hi, I'm Serge, a full-stack developer specializing in Symfony/PHP. Lately, I've been exploring Kotlin Multiplatform for mobile development and building AI-powered automations with n8n.

I'm based in Madagascar, where I run a small software development agency. I'm looking forward to learning from the community, exchanging ideas, and sharing the projects and lessons I pick up along the way.

Happy to be here! 🙌

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Praneeth Kumar •

Hi everyone! 👋
I'm Praneeth from India. I'm a Flutter developer and recently started building open-source developer tools.
I just released AgentDoctor, a CLI that audits AI coding agent configurations (Cursor, Claude Code, Codex) for security and repository health.
Looking forward to learning from the community and contributing here!

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김찬우 •

Hi everyone. First-year student from Jeju Island, South Korea.
I build a study app solo — not a professional developer, learning
as I go. Mostly wrestling with Next.js and Supabase lately.

Happy to be here.

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Yuhai Xia •

Hi everyone 👋 Solo dev here, building a remote MCP server that gives AI agents a shared long-term memory.

What brought me to DEV: I spent last week debugging why one AI client could authorize against my server and another couldn't. Five root causes deep, the last one turned out to be a client enforcing a parameter that its own parser couldn't read. Somewhere in there I realised the writeup would be more useful to other people than the fix was to me — so that became my first post here.

Mostly I'm here to read what others are shipping in the agent-tooling space. Nice to meet you all.

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Bartosz Frąckowiak •

Hey everyone, nice to meet you!

I'm Bartosz Frąckowiak. For twelve-plus years I've been building distributed systems in production, and studying the humans and org charts that shape them. I write about both. Thanks!@

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Jorge Figueroa Cifuentes •

Hi everyone, I’m Jorge Figueroa from Chile. Over a year ago, I founded a small tech company from home, and I’ve been working on several smaller projects alongside it. I don’t consider myself an expert in any specific language or framework; I simply use what I need and dive as deep as possible whenever circumstances and ideas call for it. I don’t want to bore anyone with my personal story; I just want to share that I’ll soon be launching a new project I’m very excited to announce. It involves 2D codes capable of handling a larger volume of data than what is typically scanned. I hope interested members of this great community will take a look and share their thoughts. Best regards to everyone, and thanks!

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Shuang Wu •

Hello everyone. I am Shuang, a developer focus on AI tool solutions, security and integrations. and I most certainly still code without AI(Rust, or I am trying at least). I have just made my second open sourced project which is an AI security toolkit for agents. Pleasure to join the community and hoping to learn more from you guys.

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Leanroute •

Hi everyone!
I'm one of the builders behind Leanroute, an AI Gateway that helps developers route requests across multiple LLM providers through a single OpenAI-compatible API, it's also the only LLM Gateway that speaks MCP.

We're still early, and one of our goals is to contribute more to the developer community by sharing practical engineering content about AI infrastructure, production AI systems, and MCP, not just product updates :)

Looking forward to learning from everyone here and joining the discussions. If you're building AI infrastructure or experimenting with MCP, I'd love to hear what you're working on!

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Scott •

Hello DEV! I’m Scott — an accountant and software developer working on Datplan DataPull.

I’m interested in the point where accounting, API integration, data modelling, privacy and business intelligence meet. I’ll be sharing practical lessons about extracting authorised business data, designing reporting-ready schemas, automating repeatable reporting and avoiding the monthly cycle of rebuilding spreadsheets.

I’m also keen to learn how other developers approach local-first software and privacy-conscious data integration.

datplan.com

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Bernd Künnen •

Hej from Denmark! 🇩🇰 My name is Bernd, but since that name is hard for many people to pronounce, most people just call me “Doc.”

I'm a freelancer with over twenty years of Linux & web/db background, working on container technologies and ai projects in the recent years. Had an interesting project about hosting ai workload on gpu nodes on a local k8s cluster earlier this year and currently I'm working on time travel for containers with a german bank. Latest byproduct there is an open source lightweight kubernetes mutating webhook to manipulate the workload w/o modifications on the helm charts.

I'm looking forward to see what everyone's building.

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Tanishq Patel •

Hey everyone! I'm a CS undergrad diving deeper into low-level systems programming. I'm looking forward to writing more blogs on my recent projects and future projects. Excited to connect and share what I learn along the way!

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Chiankem Macbrain •

I’m building TaskForge in public — an operational intelligence platform helping organizations monitor project health, team productivity, reporting, subscriptions, and business operations, built with Laravel — and documenting the real engineering decisions, mistakes, and architecture tradeoffs as I go. DDD, systems thinking, multi-tenant architecture — that world.

I also run a YouTube channel (MacSystemsBuilder) where every video comes from something that genuinely happened while building TaskForge — no fake examples, no generic “build a todo app” content.

Currently deep in the Workflows → Authorization arc — permissions looked simple until teams entered the picture 😅

Fun fact: I keep a recurring “Engineering Mistake of the Week” segment because I’ve learned more from my own bad decisions than from anything else.

Looking forward to learning from and hanging out with this community! 🔥

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Quentin Veys •

Hey everyone! 👋
I'm Quentin, a developer & sysadmin based in Liège, Belgium. I spend most of my time building and orchestrating AI agents (currently deep into Paperclip + BMAD methodology and OpenClaw for macOS automation), self-hosting pretty much everything (Synology, UniFi, Zero Trust setups, Vaultwarden…), and breaking/fixing Linux + macOS environments.
Fun fact: I own five YubiKeys and still manage to lock myself out sometimes.
Happy to be here — looking forward to reading what you’re all building!

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Code Dreamer •

Hi everyone! I’m a full-stack developer who mainly builds with the T3 Stack.

Although I’m learning both frontend and backend development, I prefer backend work because it usually feels simpler, more logical, and involves less UI code to manage. I enjoy learning by building real products, solving problems, and keeping things as simple as possible.

Glad to be here and learn from everyone 👋

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Jennifer Smith •

Hi DEV 👋 I'm Jennifer.

I spent 25 years on the infrastructure side — servers, then virtualization, then cloud — and ended up at the executive table as VP of Operations. Nobody tells you what that seat costs: your hands. The building muscle goes quiet a little at a time while you're busy with org charts and escalations.

When that role ended earlier this year, I decided to find out with my own hands what AI tooling can actually do. I treated it like a migration project with a client of one. This summer, working solo, I shipped a production content platform on Cloudflare Workers with an LLM judge gating every publish, plus a nightly AI agent that maintains my repos under hard budget caps — merging its own PRs for mechanical work, filing issues for anything needing human judgment.

The syntax came back in weeks. The judgment was never gone.

Now I run Jenatech, a small senior technology practice, and I write here about the guardrails around autonomous systems: dead-man's switches, publish gates, agents with merge rights and kill switches. If you're wiring AI into anything that runs unattended, we'll probably get along.

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Ibrahim Adamu Anka •

Hi, am GusTech.
💻 Software Developer & Cybersecurity Enthusiast | 🎓 B.Sc. Computer Science | 🚀 Founder of GusTech Solutions | Building tech solutions for education & communities in Zamfara, Nigeria. 🇳🇬

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Mijo Šepović •

Hi everybody, genuinely happy to join the community.

A little bit about me, a junior software engineer with just a year of experience in the industry, genuinely excited about building stuff and learning new things in tech.

Looking forward to writing some of my opinion pieces, and just the things I find fun to write about.

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Kirti kant Pareek •

Hi Community,
My name is kirti kant pareek , Tech enthusiast from India 🇮🇳 | Building websites, Chrome extensions & useful digital tools | Exploring AI, software development | Always learning, experimenting and turning ideas into real

My current focus on AI,I am currently developing a security engine for developers, tech teams, businesses to secure their confidential data leak in ai

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BearlyStable •

Hey everyone! 👋
I'm Mauri, Senior Backend Engineer (C#/.NET). My work consists mostly of building and maintaining APIs and microservices for finance/retail.
On the side, I've been learning how to integrate AI into my dev workflow, and also in leisure stuff. That's how I built my first AI NPC runtime 😀
Looking forward to connecting with other backend/AI folks here, collaborating, and learning from you all!

bearly

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Aeiou | Askors •

Hi everyone! I'm Aeiou, founder of Askors. I'm passionate about building products that solve real-world problems through thoughtful software and intelligent automation. Looking forward to learning from the community and sharing my journey along the way.

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Thiago Fogaca •

Hi, I'm Thiago 👋

I'm a Computer Science student focused on Java Back-End Development.

Fun fact: I believe the best way to learn is by building. Instead of just following tutorials, I turn every new concept into a real project or a technical article.

I'm currently learning and building with Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs, PostgreSQL, SQL, Git, and algorithms.

Always learning. Always building. Always sharing.

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Alexandre Bayanza •

Hi everyone! 👋 Wanted to introduce myself — I'm here because I want to learn and connect with the community. I've been getting into frontend development, and I just finished my first challenge submission, a landing page telling the story of Sombe😊, a Congolese comfort food that's close to home for me. Still learning a lot as I go, and looking forward to seeing what everyone else is working on!

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David “Moodge” Higgins •

G'day, I am really new to this jazz. I am a vibe coder, as in, I know nothing. I've messed with stuff over the years but never officially done anything. Now I am a Dad looking to make a buck or two with my new found AI Overlords.

Cheers!

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Ralf Schwoebel •

I am an old Commodore AMIGA fart, who started coding with 12... I stumbled accidentally into the Web in 1995 and created an eCommerce solution in C++ for SuSE Linux. Since then I am creating, supporting and working with Open Source solutions. I have nothing against closed source applications, but I try to keep a balance and my freedom as well as yours. AI is a nice tool. Currently I am working on synaplan.ai - Open Source control plane for AI.

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Bernd Künnen •

Hej! Started on an Amiga, too. By far the best computer ever built. 😄 move.l 4.w,a6 & kind regards

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Coditi Team •

Hi everyone! 👋

We're excited to join the dev.to community.

At Coditi, we build scalable web, mobile, cloud, and AI-powered applications for startups and enterprises. Over the years, we've worked on SaaS platforms, healthcare solutions, logistics systems, CRMs, marketplaces, and custom business applications.

This space won't be about marketing.

Instead, we'll share:

  • Engineering challenges we encounter
  • System architecture and design decisions
  • AI implementation guides
  • React, Next.js, Vue.js, Laravel, NestJS & Flutter tips
  • DevOps and cloud best practices
  • Performance optimization techniques
  • Lessons learned from real-world projects

We're looking forward to learning from the community and contributing practical, experience-driven content.

What topics would you like us to cover first?

Happy coding! 🚀

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Marlene •

Hello,

I'm Marlene from Germany, have a strong C# .net background but currently exploring the World of tauri with, typescript and react. I'm one of those who never gets a private project done... but starting new ones over and over.

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Davis •

Hello everyone! 👋

I've been exploring ways to make AI-assisted writing feel more natural, especially for SEO content and technical articles.

Curious how everyone here handles AI-generated drafts before publishing. Do you usually edit manually, use writing tools, or have your own workflow?

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Route Key AI •

Hi everyone! I work on Route Key AI, an OpenAI-compatible AI API gateway and multi-model router for developers.

I’m here to learn from the community and share practical notes about API integrations, model pricing, coding agents, and reliable model routing.

Looking forward to meeting everyone!

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Mahaboob Basha •

Hi DEV Community! 👋

I'm Mahaboob Basha, passionate about building intelligent enterprise systems.

My journey has taken me through Data Engineering, Azure, Databricks, AI, Full-Stack Development, and Enterprise Architecture. Whenever I encounter a challenging problem, I enjoy learning the technology needed to solve it—and then sharing those lessons with the community.

Here you'll find articles on Enterprise AI, Databricks, Delta Lake, Cloud Data Platforms, Prompt Engineering, AI Security, and practical software engineering, based on real-world experiences rather than tutorials.

I'm looking forward to learning from this amazing community and contributing along the way. Let's build, learn, and grow together! 🚀

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Galvora Labs •

Hello Devs! Im Javeed , Frontend Focused fullstack developer , Finally I took a step to start freelancing, and created a brand called galvora labs , we build template-kits , custom developement for agencies and business peoples and open source developer tools as a thankful gesture to the community. looking forward to share my insights, gain knowledge with the experience of you guys. happy to be here , better late than never

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cyrus grey •

Hi everyone! I’m Cyrus.

I previously worked as a frontend developer at a metaverse company. I’m currently an indie developer building several AI-powered web applications.

I hope to share more about frontend development, AI integration, and the technical lessons I learn while building real-world products.

Looking forward to learning from and connecting with everyone here!

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Karim Sajad •

Hello everyone. This is Sajad from the northern areas of Pakistan. I'm a co-founder of a social enterprise dedicated to fostering positive change in the education sector through innovative, sustainable, and low-cost solutions. Our goal is to minimize disparity in education in Chitral, especially for children in underserved communities.

In Chitral, around 52% of government primary schools have only two teachers for five classes. As a result, the percentage of students from govt schools at top national universities is less than 1%. Almost all the seats are taken by students from elite private schools. Those who can't afford private schooling are forced to settle for mediocrity. We started this social enterprise to change that — and I believe that with the advent of AI, we can now change it through smart interventions.
I hope I will get to meet like minded people here who have similar interests. And I also believe, I will get to learn a lot from such a resourceful community.

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Beyond Coding •

I've been diving deeper into JavaScript internals, Node, modern Angular, and system design while preparing for senior-level interviews.
I also enjoy writing technical articles to share what I learn and hopefully help other developers along the way.

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Wibo •

Hi all — Wibo, from Amsterdam. I'm moving into AI architecture, so I'm building a learning platform for myself — partly to learn from, mostly because building the thing is where the real experience comes from. If other people get something out of it, good. It runs on Cloudflare, Openrouter.ai and the Agents SDK, building it with Claude Code/Codex and I write up how it goes, badly-going parts included: aiarch.dev/founder-log

Happy to talk about evals for agents (or anything GenAI really), which is where I've been wrong most often. Good to be here.

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Bibesh Timalsina •

HI DEV community,
I am Bibesh. I am a computer science student who loves building backend primarily and learning to deploy software.

My Tech Stack is: Typescript, Next.js, Node.js, Java, Go, PostgreSQL, Docker & Linux(for deployment)

I am excited to be part of the community and share my ideas and learn at the same time!