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FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ (っ◔◡◔)っ

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Question of the Week!

What is your favorite music to listen to when programming?

The comment will be featured on the next Welcome Thread!


Thanks for stopping by! Feel free to introduce yourself and welcome others by replying to at least 2 people! It would be greatly appreciated! :D

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Tyler N

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.

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FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ (っ◔◡◔)っ

Fair enough when you need to concentrate! Thanks for sharing Tyler :D

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Jack Petersen

A little John Scofield station usually hits the spot.

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Wesley Reitz

Hello!

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Tyler N

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?

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Wesley Reitz

I'm just looking to get some responses to my recent post about learning Go for an internship this summer.

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Tyler N

I read your article. Check the comments for my reply.

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Natalia

That makes sense. I usually prefer quiet for deep debugging too, but light background music can be nice for routine tasks.

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David Maina

have you ever tried listening to the likes of James Arthur in the background while working?

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Tyler N

No, I have not. Have you?

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David Maina

Yeah I do....almost every single day...you should try it sometime

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Paul Juicer

Bon Jovi is great!

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David Maina

and does listening to bon jovi help?

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Tyler N

Definitely not when coding, but when doing repetitive tasks, it can sometimes

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Dikshant Mandhania

try prem dhillon

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Adama Sanogo

cool

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Obasi Henry

That's amazing

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Ab

Love Bon Jovi.

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Marvin Bregiosa

Hey 👋 Marvin here. I'm the solo founder of AccidentLawyerReview, an independent public-data directory of US truck-accident lawyers. I've been gradually transforming it into a small data journalism shop on the side. My most recent project was a Vision Zero report card for 19 US cities, built using Astro and Python with NHTSA FARS data. I spent an embarrassingly long time debugging invisible <strong> tags in Astro JSX, which will probably become the subject of my first post here.

I joined dev.to because solo work can be isolating, and I miss the energy of seeing what others are creating. I'm looking forward to discovering what everyone else is building.

My question of the week concerns ambient and film scores. I'm currently looping Nils Frahm and the Arrival soundtrack. Anything with lyrics disrupts my focus, but ambient pads have the opposite effect.

Excited to be here 🙌

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Daniel O.

Hey Marvin, same reason I joined -- building in isolation gets old. Looking forward to seeing what the community is working on.

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harunasu • Edited

I'm an otaku engineer from Japan🤓
I work on ML, NLP, data science, mathematical optimization, and I occasionally write papers too!

While I'm coding I'm basically always listening to anime songs or game music. Right now I'm hooked on the anime Girls Band Cry and have its soundtrack on permanent repeat. It's THE GOAT🐐

(Quick heads-up: the rest is a little self-promo. Apologies if that's not the done thing here — just say the word and I'll take it down!)

I also just published my first article here, The Otaku's Guide to LLMs The title's a little spicy, but don't worry: inside it's a fun, meme-stuffed walkthrough of LLMs that goes all the way down to the implementation code and the math. Hope you enjoy it❤

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Ivan Labasok

Hey otaku!

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Nikhil Dabhade • Edited

I don't know why but music distracts me while i'm coding, so i don't listen to any music. But in my free time i listen to paganini.

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Nacio-Felix Laubressac - dev & security

I'm deep into psychedelic stoner rock in the moment haha

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Cirious Foundation

👽️

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Jack Petersen

excellent

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Mont

I like to turn on different Youtube ambient music vids, something constant always helps me lock in

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Sathish Kumar

Microsoft Teams ringtone 🤯😅

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Chuck Watson

Pink Floyd!

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A.T

AK Sports - Work harder

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Chris Lim

Hello

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ragesh_vr

hello

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Tui Davies

Well mostly listen to sound tracks I have published on Pirate FM play list as pre release feedback to game development.

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Tyler N

Are you referring to the Pirate FM radio station, or a custom playlist?

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Syed Zimraan Ali

ANY PAKISTANI?]

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Mansoor Mamnoon

If I’m doing deep work or debugging, I usually need silence. But for easier coding or cleanup work, I’ll put on rap, Bollywood music, or random YouTube mixes in the background.

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Syed Zimraan Ali

What is your favorite music to listen to when programming?

so my answer as a Pakistani Would Be Aarzu and Anuv Jain Songs

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Kye Jones

my absolute gooooo to, is definitely classical music. I swear even back i high school it would make me work so much better!

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Sean Markwei

"Pruina" by They Dream By Day or Riverfree by Boil the Ocean. Carl Orff, and sometimes Aretha Franklin's Nessun Dorma

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Saumili Dutta

Bella Ciao from Money Heist

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Nseeka Bitrus

Any type of muic

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Marvin Bregiosa

ah does not work for me! If it's too intense, I can concentrate weel :O

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Marcus M. Darden

I'm going to go with Grover Washington Jr. for "work" music. It's got comforting funk, driving tempos, great melody and harmony, and clears out all environmental sounds for me.

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Felipe Araújo

This week i'm listening to The Numbers form Radiohead on repeat. I dont know why, but this song is stuck in my mind.

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Carlos Cardoso

Hi!

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Kouros Zirak

Bach, Vivaldi, or classical guitar music!

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Nitish Kumar

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/

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Adam McClarin

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.

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Marvin Bregiosa

wow nice design and animations!

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FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ (っ◔◡◔)っ

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

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Patrick Sardinha

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!

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FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ (っ◔◡◔)っ

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

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Patrick Sardinha

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 ;)

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Tyler N

Hello Patrick! I haven't done a lot of automation. What is your favorite automation project you made?

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Patrick Sardinha

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

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Bob Oner

Hi, I'm a Python-focused developer and technical writer building small, reproducible engineering projects around APIs, data processing, and developer tools.

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Tyler N

That’s a very nice description. What types of data do you process?

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ANUROOP

hi

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Ankan Ghosh

hey everyone!!

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Mustafa ERBAY

👋 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 🚀

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Antonio Lopez

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!

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kanishk chahar

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 🚀

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João Gabriel Sabedra Vieira

Welcome! 👋 Great to see another beginner here. What are you learning right now?

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kanishk chahar

"I’m currently working on a mini project — it’s basically an API health checker."

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Harini Mukesh

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!

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