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What was your win this week?

Gracie Gregory (she/her) on April 23, 2021

Hey there! Looking back on your week — what was something you're proud of? All wins count — big or small 🎉 Examples of 'wins' include: Startin...
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manu

Hmm...

Well nothing too much really...
But I made my website work offline :D
https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/inppjenzvhem8fofs5gj.png

lol experimenting with PWAs and serviceWorker

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Gabriel Laroche

after two years I finally posted a new post on here! :D

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Oliver • Edited

I have the motivation of a large rock so most things are a win for me.

A few weeks ago, I created a small website (goodi.sh) that lists domain-hack type URLs ending with .sh. It scrapes WHOIS several times a day and the page is re-built automatically from the scraper output. All done with Github actions – which I'd never used before.

I was a little disheartened by the site's lack of traffic though and so I started reading about SEO. I'm familiar with many of the practises but SEO always seemed a bit skeevy to me. However, with few visitors, I finally accepted that if I wanted to make a successful website, I needed to learn SEO and marketing in general.

So, this week, I set up a blog – ostensibly as a sandbox for experimenting with SEO. I haven't learned so much about SEO yet – and I'm still to write a decent post – but I did enjoy honing my design skills and learning about CSS grid and flexbox. It also gave me the chance to become more familiar with Jekyll and I wrote some Liquid template plugins to handle things like fetching post thumbnails. It's not perfect but I found enjoyment working on it. (And it's been a while since I've found proper enjoyment doing computer stuff.)

The blog is jllyfsh.com

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rgedwill • Edited

I was in the same boat up until like 6 months ago! I was working as a consultant on a project but for the most part was doing basically nothing. I started working on a few things and 2 months ago committed to building a social media platform, have been working on it ever since.

Really feels like I'm starting to enjoy playing with computers/websites again! Good luck to you on keeping the momentum going, its easy to do when you remember coding is actually really fun!

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Jérémie Astor

I started implementing an algebraic effect system in my language, and that project also earned its 250th github star today 😄

GitHub logo Gwion / Gwion

🎵 strongly-timed musical programming language

Gwion

Language grade: C/C++ CII Best Practices Coverage Line Count

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Gwion is a programming language, aimed at making music

strongly inspired by ChucK, but adding a bunch high-level features templating, first-class functions and more.

It aims to be simple, small, fast, extendable and embeddable.

Checkout the community, and join us on discord: discord.gg/KmHqbTKSmS. You can also check this very nice server about programming language devlopment: discord.gg/4Kjt3ZE, since a lot of improvements to gwion are discussed there.

Build

Download the source

git clone https://github.com/Gwion/Gwion
cd Gwion
git submodule update --init --recursive util ast
make
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Configuring (optional)

You can get a list of config files to tweak with

find . -name "config.mk"
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Please rebuild to take your change into account.

make -C util clean
make -C ast  clean
make clean
make

Besides developer options, you migth want to check USE_DOUBLE, in util/config.mk, which set the floating point size (float or double) Note that…

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Oliver

This looks insanely good. I fear I might have discovered a new time-sink.

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Jérémie Astor

Thanks you :) very much.
If you have some interest in this project, know you can join me and the collaborators at
discord.gg/KmHqbTKSmS

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David

I became the COO of a company where I joined as a mobile developer 3 years ago.

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Abdul Basit

Wrote an article that helped community

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Piotr Wilk

Wrote my first posts ever in #5days5blogposts challenge! Yay!

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Özlem

Start learning Github actions

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Bobby Iliev

I received the 16 week streak badge on DEV 🥳

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Doaa Mahely

Nice!

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Shaquil Maria

I finally decided to post a blog explaining something that I just learned a while ago! 🍻 Here to future posts!

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Doaa Mahely

Consistently worked on a side project 🎉

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Deepak Vijay Agrawal • Edited

Recently I created a 2D platformer game on Unity with C#, completed 100 Players Milestone on Itch.io

Level 1

Play : Olaf's Adventure

Feel free to add your suggestions and feedback for the Game in comments. ❤ 👩‍💻

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Gabriel Laroche

Thank you!

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Prakhar Yadav • Edited
  1. I did not discontinue my learning streak on freeCodeCamp
  2. learned Flexbox
  3. learned to cook a new dish
  4. took time to read novel (a little escape to wonderland is necessary)
  5. took time to enjoy my hobby (photography; a sample pic)
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Ali Riza Reisoglu

Joined dev.to and published first posts 💙

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Thomas Bnt • Edited

Integrated @nuxtjs/content to my future blog!

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Chittoji Murali Sree Krishna • Edited

Successfully configured my neovim 🤠

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Vivek

Started working on a side project and researched a lot about what Technology Stack to use. Finally, I decided to use the MERN stack!

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hamdano2

I got to work on front end a bit at my job which is unusual.

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David Cantrell

I got my Compose key working on my Mac! github.com/DrHyde/configurations/t...

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Meg Hannon

I deployed my personal website! megfh.dev 🎉

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Mohamed ABDELLANI

I discovered how Firestore is terrible

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Aigars Pluģis

Started making own internal host monitoring system, has some tricky parts, but I'll figure them out somehow.

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Pankaj Patel

After long time wanting to use CSS Grid; this week, I Finally made layouts with CSS Grid.

Very delighted and Flexbox saved me some corner cases.

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john

I finished a Social network project!

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Jaimie Carter

At 53, I got a job as a junior dev.

notbhed

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Navaneeth Bysani

I have quite a few things to share this week
I wrote my first post on dev.to
I started a new MERN project that allows people to create and participate in quizzes

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jYOTIHARODE

Achievement on GITHUB

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zidniryi

Me:

Starting a new project
Fixing a tricky bug
Got New Jobs Increase Almost 50%
Relearn about data structure like Binary Search, caesarChiper, etc
Reading Good Book.

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Breno Jesus

I've started to add workflow management capabilities to my startup project 😌

GitHub logo inspr / inspr

Inspr is an agnostic application mesh for simpler, faster, and securer development of distributed applications (dApps).



A Cloud Native Application Mesh.

Describe, connect, secure, test and deploy distributed applications with less effort.




Inspr is an agnostic application mesh for simpler, faster, and securer development of distributed applications (dApps). With it you can coordinate the application lifecycle and how the subparts of a dApp interconnect themselves.

For Inspr’s point of view, a dApp is defined as an abstraction on top of the concept of a microservice. We extend the model by adding patterns of composition, communication, security, and adaptability to the application during runtime.

🎛 Compose

With Inspr one dApp can be connected to another and those two will become a new application. Consider as an example where we’re creating a online shop called “Sammyfy”. To build this product we’ll need a few services such as payment, catalog, and delivery.

Of course, we could create those three services and interconnect them by using Rest API or even…




Was a week of debate about what should and shouldn't be done. In the end the proposal passed haha
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Milo

Probably contributing to a good amount of projects. I'm very proud of my self!

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Gabor Szabo

I ran several live Pair programming sessions, one of them in Spanish!

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ddaniel27

I started building my portfolio with React and I finished my first view! just three more haha