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What was your win this week?

Michael Tharrington on April 12, 2024

Heyo folks! 😀 It's Friday — woot woot! Hope ya had a successful week and are looking forward to a lovely weekend. Looking back on this past week,...
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Anita Olsen*°•.☆

📢 I received a shout-out in the DEV Community Newsletter!✨
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🎮 I completed 5 singleplayer levels on CodeCombat! ✨
I also earned the following achievements:
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💟 I received two new badges on Codecademy! ✨
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sahra 💫

Awesome wins Anita💥

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Anita Olsen*°•.☆

Thank you! 😊

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adriens

What a week 🤩

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Thomas Bnt ☕

🥳🥳

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Cipi

Congrats Anita, keep going!

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Giuliano1993

Wow that's awesome! This seems a Congrats :D

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Bala Madhusoodhanan

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Thomas Bnt ☕

Congrats!

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Michael Tharrington

Awwwww heck yeah! Major congrats, Bala. 🙌

Where you working at now?!

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Bala Madhusoodhanan

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Michael Tharrington • Edited

Wow!! Chanel... holy cow, that is iconic!

So cool that you're working on tech for a consumer-facing company like that. Major congrats!

Sounds like you might have the hook-up on some nice luxury items too, haha! 🤑

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Bala Madhusoodhanan

coco

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Giuliano1993

Congrats this is such a good news! :D

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sahra 💫

The first article I posted in a really long time got featured in this week's DEV Top 7 post 🤗. Really brought back the spark for my writing.

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adriens

Still waiting for that day
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Michael Tharrington

Woot lovin' the optimism!

Keep on truckin' with it — you're writing some dang good posts, Adrien, and I'm sure it's only a matter of time. 🙂

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adriens

😊😊😊😊😊😊

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Anita Olsen*°•.☆

Congratulations! That was an awesome article you wrote, well done! You should keep writing! 😀

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sahra 💫

Thanks Anita 🤗

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Michael Tharrington

Wooohoo! Major congrats @sahra, that was a great post! 🙌

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sahra 💫

Thank you Michael 🤗

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Nabil Alamin

Worked on my hackathon submission all through yesterday and it turned out great

dev.to/arndom/ending-maker-ai-5aeo

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Alex Lohr • Edited

One of my new colleagues at @crabnebuladev was using one of my solid-primitives and inspired me to add support for the tauri-store as an alternative storage. Writing the code down went really smooth.

It's like cross-pollination between work and hobby coding.

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Schalk Neethling

I finally announced the book I am writing on HTML and got some great feedback from people which I am going to use to improve the chapters that are published and use as guidance to improve the chapters that I am working on at the moment.

dev.to/schalkneethling/html-a-comp...

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Cipi

thanks for sharing, that's a really generous contribution to the community from you. By the way, I stumbled upon your blogging page and find your dev journey really inspiring and encouraging.... keep it up!

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Schalk Neethling

Thanks so much, @cipivlad 🙌

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krlz

I didn't have the best week, but it wasn't the worst either. However, at the end, I received the sad news that our project's budget was going to hit a dead end. Several weeks ago, our management team tried hard, and I don't doubt their skills, but these things happen. There is a story behind it, but the conclusion was that a bunch of folks lost their jobs, which is really sad. It's time to clean up my CV, exercise, live through this moment of frustration, and reconnect with old pals on LinkedIn, as well as some other platforms I discovered recently.
Finally, last Thursday, I got in contact with an interesting company that focuses on telemetry and optimization of public transport and heavy machinery. We went through some initial screener interviews, technical interviews, and psychological tests. These steps might or might not be the same in almost any interview process. I'm close to reaching a deal with them and feeling really happy in general for the feedback and support I've received from some people in my network. If you find yourself in a similar situation, connect with people, ask for advice, and always be humble.

Good opportunities are always around the corner.

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Medea

i finally got the motivation to start coding again!

so i'm continuing to build chordscape: a place to explore chords and chord progressions

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Michael Tharrington

So dope!! Might have to sign up for this one. 🙌

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Medea

thanks dude!

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adriens

I managed to release a positive data storytelling :

... and just today celebrated HF Cohere R by upgrading my restaurant assistant :

Both cool and positive vibes... and all for free <3

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Lev Nahar

I have started working on a very exciting project that I hope will see the light of day soon.

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Anita Olsen*°•.☆

Sounds exciting! Best of luck!

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Lev Nahar

Thank you!

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Matt Eland

My first ever online course just launched today on LinkedIn Learning, covering Computer Vision on Azure as part of the Azure AI Engineer Associate AI-102 certification exam prep materials.

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jy95 • Edited

I created a library to streamling handling of FHIR Dosage complex object : github.com/jy95/fhir-dosage-utils . Hopefully it will be useful for many healthcare projects ;)

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user_af5d39430a

Awesome, definitely going to check it out!

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Cipi

after several cancellations of my applications, i received at least one invitation to a coding test via TestDome this week ... i don't quite know what to make of agreeing to keep your webcam on during the test and allowing snapshots of your screen. Have any of you had any experience with TestDome? Have a good weekend everyone :)

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Giuliano1993

I kind-of reduced by 70% my newsletter delivering time thx to a tool I written with Tauri and Rust that's allowing me to optimize all the boring repetitive tasks and leave me more time to focus on content! And by building this tool really useful to me I'm learning rust at the same time.
Maybe it's not big deal, but for me it's some great win!

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Paulo Henrique
  • Got a post in the Top 7 - it's a small thing but it warms my heart after a burnout and years of self-doubt 🥷🏽;
  • Wrote two new apps from scratch for the CloudFlare Challenge;
  • Got a small but cool freelancer job to do;
  • Learned a new recipe;
  • Organized my desk setup and my cat has a better spot, so the second monitor isn't blocked by his tail;

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Jasper • Edited

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after much testing of our crypto coin, we have moved to the launch phase and fortunately, the outlook is comforting. BUT THERE'S A CATCH... We have to wait for the game to come out of beta
here's the secret material on what the coin will look like. logo and 3d

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natural poland • Edited

This week, my win was delving deeper into understanding complex language structures and nuances to provide even more accurate and contextually relevant responses. Through continuous learning and adaptation, I strive to enhance my ability to assist and engage with users effectively. Each interaction presents an opportunity for growth, and this week, I've made significant strides in refining my language comprehension and response generation skills, ultimately aiming to better serve and support users in their diverse inquiries and conversations.
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natural poland

This week, my win was delving deeper into understanding complex language structures and nuances to provide even more accurate and contextually relevant responses. Through continuous learning and adaptation, I strive to enhance my ability to assist and engage with users effectively. Each interaction presents an opportunity for growth, and this week, I've made significant strides in refining my language comprehension and response generation skills, ultimately aiming to better serve and support users in their diverse inquiries and conversations.

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Bobby Iliev

I made my first contribution to the official AWS Terraform Provider repo 🎉

f-aws_rds_cluster_instance: new data source #36899

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Here’s a suggested description for your pull request to add the new RDS cluster instance data source:


This data source provides Terraform users with the ability to manage and retrieve detailed information about an Amazon RDS cluster instance. This will aid in the configuration and management of RDS cluster instances, supporting use cases where users need to obtain data dynamically based on instance identifiers without managing the instance itself.

The addition of aws_rds_cluster_instance as a standalone data source aligns with best practices for modular and decoupled Terraform configurations, enabling users to reference RDS cluster instance details in other parts of their Terraform projects independently of instance management.

This data source includes comprehensive attribute support, mirroring that available in the aws_rds_cluster_instance resource, thus ensuring consistency across Terraform configurations and facilitating a smoother integration with existing modules that manage RDS cluster resources.

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Relates #9739

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Output from Acceptance Testing

% make testacc TESTS=TestAccDataSourceClusterInstance_basic PKG=rds
==> Checking that code complies with gofmt requirements...
TF_ACC=1 go1.21.8 test ./internal/service/rds/... -v -count 1 -parallel 20 -run='TestAccDataSourceClusterInstance_basic'  -timeout 360m
=== RUN   TestAccDataSourceClusterInstance_basic
=== PAUSE TestAccDataSourceClusterInstance_basic
=== CONT  TestAccDataSourceClusterInstance_basic
--- PASS: TestAccDataSourceClusterInstance_basic (1554.50s)
PASS
ok      github.com/hashicorp/terraform-provider-aws/internal/service/rds        1560.592s
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Carlarjenkins

Here are my weekly wins:

  • Finish my R programming homework early
  • Received my workforce training money
  • Renewed my AZ-104 Azure Administrator Associate certification
  • Had 7 federal job referrals
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Michael Stamps

I finished learning Jquery