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What was your win this week?

Gracie Gregory (she/her) on July 01, 2022

Hey there! Looking back on this past week, what was something you were proud of accomplishing? All wins count — big or small 🎉 Examples of 'win...
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Vinit Gupta

I contributed for the first time in an open source project.
The PR has not been merged yet
But it feels pretty awesome 😊
@eddiejaoude thanks for inspiring me

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Eddie Jaoude

Great work Vinit! Thanks for the shoutout!

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Julia 👩🏻‍💻 GDE

Nice, Vinit :)

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Vinit Gupta

Thanks Julia 😊

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Nick Taylor

BB-8 giving a thumbs up

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Matt Eland • Edited

I got accepted to deliver my "Is Die Hard a Christmas Movie? Let's ask Azure!" talk at Momentum 2022 in Cincinnati. This was my last conference submission for the year and another acceptance sets me up for a very busy fall with 5 talks at 3 conferences!

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Michael Tharrington

Hans Gruber, aka Alan Rickman, in Die Hard saying over a walkie talkie "Die Hard isn't a Christmas Movie" and John McClean, aka Bruce Willis, responding via walkie talkie "Yes it Yippee-Ki-Yay is"

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Julia 👩🏻‍💻 GDE

The answer is... Yes?! :D

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Matt Eland

According to a classification experiment I ran on Azure Machine Learning using historical data on Christmas movies and non-Christmas movies, the answer is a resounding "yes" - unless Die Hard doesn't occur at a Christmas Party and doesn't occur on Christmas Eve.

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Nick Taylor

I was on a panel at Front-End Test Fest 2 last Thursday! Only dropping it now as a win this week as the recording is up!

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Aurélien Delogu

Nice!

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Aurélien Delogu

I came back on DEV.to ❤️ And I nearly finished my Vue 3 project 🎉

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Nick Taylor

Félicitations!

A T-Rex saying Yeah!

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Aurélien Delogu

Merci bien 😉

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Mostafa Said

I'm working on a huge freelance project and making amazing progress.

Also I got accepted to be a part time fullstack instructor at a local company 🥳

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Julia 👩🏻‍💻 GDE

Congrats, Said!!

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🚩 Atul Prajapati 🇮🇳

Completed my first ui design project 🔥🔥🔥🔥

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Julia 👩🏻‍💻 GDE

Nice ! :)

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🚩 Atul Prajapati 🇮🇳

Thanks 🙏😌

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ashish

500 followers on dev and 50k blog views, definitely my win for this week 😆

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Julia 👩🏻‍💻 GDE

Wow, congrats, ashish!!

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adriens

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Dendi Handian

8-week streak for community wellness badge

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Julia 👩🏻‍💻 GDE

Hehe great, I hope I will achieve that too one time.

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Dendi Handian

seems you're one week away from getting 8 streak

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Julia 👩🏻‍💻 GDE

I am? 😅

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Jakub T. Jankiewicz • Edited

I've started 12 weeks ReactJS course to refresh my knowledge and learn more advanced stuff.

In this week I've finsihed 3 introduction weeks and I've already created two applications in course (one with hooks and one with classes).

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Dennis Tobar

Two wins:
(a) I started to answer questions in English in some communities (I'm not an English native speaker)
(b) I created, after being silent for one year, a post in Spanish about how to learn (spoiler, it's hard, but not impossible)

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Julia 👩🏻‍💻 GDE

Starting working with another language is indeed scary. But since you made the first step, it will get easier every time :) You can be proud for making the first step, Dennis!

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Julia 👩🏻‍💻 GDE

My boss told me yesterday, that I will get a raise (after only 9 months working at that company) starting July. I do now get the salary I wanted to achieve after 2 years :D

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Aurélien Delogu

Or "how having low expectations pays off really quick".

Ahah, just kidding. Congrats!

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gokayburuc.dev
  • Stayed Alive in Turkey ( Elhamdulillah!)
  • Started a new GO Daily Journal Blog in Turkish
  • Finished a Scraper Project in Python.
  • Got a Python certificate from Sololearn
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Ajith R

I got my LinkedIn Mysql course certificate😄 .
Currently iam soo happy🥰 . so that iam giving a offer for all of you 👦🏼👩🏼👨‍🦱👩‍🦰 .
Ask anything, I will send you but ! not more than 1000$

Again Butt 😉 First you want to follow me

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T "@tnir" N • Edited

Got sponsored from GitHub through Thank you to our maintainers.

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Julia 👩🏻‍💻 GDE

Nice move! :) Helping others is so important for one's selves mood.

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Maddy

I've won pizza dough balls. That's my win for this week. 😁

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Krishna Agarwal

Contributed a lot of code to Open Source and made many projects.

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Pretorian29

Going back to coding after 1 year.

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Bhagya

Could complete the CS50's Introduction to Computer Science certificate program by University of Harvard.

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Mohammad Mirfatemi

I started my activity in Codepen and Dev and I am very happy about it

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MANALI NITIN JAGTAP

Nice!

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Bobby Iliev

We've released Tails V2 open beta!

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Henrique Custódia

I offered myself to fix a big bug in an open source project that help a lot developers to translate i18n jsons automatically to any language. Now I'm working on pull request :)

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Julien Dephix

Completely finished Super Mario World on ZSNES emulator! ^^