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Hello! I'm Mathéo, a 2nd-year CS student from France.
I'm building ZamSync, a lightweight, offline-first synchronization engine written in Rust. I designed it to help sync medical records in rural clinics with extremely flaky 2G connections. My ultimate goal is to propose this project to the Ministry of Health of Bhutan for their electronic Patient Information System (ePIS).
I just published my first article here on DEV.to about how I simulated 2G connections to test the sync engine, and the code is fully open-source. Glad to be here and looking forward to learning from the community!
Hello, Mathéo! Welcome to the DEV.to community! Your project, ZamSync, could become vital to medical systems in Bhutan. The project being written in Rust is important because it prevents certain errors due to compiler strictness and can be faster than higher level languages on older computers. Are there any other reasons you chose Rust for the project other than the reasons I just inferred? Also, does ZamSync use compression to speed up data transfer in certain rural areas? I’m wondering if the project only handles the synchronization and transit of medical data or if it also helps to save the data to the hospitals server. I wish your project luck with the Ministry of Health of Bhutan.
Hi! Thanks a lot for your message and your thoughtful questions 🙏
You’re right about Rust being a good fit for safety and performance. I also chose it because it compiles into a single static binary, which is really useful in rural environments where you don’t want to rely on installing or maintaining external runtimes like Node.js, Python, or Java. It also keeps the memory footprint very low, which helps on small machines like Raspberry Pi 3 or 4. Another important point is the absence of a garbage collector, which helps keep latency predictable and avoids unexpected pauses that could cause issues on unstable 2G connections.
For compression, ZamSync uses Zstd at level 3 for network frames larger than 64 bytes, and for very small payloads we send them uncompressed to avoid overhead. Regarding storage, it handles both sides: data is first written locally to an encrypted Write-Ahead Log so it stays safe even if there is a power loss, and then it is synchronized to the hospital server where it is immediately persisted into a secure database.
Someone also mentioned IPFS to me as a comparison. I did look into it, and while it’s an interesting system, ZamSync is solving a different kind of problem. IPFS is based on content-addressed, immutable data, which doesn’t really match the need for mutable, ordered medical records that evolve over time. ZamSync is instead designed around offline-first synchronization with strict ordering guarantees and reliable replay once connectivity comes back.
What’s your take on IPFS in this context? Do you think I might be reinventing something that already exists there, or is the problem space different enough that the comparison doesn’t really hold?
Thanks again for the discussion, I really appreciate the feedback! I dont know if I can share a repository here ^^
I think your project is definitely NOT reinventing the wheel. IPFS has no built-in privacy—content is meant to be publicly discoverable via its hash (CID). Even if you encrypted it first, since it would be publicly accessible, the possibility of it getting decrypted by someone not trusted is exponentially higher. And, there is no way to revoke access once it is sent. This means that if a patient revokes a medical institution's (or all of the places the data was sent to) access to their data or the encryption key is leaked, there would be no way to remove it. Medical institutions usually must be able to purge patient records upon request or legal mandate, which is not possible with IPFS. And, IPFS does not manage permissioning, meaning medical institutions would have to handle complex infrastructure to share decryption keys with trusted individuals. And, keep in mind, if someone has the decryption key once, they always have it, even if their access is restricted. Medical institutions could implement a private IPFS cluster, but it would require a massive amount of engineering overhead. IPFS has no built-in compression or encryption. Don't worry—your project can not be replaced with IPFS. Also, thank you for your quick reply! Also, I took a look at your GitHub, and it looks awesome! Your README is really comprehensive. Also, this is really important, I do not see a license file in your GitHub. The link titled MIT goes to a file in the root of your project titled LICENSE that does not exist. Since your project is meant to be used with medical institutions and you are planning on presenting it to the Ministry of Health of Bhutan, I would recommend that you add the file as fast as possible. I made a pull request here so it is easy for you to incorporate the fix.
Hey Tyler, sorry for the late reply, I didn't have dev.to notifications enabled and just saw your message!
Thank you so much for this breakdown, it's really thorough and you covered points I hadn't even thought to mention. The revocation problem is actually one of the strongest arguments against IPFS in this context: once a CID is out there and someone has the decryption key, you genuinely can't undo that. In healthcare that's a dealbreaker, especially with regulations like GDPR in Europe or similar patient rights frameworks that mandate the ability to purge records on request. ZamSync handles this at the WAL level: events can be compacted and dropped once confirmed, which means actual deletion is possible.
The point about private IPFS clusters is also spot on. It would technically work, but at that point you're building most of the access control, encryption, permissioning and ordering infrastructure yourself anyway, so you might as well use a purpose-built tool.
And thank you for the PR, I just merged it! 🙏 Good catch on the LICENSE file, that's exactly the kind of thing that looks fine locally and breaks silently on GitHub. Really appreciate you taking the time to open the PR rather than just pointing it out.
Hey everyone 👋
I’m Saurabh, a Chief Architect based in India, working at the intersection of large‑scale software architecture and applied AI. Over the past few years I’ve been helping enterprise teams design and ship systems that are reliable in production but still move fast enough for modern product demands.
I’m here on DEV to share what I’m learning about AI‑driven architectures, platform engineering, and the “executive view” of technical decisions; as well as to learn from how you all are solving similar problems. I’m also an active open‑source contributor and love turning real‑world challenges into reusable tools and libraries.
Outside of work, I enjoy experimenting with new ideas on my OSS projects, writing about architecture trade‑offs, and having thoughtful discussions about where AI is actually useful (and where it’s just hype).
Looking forward to connecting, swapping ideas, and hopefully collaborating with some of you on cool projects!
Hello, Saurabh! I think that what you shared about what you do is really interesting. I am definitely less experienced in coding than you, since I only started coding maybe a year ago (in the 6th grade) or so, and at my age, there isn’t much for me to code that makes a difference the way you do. I decided to join DEV.to because it’s at the intersection of what I love to do at this time, coding and writing.
Hey Tyler, that genuinely made my day, thank you for sharing that!
Starting to code in 6th grade and already thinking about where it intersects with writing? That's not "less experienced," that's a great foundation. The curiosity you're describing right now is what most senior engineers are still chasing years later.
The projects that make a real difference often start exactly like this: someone young, curious, and willing to explore without the pressure of already knowing the answer. Some of the best open-source tools and ideas I've seen came from people who were just experimenting for the love of it.
Keep coding, keep writing, and keep showing up in communities like this. The combination of both is rarer than you think, and more powerful than it seems right now.
Looking forward to seeing what you build. 🙌
Thank you so much for your kind comment! When did you learn to code?
I learned coding quite late, that was around 2004/2005 timeframe when I entered into college.
But the real practice started in 2010 when I started working. 🙂
What was the first coding language you learned? For me, I learned Python first. I got the No Starch Press Python Crash Course book, and followed along until right before it taught classes (I definitely should have stayed one chapter longer the first time), then started learning by doing.
Hi 👋 Giuseppe from Colletorto, Italy — solo founder at Save The Brain.
I'm building the open layer for agentic commerce: KaliCart Bridge makes WooCommerce stores readable and comparable to AI shopping agents, and CartHub does AI-based cart recovery.
Glad to be here.
the "open layer for agentic commerce" framing is the interesting part. the hard problem there isn't making WooCommerce stores readable — it's the schema normalization layer: AI shopping agents need product data in a form they can reason about comparatively, and every store has a different mental model for how attributes, variants, and pricing actually work.
curious how KaliCart Bridge handles that: are you normalizing to a fixed schema on ingest, or letting the agent work with a richer but messier representation and trusting the model to figure out the comparison? the tradeoff between schema fidelity and schema consistency is where I'd expect the hard edge cases to live.
Hello Giuseppe! Welcome to the DEV Community! I’m wondering, what is WooCommerce?
Hey Tyler! Fair question 🙂
WooCommerce is the open-source ecommerce plugin for WordPress: it turns a WordPress site into an online store.
So no, not a secret nerd club — just the plumbing behind many real online shops.
Oh, that completely changes things! I thought WooCommerce was like an Italian physical grocery store when I read your first comment.
😂😂 ... To be fair, I’m still learning English. Right now I speak a little Italian, a lot of dialect, and apparently some confusing plugin-language.
Hi everyone, I’m Dima
I work in automation and build small products. My current project is Langooo, an app for learning languages through songs.
The idea is simple: find a song you love, follow the lyrics, understand each line, and save unfamiliar words.
I joined DEV to share the technical journey honestly: Jetpack Compose, Node.js, SQLite, translation APIs, product mistakes, and the uncomfortable shift from coding to finding real users.
Right now, my rule is: no new feature unless a real user is blocked by its absence
Looking forward to learning from other builders here
Hello, Dima! I really like your idea of learning languages through song. It seems like a new idea, considering the closest thing to what you are making is just multilingual lyric videos on YouTube (which is no where near what you are probalbly doing). Is your application, Langooo, available for usage at this time, or is it still an early prototype?
Hello Tyler! Thank you for you interest and question. App is available at langooo.app
I looked at the app. Since I am a native English speaker, I sadly do not have a use for the app. Have you thought about adding support for more languages?
There are about 50 languganges, you can chooose native langugage in home page or in settings. I'm still polishing onboarding. Thank you for your feedback!
Oh, thanks for telling me! I think your app might attract more users if you make it more easy to tell the languages it supports when looking in the App Store.
Hi everyone 👋 First time posting here. I'm a data & AI engineer working mostly in the Databricks/Azure world — these days a lot of my work is around RAG pipelines and AI agents, alongside the usual data engineering.
Outside of that I like building small open-source developer tools that scratch my own itches, and I've been doing some hands-on AI security research on the side (agent/tool safety has gotten interesting lately).
Just published my first writeup here — on debugging silent failures in pandas/polars pipelines, a problem that's cost me more afternoons than I'd care to admit. Excited to be part of a community that's into this stuff, and looking forward to learning from everyone.
The silent failure angle is the one that gets me too. The loud failures at least tell you to go look. The quiet ones, where everything returns and nothing is right, are where the afternoons go. With agents I have started thinking about memory the same way: the failure that never errors, where a run just ends and nobody confirms it worked, is the one that quietly poisons what the agent learns later. Has your safety work run into that, an agent treating an unconfirmed success as a confirmed one?
Yeah, you nailed it. Same thing in both worlds: a step returns and we treat that as it worked — but those aren't the same. A merge "succeeds" while quietly dropping rows; a tool call "succeeds" while the change never actually landed.
That's the agent failure that worries me most — no error, so the model marks it done and moves on, and if that false "done" becomes memory, everything after it builds on something that was never true.
Same fix either way: don't trust the step's word for it, verify the effect.
Are you handling that at write time or read time?
The merge that succeeds while dropping rows is the cleanest version of this I have seen anyone put. That is the whole problem in one line. The step returning is not evidence the step did what you wanted.
On write time versus read time, my honest answer is both, because they catch different halves. At write time you can check the effect, did the rows actually land, did the file actually change, and refuse to record a success you cannot confirm. That kills the obvious false done. But write time cannot see the failures that only show up later, the change that landed fine and turned out to be wrong three steps downstream. For those you need something at read time that can go back and demote a memory that looked like a success when it was written. So write time stops you recording a lie, and read time stops you trusting one you already recorded.
The part neither fully covers, and the thing I keep circling, is the slowest case. The step verified clean, got written as a real success, and only much later did acting on it lead somewhere bad. Catching that means carrying the outcome forward and letting it reach back to the memory that caused it, and that link, action to eventual result, is the one almost nothing records. Write time and read time both assume you already know what good looks like at the moment you check. The hard failures are the ones where you only find out later.
How are you drawing the line on effect checking at write time, fixed assertions per tool, or something more general? The per tool version is where I always end up, and it does not scale the way I want.
Hey Vimal, welcome to DEV 👋
Hello, Vimal! Welcome to the DEV Community! What is your favorite side project? I’d say mine is devtkit, an open-source Python application to export information from the DEV API.
Hi everyone! 👋
I'm Laxman Poudel from Nepal.
I'm a student, developer, and cybersecurity learner interested in web development, internet infrastructure, and domain intelligence.
Recently, I've been building projects focused on Nepal's web ecosystem, including a domain intelligence platform called NP Radar.
Right now I'm learning more about cybersecurity, building web applications, and sharing my development journey.
Looking forward to learning from the community and connecting with other developers!
Hello, Laxman! You seem to have a wide range of complementing interests. What is it like being a developer in Nepal?
Hello Tyler,
Thanks for the welcome!
Being a developer in Nepal is both exciting and challenging. We have access to great online learning resources and global communities, but the local tech ecosystem is still growing compared to larger tech hubs.
I'm currently a student, so I spend a lot of my time learning by building projects and exploring cybersecurity and web development.
Recently, I've been working on a domain intelligence platform focused on Nepal's .np ecosystem, which has been a great learning experience.
Looking forward to learning from everyone here!
I definitely can’t say the same about my areas tech ecosystem. Where I am, it is very advanced—I’d say. Where are you a student at?
I'm currently a Grade 12 science student in Nepal.
Most of my learning in development and cybersecurity happens outside the classroom through online resources, documentation, open-source projects, and building my own projects.
That's actually how I learned enough to build projects like NP Radar. There's still a lot for me to learn, but building real projects has been the best teacher so far.
You seem to have a lot of experience for a twelfth grader! (I can't say much about a typical twelfth grader where I'm from—I am only a seventh grader). I definitely agree that a lot of learning in these topics is best done outside of school. I still have a lot to learn, too, just like you!
Hey everyone 👋 I'm Mitesh.
I'm building Ethos, an AI agent that's personality-first. The idea is: core beliefs stay locked, but everything else learns and evolves over time. Kind of like how a person's values stay the same but how they express them gets sharper with experience.
Here to share what I learn while building it: the wins, the broken stuff, all of it. Excited to be part of this community.
The locked core, fluid expression split is a nice frame. The part I would be most curious about in practice is how Ethos decides which experiences actually update the expression and which it lets pass. Learning from everything is easy to say and hard to do, because most of what an agent runs into is noise and only a few things genuinely should change how it behaves. Update on everything and it drifts, update on the wrong things and it picks up habits from situations that only looked similar to the ones that mattered. How are you deciding what earns an update?
Two points:
Keep in mind this judgment is made by the AI based on its instructions, so it won't always get it right. But because every note is out in the open and easy to fix, the wrong ones tend to get caught and corrected over time so it should get better, not worse, as it goes.
The make it cheap to undo instead of perfect to save move is a good one, and it sidesteps the exact thing I have been stuck on, which is that deciding what to keep is genuinely hard. If writes are reversible and readable you do not have to get the keep decision right, you just have to make the wrong ones cheap to pull back out. That is a real answer, not a dodge.
Your second point is the one I want to sit with. Tying every note to the situation it came from is a sharp fix for the failure I run into most, a lesson from one place leaking into a different place that only looked similar. A lot of setups skip that, and it is exactly where the similarity trap bites.
The thread I would pull on is what actually catches a wrong note. Easy to fix lowers the cost of the correction, but something still has to trigger it. If a bad note sits there and the agent keeps quietly acting on it, and nobody happens to read that note, the reversibility never gets used. So in practice the open notes get fixed when a human reads them, which is great, but it makes the human the detector. The cheapest trigger I can think of that does not lean on a person is noticing that acting on the note led somewhere bad, and that outcome is the thing almost nothing records. Reversibility tells you fixing is cheap. It does not tell you when to fix.
So the question back at you: what flags a note as wrong in practice? A human reading the pile, the agent catching itself contradicting a note, or something watching whether acting on it actually worked out? That last one is the piece I keep finding missing everywhere.
today in Ethos, the detector is the human.
You're right that reversibility only helps once something decides a note is wrong. Right now Ethos makes notes easy to see, edit, and remove, but it doesn't automatically question them based on outcomes.
What's interesting is that we already do outcome-based learning for goals, skills, and autonomy levels — just not for memory. Memory is still mostly additive: when something goes wrong, we add a postmortem rather than challenge the note that may have caused it.
So I think you've identified a real gap. The missing piece is outcome-anchored memory: being able to connect a note to the decisions and outcomes it influenced, so bad outcomes can eventually trigger a review of the note itself.
Outcome-anchored memory is a better name for it than I had, and the detail that lands hardest is your own: you already do outcome-based learning for goals, skills, and autonomy, just not for memory. That gap is the whole thing. It is worth asking why memory is the one that resisted, because I do not think it is an oversight. Goals and skills have a tight loop. The action and its result sit close together, so crediting the right thing is easy. A memory is different. It gets retrieved, sits in context alongside five others, quietly shapes a decision, and the outcome shows up much later with no clean line back to which note actually caused it. That loose coupling is, I think, exactly why memory stayed additive while everything else went outcome-based. Adding a postmortem is easy because it needs no attribution. Challenging the note that caused the mess needs you to know which note that was.
So if you do build the review trigger, the part I would watch is how you assign blame when a bad outcome could be traced to any of several notes that were live at the time. A wrong note and an innocent bystander that rode along in the same context look identical from the outcome alone. Do you have a read on how Ethos would pin it down, or is that still open on your side?
Hello DEV! 👋
New here, so let me introduce myself properly.
Things I love: green tests on the first run (a rare and sacred event), dark mode, and the smug satisfaction of finally closing 47 browser tabs.
Things I fear: merge conflicts, off-by-one errors, and anyone who says "can you just quickly center this div?"
My goal here is simple: to one day have more open Stack Overflow tabs than unsolved bugs. A dev can dream. 🚀
Welcome to DEV, Reno 👋
Hi everybody! I'm Santi.
I'm a SW Engineering student and I joined the platform mainly to work on my communication skills and to share with you guys anything valuable I learn in the process.
I'm also here to learn from you all and what you've got to share, specially if its related with production Backend systems, Devops, Cloud and ML!
Hey Santi, welcome to DEV 👋
DEV Team,
Thanks for the warm welcome!
I'm Victor, solo founder building Interouter — an open-source Node.js middleware that connects Next.js SSR apps to blockchain and decentralized networks. Currently supporting NEAR Protocol and OpenLedger L2 with x402 payment flows.
Looking forward to sharing more about the project and connecting with the community.
Victor
Founder @ Decision3.ai | github: @victordeflos
x402 payment flows on SSR is an interesting place to put the middleware — the latency profile is tricky since you're gating server-rendered content on a blockchain confirmation that can't be instant.
curious how you're handling the UX gap between page request and payment settlement — are you holding the SSR response, optimistically rendering with a pending state, or routing to a client-side component after initial load?
You've nailed the hard part — you can't gate SSR render on chain confirmation without killing first paint. So I don't hold the response. SSR renders the public shell + a locked placeholder immediately; the 402 challenge goes to the client (signing is client-side anyway — keys live in the browser), and gated content swaps in once the facilitator verifies the signed authorization.
The key move: I unlock on authorization, not on-chain finality. Finality is confirmed async as a separate awaitFinality stage — so the gap is a signature round-trip, not a block-confirmation wait.
Honest status: adapters are read-only / x402-exact while I lock down the settlement wire format with facilitators (Permit2, BigInt serialisation, the upto/escrow scheme for consumption pricing). I'm building solo — and it's MIT, open from day one, on purpose: the goal is infrastructure ordinary people can use without even knowing there's a blockchain underneath, and that kind of trust only earns out in the open. This settlement boundary is exactly where I'd value other minds — issues and PRs genuinely welcome: github.com/decision3-ai/interouter.
Do you treat authorization-vs-finality as the unlock point, or wait for settlement?
Welcome to DEV, Victor 👋
I’m an independent maker building tools for YouTube creators.
In 2025, I ran five faceless YouTube channels and generated over 400 million views. That experience gave me a close look at how creators work, where they struggle, and what tools are still missing.
Before this, I spent 10+ years in product and user operations at major Chinese internet companies, including Alibaba.
Now I’m building products like AudienceCue, TimedSubs, and JungRoom, with more creator-focused tools on the way.
Hello, Yana! I think your experience with running faceless YouTube channels definitely complements how you make tools for YouTube creators. I used to have a YouTube channel, but the content was not very educational and did not serve much of a purpose. What type of content did your faceless YouTube channels publish, and how was that content made?
Hey Yana, Welcome to DEV 👋
Hi everyone 👋
I'm Daniel, founder of Atom Foundry.
I'm researching how AI systems discover, evaluate and recommend businesses online.
Recently I've been spending a lot of time thinking about Recommendation Intelligence™ and what happens when AI becomes part of the buying journey.
Open to meet others working on AI, search, e-commerce or data products.
Nice to meet everyone.
D.
Hey Daniel, welcome to DEV 👋
Hi everyone!
I'm Sophia, a software engineering enthusiast passionate about web development, cloud technologies, and building applications that solve real-world problems. I'm currently exploring modern frameworks, backend development, and open-source projects.
I'm excited to be part of the DEV community, learn from other developers, share my journey, and contribute wherever I can. Looking forward to connecting with fellow developers and exchanging ideas!
Thanks for having me here!
Hello Sophia,
Weocome to Dev.
Nice to see you here.😇
Hey Sophia, welcome to DEV 👋
Senior AI & Full Stack Engineer with 10+ years of experience designing and building scalable web, mobile, cloud, and AI-powered applications. Skilled in modern frontend and backend technologies, large language models (LLMs), AI agent development, automation, and cloud infrastructure. Proven track record of delivering high-performance products from concept to production, leading technical decisions, and integrating cutting-edge AI solutions to solve complex business challenges.
Hey Hector, welcome to DEV 👋
Thank you.
Hi guys! Just joined today. This platform has some good insights and information that I can learn in the field where I work. Would like to learn and even contribute to the growth of the community at large. Wish me luck!
Hey Ahana, welcome to DEV 👋
Good luck, and looking forward to seeing what you share here.
Thanks for the warm welcome. Excited!
Hey everyone 👋 I'm Shubham ,a commerce guy by education, curious about everything by nature. Writing about robotics, tech, business, and the stories behind the people building future. So excited to read your thoughts and Glad to be here!
Hey Shubham, welcome to DEV 👋
Hey everyone 😎,
I'm Tanwar, Code whisperer, UI avoid-er.
I speak fluent backend—servers, databases, and the hidden gears that make the digital world turn. Frontend? That’s someone else’s art. I’m the one making sure the magic works, not just looks pretty. College student by day, coder by passion.
Hey Tanwar, welcome to DEV 👋
Thank you for making me feel so welcome🙇
Hi I'm James! I'm a Sr. System Software Engineer with over 25 years' experience in Technology. I love what I do and now I'm trying to start my own business as a DevOps Consultant. I also play a little Jazz as a hobby with a focus on Piano and Trumpet. Hope everyone is having a great weekend!
Hey James, welcome to DEV 👋
Looking forward to seeing your posts and learning from your experience.
Hi DEV community!
I'm Edward Odero, an apprentice at z01 Kisumu, Kenya. I'm currently learning Go and JavaScript, and I'm super excited to be on this journey into software engineering.
Coding is something I'm genuinely passionate about — there's something really satisfying about building things from scratch and watching them come to life. I'm looking forward to growing, learning from this amazing community, and hopefully contributing something valuable along the way.
Happy to connect with anyone on a similar path!
Hey Edward, welcome to DEV 👋
Hi everyone! So excited to be here!
I'm originally and iOS engineer that loves languages, so I decided to try my hand at creating a localization tool. I want to code my love of languages into the product by finding ways to preserve voice (formality and tone) in addition to providing correct translations. I also want to make it available to all types of devs (solo to enterprise) by providing more tiers than just subscription. Hopefully this allows devs to go global no matter what their situation is.
I've found throughout my time with iOS that there isn't a good way to capture if your users don't want to use your app because your language is giving users from a different country a weird experience. Miscommunications can result in app deletions without ever knowing why. I want everyone to build better experiences for people in other markets with my tool.
Hey Christelle, welcome to DEV 👋
Looking forward to your posts.
Hello everyone! Happy to finally be on dev.to. 😊
I’m a backend professional and technical educator running Infodatamatrix. My main focus is bridging the gap between local software demos and complex enterprise architecture.
I build and write about distributed systems, heavy data pipelines, and distributed commit logs (specifically Apache Kafka). If you're currently trying to figure out how to transition from synchronous API architecture to scalable, asynchronous event-driven pipelines (especially for LLMs/RAG), I'm your person.
Looking forward to reading your posts and sharing some deep architectural breakdowns with you all!
the sync → async pipeline transition is the one that's still underwritten architecturally for LLM workloads specifically. most of the content about it is Kafka 101 and then jumps straight to production-at-Netflix scale with not much in the middle.
the LLM/RAG case is interesting because the throughput profile is different from classic event streaming — you have variable latency per inference call that makes backpressure harder to reason about, and the "message" often has dependencies on external context that a standard consumer group doesn't know how to handle.
are you finding teams mostly struggle with the data pipeline side (getting clean signals into the RAG retrieval layer) or the output side (what to do with LLM completions in a downstream event-driven flow)?
Hey Shalini, welcome to DEV 👋
Hello everyone 👋
I'm Sahil, a full-stack developer with experience in .NET, React, Azure, and cloud-based applications.
Recently, I've been working on ToolNudge, a privacy-first collection of browser-based utilities for developers, creators, SEO professionals, and everyday users.
I'm particularly interested in software architecture, developer productivity, SaaS products, and building useful tools that solve real problems.
Looking forward to learning from the community and connecting with fellow developers.
Happy to be here!
Hey Sahil, welcome to DEV 👋
Thanks, Hemapriya! 👋 Happy to be here. Looking forward to sharing what I'm building and learning from the community. 😊
Hey everyone! 👋
I'm Reetain Raina, a technical writer who loves breaking down complex tech topics into clear, engaging stories. I write about AI, developer-focused technologies and the trends shaping the future of software and the web.
I'm completely new to Dev.to and excited to explore the platform, discover what everyone is building and discussing and hopefully contribute a few interesting perspectives of my own. Looking forward to learning from this amazing community and connecting with fellow developers and writers!
Hey Reetain, welcome to DEV 👋
Hey everyone!
I'm Aayushi, a CS student who loves building things for the web and experimenting with new ideas.
Most of my time goes into creating projects, learning new technologies, and figuring out how to make digital experiences feel a little more engaging and intuitive.
Recently, I've been building Memory Palace, a journaling app with a focus on exploration and storytelling.
Excited to learn, share my journey, and connect with other builders here.
Hey Aayushi, welcome to DEV 👋
Sounds like you're working on some cool stuff. Looking forward to seeing more of your projects around here.
Thank you! 😊 Just published my first post about it too. Would love for you to try it out! → memorypalaceapp.vercel.app/
Hey, I'm Usman. Java developer for about 10 years, based in Netherlands. I'm building Marshal, a behavioral supply-chain scanner for JVM dependencies. Instead of checking CVE databases, it watches how packages change on Maven Central and scores each update for suspicious patterns.
Just published my first post here about running it against real packages and finding false positives in my own tool: dev.to/usman18/i-scanned-real-mave...
Looking forward to connecting with other Java and security folks here.
Hey Usman, welcome to DEV 👋
Thanks Hemapriya!
Hi everyone 👋 I'm a developer who builds small, free, privacy-first web tools —
things like a JSON formatter, image converter and audio cutter that run entirely
in your browser (no signup, no upload). Excited to be here, learn from other
makers, and happy to give feedback on others' launches too!
Hey, welcome to DEV 👋
Hey everyone 👋 I'm Ivan, an IT professional from Italy. What brought me here: I use AI coding tools like Cursor and Claude Code every day at work, and I've started writing about what actually works from real daily use — not theory. Dev.to felt like the right crowd for that.
Fun fact: outside of code I produce electronic music — 50+ albums across genres like synthwave, tech house and chillout. Turns out shipping a track and refactoring a codebase scratch the same itch: iterate until it clicks.
Happy to be here, and glad to swap notes with anyone figuring out where these AI tools actually fit into a real workflow.
Hey Ivan, welcome to DEV 👋
50+ albums is impressive 😄 Looking forward to seeing your posts about AI tools and workflows.
welcome 👋
I am new here too but looks like you will fit right in!
what's up guys, new to this coding community, i survived my school's apcsp and apcsa courses 😵 but i am willing to learn to put my skills of java, python, and way more languages into real world applications. who knows, i may able to build flying cars for a living 😏
Hey Ethan, welcome to DEV 👋
Hi! I go by Zyionne. I recently found about dev.to, and I was excited to hear a site where my fellow programmers come together. I hope to learn a lot from this site, especially in concerns to my chosen fields.
Hey Zyionne, welcome to DEV 👋
Hope you enjoy being part of the community and find lots of useful things to learn along the way.
Hey! I'm Francesc, a backend Go developer. I recently launched PikoCI, a self-hosted CI/CD system I built because I needed custom environments for my own projects and everything out there was either too complex or too tied to GitHub Actions.
Single binary, HCL pipelines, runs anywhere. github.com/pikoci/pikoci
I'll mostly be writing about CI/CD architecture and Go patterns. If any of that sounds interesting, stick around.
Hey! I'm Jayadev, a self-taught systems programmer from Kerala, India. I got into coding through game development and somehow ended up building package managers in C++. Currently working on my own Linux distro from scratch
Hey Jayadev, welcome to DEV 👋
Hi DEV! 👋
I'm a developer who likes building small, focused tools for the web. I'm into vanilla JS, zero-dependency libraries, and the art of keeping things simple without making them limited.
Happy to be here !
Hey Valentin, welcome to DEV 👋
Hey everyone 👋 Denis here — backend engineer & team lead, 12+ years mostly in PHP/Laravel, and an open-source maintainer.
Been building web services and developer tools for a long while; finally decided to start sharing and learning out loud here.
Glad to be part of the community — and yes, staying hydrated 💧 Would love to connect with other Laravel/PHP devs!
Hey Denis, welcome to DEV 👋
Hello everyone!
I'm an AI Researcher and Developer focusing on Cybersecurity, Blockchain, and Quantum Computing. Python is my weapon of choice.
I’m here to share my findings, learn from your architectures, and discuss the future of secure tech.
Hey Srashti, welcome to DEV 👋
Looking forward to reading your posts and seeing what you're building in AI and cybersecurity.
Hello guys.
I am studying aerospace engineering and I want to get into control engineering.
In order to build up my programming skill, I will try to do few projects by myself and I´d like to share my progress here.
Hey, welcome to DEV 👋
Good luck with your projects! Looking forward to seeing your progress.
Hey everyone! 👋 Happy to be part of the community.
I'm a MERN Stack Developer and Associate Cloud Engineer. Excited to join the community, connect with fellow builders, and swap ideas on full-stack architecture and cloud infrastructure!
Hey Jay, welcome to DEV 👋
Hi everyone!
I'm Mirlan, data engineer building analytics infrastructure. Founder of Rawbbit (rawbbit.one) — open-source pipeline using NATS, Parquet, and BigQuery external tables. Writing about modern data engineering.
Hey Mirlan, welcome to DEV 👋
Hi everyone, I’m Amit Kumar Singh.
I’m a Lead Data Engineer working mostly around Snowflake, data pipelines, metadata, data quality, and enterprise data platforms.
Recently I started building Data Engineering Copilot a small build-in-public project focused on AI-assisted, metadata-driven automation for repetitive data engineering work like STTM analysis, SQL generation, DQ rules, and documentation.
Happy to be here and looking forward to learning from the DEV community.
Hey Amit, welcome to DEV 👋
Looking forward to seeing your posts about Data Engineering Copilot.
Hey DEV community! 👋
I'm a developer exploring AI tools and how they can boost productivity. Currently learning how to integrate AI into real-world workflows.
Excited to share what I learn here — starting with a post on AI tools every developer should use!
Happy to connect with fellow devs 🙌
Hi everyone! 👋 I'm Temurbek, a freelance developer from Uzbekistan with 3+ years of experience in IT.
On the frontend side, I work with JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Next.js, and Tailwind CSS, along with various UI libraries.
On the backend, I have experience with Python, Django, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, and have also worked with aiogram for Telegram bots.
I also do mobile development with Flutter and Dart, and can build and ship Android apps.
Excited to connect with everyone here and learn from this amazing community!
Hello! I'm Mathéo, a 2nd-year CS student from France.
I'm building ZamSync, a lightweight, offline-first synchronization engine written in Rust. I designed it to help sync medical records in rural clinics with extremely flaky 2G connections. My ultimate goal is to propose this project to the Ministry of Health of Bhutan for their electronic Patient Information System (ePIS).
I just published my first article here on DEV.to about how I simulated 2G connections to test the sync engine, and the code is fully open-source. Glad to be here and looking forward to learning from the community!
Hey Mathéo, welcome to DEV 👋
Hey everyone, excited to be part of this very welcoming community!
I am developing GhostLeg, a database that centralizes Sportsbook (Fanduel, Draftkings, etc.) and Prediction Market (Kalshi, Polymarket) data, and surfaces the normalized payloads and signals through a frontend dashboard and API. Looking forward to sharing more.
Hey Numan, welcome to DEV 👋
Hey!
I am an independent researcher bridging an academic background in law with a transition into Research Software Engineering (RSE). My current focus centers on building the open-science, reproducible data infrastructure that applied canine ethology (animal behavior) requires to overcome its current replication crisis, I am still in the early development phase, but soon I hope to be able to share more about it!
Hey Alice, welcome to DEV 👋
Hi everyone, I am Mohamed Gamal from Egypt
I am in my first year in a CS career; I am very happy to know this website to gain more experience and build my first professional network here.
I love the back-end track, and I want to be a back-end developer in the future. Also, I have a small experience in game modding, as I used to mod Return to Castle Wolfenstein (RTCW).
Hey Mohamed, welcome to DEV 👋
Hi everyone! 👋
I'm Max. My background spans technology, operations, and business development, and recently I've been spending more time learning about open source, cloud infrastructure, and distributed systems.
I'm particularly interested in object storage and currently exploring RustFS, an open-source distributed object storage project built in Rust.
Looking forward to learning from the community and sharing what I discover along the way.
Hi, Everyone Maahir here, I am AI dev at least wanting to be an AI engineer. I love building AI models currently I am exploring MCP servers and RAG
Hope to learn so much from you guys if I am good enough I might teach you one or two.
happy coding
Hey Maahir, welcome to DEV 👋
👋 Hi everyone!
I'm Sambit, a BSc CS student learning React.js, JavaScript, and web development. I'm passionate about building projects, exploring AI, and sharing what I learn.
Looking forward to connecting with fellow developers and learning from this amazing community.
Hey Sambit, welcome to DEV 👋
Hi everyone. Excited to be here.
I'm a recent graduate, looking to learn stuff, share with you all some of my projects and get some advice/suggestions on them. Looking forward to growing with you all !!
Hey Pulkit, welcome to DEV 👋
Hey everyone! 👋
I'm a BI Developer, Python developer, and creator of pyDreamplet, an open-source library for SVG-based data visualization and creative coding.
I'll be sharing tutorials, experiments, and insights on Python, SVG, data visualization, and open-source development.
Happy to be here!
Hey, welcome to DEV 👋
Hey everyone! 👋
I'm Harshit.
I've spent the last several years working in technology, including time with Microsoft's Copilot team, where I got a front-row seat to how AI products are built and scaled for real users.
These days, I'm interested in AI, product thinking, developer tools, and the broader question of how humans and intelligent systems can work better together. I enjoy breaking down complex ideas, experimenting with new technologies, and learning from people who are building interesting things.
I'm joining Dev.to to share what I'm learning, exchange ideas, and connect with fellow developers, builders, and tech enthusiasts.
Looking forward to the conversations ahead!
Hey Harshit, welcome to DEV 👋
Looking forward to seeing your posts and learning from your experience.
Hey everyone 👋 Glad to be here.
We're Flux8Labs, a design and development studio from Jaipur, India. Lately most of our work has been with manufacturers and traditional businesses.
What keeps surprising us is how often the real problem has nothing to do with technology. Information sitting in 5 different places. Teams running entirely on WhatsApp. Someone spending half their Friday updating a spreadsheet that could just update itself.
Most of the time they don't need another tool. They just need the tools they already have to work together.
Sometimes that's code. Sometimes it's just asking one question nobody thought to ask before.
What's a workflow you've simplified that ended up making a bigger difference than you expected?
Hi, everybody!🌻
I'm a professional Googler 👀 and a part-time developer who loves building things, breaking things, and occasionally fixing them.
Currently exploring the tech world beyond 0s and 1s, chasing ideas that keep me awake at 2 AM .
Looking forward to learning, building, and connecting with fellow developers here.
Thank you, Good day!🌻
Hey Dimple, welcome to DEV 👋
Hey Everyone! 👋
I'm Sandeep Technical Lead & AI Engineer with 13 years across mobile, full-stack, and now LLM-powered backends.
Stack: Python/FastAPI, Node.js, RAG pipelines, OpenAI/Azure.
Here to share what I learn and connect with developers who are serious about using AI in production not just demos.
👉 aidevbuilds.hashnode.dev
👉 youtube.com/@aidevbuilds
Hey Sandeep, welcome to DEV 👋
Hey everyone, I work in the Generative Media world and I write about it, going from image models to video models. I write about how to get the best performances out of those models and get the best results.
Hey Stephen, welcome to DEV 👋
Hey 👋 I'm Bilal Malik, but you can call me byllzz.
Here because Stack Overflow made me cry.
Learning: how to name variables like an adult.
Fun fact: deleted a semicolon once, fixed everything. Still scared.
Hey! 👋 I'm Szymon, I build custom websites and web apps under the name spoko.space — "spoko" is Polish slang for chill/cool.
Big into AI tooling lately — it's genuinely changed how I work. Happy to talk web dev, tools, or just say hi!
Hi everyone, I’m Xia.
I’m currently building eCPM Bazaar, a small tool for mobile game and app developers who monetize with ads.
I’m interested in ad revenue diagnostics: figuring out whether a revenue change comes from eCPM, impressions, fill/match rate, country mix, placement, or ad source performance.
I’m here to learn from other builders and share what I’m validating along the way.
Hey everyone, we’re SavePoint.fm. 👋
We’re building SavePoint, broadcasting software for managing 24/7 live channels across solo creators, co-ops, hobby projects, community stations, and creative collectives.
We’ll be using DEV to chronolog our strides, releases, lessons, and efforts as we build and grow the SavePoint ecosystem.
Very glad to be here. 🙏
Hi Everyone excited to be here. Recently transitioned from being an operator in tech to building software and I am currently focused scalable AI systems.
I will be sharing my learnings here and look forward to learning from you all.
Hey all, I'm Aidan, a Go/Python backend dev! I'm here to write about my process and the decisions behind what I build, the messy judgment calls that don't make it into the docs. Right now that's sparQ, an open-source DevEx suite for GitHub teams. Mostly though I'm excited to learn more about how other people design and reason about backend systems.
Hello Everyone, my name is Cate, i am a HR/Talent Acquisition professional, what brought me here is the need to help developers and engineers land remote roles and navigate the remote world. ATM I am currently looking for Developers/Engineers for a tech U.S startup. If you are based in the U.S, Latam or East Europe, i'd like a chance to connect!
Fun fact: I am a self taught baker!
hi everyone i'm new here, hope i am welcome?
My purpose here is because i want to learn more, know what others think, have to say and can do kind of to challenge myself😅.
i am looking up to not only learn but add somthing too 😀
Hello, I develop large-scale open World game and simulation assets for Unity with unique stationary motion mechanics: the player is always stationary, at the origin and the World moves around the player. In 2005, I named this method Floating Origin.
I am the COO of Celedog.io. Celedog.io is a global AI routing platform that brings China’s most powerful AI models and computing resources to users around the world. Through a single API key, users can access Chinese large language model services in a compliant, fast, and cost-effective way.
Hi everyone, I'm Eric – the person behind IONA OS. I've been building this operating system from scratch for the past 13 years, mostly alone, because I wanted to see if one person could create a truly sovereign computing ecosystem.
I'm here to share what I've learned (and what I'm still struggling with) about kernel development, post‑quantum crypto, and why I believe open infrastructure doesn't need tokens or ICOs.
Fun fact: I wrote my first line of Rust when I was 16. I haven't stopped since.☺️☺️
Hello and good day!
My name is Cate and I'm the co-founder of Talent Partners, on the side i work as a Technical Recruiter for a U.S start up and i am currently looking for Developers and engineers based in U.S, LATAM and Eastern Europe, I'm actively conducting interviews and sourcing for talent.
Looking forward to connecting 😅
Hi im Leo. I Built AltiVerse: Fork Any Decision Into Living Simulations With 1,000 Personalities
What if you could see the real human consequences of a decision before making it?
Not through abstract models or spreadsheets — but by watching living simulations of people reacting, interacting, and slowly pulling realities apart.
Hi everyone,
I’m Mohammed but you may call me “Mo”
I run veraxity.dev, a small agency for software solutions and AI services. I’m passionate about formal logic, verification methods, and pretty much anything of a “Deductive” nature.
Glad to connect with you all- btw, I’m here because Gemini recommended it.
Hello everyone 👋
I’m a junior frontend developer and student, currently learning HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. I’m passionate about building responsive and user-friendly websites and improving my coding skills every day. I’m excited to be part of this community, learn from others, and also contribute as I grow. Looking forward to connecting with you all!
Heyy Everyone,
Im a Researcher working on tamper evident audit infrastructure for AI agents. Background in applied cryptography and multi-agent systems security. Published my first piece here today . Interested in the intersection of AI safety and regulatory compliance.
(whole lotta buzzwords)
can't wait to learn more about what other minds are writing about.
Oh, I have been learning about AI agents, super interesting!
Hello! I have joined Dev.to to be a part of the community, learn, share and enjoy the company of fellow devs/engineers. I have also recently launched an API marketplace platform to allow devs to monetise their APIs/apps without having to build that side of the work.
Hi All. New to the forum. Excited to be here. Currently working on the development of a new project and i'm sure joining here will add benefit to that. Will likely be asking some questions here as i proceed.
Hi! I am shourya, I'm building Vendozo — AI that writes SEO and tracks analytics for WooCommerce sellers. Think Yoast SEO meets Google Analytics but fully automated. Trying to beat Cursor's growth record doing it.
Hi, I m Roman and my project dev.to/itprogresscorp/how-i-revive...
Hey everyone! 👋
I'm Jatin from India. I'm passionate about Full Stack Development, System Design, AI, and Cybersecurity. I recently joined DEV to learn from the community and share what I build and study—especially deep dives into how real-world systems work.
Looking forward to connecting, learning from all of you, and contributing whenever I can. Feel free to say hi or share what you're working on! 🚀