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What is your favorite music to listen to when programming?
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When I am doing programming that needs real mental concentration, I'm usually not listening to any music. But if I'm doing something that doesn't really need any concentration on my computer, I might be listening to Bon Jovi.
Fair enough when you need to concentrate! Thanks for sharing Tyler :D
Hello!
Hello! I notice you are very new (like me). I only made my account a couple of days ago. Do you have anything you want to say?
I'm just looking to get some responses to my recent post about learning Go for an internship this summer.
Hey Dev.to!
I'm Nitish, a Full-Stack & AI Engineer. I build scalable web apps and AI agents using React, Node, Python & LangChain. Excited to share code, AI workflows, and dev tips here.
Portfolio: nitishkumar.pro/
Welcome Nitish. Checked out your portfolio. The GKE multi-tenancy and zero-downtime PostgreSQL migration work caught my eye. That's the kind of infrastructure problem most teams underestimate until they're already in it. Building VeloxSync has given me a real appreciation for engineers who think about systems architecture before things break. Good to have you here.
wow nice design and animations!
Hey Nitish! Welcome to DEV :D
Glad you came to this community! Was wondering your favorite part of being a Full Stack dev. Also a Full Stack here as well!
Thanks :D
Hey Dev.to community!
I'm Patrick, Software Engineer focused on Automation & AI. Looking forward to sharing ideas and experiences with the community!
See you around!
Hey Patrick! Welcome to DEV! How long have you been a SWE for and what's your favorite part about Automation and AI? Regardless, hope your journey on DEV goes well :D
Hello, thank you so much! I've been a software engineer for two years now. I love development involving artificial intelligence because the evolution is so rapid that we learn new things every day, we can constantly optimize our development methods, and we can create increasingly powerful systems ;)
Hello Patrick! I haven't done a lot of automation. What is your favorite automation project you made?
Hey Tyler! I've been using Claude Code for development for a while now. For a personal project, I decided to develop a small tool. The idea is that, starting from a blueprint, I can generate a multi-agent AI system and a workflow to follow. This way, Claude Code can then be completely autonomous (with human validation) to develop a desired application from start to finish. You can find this tool on my GitHub: github.com/patricksardinha/agentki... :D
hey everyone!!
Hi, I'm a Python-focused developer and technical writer building small, reproducible engineering projects around APIs, data processing, and developer tools.
That’s a very nice description. What types of data do you process?
hi
Hey, I am Yelmaaz. I am a technical writer and academic editor based in Karachi. I have been using Linux daily for over a decade, currently on Debian with Sway, which means I have strong opinions about Linux tools.
I just published my first piece here, a practical user reference for Zathura. More coming on btop and Linux workflows. Glad to be here.
Hey everyone! I'm Harini, working at @QApilot an AI-native mobile app testing platform.
I mostly think about mobile app quality, release readiness, and the things that slip through right before a build ships.
Just published my first post here about a gap I've been thinking about for a while. Security checks that almost never make it into the QA checklist before a mobile release. Would love to hear if this resonates with anyone who's been through a similar situation.
👉 Security Reports That Ship With Your Release: The QA Checklist Teams Ignore
Happy to be here!
Hey everyone, I am Antonio.
I have a lot of interest/experience in cloud security and detection engineering!
I am here to explore more tech communities and write some short blog posts on the home labs I do outside of work!
Nice to meet you all!
👋 Hey everyone, Mitri here,
I work in the cloud/data world (Kubernetes, Kafka, that kind of thing), but mostly I'm here because I'm building a little corner of the internet at shmatov.dev and writing about the stuff I learn along the way. Always nice to be around people who are figuring things out too.
Fun fact: I once spent an entire weekend playing detective over a sketchy npm package. Not how I planned to spend my Saturday, but oddly satisfying.
Excited to hang out and learn with you all 🙌
Hi everyone, I’m Jingyi 👋
Lately I’ve been playing around with AI coding tools to build voice agent demos. I’m excited to learn from everyone here on dev.to and connect with more builders working on similar things.
Helo everyone, my name is Andrea (even though the legal name is Nacio-Félix).
I'm a cybersecurity engineer currently working at doctolib.fr/
On the side I'm helping small business on their "digital side" at renard-digital.fr oh and I also have a blog in french and english, respectively renard-digital.fr/blog and renard-digital.fr/blog/en
Other two projects I'm working on
Looking forward to see you around!
Hey everyone! 👋
I'm Kanishk, a BTech CSE student working towards becoming a DevOps Engineer.
Right now I'm having fun experimenting with Linux, AWS, Python, and Git. Some days things click perfectly, other days I remember why people say "it works on my machine" 😂
It's honestly inspiring seeing so many experienced devs here with massive knowledge and real-world projects. I'm here to learn as much as I can and grow in this community.
If you're into DevOps, cloud, or just starting out too — feel free to say hi! Happy to connect 🚀
Welcome! 👋 Great to see another beginner here. What are you learning right now?
"I’m currently working on a mini project — it’s basically an API health checker."
Jeremy here! Glad to be in this community. I am mostly here to learn, meet people building interesting things, and share what I am working through as I go, technical SEO and web security, and the messy overlap where the two meet. Looking forward to trading notes with people figuring out the same problems.
👋 Hi DEV community!
I'm Mustafa — a developer from Turkey. Glad to finally be here!
Most of my time goes into full-stack web work. Right now I'm building a multi-tenant HR/attendance SaaS and maintaining a bilingual (TR/EN) blog built with Astro. I'm a big fan of self-hosting, CI/CD pipelines, and automating everything I can on my own VPS.
I joined to learn from this community and share what I figure out along the way. Always happy to talk shop about web dev, automation, or self-hosting!
Looking forward to connecting 🚀
Hi everyone! 👋
We are RequestBridge, a team focusing on building lightweight, in-browser developer tooling. We've spent the last few months diving deep into the weeds of Manifest V3 browser architectures while engineering an extension to handle local HTTP request interception, mocking, and header injection.
We just joined the community and published our first technical deep-dive detailing how we bypassed MV3's
declarativeNetRequestlimitations using content script fetch interception layers.Excited to connect with fellow web developers, software engineers, and anyone building browser extensions or dev tools. Looking forward to chatting in the comments and learning from everyone here! 🚀
Hey everyone, Adam here from Friendswood, Texas. Founder of Meraki is Love, a small software studio I run under the tagline Soulful Tech. Technology built with intention and purpose.
I've been building for a while now. VeloxSync is an HR and workforce management platform, and Meraki Lingua is a language learning tool built around real conversation. Both have taught me more about product decisions, user trust, and the gap between working code and working software than any course ever could.
I'm here to stay sharp, connect with builders who care about craft, and occasionally share what I'm learning in public. Happy to be in the room.
Nice to meet you Adam. The part about the gap between working code and working software really lands. I feel like that is where most of the actual learning happens.
Meraki Lingua sounds interesting too. I like the idea of language learning being built around real conversation instead of just exercises.
Hi everyone 👋
I'm new to Dev.to, excited to be part of the community.
I'm a CS student interested in software development, AI-automation and product design.
Looking forward to learning, sharing projects, and connecting with other builders.
Hi everyone 👋
I’m currently building a small project called Hot Game Hub — a website focused on game pages and gaming-related articles.
I’m interested in how to structure content (games + articles) in a clean and useful way, and how people discover new games online.
Still learning and improving as I go. Excited to be here and connect with others!
If you're also working on something similar or into gaming/web projects, would love to hear about it 🙂
Hi! Working on free & open-source app for app for game design and content planning: write structured game design documents, design dialogue graph, draw maps and prototype levels. Everything stored locally in JSON format and serially can be imported in game engines:
Hi Dev.to!
I'm Daniel, I'm a Data Engineer who is transitioning to Software Engineering.
My main language is Scala and I will write posts about what I am currently learning. All of my writing will be AI free, I am doing this to improve myself.
Hey everyone 👋 I'm Ivan.
I've been deep in the Go + MCP ecosystem building ailinter — an open-source AI code safety visor. It scans code quality, secrets, and vulnerabilities before and after every AI edit, directly in your editor. Think of it as a safety checklist for your AI coding assistant.
The thing that surprised me most: we benchmarked secret scanners and found our 269 rules caught 203% more secrets than gitleaks on the same corpus. AI-generated code leaks secrets way more than I expected.
I'll be writing about Go, MCP protocol internals, and what happens when you let an AI loose on a codebase with no guardrails. Would love to hear from anyone building dev tools or working with MCP!
Hello to all! I am a programmer with 20+ years of experience in C/C++, started as game dev, now in medical robotics. Currently investigating hardware and ways to set up a useful local coding oriented model to help me with everyday work.
Hi everyone! 😊
I work on AI video generation tools. Really excited to be here and share ideas with fellow developers.
I usually listen to light instrumental music when programming. Nice to meet you all!
I'm a Database Engineer/DBA working in the fintech industry with experience in Oracle Database 19c, MySQL, and PostgreSQL.
I'm here to connect with like-minded professionals, learn from the community, and share insights about databases, performance tuning, troubleshooting, and database administration.
Looking forward to learning and growing together! 🚀
Hi everyone 👋
I’m a student and indie maker currently building small web apps with React, TypeScript, Vite, and Cloudflare.
Recently I’ve been working on a browser-based focus timer called Pomoria, and I’m especially interested in Web Audio API, Picture-in-Picture, and how small tools can shape a better work environment.
I’m here to learn from other builders, share what I’m making, and improve my technical writing.
Fun fact: I often get more excited about the product positioning of a tool than the tool itself.
HI Dev.to!
I'm a developer focused on API architecture and open-source tools. Just joined the community to connect with other devs and share a VS Code extension I've been building for the new Arazzo specification. Excited to be here and see what everyone else is working on!😀
It might sound a little unusual, but certain songs like M83's Outro, Bittersweet Symphony, and the Stranger Things theme have become my go-to tracks when I'm locked in and in full focus mode. There's something about that kind of music that genuinely stirs something in me - like it quietly fuels the drive to work harder and push through.
Hi everyone.
I am a software engineer focused on web and mobile. Working remotely in a HK company and living in Taiwan.
Interested in building my own project when I have time.
I love to share about them and hope everyone ☺️
Hi everyone! 😀
Just joined the community. I'm a security dev who loves writing code and contributing to open source. Looking forward to reading your posts, sharing some insights, and connecting with other devs here!
Hey everyone! 👋 I'm Sadiq, a web developer and digital enthusiast from Bangladesh. I stumbled upon Dev.to while searching for a community that actually talks about real-world dev challenges — and I'm glad I did!
I've been working on building and growing my own web projects, including my personal site sadiqbd.com, where I share tips, tools, and experiences around web development and digital marketing.
Always excited to connect with fellow devs and learners here.
Hey dev.to - Charan here. I am a product marketer for QApilot. Before QApilot, I have been a software quality assurance engineer. In addition to the day to day marketing strategy for QApilot, I also experiment with building marketing automation for lead gen, market intelligence, etc., which is what brought me here.
And it's also quite interesting to see the evolution of the market that I am selling to too.
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Glad to be here.
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Hi Everyone,
I am Christopher and expertise in Software Engineering, AI, Edge device, Jetson.
I enjoy learning new techs and skills from others.
Excited to contribute my passion and knowledge to you and your team.
Hey DEV community! 👋
I’m a Technical Architect and Full-Stack Developer passionate about autonomous agentic AI systems and advanced prompt engineering.
I’m the founder of Gate of AI, a platform where I dive deep into building production-ready AI infrastructure and tools. I recently started sharing my technical guides directly here on DEV—including my latest breakdowns on building long-running AI agents with the Google Gen AI SDK and enterprise workflows.
Excited to connect with fellow builders, share insights on cloud infrastructure, and learn from the amazing projects everyone is working on here!
Hey dev.to! 👋
I'm Fabien, a backend engineer and systems enthusiast based in Aix-en-Provence, France.
I'm a big-time generalist — C, C#, Java, TypeScript, Bash — but my sweet spot is low-level infrastructure and developer tooling. I enjoy understanding how things work under the hood, which naturally leads to building things from scratch more often than is probably reasonable.
These days I'm focused on open-source npm packages. My current project being pocket-db, which I hope to present to you over the coming weeks.
Happy to be here and looking forward to the conversations. 🙂
Hi community! I'm Maria, an introvert and backend engineer. Trying to socialize, fight with imposter syndrome, while learning how to build systems at scale.
I write my technical experience at runbookpages.com/blogs, plan to move some of them here too :)
I recently stepped into open source - leakferret.com.
👋 Hi DEV! I'm Dries from the Netherlands. I'm building in the GEO space — Generative Engine Optimization, basically making sites findable and citable by AI search like ChatGPT and Perplexity. Joined to share what I'm learning about how LLMs pick their sources, and to learn from this community. Fun fact: I spend an unhealthy amount of time reading server logs to spot AI crawlers. 🤖
Hey Dev.to folks!
I’m an independent Web3 researcher and builder, focused on Solana and multi-chain ecosystems.
Here I share practical tool tutorials, onchain operation guides, and developer tips—all based on my own hands-on experience.
Everything is for educational purposes only, and always open to feedback.
Hello everyone, I am an independent developer from China.
I recently discovered the dev.to website and hope to connect with more independent developers here. I look forward to sharing our experiences and insights with each other.
*The Mirror Effect: Why High-EQ Influencer Marketing is Outperforming the Clickbait Economy
*
Let’s touch an absolute nerve across digital agencies, performance marketers, and e-commerce founders: Your influencer marketing campaigns are failing because you are treating creators like digital billboards instead of human storytellers.
We are currently witnessing the total collapse of traditional clickbait influencer marketing. Brands throw millions of dollars at massive macro-influencers, hand them a rigid, corporate script, and tell them to smile next to a product. The analytics team tracks the raw impressions, the dashboard looks pristine, and everyone celebrates a "successful" campaign footprint.
But behind the scenes, the data tells a dark story: Conversion rates are completely cratering.
Modern consumers don't look at a highly manufactured, corporate-sponsored post and feel a desire to buy. They feel a deep, immediate sense of cynical exhaustion. They recognize the automated, transaction-first framework from a mile away and swipe past it in less than two seconds.
Before building my digital and influencer marketing agency, VIBE, I spent 16 years as a creative writer studying the invisible psychological architecture that makes an audience care about a character's journey. Over my 4 years in the digital marketing industry, I’ve realized a game-changing truth that most performance agencies try to ignore: Influence isn't an audience metric. Influence is an emotional contract.
If your agency's influencer strategy relies entirely on buying raw reach rather than leveraging authentic human empathy, you are setting your ad budget on fire. Here is how to apply calculated Emotional Intelligence (EQ) to your creator partnerships to drive massive, long-term ROI.
1. Stop Buying Impressions. Start Buying Trust.
The single biggest mistake brands make in their influencer architecture is prioritizing follower volume over community depth. They partner with massive creators who have millions of generic followers but zero actual emotional equity with their audience.
When a low-EQ brand forces a creator to repeat corporate talking points like, "I love this revolutionary, end-to-end scalable solution," the trust is shattered instantly. It reads like bad fiction.
The High-EQ Fix: Shift your focus to micro and nano-creators who possess a deep, organic relationship with their niche. Look for creators whose comment sections look like active communities rather than a ghost town of emojis. When you partner with a creator who has earned serious emotional authority, their endorsement doesn't feel like an invasive commercial—it feels like a trusted recommendation from a close peer.
2. Protect the Sprezzatura of the Content
In classical literature and art philosophy, there is a concept called Sprezzatura—the rare talent of executing a deeply complex, deliberate task so flawlessly that it looks completely natural and effortless.
When applied to creator marketing, Sprezzatura means a sponsored integration blends so seamlessly into a creator's natural narrative style that the audience doesn't experience a jarring break in tone.
Too many brands ruin their partnerships by micromanaging the creative process. They demand specific camera angles, sterile lighting, and robotic taglines that strip away the creator's unique personality. If the final output looks like it was generated by a corporate committee to please a brand manual, you have destroyed the magic. Give creators the strategic guardrails, but let them build the story. True elegance can never be forced.
3. Shift the Protagonist: The Mirror Effect
Why do people follow creators in the first place? It isn't because they want to admire someone else's perfect life from a distance. It's because they see a piece of themselves reflected in that creator's daily struggles, triumphs, and vulnerabilities.
A high-EQ influencer strategy utilizes The Mirror Effect. Your product should not be introduced as a flawless monument to your company’s engineering. It needs to be introduced as the simple solution that helped the creator overcome a highly relatable, human bottleneck.
A Low-EQ Script says: "Look at this incredible product by this amazing company! Use my discount code now!" (Transactional, self-absorbed, and instantly forgettable).
A High-EQ Narrative says: "I was losing hours every single week dealing with this specific operational chaos. Here is exactly how I fixed my workflow using this tool." (Empathetic, authentic, and highly converting).
The Ultimate Creator Alchemy
The digital landscape is moving at a breakneck pace. Social media algorithms will continue to evolve, attention spans will continue to shrink, and automated content tools will continue to flood the market with cheap, sterile noise. But the fundamental hardwiring of human psychology remains completely unchanged. Human beings are deeply social creatures who crave empathy, authenticity, and real human connection.
If you want your influencer campaigns to build a dedicated, loyal audience rather than just renting temporary, high-churn attention, stop treating creators like media inventory.
Inject calculated emotional intelligence into your campaign frameworks, respect the unique voice of the creators you partner with, and start building brand narratives that actually hit home.
Let's Scale Your Influence
About the Author: I am the Founder and Lead Strategist at VIBE, a boutique digital and influencer marketing agency where we merge sophisticated content architecture with high-ROI growth metrics.
We don't believe in sterile, cookie-cutter influencer campaigns or robotic brand templates. We partner with an exclusive circle of forward-thinking brands and corporate leaders to completely overhaul their positioning, humanize their digital footprint, and scale their presence elegantly.
If your brand’s current influencer or digital marketing strategy feels flat, clinical, or entirely invisible, let's rewrite the framework. Connect with me in the comments below, or reach out to explore how we can elevate your digital ecosystem.
Hi everyone! 👋
I'm a Senior Data Engineer based in Berlin with a background in building real-time data platforms, streaming pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and machine learning systems. Over the years I've worked with technologies like Kafka, Snowflake, Airflow, Elasticsearch, AWS, and Python.
I'm here to learn from the community, share experiences, and explore new ideas around data engineering, AI, open-source tools, and distributed systems.
Fun fact: I started my career in accounting before moving into data and technology, so my journey has been anything but traditional.
Looking forward to connecting with fellow developers and builders.
Hey everyone, I’m Paul.
I’m currently working on open source dev tools, mostly around AI coding workflows and better workspaces for terminal agents. Lately I’ve been building Cate, an infinite canvas IDE for people who end up with too many terminals, previews, files, and agent sessions open at once. I’m here to learn from other builders, share what we’re working on, and get better at writing about technical projects in a more useful way.
Hey DEV community! 👋
Sourabh here, developer and builder based in India. Found my way here through the rabbit hole of AI-assisted development workflows. Been spending a lot of time lately thinking about how context (or lack of it) makes or breaks AI coding tools.
Fun fact: I can spend more time planning a project than actually building it and I've somehow convinced myself that's a feature, not a bug. 😄
Looking forward to reading what everyone's building and learning here. The spec-driven development wave feels like it's just getting started and I'm curious what people are actually finding works in practice.
Hi everyone, I'm a web developer, working as a freelance developer for the last 10 years, just started a YouTube channel, and posted for the first time on dev.to, please check it out on my profile, and LMK what to improve.
Thank you.
Hi everyone 👋
Software engineer here, mostly focused on building systems and working a lot with integrations and automation. I joined Dev.to to learn from others, share experiences, and pick up new ideas along the way.
Looking forward to connecting with the community!
I'm Suraj Kumar H M, a cybersecurity researcher focused on vulnerability disclosure ecosystems, coordinated vulnerability disclosure (CVD), and security governance. My work explores practical approaches to improving security collaboration between organizations and researchers.
I have been recognized in the Hall of Fame programs of organizations including CERT-IN, UNESCO, GEA Group, Nordnet, UWV, and EMBL-EBI for responsible vulnerability disclosure. I recently published my first cybersecurity research paper and actively contribute to the security community through research, writing, and knowledge sharing.
Portfolio: surajkumarhm.vercel.app/
ORCID: orcid.org/0009-0004-2990-8300
Hi Team,
I am passionate about Microsoft Azure and cloud security. I enjoy learning about Azure Security, identity and access management, governance, and cloud infrastructure protection.
I also work with technologies such as Microsoft 365, Entra ID, Intune, Kali Linux, and Ubuntu while continuously expanding my knowledge in cloud computing and cybersecurity.
That seems really interesting. I've never used Kali Linux or Ubuntu, what are the differences between them? I use Debian (Trixie on my primary computer) mainly.
Hey everyone,
I’m Kye. I’m currently working on a few web/software projects, with my main focus right now being FastBusiness API, a tool I’m building to make business/company data easier to work with in apps.
I joined to learn from other builders, see how people are growing their projects, and hopefully get better at building things people actually want.
At the moment I’m learning more about APIs, Django, SaaS, customer feedback, and how to turn a technical project into something useful for real users.
Looking forward to meeting people here and following what everyone is building.
Hey everyone! 👋
I'm phuc, and I'm currently working in the field of industrial automation and SCADA systems. Recently, I've been spending a lot of time exploring realtime monitoring, MQTT, IIoT, Web SCADA, and infrastructure monitoring architectures.
I enjoy learning about how industrial systems, cloud technologies, and realtime data platforms can work together to improve monitoring and operational visibility. Some days everything works smoothly, and other days debugging communication protocols feels like solving a puzzle 😂
I'm here to learn more from the community, share ideas, and connect with people interested in SCADA, automation, IoT, infrastructure monitoring, and realtime systems.
Happy to connect with everyone 🚀
Hello Phuc! I can definitely relate to spending a lot of time on debugging!
Hey everyone!
I’m Ben, a software architect from Germany. I’ve been developing software for about 25 years, moving from close-to-the-metal hardware coding to Java enterprise systems and micro-architectures.
Right now, I'm super passionate about bringing TDD to database design. I just open-sourced trymigrate—a JUnit 5 extension that bridges Flyway, Testcontainers, and SchemaCrawler to make testing migrations painless. Excited to connect with the community here, share what I've learned, and collaborate!
Hi devs 👋
I'm a recent grad currently building AI systems, evaluating models, and occasionally discovering creative new ways to make GPUs run out of memory.****
I'm always learning something new, usually followed by realizing how much I still don't know and spending the next few weeks fixing that. Looking forward to sharing what I learn, refining what I think I understand, and connecting with fellow builders along the way.
Portfolio: portfolio-anirudh.lovable.app/ (not quite updated yet 😅)
hallo, glenn here, CTO/Eng Leader, former engineer and open source maintainer. I decided i wanted to help more people grow in their career especially given the turmoil happening around AI so I am starting a substack (geggleto.substack.com/) geared towards helping people on their AI journey, and showing my journey as well.
Hello, dev.to — I’m Ryan
I’m a Forward Deployed Engineer working at the intersection of AI, enterprise systems, infrastructure, and real-world implementation.
Most of my work lives in the messy middle between product, engineering, architecture, and customer reality: taking ambiguous problems, turning them into usable systems, and making sure those systems survive contact with production.
Lately, I’ve been especially focused on AI agents, agentic workflows, local-first automation, Kubernetes, Rust, secrets management, and the infrastructure patterns required to make AI systems trustworthy enough for real enterprise use.
I care less about demos that look impressive for five minutes and more about systems that can be reasoned about, audited, secured, operated, and improved over time.
Some topics I expect to write about here:
My bias is toward practical architecture, sharp technical tradeoffs, and honest postmortems. No hype for hype’s sake. If something works, I want to explain why. If something breaks, I want to understand the system failure underneath it.
I’m here to learn in public, share what I’m building, and connect with people thinking seriously about the next generation of AI-native engineering systems.
Glad to be here.
github.com/RyanMerlin
ryanmerlin.com
Hey everyone, I’m Mansoor 👋
I’m a CS student at Berkeley, mostly interested in systems, infrastructure, developer tools, and open source. I recently started spending more time building projects and writing about the things I’m learning, so I figured DEV would be a good place to meet other people doing the same.
Right now I’m learning more about production infrastructure, distributed systems, and how to make developer tools that are actually useful.
Hello! I am an AI Engineer & Software Developer building at the intersection of robust software engineering and cutting-edge AI. I specialize in writing clean, scalable code and shipping smart applications, leaning on a core tech stack of Python, TypeScript, PyTorch, LangChain, and Docker. Right now, I’m deep-diving into LLMOps and production fine-tuning to master the scaling of AI architectures. I’m always open to hacking on open-source AI projects, collaborating on technical content, or just chatting about the future of tech—so feel free to say "Hey!" and let's connect. ☕
Hey everyone! I'm Yehor, AI systems architect based in Aarhus, Denmark. I build autonomous agents that evolve codebases — my current project Symbiote does agentic type annotation and documentation on Python repos at scale. First post is live about running it on smolagents. Happy to be here and looking forward to connecting with the dev.to community! 👋callmedai.com
Hey everyone! I'm Yehor, AI systems architect based in Aarhus, Denmark. I build autonomous agents that evolve codebases — my current project Symbiote does agentic type annotation and documentation on Python repos at scale. First post is live about running it on smolagents. Happy to be here and looking forward to connecting with the dev.to community! 👋
Hey everyone, Ivan here, founder at Mindburn Labs.
I'm building HELM AI Kernel: an open-source, fail-closed execution firewall for MCP servers and AI agents. The core idea is simple: models propose actions, HELM governs whether they execute. Every decision (allow / deny / escalate) produces a signed receipt and an offline-verifiable EvidencePack.
Repo: github.com/Mindburn-Labs/helm-ai-k...
Looking to connect with:
One question for the room: what's the biggest uncontrolled execution risk in your agent stack right now?
Hey — Jack, solo dev. For the last few months I've been building PayLogic, a Shopify Functions app for payment-method customization at checkout. Whole project is a race against the June 30, 2026 Shopify Scripts deprecation deadline. Just wrote about what I learned building the parser (including an 8-hour Protected Customer Data debugging story).
Stack: TypeScript on the server, Rust for the Function. Hoping to find other Shopify app devs and indie SaaS folks figuring out distribution.
Fun fact: I write the parser in TypeScript and the Function in Rust, so I learn the same problem twice. Pretty sure I'm worse at both as a result.
Hi everyone, I’m Allec. I’ve been working as an engineer for a while, balancing my background in electrical engineering with software architecture and a passion for automation. I’m currently dedicating part of my time to NetProof, an open source project I started out of frustration with opaque network diagnostics. My goal was to create a tool that provides tamper evident proof of network performance, and I’m here to share that journey, exchange notes on system architecture, and connect with others building hard tech. Whether you want to talk shop about iOS internals, network engineering, or what you’re currently hacking on, I’d love to connect, feel free to say hi!
Hi everyone! 👋
I'm building MoToken AI — an API gateway that makes Chinese AI models (DeepSeek, Qwen, GLM) accessible to developers worldwide at a fraction of the cost.
What brought me here: I've been shocked by how much developers are overpaying for AI APIs. GPT-4o costs $2.50/M input tokens, but DeepSeek V3.2 delivers comparable coding quality at just $0.28/M — that's 10x cheaper. More devs need to know this.
I'm currently learning about developer marketing and community building. Would love to hear how others here approach promoting developer tools.
Fun fact: Chinese AI models now process 61% of all inference tokens on OpenRouter — the shift is already happening, most people just don't know it yet 🤯
Hi all, I'm new here. Welcome to you too. I'm a solo builder working on local-first tools — things that keep your data on your own machine instead of the cloud. I just published my first post here about how I built a tool that processes saved bookmarks and videos into documents without keeping the media. Looking forward to learning from this community and sharing what I figure out along the way. 👋
Hi, I’m Jun Hao, a Senior Software Developer with a strong background in building scalable backend systems, microservices, and high-performance APIs. I currently work at Tombola UK, where I architect solutions using Java, .NET, and Python, and also lead frontend development with React and Next.js.
I’ve previously worked as a full-stack developer at Tokyo Smart Games LLC and started my career as a junior developer at Leighton in York. Over the years, I’ve developed expertise in cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure), DevOps workflows, database optimization, and AI integration.
I’m passionate about clean architecture, mentoring developers, and building reliable, secure, and maintainable systems for real-world applications. I also enjoy working on side projects like e-commerce platforms and restaurant websites using the MEAN stack and Shopify.
I hold a Bachelor of Science from the University of Sunderland, where I focused on web programs and machine learning.
Hey everyone 👋
I'm a Computer Science student from India interested in backend engineering, distributed systems, databases, and Linux.
Recently I've been building a distributed authentication system with PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, Debezium, MongoDB, Prometheus, and Grafana as a way to learn real-world system design and scalability concepts.
I joined DEV to learn from other engineers and share some of the things I'm building along the way.
For the question of the week: I usually code in silence when I need to focus, but occasionally I'll listen to game soundtracks or movie scores.
Looking forward to learning from everyone here!
Hi everyone! I'm a dev and designer focusing on building fast, client-side utility tools and micro-SaaS platforms. Excited to join the community and share some of the Vanilla JS projects I've been working on lately!
I'm a self-taught full-stack developer based in Nigeria, building web applications for startups and businesses around the world. Since writing my first web app in 2019, I've been obsessed with turning ideas into real, working products, and helping other developers do the same.
I write here on Dev.to every week about full-stack development, real-world projects, and lessons from the trenches, no fluff, just things that actually work.
Hey! I'm Mariana. I've worked as a developer for a couple of years, and now I'm starting my journey as a freelancer. I'm excited to learn new things, improve my skills, and connect with other developers and professionals.
Hey dev.to community, I am XtrComSu a member of XtrCom!!
XtrCom is a development team ive made with my friends to make projects together!!
I build systems-level tools in many languages on Arch Linux. Kernel tuning, mainly things to help me increase my productivity and have a smoother switch to linux from windows.
I have my own website explaining the greater detail of things!
simple summary of what I believe in:
I am here to share what I build, learn from other engineers, and contribute to the community and make linux easier to use for people!!
psst, if you like eastereggs ive got some for you on my website!!
Hey everyone 👋
I'm Zubair Baqai, an AI developer , about 9 years in now, mostly living in the
backend / AI / cloud corner of the world. I've spent most of my career on the
unglamorous stuff nobody tweets about: APIs, pipelines, infra, the 2am
"why is this pod restarting" kind of nights.
These days I'm building my own thing — an AI resume & portfolio builder called
Prezumi — so I'm deep in LLM integration and trying to make AI features that
are actually useful instead of just a chatbot bolted onto a sidebar.
Mostly here to learn from people smarter than me, and maybe share a few scars
from building an AI product solo. If you're into backend/AI/cloud, say hi 🙂
Hi, I'm Adarsh Jaiswal.
Computer Engineering student breaking the barrier between full-stack code, cloud infrastructure, and AI automation.
My development engine runs on React.js and Tailwind CSS for slick, responsive web frontends, powered by high-performance backends built with Node.js, Express.js, and FastAPI. I engineer data pipelines using MongoDB, PostgreSQL, and Supabase architectures. Beyond writing code, I deploy it at scale—architecting containerized systems with Docker and Kubernetes (AKS), configuring path-based Ingress routing, and driving continuous delivery via GitHub Actions. I’m also weaponizing the next wave of tech by leaning heavily into vibe coding, using AI agents, LangChain, LangGraph, and LLMs like Gemini and Ollama to orchestrate, automate, and build amazing applications at lightning speed. I don't just build apps; I automate, scale, and optimize them from the ground up.
👋 Hey DEV — Eduardo here.
Full-stack dev and SDET, 18 years at a bank, technical lead on Gamification. On the side I build niche SaaS solo with Claude Code.
What pulled me in: the agent is strong enough now to read the repo, write the feature, run the tests — on its own. And drift from the architecture I set, also on its own. By session 3 I've got a Frankenstein, built faster than ever.
I'm here to write about that — the spec-driven rituals that keep the agent building my plan instead of a new one every session. Came to learn first, so I'll be in the comments before I'm in the editor.
Curious: for those of you shipping with Claude Code / Cursor — how do you keep it from quietly rewriting your architecture between sessions?
Hello Everyone!!
I thank you all for such a warm, helpful community! I'm new to front end development and once I'm experienced I'd like to get into full stack. It's great to know you all and I'm looking forward to making some great connections! Be well.
Hello everyone,
just joined this group. I have been coding for a fairly long time in assembler, c and c++. I have retired but retire means putting on new tires to make you go further faster, so here I am.
Coding keeps me informed and be productive which is exactly what I would like to be and what I would like to do so here I am 😀 cheers
Hi everyone! 👋
I'm Sunshey, an indie developer building browser-based tools.
Currently working on sotool — a free PDF toolkit that runs entirely in your browser (no uploads, no signup). 20+ tools including merge, split, compress, convert, watermark.
Tech stack: Vue 3, Vite, pdf-lib, pdfjs-dist, WebAssembly.
Excited to be part of this community! If you're working on privacy-first or browser-based tools, I'd love to connect.
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