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What was your win this week?!

Jess Lee on September 19, 2025

πŸ‘‹πŸ‘‹πŸ‘‹πŸ‘‹ Looking back on your week -- what was something you're proud of? All wins count -- big or small πŸŽ‰ Examples of 'wins' include: Submitting ...
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Varshith V Hegde

I work in a service-based corporate role where we primarily use Python. As many know, Python can be quite slow, especially when dealing with large datasets. We often work with MDF files and signal data, which used to take around 10 minutes just to load.
Recognizing this bottleneck, I proposed offloading the loading and computation parts to Rust for better performance. Initially, management was skeptical and resistant to the idea. It took quite a bit of effort to convince them, and the process was definitely hectic.
But eventually, I got the green lightβ€”and the results were amazing. The entire desktop application now loads in just 10–15 seconds. Huge win!

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Jess Lee The DEV Team

well done!!

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Mohit Upadhyay

Kudos !!

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Joshua Ghali

I got two:

  • Published my first article on devto.

  • We completed our migration from vault open source to vault enterprise at work.

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Jess Lee The DEV Team

congrats on both!

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Athreya aka Maneshwar • Edited

I started building Free DevTools, and it's just going well.

I thought Astro would be great for my use case, but it has a lot of problems, and I've been solving them all week.
Yeah, a lot of things to take care of.

Hard but getting better and better.
Hopefully that gets used ;)

FreeDevTools

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Varshith V Hegde

All the best

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Sagar jariwala

In my second week of job seeking, landed first interview after applying more than 60 companies

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Jess Lee The DEV Team

Ahh good luck!!

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Sagar jariwala

Thanks

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Varshith V Hegde

Congrats!!!

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adriens

I made a short demo that shows how to securely create and send passowrds from terminal and open source software... with a OneLiner

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ИвСлин ВСнСв

Got a PR merged to a FOSS project

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Jess Lee The DEV Team

nice!

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Mario Rosell

Learnt how to use Acme

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Varshith V Hegde

What is Acme?

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CatalinRadoi

implemented Serilog.

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Yalda Khoshpey

I completed a Django site