Heyo ๐
Hope y'all are ready for the weekend! ๐
Looking back on this past week, what was something you were proud of accomplishing?
All wins count โ big or small ๐
Examples of 'wins' include:
- Starting a new project
- Fixing a tricky bug
- Celebrating Hanukkah with your loved ones! ๐
Did you know we feature wins in our "Wins of the Week" email every Friday? Subscribe to our weekly newsletter emails to get wins delivered right to your inbox! ๐
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๐ฐ I published a post on the DEV community! โจ
Is HTML a Programming Language?
Anita Olsen ใป Dec 10
๐งต My post "Is HTML a Programming Language?" got a mention in Time to #discuss in The DEV Community newsletter! โจ
๐ฐ I won the lottery! โจ
I won 50 Kr = $4.7 US ๐
The Recycling Lottery (Norwegian: Pantelotteriet) is a lottery where empty bottles and cans recycled through a Reverse Vending Machine may be converted into a stake in a national lottery.
Wooaaaa! The Recylcing Lottery!? ๐คฏ
That's such a freaking cool idea. And congrats on your 5-dollar win (rounding up cause I'm a glass-half-full kinda person, haha!) ๐ค
Sounds like another stellar week! ๐
Teehee ๐
Haha, yes it is! Recycling is a big deal over here ๐
Thanks ๐
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Completed 2/3 of my classes for this semester! Got a final exam on Saturday (oof) but fingers crossed and I'll finish this term with a 4.0 ๐
In the coding sphere, I've fully completed about 8 days of Advent of Code. A bit behind, but when school ends I'll start grinding so I have some hope of finishing it ๐
Nice!! I remember the feeling of wrapping up a semester before the holidays โ so stressful ahead of those exams, but so rewarding once you're out the other end.
Keeping my fingers crossed for ya โ you got this! ๐ค๐
As for the Advent of Code, good thinking. Sounds like you're prioritizing what's most important now and like ya said, you can always dive back in after school ends.
Heyo! (to borrow a @michaeltharrington salutation.) ๐ Check out the awesome accomplishments from your fellow DEV members last week: @montyharper completed an iOS Development nanodegree and earned a certificate, @matib debuted on DEV with "Embracing Modern Python for Web Development," @srbhr for got over 6 hours of sleep on a busy Saturday, and major props to @kaamkiya for diving into x86_64 assembly and crafting cool programs! ๐๐๐ Congrats to all! Your wins light up the DEV communityโkeep shining bright, champions! โจ
Thanks Erin! ๐ช๐ผ
Haha! YES. I'm so glad to have incepted "heyo" into your vocab.
I love a good "heyo" ... by the way, the origin of that phrase for me personally came about when I lived in Scotland. Folks would regularly say "heya" which I thought of as "hey there" but eventually morphed it into my own "heyo"... I think there are plenty of other folks that use "heyo" out there without the Scottish connection, but that's the personal meaning it has for me. ๐
Thanks!
I wore pants!
Also, I got to give a talk at Global AI Conference on Semantic Kernel to 200 people. I was able to use my Batman voice as part of this talk.
Pants and Batman voice! Sounds like an eventful week...
Oh, and I suppose you gave a talk to 200 people too.... But pants! Batman!!
Exactly! Pants!
I survived. My wife was sick, so had to work, take care of our 1 yo daughter (who doesn't go to school), and the houseโplus feeling shit not to be able to make my wife better.
So the win is to be living after all... And still have my job after not being able to be productive!
*All the glory to the Lord. *
Phew! Sounds like a rough one. I reckon life can't always be roses. At least you are finding the bright side though. ๐
I really hope your wife feels better soon and that you have a nice chill weekend.
I got to interview someone on the MKBHD team (more on that in a while, am going to edit and make a podcast episode as well as an article), and am launching a brand that was finalized this week (merchโฆ etc.) and yeah, that was my week.
Woaaaa! I love watching MKBHD. I'll be looking out for that one!
And you launched a brand?!
Sounds like a successful and fun week. Good stuff, Griff! ๐
I officially became a Monthly Challenge Team Lead at Virtual Coffee community together with @dominicduffin1! ๐ฅฐ
Although the PR is not merged yet, I finally contributed to a code-related (TailwindCSS) issue at an OSS project for the first time! ๐ฅณ
Rock on! I met Dominic back in the day at a previous CodeLand. Awesome to hear that you both joined the Monthly Challenge Team. Virtual Coffee is such a great org!
Thanks, Michael! ๐
Also, you're always welcome to join Virtual Coffee. ๐
I'll consider it! I feel like I get enough of software development in my daily life from working here at DEV, but I love the folks at and vibes I get from Virtual Coffee.
Maybe there's a way I can collaborate with you all in the future while I'm on the clock here at DEV. I do love pointing new folks to y'all's org because I think it's such a friendly helpful place for them to meet folks, get encouragement and assistance. But maybe I can also attend some of the Virtual Coffee events and do a bit more... there's something there, I'm just not sure what yet.
Thank you for the invitation, Ayu!
Thanks for pointing new folks here, Michael! And true, the folks here are amazing! ๐คฉ
We're much more beyond software development & tech! I bet @nickytonline can confirm. ๐
So, would love to have you hang out here too, Michael! ๐
And collaboration with DEV in the future sounds super awesome!!! ๐
I finally learned how Bezier Curves work and decided to implement them from scratch using OpenGL! Freya Holmรฉr has some really great videos on the math behind these.
Super cool! Any ideas on what you'll do next with this knowledge?
Port it to the GPU of course!
Idk, I just like learning Graphics Programming!
Rock on! I like graphics too. ๐
One reason I asked is because I love music visualizers and I wondered if you might have any plans like that... like I could see these lines floating in space to the beat โ expanding and changing colors, etc.
Anyway, good stuff here!
Oh, I don't know the first thing about audio programming haha
Neat idea though, I might look into it!
Survived the week while wife was sick! ๐
Got a big chunk of work done on my latest project (not ready to release yet) ๐งโ๐ป
My recent blog post hit 18k views in its first week ๐
Rowed 25k meters so far this week ๐ฃ๐ป
I made two posts on dev.to, added some pages and fixed some bugs on my website, and got my first followers on GitHub! I also fixed an annoying bug in a private project I'm working on, plus I found out how awesome the moderators are on here! :D
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