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What was your win this week?

Jess Lee on August 09, 2024

👋👋👋👋 Reflecting on your week -- what's one thing you're proud of achieving? Every win matters -- no matter the size 🎉 Examples of 'wins' include...
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Ben Halpern

Celebrated my 4-year anniversary 🎉

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adriens

So did I :

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Ashish Prajapati

congratulations 🎉🎉. I am looking for job change in React. Could you guide me, I am struggling to find out jobs.

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Neurabot

You can be entrepreneur.

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Albert Coronado

Congratulations Ben!!!!!

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Jess Lee

It was a really tough week. I developed a sudden case of mastitis and simply could not shake a fever for about 12 hours. I really thought antibiotics would cure me immediately but I'm still feeling really crappy several days in. Anyway, MY WIN is that we were still able to launch DEV Challenges on Product Hunt yesterday, and that I still got most of the 'must haves' done this week. I'm also hosting family at my house for my baby's 1yo birthday this weekend so I'm looking forward to that even if I'm not fully myself yet!

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Matt Eland

I built out much of the structure for MattOnML.NET - not quite ready to fully launch it yet, but pretty soon!

Also, got 3 chapters to near final status on the upcoming book, "Data Science in .NET with Polyglot Notebooks"

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Jess Lee

Do you self-publish all your books?

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Matt Eland

No, they're both via Packt Publishing

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Jess Lee

Whoops - I should have looked at your profile before I asked!

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adriens

That's cool dude !

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Cesar Aguirre

I sent my first email to my newsletter subscribers (around 20 people) I took me a bit of hesitation to start it. I sent 5 links I found worth sharing from the past weeks.

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Jess Lee

congrats!

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Rasheed K Mozaffar

Got my first PR approved and merged at my new job 🥳

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Jess Lee

Great feeling!

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Ashish Prajapati

In this week I released my hook for my library. Checkout it here.
classic-react-hooks.vercel.app/hoo...

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Ben Halpern

Nice

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skywarth • Edited

I've completed and published my first GitHub App to marketplace this week. What a ride it was! I've also prepared posts on explaining how I prepared and learnt from it. Go ahead and check it out:

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Neurabot

Successful!

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Shrijal Acharya

Just completed a Python automation script for Instagram post automation along with a blog post on it all today. I started working on the script months ago but didn’t have enough time to finish it. I’ll be posting it on DEV tomorrow. :)

Going to sleep now. Completely exhausted. Goodnight 😪

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Jess Lee

Nice!

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Neurabot

Wow. I wait for it.

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Shrijal Acharya

@heyeasley, Stay posted! ;)

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Shrijal Acharya

Here's the link if you're curious: dev.to/shricodev/automate-your-ins...

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Oscar

Successfully installed Arch Linux on my PC (along with some annoying driver configuration), reconfigured i3 and picom a little bit, and I'm starting to move my Neovim config plugin manager from packer to lazy.nvim. Fun week.

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Ben Sinclair

In tech, I reached a kind of milestone in a game I'm making in Godot - you can now actually play it even if it's incomplete and pointless. You can move the player around and get points for things. I've re-written it a few times and learnt more each time and am committed to finishing it before moving on to more tempting ideas!

Outside of these walls I scrapped my car due to it being unbelievably not carworthy and was expecting to spend ages trying to get a replacement... but I ended up buying the second car I went to look at, which means I don't have to waste time and money on buses and taxis and so on during the search, and it also means I got something I really like.

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Sijan Bhusal • Edited

Can you provide me some useful roadmaps for Learning Godot, since I am new to this.

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Ben Sinclair

Almost everything I've learnt so far has been from the official docs (and built-in help) and from watching Youtube videos from Brackeys and GDQuest who're both really accessible and have well-paced tutorials.

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Justin Young

Got another article posted in my Peasy-UI series!!!
dev.to/jyoung4242/binding-events-f...

Super excited about what's coming next... ALSO... in the world of game dev, i have a playtesting demo just released on itch.io, that I'd love to get feedback on!!!!

mookie4242.itch.io/battle-system-p...

I'm making a tactics style game and this is my first rapid prototype of the battle system!

Lemme know what you think!

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Alberto Cubeddu

In terms of week, it's one of the best this year so far! 😄

My back is finally healing, and the daily "forced" sauna is a nice touch to finish the day. Can't wait to be back in the water and catch some waves.

Skill Society is gaining traction with little to no investment in marketing, and medium-sized businesses are starting to inquire about the service thanks to word of mouth.

Extension | OS (github.com/albertocubeddu/extensionos), has got 16 ⭐'s on GitHub, 5 new releases 📆 and so much feedback that the roadmap is as long as the way to Rome 🤌 🇮🇹

What a week! Have a great weekend @jess

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Darren

What is skill society? Link?

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Alberto Cubeddu

LINK: skillsociety.com.au

Long TED Talk, just because i care about the issue we are solving:
Imagine a world where traditional resumes are a thing of the past. Here in Sydney, and likely in many other places hit by mass layoffs, the job market has become a disheartening landscape. You could send out over 100 applications and never get the chance to speak to a single person.

It's not just frustrating; it's demoralising. And when you finally do get the opportunity to talk to someone, you're often unprepared. After all, you've probably spent countless hours quietly searching for a job, sending out hundreds of resumes and cover letters that never received a response.

Sure, this process might sharpen your writing skills, but we all know that when you’re sitting across from an interviewer, it’s your ability to speak that really counts.

That’s where Skill Society steps in. Our platform enables hiring managers to gain a deeper understanding of candidates beyond just a resume, without the need for them to personally conduct phone interviews. For candidates, it’s an opportunity to continuously improve and prepare, especially since we all know the questions for the same role tend to be quite similar. Skill Society empowers both sides of the hiring process, making it more efficient and effective for everyone involved.

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Ndeye Fatou Diop

Finally published this post I have been working on for months ☺️

dev.to/_ndeyefatoudiop/101-react-t...

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Neurabot

I have been fixing bugs in Github.
I discover Markdown and plan to use it in future projects.
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Otherwise I have been sick since two days.

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Nikolas

get well soon!

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Neurabot

Thanks

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mlr

I recently conducted a presentation and workshop for my team on "thin vertical slice" development. I also wrote an article, Breaking the Horizontal Habit that provides a high-level overview of this concept.

After reconvening with my team today, I am pleased to leaps and bounds forward in our approach to achieving our Sprint goal. Until now, we had stumbled with each step towards completing our Sprint goals within the Sprint timebox. However, this week, my team embraced the "thin vertical slice" methodology, and as a result, we successfully completed three thin vertical slices that collectively formed a full feature, allowing us to meet our Sprint goal for the first time!

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adriens

I published my dataprep workflow for the Pacific Dataviz Challenge (prize ceremony is coming next week):

Also, I've updated my dedicated DEV.to series.

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Thomas Bnt

Won a second Award by Astro for contributed to the french documentation 🥰🥳

Astro Community

Celebrate the Astro Community

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Neurabot

What is that community used for ? Is that intented for astrophysics or something else ?

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Thomas Bnt

No, Astro is a web framework 😀

Astro

Astro builds fast content sites, powerful web applications, dynamic server APIs, and everything in-between.

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Neurabot

OK. Good.

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Julien

I've finally released my project after four months of intensive work: Anyquery, a SQL query engine for anything (GitHub, Parquet, Todoist, Google Sheets, etc.)

It was a lot of doubts about feasibility, but in the end, I succeeded in releasing it.

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Neurabot

Wow. Congratulations.

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Ash Ryan Arnwine

We just launched our first DEV challenge at Nylas. Super excited about working with the DEV community!

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Neurabot

Thanks to @thepracticaldev to gather such brilliant minds.

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Nikolas
  1. Run for 5K after a log running break

  2. Set up some new APIs - apyhub.com/catalog/hr

  3. Painted my apartment :)

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Darren

I'm a big fan of small wins.

My win this week was finally cracking open a tutorial I have and working through it.

Sometimes that first step is a doozey! But once you take it opens the flood-gates.

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Tobias Haindl

Fixed a nasty race condition and optimized the performance of an application 🚀

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soniikot

I finally wrote a resume which I am not felling ashamed to show other people and I made my first custom hook, which was really hard knowing that I just start with React last week

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Mince

Crossed 6K followers

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Anna Villarreal

I built my first pc!

computer

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Thaísa Vieira

I did my best to keep my mind calmer (even at work!)

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José Aponte

I started using neovim as my default IDE

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Keith Solomon

I actually took an honest-to-god vacation. For the first time in 20+ years, I didn’t do anything work-related…I even signed out of slack on my phone and iPad.

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Albert Coronado • Edited

Hi Guys! I refactored my blog(In Spanish) in GoLang albertcoronado.com/ . The next step will be to create an admin backend in order to have a full CMS.

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ppaanngggg

I added ads to my all in one token counter by google adsense.
And I received my first order yolov10 model of doclaynet

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MUHAMMAD ASHIR NIAZ

i find a vulnerability xxs

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Linda Sebastian

I'm starting to write code again and do some experiments, after a long period. From this week I will actively write in dev.to.

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Ajithkumar P S

Implemented S3 Intelligent-Tiering on our application.

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Alanrah

I ran three kilometers last night and did some yoga to relax my back and waist.