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What was your win this week?

Michael Tharrington on October 20, 2023

Hey peeps 🙌 Hope you all had a wonderful week. Looking back on this past week, what was something you were proud of accomplishing? All wins coun...
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Keith Solomon

Let’s see, it’s been a busy week…

  • Upgraded my workhorse from a 13” M1 Air to a 15” M2 Air
  • Solved a particularly sticky issue one of the juniors was having
  • Represented the dev dept. on a client kickoff meeting
  • Got invited to participate in a panel at a conference for a local college
  • Prepped things for a new project starting soon
  • Wrote a how to for adding sites to Google Tag Manager (which is much harder than it needs to be 🙄)

Like I said, busy week…I’m sure there’s more, but my brain is cooked for the week… 😁

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Dumebi Okolo

Way to go!!!

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Griff Polk

Ye de 15” M2 is NICE

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Paweł Ciosek • Edited

For the first time I participated in hacktoberfest! 🥳 I did my first contribution and planted tree! 🌲🌍

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Saurabh Rai

Really amazing @pavelee for contributing to Hacktoberfest!

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Sarthak Sharma

Awesome 🤩
What did you create? what was the project about? 😀

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Paweł Ciosek

Still working on the next one!

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Sarthak Sharma

Marvellous 🤩

Go kill the next one and May be then that create your own Open Source Project(I have seen you many but may be new problem 😊). I will be there cheering you up. 🥳

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Dumebi Okolo

Awesome.

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Thomas Hansen

We hade the best bug i haver ever experienced in my life 😂

Basically the bug proved that our chatbot increases sales by 400% on a Shopify website

Why? Because as our bug happened sales dropped like a stone in water for 4 days until we could fix the bug 😊

AINIRO and ChatGPT increases sales on a Shopify website by 400%

Some days you simply have to love the bug 🥰

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Griff Polk

But… it’s a bug? But its good? But… it’s a bug. Brain… overload… programmer mind fail… ERROR 404, bug enjoyment not found AAAAAA

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Thomas Hansen

Hehehe 😂

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Griff Polk

:) i knew just what to say

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Dumebi Okolo • Edited

-- Finally got my certificate from the university.

-- Finally started learning Ruby and wrote my first article on what I've learnt so far.

-- Got to see and catch up with some old friends. It was fun. 😄😄

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Michael Tharrington

Woot woot! Great Ruby article, Dumebi, and congrats on the cert. Plus, always nice catching up with old buds! 🙌

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Dumebi Okolo

Yeah! Thanks, Michael.! 🥳

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Tolya Pro • Edited

My win this week was publishing my first post on Dev.to! 🚀📝

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Nathan Tarbert

Congratulations!

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Dumebi Okolo

Way to go!! 🥳 🥳

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Andy Piper

I got to hang out with this guy called @michaeltharrington in person, and check out his sweet synths collection!

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Michael Tharrington

Oh heck yeah! Definitely one of the biggest highlights of my week... and of course, we gotta prove it, right?

Andy Piper and I hanging out in real life... we're at my place, it's a close-up selfie style photo courtesy of Andy's extended arm... Just two geeks grinning at the camera. Good times!

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Ben Halpern

Back from an enjoyable trip to Thailand 🙂

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Troy Harris

Discover MDN Docs for HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. This resource is so darn powerful!

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Matthijs Wensveen

Abso-frigging-lutely! I have it bookmarked with a keyword search in Firefox (though you could probably add it as a search option or something).

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Troy Harris

Just added it to my bookmarks and it even has a web development guide! I'll be combing this and FreecodeCamp to make some interesting projects.

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Andy Piper

I went to #AllThingsOpen in Raleigh, and attended some great sessions. Also, the hallyway track was excellent - I met a bunch of my online friends in person.

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Ry

Got my first interview. I'm probably not the best fit for the company as they have not reached out to me again, but it's still a start and a big win for me.

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Maksym

My product is in the TOP 16 on Product Hunt
producthunt.com/posts/eyeyoga

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Michael Tharrington

Upvoted! This sounds really creative and helpful.

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Mike Stemle

I have managed to get a lot of stuff ready for my presentation on November 8th. I even put together a little YouTube promo video, which was challenging.

I also got my #Hacktoberfest stuff done.

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Matt Eland

Refactoring with C# hit Amazon for pre-order and I gave a good talk on data visualization at Momentum dev conference.

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Michael Buckbee

Launched our first "serious" open source project, a web app firewall for Rails - github.com/Wafris/wafris-rb

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Michael Tharrington

I'm a little late here, but this is awesome Michael! Well done! 🙌

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V Sai Harsha

I have gotten total 10K views in my blog

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Gerald

I learned localStorage in vanilla JS!!

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ByteCodeProcessor

Watched Laracasts beginner videos consistently everyday for the whole week and learnt a lot.

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Nova

I have published a research paper for my academic work, and I see it as an absolute win : )

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Michael Tharrington

Wow! That's a major win. Looks like a helluva lotta work went into this. Good stuff!

Also, emotion prediction sounds genuinely very interesting... as a Community Manager, it gets my mind thinking about potential tools that could help detect abusive situations that may need moderation. That could be super handy!