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What was your win this week?

Hey y'all 👋

Another week down — hope it's been a good one for ya!

Looking back on this past week, what's something you are proud of accomplishing?

All wins count — big or small 🎉

Examples of 'wins' include:

  • Starting a new project
  • Fixing a tricky bug
  • Spending time with your cat 😻

A GIF of a famous meme of Shaq shimmying back and forth while looking directly at the camera and smiling, then suddenly it cuts to a cat similarly framed and shimmying in the same rhythm. To be clear, the cat is real and not animated — it's likely about to pounce on something — but it's movement is so similar to Shaq's that the cut back and forth between the two is seamless.


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! 💌

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Dan Bailey

Giving myself a mental reset. My boss and his boss were both fired on Tuesday morning quite unexpectedly. On the home front, I took a step back from coding and working on my education, and just let myself relax for a the week. TV, reading, and the gym. Just letting myself let go of everything.

It's been good. My stress levels are lower than they were before this all went down. So Saturday, I'm going to go ahead and dig back in to my personal project and my coursework.

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Michael Tharrington

Wow, I'm sorry to hear that. It sounds like a challenging time.

That said, nicely handled and way to keep things into perspective — good on ya for keeping the stress levels despite things being rocky. I hope everything smooths out at work. Or, if you find that it's time to move on to somewhere else, that you are able to make that happen with ease. Digging into the personal project and coursework sounds like good stuff.

Wishing ya the best, Dan!

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Lucas Porfirio

Awesome!

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Mr. Linxed
  • Finished the first basic version of my website.

  • Made two posts here on dev.to

I am happy about the progress I made this week. And finally got myself to write some articles. Been wanting to do this for a while but something was always stopping me.

They might not be great. But practice makes perfect.

💪🏻

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Michael Tharrington

Very nice! Sounds like a successful week to me. Good posts, btw! 😀

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Renato Teixeira

my win this week was earning the GIT badge here lol

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Anita Olsen • Edited

Congratulations! 🎉 I LOVE badges!
Welcome to DEV!

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Michael Tharrington

Awww yeah! 🙌

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adriens

Badges goes BRRRR <3

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Mohammed

I made it to Friday.

That counts for something right? JK

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Michael Tharrington

Haha, totally counts! You know, not every week has to have some grand triumph. Making it to the end is a win in my book. 😀

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Anita Olsen
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Michael Tharrington

Heck yeah! Another great discussion! 😀

It's so cool to hear about different folk's methods for learning.

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Thomas Bnt

Make too long contributions on astro/docs ! 🚀

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Michael Tharrington

Woot woot! Nice one, Thomas. I'm sure Astro appreciates it. I wonder if they might want to have an org here on DEV... 🤔

I see we have a tag!

#astro

This is about Astro, the framework where you build faster websites with less client-side JavaScript.
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Elian Van Cutsem • Edited

I would love to have an org here!
Let me see what I can do! Who do I get in touch with?

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Thomas Bnt • Edited

Oh that is great! 🚀
You can follow this page to create your organization, and if you have questions, @michaeltharrington won't hesitate to respond! (also me aha) 🌱

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Michael Tharrington

Wow, this is awesome! Thanks for the intro @thomasbnt and great to meet you @eliancodes. 👋

I'll hit you up via email with some more info, but in the meantime, feel free to check out our organization info page here and if you wanna get started with creating an org, you can do so from your settings here

Speak soon and hope you have a wonderful weekend! 😀

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Thomas Bnt

Aha I had this question in my head too, I'm asking the maintainers if they'd be interested in writing about DEV. 🚀

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Alessandro Pischedda

my contribution to the fastapi-sso library has been accepted :)

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Michael Tharrington

Woot woot! Good stuff, Alessandro. Sounds like a handy plugin!

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Ndeye Fatou Diop • Edited

Glad to see my react article here was so appreciated 🙏

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Elizabeth

This is an amazing article!

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Ndeye Fatou Diop

So glad you liked it! I really hope people won’t make the same mistakes I did !

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Michael Tharrington

Oh wow yeah, this is one heckuva article! Nicely done, Ndeye. 🙌

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Ndeye Fatou Diop

Thanks a lot 🙏☺️

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Kyle O'Brien

I created my first react app! Its real dumb but its my real dumb app.

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Michael Tharrington

Haha! Hey, gotta start small right? 😀

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Oscar • Edited

I might have the opportunity to do a little bit of "freelancing" for a friend of a friend! I'm super excited! I've been brainstorming ideas for about 3 days straight now 😅.

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Michael Tharrington

Oh heck yeah! That sounds fun. Hope the collab goes well. 😀

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Mohammed • Edited

Good luck!

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