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What was your win this week?

Heyo πŸ‘‹

Hope that everybody is enjoying their weekend. πŸ™Œ

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

All wins count β€” big or small πŸŽ‰

Examples of 'wins' include:

  • Starting a new project
  • Fixing a tricky bug
  • Taking a long nap 😴

Jake from Adventure Time looking tired while walking and saying


Did you know we feature wins in our "Wins of the Week" email every Friday? Subscribe to our weekly newsletter emails to get wins delivered right to your inbox! πŸ’Œ

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Anita Olsen • Edited

πŸ“° I published a post on the DEV community! Read it here! ✨
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πŸ† I won 1st place on Sololearn's weekly code challenge! ✨
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πŸ’³ I bought a domain & web hosting! ✨
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πŸ’» I completed the temporarily landing page for my domain, visit it here! ✨
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🧩 I completed a difficult programming puzzle on Exapunks! ✨

I hacked my heart! πŸ«€ IOW: Read a value from the nerve connected to my central nervous system (CNS) and made my heart beat by writing a sequence of values to my sinoatrial (SA-N) and atrioventricular (AV-N) nodes on #EXAPUNKS by @zachtronics! #exaprogramming #programming #hacking pic.twitter.com/Q8xW78TSxG

β€” Anita Olsen (@iamAnitaOlsen) November 3, 2023

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πŸ“š I got 3 books for free! ✨
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Juan F Gonzalez

Next level editing of this comment. That's another win in itself. πŸ‘πŸ‘

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Anita Olsen

You are right, it is! Thank you so much! 😊

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Thomas Bnt

Liked how you written your comment! ✨

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Anita Olsen

Thank you, I like it as well! ✨

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Jake Lundberg

Wow, awesome week! 🀩 Keep it up, rockstar!

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Anita Olsen

Thank you so much! I will! 😁

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Michael Tharrington

Woooaaa! This comment rocks. 🎸

What an awesome week of accomplishments. πŸ˜€

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Anita Olsen

Thank you SO much! πŸ˜ƒ It was an awesome week, indeed! ✨

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PaweΕ‚ Ciosek

Great job! Keep it up! πŸš€

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Anita Olsen

Thank you so much! ☺️

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Enzo Nocera

I completed Hacktoberfest 2023 as a first-time maintainer, wrote an article about it (here) and got many upvotes on lemmy.ml/post/7401258 :D

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Erin A Olinick

Hey there! 🌟 Just popping in to shine a spotlight on some impressive wins from last week's thread. @wraith's post hit 20,000 views in a week, while @nickytonline secured two Confoo 2024 talks. @exocody's beta reached 60% sign-up success, and @opensourcee made a stellar DEV tip contribution.

We've got so much love for this incredible community! Join us in cheering for these awesome wins and share your latest successes below. You might get featured in next week's post and our Friday Weekly Wins email! πŸ™Œ

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WebCrumbs • Edited

Thank you for the mention. Let’s make the web more beautiful together!

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Nick Taylor

Actress in a film saying crushed it

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PaweΕ‚ Ciosek

I learned how to properly publish react npm package! πŸ₯³πŸ€©

great article in the topic: betterprogramming.pub/how-to-creat...

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Paulo Teixeira

Today last day as Senior Software Engineer, next week as Tech Lead πŸ˜„

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Nick Taylor

Captain America saluting

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Jake Lundberg

Good luck in the new role!

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Michael Tharrington

Boooyah!! Congrats Paulo! πŸ™Œ

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Bobby Iliev

I got promoted to a Senior DevEx Engineer πŸ₯³

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Jake Lundberg

Congrats!!!

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Bobby Iliev

Thank you Jake!

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Michael Tharrington

Hot dang! That's what's up Bobby.

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Dan Bailey

Got back to my Udemy coursework.

Got the microsite for my wedding built.

Partnered up with a former coworker to start tackling freelance stuff together -- he'll handle design, I'll handle code. It'll rock.

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Michael Tharrington

Oh that's good stuff, Dan! Cool to hear about the wedding microsite and congrats on the upcoming wedding. ❀️

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John Chatman

Would love to connect on some projects I’m working on.

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ShatilKhan

Completed my first Hacktoberfest
Ranked 8th on Hacksquad Globally
Ranked 10th on Novu's Hacktoberfest Leaderboards
Ranked 54th on Quine's Hacktoberfest Leaderboards (by number of Hacktoberfest labeled PRs)
Wrote a blog about my Hactoberfest Experience!

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Matt Eland

Sometimes getting through the week is the win!

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Michael Tharrington

I know that's right. We made it, haha!

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Jake Lundberg

I made a delicious soup πŸ₯£

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Michael Tharrington

OOOo yum! What'd you make?

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Jake Lundberg

It was a creamy chicken and mushroom soup, perfect for a nice cold day!

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Michael Tharrington

Sounds absolutely delicious. Good soup on a cold day is one of the best things in life. πŸ™‚