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Looking back on your week -- what was something you're proud of?
All wins count -- big or small 🎉
Examples of 'wins' include:
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I'm tired boss
Made it a full week without touching the Switch games before bed.😂
I am still around, recovering from burnout. Turns out sometimes the best you can do is to unplug for a while. Spend time in nature. Make some art. Sit in silence. At least it works for me.
So, as for my wins this week, I would list:
Take care, folks! 💛
Hey Klaudia! I would recommend doing once a week instead of having to do a lot in a week and get burn out on the next. It helps me and If you are planning on consistent post, this is usually ideal. Glad you are feeling okay!
Hey Francis! Thanks for reaching out; your comments somehow always boost my mood 🙂
Do you mean that you set yourself a routine, for example, to write and publish a post on DEV once a week?
Exactly! It is what I have been doing for the past 5 months or so and it work well. @sylwia-lask and @hemapriya_kanagala does the same as well (though I am realizing Hema and I have the same posting schedule which is every monday lol).
Hahaha true! Although sometimes I consider publishing two articles in a week... But usually I'm to busy and I'm staying with one, which is perfectly enough :)
I actually really need to think of some writing/publishing schedule instead of relying on inspiration only 🤔 Stephen King wrote in "On writing" that no matter what, he writes at least 10 pages a day, and that every writer should set such a goal for themselves. I remember thinking, "aha, you can have such a goal if you're a full-time writer, not when you do it after work as a hobby". But probably the case is not 10 pages themselves but regularity.
Thank you for your comments @francistrdev , @sylwia-lask – you gave me a lot of food for thought!
Launched profile pages for Old Light!
oldlight.io/player/alpha/mr-linxed
I just launched a new website this week: the blog section of my company website.
It is a French-only blog, built with Astro 7 and the Stardrive theme.
To launch it properly, I wrote four articles this week, all based on my own experience from years of working with websites, infrastructure, and software projects.
One small technical detail I enjoyed building: I created a custom component specifically for this blog — a reusable CTA block that can be inserted at the end of articles.
Nothing revolutionary, but it is a good example of why I like static site generators: simple architecture, fast pages, and full control over the codebase.
Next step: keep writing and see how the content evolves over time.
I launched the 2nd book of my coding trilogy: Street-Smart Coding Manifeso :)
One of my win was to complete a blog on my first Gen AI project for which I've been procrastinating for weeks now. You can go and checkout on my profile.
I got my portfolio up and running and I plan on adding more features as I make more progress in my work.
I built my first agentic-ai product and after much debugging, it's working! I'm so proud of it even though it's the MVP!
Got a new badge <3
Lunching my 1st ever open source project tomorrow to help dev.to community 😇
GitRepo -github.com/simplynadaf/devpub
Demo Here - youtu.be/u8H2BITfYjc?si=380RDejX20...
@jess Need your feedback and guidance 🙏🏻
It's live now - dev.to/sarvar_04/introducing-devpu...
I took a step really rapidly. I mean I moved my feet too fast, didn't really aim, and I kicked my foot into the door.
The door was half open.
So the 90 degree corner of the door wedged between the little toe and the rest of the toe.
I almost broke my little toe this way (the base of the toe's bone could've broken).
But... just almost.
So I can still walk, it just hurts.
This is a win!
Successfully published two more posts on DEV and other platforms.
This week, I managed to help a few Firefox users on Reddit troubleshoot some persistent bugs (history clearing crashes on iPad, and YouTube audio issues).
It felt great to see their frustration turn into relief. I also encouraged one of them to submit crash logs to Mozilla's Bugzilla to help devs track down the root cause permanently.
Small win, but happy to give back to the community! 🎉 Happy Friday, everyone!
Brainstorm my new personal website and finalized the theme, style, and visual elements~
I got laid off, today was my last day after 30 days notice period.
I’m in the final stages of launching my own e-commerce brand 🙌🏼 Feeling motivated.
I’ve also started my MCP series in the developer community ❤️
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Being alive 😅
On a serious note, restarted be active here after many years, I just posted about the journey around the side project i'm currently building: Orateur an app who read your articles for you, you just have to listen. I added the import with the right format(bold, underline, code etc...), back to the top when you just finished listening(because of the auto scroll down)
I hope this message brightens your day! 😄
The coffee machine in the corner of the room was buzzing. It was 2:00 AM.
Marcus stared at his monitor, blinking against the harsh white light of his code editor. A critical bug in the payment gateway was stalling the entire product launch. He had spent six hours retracing his logic, checking every API call, and rewriting the validation loops. Nothing worked. His eyes ached, and his brain felt sluggish. He felt entirely alone in the quiet office.
The heavy glass door clicked open. Maya walked in, holding two fresh mugs of coffee. Behind her, Liam was already pulling up a rolling chair.
"We saw your commits stalling on GitHub," Maya said, handing him a mug. "Move over. Let us look."
Marcus exhaled a breath he did not realize he was holding. He sat back as Liam pointed at a minor configuration mismatch in the environment variables, a tiny error Marcus had scrolled past a dozen times. Maya quickly drafted a patch script to test it in the staging environment. Within twenty minutes, the logs cleared, the terminal flashed green, and the payment went through.
Marcus looked at his colleagues, feeling the heavy weight lift from his shoulders. He remembered an old quote that perfectly fit the moment: Great things in business are never done by one person; they're done by a team of people.
They packed up their bags, turned off the lights, and walked out together into the cool night air.
Good week. Three PRs merged into NVIDIA's NeMo agent framework, and two of them were real code rather than docs. The one I'm happiest about was a test that passed while proving nothing: a mocked HTTP response was quietly sending the test down the failure path instead of the success path its own name described. Fixing it also took that file from about 5 seconds to 0.07.
The rest of the week was a debugging rabbit hole. My sandbox VM kept hanging mid-inference, and it turned out I'd given it all 8 vCPUs, so the model server was starving the guest kernel itself. The fix wasn't a CPU quota either, since CFS throttling wrecks llama.cpp's per-token sync. Pinning to six cores solved it. Those hard resets were also silently corrupting Ollama's content-addressed blobs, which led to a bug report with a reproducer, because ollama pull prints "verifying sha256 digest" and "success" over a file that doesn't match its own filename hash.
Also shipped a writeup and got a local model executing generated code in the sandbox for the first time.
Finished the loop engineering series yaay 🎉
now I can start the Adaptive Progressive Disclosure series
We finally officially launched the app we've been building and using internally with my team for 5 years...
Finished an annoying project
Exploring blog writing and engaging with this developer community.
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