Michael Tharrington

for The DEV Team

Posted on Oct 21, 2022 • Edited on Apr 7, 2023

What was your win this week?

#discuss #weeklyretro

Hey folks! 👋

Hope everybody is having a fantastic Friday and that you all have wonderful weekends!

Looking back on this past week, what was something you were proud of accomplishing?

All wins count — big or small 🎉

Examples of 'wins' include:

Starting a new project
Fixing a tricky bug
Carving a pumpkin 🎃

Put your weekend face on! 😎

Top comments (21)

Ingo Steinke, web developer • Oct 21 '22

My win this week was finally understanding how my customer's WooCommerce WordPress site was (not) supposed to work. I made a post to share my learnings:

Should we use WooCommerce Block Theme Syntax in 2022?

Ingo Steinke ・ Oct 21 ・ 6 min read

#webdev #wordpress #php #javascript

Bobby Iliev • Oct 21 '22

I completed the Hacktoberfest challenge!

Rahul • Oct 21 '22

My win this week is I create this product with no code tool in a day and got 100+ upvotes on Produt Hunt. You guys can still support and see.

I made fReddit - explore your interests with joining subreddits. I curated more than 300+ subreddit.

ProductHunt - fReddit

Thank you.

CodeFilez • Oct 21 '22

Fixed another accounting bug in my new position and everyone is going to get paid correctly :)

Aaron Reese • Oct 24 '22

Damn. There goes my $1m end of year bonus...
😁

CodeFilez • Oct 24 '22

LOL!!! seriously!

Shai Almog • Oct 21 '22

Finished writing my debugging book it's already on Amazon although no cover art yet. Publish date there will probably be much sooner...

Started working on a new course and did an online conference. All this while on a trip in Goa with constant power outages.

Giulio "Joshi" • Oct 21 '22

I had a quite difficult meeting on the job, and created the "weapons card" for dire moments, as an answer to the classical "planning poker" in Agile.

(maybe I should have saved this pun for a post, but I'm quite too tired to prepare it this week 😴 )

Michael Tharrington • Oct 24 '22

Haha!! Brutal! Love it.

For a second I was thinking that the weapons were in the shape of letters and spelling something out. I sat here for a few minutes puzzling before I realized nahhh, that's not happening. 😆

Giulio "Joshi" • Oct 26 '22

Well... that could be a nice idea for the next time 💡🥷🏻

but no, the guys just got the joke and it helped.. a bit.. against the stress.

Matt Eland • Oct 23 '22

I delivered 3 conference talks at 2 conferences, including my first out-of-state conference!

Michael Tharrington • Oct 24 '22

Woaaa!! 3 talks in 1 week. That's awesome!

Matt Eland • Oct 24 '22

Yeah, I've done two in a week before at the same conference, but never two conferences in the same week. Felt like a seasoned pro.

Aaron Reese • Oct 24 '22

I managed to get T-SQL to render an HTML email using Vue/angular style binding and interpolation against an XML data set. It also supports multiple nested levels.
I also wrote code to take an XML datamap and apply it against a flattened dataset to produce the XML expected by the email template
Time for a lie down...

crowdozer • Oct 21 '22

Finally got arangodump and arangorestore to work 🎉

Arangodb doesn't have many hosting solutions, and the ones that exist arent very mature (except for the official one, which is expensive). I didn't have a way of running imports/exports through the dashboard, and it doesn't help that the error messages aren't descriptive when you try to perform them manually over the wire. Just cryptic things & docs don't make them any clearer. Wrong port? Wrong protocol? Wrong hostname? Wrong password? Who knows 😛

So it was a lot sparse trial and error over the course of the week until it finally worked lol