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What was your win this week?

Michael Tharrington on December 15, 2023

Heyo 👋 Hope y'all are ready for the weekend! 🙌 Looking back on this past week, what was something you were proud of accomplishing? All wins cou...

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Anita Olsen • Dec 15 '23 • Edited

📰 I published a post on the DEV community! ✨

Is HTML a Programming Language?

Anita Olsen ・ Dec 10

#discuss #html #programming

🧵 My post "Is HTML a Programming Language?" got a mention in Time to #discuss in The DEV Community newsletter! ✨

🎰 I won the lottery! ✨
I won 50 Kr = $4.7 US 😄

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.

Michael Tharrington • Dec 15 '23

Wooaaaa! The Recylcing Lottery!? 🤯

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!) 🤑

Sounds like another stellar week! 🙌

Anita Olsen • Dec 15 '23

Teehee 😁

Haha, yes it is! Recycling is a big deal over here 🙂

Thanks 😊

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DR • Dec 15 '23

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 👀

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 😅

Michael Tharrington • Dec 15 '23

Nice!! I remember the feeling of wrapping up a semester before the holidays — so stressful ahead of those exams, but so rewarding once you're out the other end.

Keeping my fingers crossed for ya — you got this! 🤞🍀

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.

Erin A Olinick • Dec 15 '23

Heyo! (to borrow a @michaeltharrington salutation.) 😉 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! 👏👏👏 Congrats to all! Your wins light up the DEV community—keep shining bright, champions! ✨

Mati B • Dec 15 '23

Thanks Erin! 💪🏼

Michael Tharrington • Dec 16 '23

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. 🙂

Kaamkiya • Dec 21 '23

Thanks!

Matt Eland • Dec 15 '23

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.

Michael Tharrington • Dec 15 '23

Pants and Batman voice! Sounds like an eventful week...

Oh, and I suppose you gave a talk to 200 people too.... But pants! Batman!!

Matt Eland • Dec 15 '23

Exactly! Pants!

bop • Dec 15 '23

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 house—plus 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. *

Michael Tharrington • Dec 15 '23

Phew! Sounds like a rough one. I reckon life can't always be roses. At least you are finding the bright side though. 🌞

I really hope your wife feels better soon and that you have a nice chill weekend.

Griff Polk • Dec 15 '23

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 (merch… etc.) and yeah, that was my week.

Michael Tharrington • Dec 15 '23

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! 🙌

Ayu Adiati • Dec 15 '23

I officially became a Monthly Challenge Team Lead at Virtual Coffee community together with @dominicduffin1! 🥰

Although the PR is not merged yet, I finally contributed to a code-related (TailwindCSS) issue at an OSS project for the first time! 🥳

Michael Tharrington • Dec 16 '23

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!

Ayu Adiati • Dec 16 '23

Thanks, Michael! 😊
Also, you're always welcome to join Virtual Coffee. 😄

Michael Tharrington • Dec 16 '23

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!

Ayu Adiati • Dec 16 '23

Thanks for pointing new folks here, Michael! And true, the folks here are amazing! 🤩

We're much more beyond software development & tech! I bet @nickytonline can confirm. 😉
So, would love to have you hang out here too, Michael! 😊

And collaboration with DEV in the future sounds super awesome!!! 😍

Nick Taylor • Dec 16 '23

Mohammed • Dec 16 '23

I finally learned how Bezier Curves work and decided to implement them from scratch using OpenGL! Freya Holmér has some really great videos on the math behind these.

Michael Tharrington • Dec 16 '23

Super cool! Any ideas on what you'll do next with this knowledge?

Mohammed • Dec 16 '23

Port it to the GPU of course!

Idk, I just like learning Graphics Programming!

Michael Tharrington • Dec 16 '23

Rock on! I like graphics too. 🙌

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 — expanding and changing colors, etc.

Anyway, good stuff here!

Mohammed • Dec 16 '23 • Edited

Oh, I don't know the first thing about audio programming haha

Neat idea though, I might look into it!

Jake Lundberg • Dec 15 '23 • Edited

Survived the week while wife was sick! 🎉

Got a big chunk of work done on my latest project (not ready to release yet) 🧑‍💻

My recent blog post hit 18k views in its first week 👀

Rowed 25k meters so far this week 🚣🏻

Best Codes • Dec 15 '23

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

Keith Solomon • Dec 19 '23

Finally launched a new version of our company site…after 3 years and 3 devs (I’m only responsible for the last year of that…but I replaced the other two devs). Still some wrinkles to iron out (damn you Google Maps!), but it’s lunched and everybody is happy.

Robin De Neef • Dec 18 '23 • Edited

I was given the opportunity to give an "introduction to AI and how it can be applied in your workflow" talk at work this week. It was very well received.

As part of the talk, I made a fairy wand presentation pointer. I made it from a fairy costume and attached an Arduino RP2040 Connect to it. Then I trained an ML model on a gesture to go to the next slide. It worked and was a great success with the crowd.

Michael Tharrington • Dec 18 '23

That's awesome Robin! Haha, sounds like you had fun with it — love the fairy wand concept haha. 🪄

Stefan Moore • Dec 15 '23

@michaeltharrington what was your win.

Michael Tharrington • Dec 15 '23

Thanks for asking, Stefan!

My big win was that last weekend I cracked the code on my home recording situation — I got a new computer recently and just set it up with my mixer so I can record into Ableton. Now, I can have friends over, we can jam, and record everything we do. I can finally record and produce my own music! 🙌

So last weekend, I had my cousin Patrick over and we recorded a couple of tunes together, one of which is this cover of Peter Gabriel's "Solsbury Hill"... Pat played guitar and I sang. It's not perfect by any means — we actually did it in our first take — but I think it's pretty good and I had a fun time adding effects to it all afterward.

This weekend, I'll be jumping back into it. I wanna work on my production technique and record some more tunes, including a couple of originals that I wrote.

I also like to play a lot of styles of music (you've been around for some of my Music Mondays so you know I have pretty eclectic tastes) so I'm excited to continue exploring different genres and making noise with all my gizmos.

Since you got me talking, here's a shot of my setup btw:

Stefan Moore • Dec 15 '23

I like the set up you have. Congrats on those accomplishments. I see you have something else going besides the tech. Always need that outlet to get lost in. Congrats again.

Michael Tharrington • Dec 16 '23

Thanks for all your kind words, Stefan. And agreed, it's important to have an outlet — my passion for music gives me something to look forward to every day.

Thaísa Vieira • Dec 20 '23

Working at a full-time subaltern job and keep studying!
Also, I'm glad I submitted my first challenge on devChallenges.io with 97% similarity, without looking at tutorials. If you'd like to check out, come check out my Minimal Blog Card.

Rutam Prita Mishra • Dec 16 '23

I just won the v9.3 Release MVP of @mattermost_community. This is the second time I am winning this and it feels so amazing.

lindy65 • Dec 19 '23

Congrats again Rutam! Very well deserved!

Michael Tharrington • Dec 17 '23

Wow! Hot dang. 🏆

Carlarjenkins • Dec 16 '23

These are my wins:

Workforce development meeting to apply for certification exam fee funding
Received 5 more federal job referrals
FAFSA processed and approved by college
Received waiver for an IT class based my cybersecurity certifications

Pachi 🥑 • Dec 17 '23

I hit 10k followers here on dev!!!
I am soo happy an grateful for everyone that read my articles 💖💖💖

Michael Tharrington • Dec 17 '23

Wooohooo! Major congrats, Pachi. 🙌

Pachi 🥑 • Dec 17 '23

Thank you! I am super happy 💖

Michael Tharrington • Dec 18 '23

Oh, I bet you are! That's one helluva milestone right there and very well deserved. 🙌

Robert van Engelen • Dec 15 '23 • Edited

Started, learned, and then implemented bash autocompletions for the ugrep tool I wrote that has about 100 command line options 😳 Then also wrote fish and zsh completions. All in one week 🚀 (3 days actually) Don't do this if you want to keep your sanity 😉 But I have time now to catch up with the community 😃

Stefan Moore • Dec 15 '23

I set up my .dot digital business card
Did all my Christmas shopping
Hopefully I'll learn the AWS CLI this weekend

Paul Kenjerski • Dec 17 '23

Great job on the Christmas shopping! It seems to get more and more overwhelming every year.

Bala Madhusoodhanan • Dec 15 '23

Spent time learning and playing Security solution MSFT Purview

Michael Tharrington • Dec 15 '23

Very nice, Bala! Hope the learnings (and the playing, haha) have been going well for ya. 🙂

Bala Madhusoodhanan • Dec 15 '23

will document a view of my learning and push on monday blog :-D...

David💻 • Dec 16 '23

I regain the energy from a burnout and I'm ready to learn something new

Mehmood-Ul-Haq • Dec 25 '23

This week was tiresome for me but i won the sleeping competition. hahaha

Joe Clark • Dec 16 '23

Small win. I tracked down an open issue in Bitwarden's extension and published my findings in the issue, and they did a PR and fixed it for the next release.

Michael Tharrington • Dec 16 '23

Sounds like a solid win! Good stuff, Joe.

Carlos Heryhelder • Dec 15 '23

Finished the semester at university, just one more to go next year. Slowing down for Christmas, trying to relax and enjoy with my family

Mike Stemle • Dec 15 '23

I’ve been working on a bunch of tools for automating GitHub enterprise management, and I’ve found a bug in the library I use. It’s always nice to be able to find the bug.

Cherry Ramatis • Dec 15 '23 • Edited

One of my elixir articles was recognized on learn elixir even after some time that I posted it

I’m very happy of all the things dev.to provided for me, discovering a new life with tech writing

Michael Tharrington • Dec 16 '23

Yay! Congrats on having your Elixir article highlighted, Cherry. That's good stuff. 🙌

Also, it's just super nice to hear that DEV is living up to your expectations as a writing platform. 💚 ... and of course, if you think of things you'd want or that might make us even better, don't hesitate to give a shout — we're listening and and always open to constructive criticism!

tanya rai • Dec 16 '23

We built in Day 1 support for Gemini models so you can easily integrate Gemini to your application code ♊️🚀!! Check it out - github.com/lastmile-ai/aiconfig/tr...

F1LT3R • Dec 20 '23 • Edited

I built a NodeJS HTTP Server that treats JavaScript, HTML and CSS imports as if they were using a bundler.

// Imports from ./web/vendor/Shade/index.mjs
import Shade, {css, html} from '../vendor/Shade'

class MyCounter extends HTMLElement {
    count = 0

    style = ({count}) => css`
        .count {
            color: ${count >= 8 ? 'red' : 'green'};
        }
    `

    template = ({count}) => html`
        <div @click="add(1)">${count}</div>
    `

    constructor() {
        super()
        Shade(this)
    }

    add(amount) {
        this.count += 1
    }
}

window.customElements.define('my-counter', MyCounter)

You can read more here:
dev.to/f1lt3r/shadejs-part-2-the-m...

And you can check out the code here:
github.com/Shade-JS/ShadeJS/tree/p...

Weiqing Teh // CG BOSS • Dec 16 '23

Started to understand and learn React for work. And starting on learn Qliksense UI for Data Visualizations.