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#choose-your-path

Pick what you work on and the server rearranges itself

Choose your language and what you code. The server opens the rooms for you and hides the rest.

Pick what you want to see
  • AITalk about building with LLMs: prompts, agents, retrieval,
  • Web DevGeneral and full-stack web development: how the pieces fit
  • App DevDesktop and cross-platform applications: packaging, native
  • FrontendUI, CSS, accessibility, performance and frameworks
  • BackendAPIs, databases, queues, caching and the systems behind th
  • MobileNative and hybrid iOS and Android
#ask-a-question

Ask once, and the answer stays easy to find

Questions live in a forum. When one is answered it gets a Solved tag, so the next person finds the answer in seconds.

ask-a-question
Docker container exits right after start
✓ SolvedDocker
useEffect runs twice in development
✓ SolvedReact
How do I structure a FastAPI project?
Python
Terraform state lock will not release
✓ SolvedDevOps

Example threads, to show the layout.

#showroom

Show what you are building to people who get it

Post your project in the showroom. People upvote, review your code, and the best ones get shared.

your-project.dev
Your project, right here.

A short line on what it does and what you used to build it.

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Talk in the language you think in

English is shared by everyone. Arabic, Spanish, Portuguese, French and Russian each get their own rooms.

Ten tracks, and you only see yours

You only see the rooms you choose, each with a starter pack and a roadmap.

Free tools, built by the community

No sign-up and no tracking. Everything runs in your browser, so nothing you paste leaves the page.

You are a senior TypeScript engineer who works with React.
## Task
A hook that debounces a search input
## Requirements
- Handle errors and invalid input
- Include unit tests

Prompt Builder

Turn a rough idea into a prompt that gets good answers.

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A library you will actually use

Every pick comes with a short note on why it is worth your time. New ones land in the server every day.

249

free resources, picked by hand and sorted by topic.

arxiv.org

Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Knowledge-Intensive NLP Tasks

The paper that named RAG: a generator combined with a dense vector index over Wikipedia, trained together.

Papers · Intermediate
huggingface.co

Hugging Face LLM Course

A free, hands-on course on using and fine-tuning transformer models with the Hugging Face libraries.

Courses · Beginner
explainshell.com

explainshell: Paste a Command, See What Every Part Means

Paste any shell command and each flag and argument is matched to the relevant excerpt from its manual page.

Linux · Beginner
mywiki.wooledge.org

BashPitfalls: The Shell Mistakes Everyone Makes Once

A catalogue of common Bash bugs, each with a short explanation and a safer pattern: unquoted variables, parsing ls output, misuse of test.

Linux · Intermediate
github.com

awesome-ios: Swift and iOS libraries by topic

A large index of iOS and Swift projects grouped by purpose: networking, architecture, UI components, testing, tooling and learning material.

Awesome List · Beginner
github.com

magictools: a game developer's reference shelf

One list that covers the practical side of making games: engines, art and audio tools, level editors, tutorials and communities.

Awesome List · Beginner
fullstackopen.com

Full Stack Open

The University of Helsinki's free course on modern web development with React, Node.js and testing.

Free course · Intermediate
missing.csail.mit.edu

The Missing Semester of Your CS Education

MIT lectures on the tools most courses skip: the shell, editors, Git, debugging and more.

Free course · Beginner
grafana.com

Grafana

Open-source dashboards for your metrics, logs and traces from many data sources.

Tool
trivy.dev

Trivy

An open-source scanner for vulnerabilities and misconfigurations in containers, code and infrastructure.

CLI

How we keep spam out of the chat

  • A bot trap. Spam bots post in the first channel they can. Ours is a trap, and staff review every catch.
  • Raid protection. When a wave of new accounts arrives, they wait in quarantine instead of the chat.
  • AutoMod. Scam links, mass mentions and slurs never reach the rooms.
# bot-detector
new-account

Free Nitro for everyone, claim it here before it runs out

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Caught by the bot trap

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Member@new-account
Account created2 hours ago
Joineda minute ago
Cleaned up3 other messages they sent in the last 10 minutes.
Bot or hacked: keep in quarantineNot a bot: release with a warningRemove their recent messages

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What is DevOps Lounge?

A free Discord community for developers and DevOps engineers at every level. Members ask questions, share projects, review code and find people to build with.

Is it free?

Yes. Joining is free and there is nothing to buy.

I am just starting out. Is it for me?

Yes. There is a beginner track and a beginner corner, and every help forum welcomes first questions. Experienced engineers are there too, which is what makes the answers good.

What languages can I talk in?

English is shared by everyone, and there are rooms in Arabic, Spanish, Portuguese, French and Russian.

What topics does it cover?

Ten tracks: AI, web, app development, frontend, backend, mobile, data and ML, security, DevOps and cloud, and game development, plus career and interview help.

How do I get help with my code?

Post in the ask-a-question forum with what you tried and the error you see. When it is solved, the thread is tagged so others can find the answer later. There is also a code review forum.

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