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What was your win this week?

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Looking back on your week β€” what was something you're proud of?

All wins count β€” big or small πŸŽ‰

Examples of "wins" include:

  • Learning something new
  • Starting a new project
  • Fixing a tricky bug
  • Cleaning your house...or whatever else that may spark joy πŸ˜„

Friyayyyy

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AxelleDRouge

I've obtained a new job :) I will be able to code with React and NodeJS full time with a developer senior as a mentor 😊 while moving in a beautiful city

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Guin White

Lucky duck πŸ¦†! Wishing you all the best in your new role. Kudos❀️

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AxelleDRouge

Thank you !

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Gracie Gregory (she/her)

Whoop!

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AxelleDRouge

That pig gif is just great and sooo weird!!! I can't stop watching it XD XD XD
Thanks a lot

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skaytech • Edited

Wow! The week is already over πŸ˜ƒ This was a quiet week with most of my time spent taking care of my son.
But still I was able to find time to pen down two articles with 1K+ views :-)
Plus gained like 100+ new followers on Dev platform. Looks like I'm doing something right, but, more importantly I'm enjoying at the moment.
Hope yours went alright and have a nice weekend!!!

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Gracie Gregory (she/her)

Yay!!! Glad you are enjoying your experience here. That's the whole idea! Have a great weekend @skaytech

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Ryota Murakami

Congress man!
Two articles with 1K+ views are awesome!
I like code and making something in github repo, but I'm not good at writing article πŸ˜…

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skaytech

Thank you! For each their own... Some people enjoy writing, some folks enjoying vlogging. I think it's important to enjoy the journey. The numbers will take care of themselves.

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Ryota Murakami

I see, thank you tell me your thought!

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Vijaykumar

100++

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Vitor Paladini

Programming-wise my week has been pretty uneventful but I've made a fantastic tomato sauce last Wednesday.

Lots of garlic, onion, canned tomatoes lightly blended with a hand mixer. Easily my best one so far. I ate it with spaghetti πŸ˜„

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Gracie Gregory (she/her)

Oooh nice. Have you checked out this super simple (and kinda famous) tomato sauce recipe from NYT? I can attest to how good it is, which makes no sense given how few ingredients there are. cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/101517...

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Vitor Paladini

Never seen it before, looks surprisingly minimalistic.

I'll definitely give it a try next time, thanks!

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Ben Sinclair

Here's one I do:

  1. Put the pasta water on to boil, with salt
  2. roughly chop and a handful of cherry tomatoes
  3. mince (think 1-2mm chunks) 2 cloves of garlic, 1 or 2 mushrooms, same amount of shallot (or onion)
  4. heat a 28-30cm frying pan and add a good gulp of oil
  5. put the pasta in the water (to get the right amount, fill a bowl with dried pasta and then put about 20% of it back in the cupboard)
  6. put the tomatoes in the frying pan and saute for 3-4 minutes
  7. add the mushroom, garlic and shallots and keep going for 1 minute
  8. add enough passata to easily cover the bottom of your pan to a little more than "omelette" depth
  9. add a couple of drops of worcester sauce
  10. keep stirring it and add a good pinch of dried parsley, basil, salt and black pepper
  11. add about half a handful of grated cheddar, and mix it in until it gets nice and thick

That makes enough for one person. It's delish.

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Vitor Paladini

Damn, it's early morning around here and you got me craving for cheesy-mushroomy pasta.

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Maxim Chechenev

I visited the office for the very first time since mid-March (my team decided to do it on the same day) and that was a bit weird experience - almost empty silent office. I felt like I either arrived too early or too late :)

But anyway, it was great to meet colleagues in real life after 4 months of remote work, that was very cool.

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Gracie Gregory (she/her)

Awesome. I'm jealous! I am definitely missing those opportunities to meet up for coffee with my network, or meet up with colleagues IRL (even if just occasionally)

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Mike Bybee • Edited

Meeting some awesome junior devs here and on LinkedIn (I really wish I'd taken advantage of DEV Community sooner), and connecting with some great individuals who share my ambition for educating them (and one who not only wants to do it for free, but get laptops to those who can't afford them).

And fleshing out some SaaS product ideas.

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Gracie Gregory (she/her)

Oh, wow! That's awesome, especially about the laptops. Such an important access gap to fill.

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Mike Bybee

Speaking of which, anyone who knows Raspberry Pi clustering and would be interested in such a project, please reach out to me.

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Ryota Murakami

That's fortunate!
You hiring on DEV for your start up?

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Mike Bybee

Unfortunately not at the moment. If the SaaS stuff takes off, then hopefully so.

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Ryota Murakami

Sure, Good Luck Bro!

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Andrew Baisden

Consistently posting articles every day to dev.to for a whole week.

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Vaibhav Khulbe

Getting goodies from daily.dev as I provided them with feedback:

And then publishing my first guest post on their blog and here on DEV:

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Corey McCarty
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Rohini Murugesan

As I am completely new to web development, fixing a CORS was my win of the week!!! :) :)

And I'm new to this platform as well. Probably, my first comment.

Glad to be here!! Looking forward for great learning!!! :) :)

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Divyesh Parmar

To implement Mobx for our product-team/admin panel for a big analytics table for all the video conferencing events, which integrates data coming from MySQL as well as Firebase connections.

Now that I have firebase connections being made per each row, I have run into another problem to provide all that updated data to a Download CSV button (which is an array of event details plus the firebase data for those events). The big win is I was able to optimize but next big worry is if I update this same array ( even in mobx store) how to avoid additional re-render!!!

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amlan

Started learning React native. I was really struggling to generate an APK file for a test app I built, because I didnt want to use expo's build service. Was finally able to generate the apk using Jenkins on my own instance on AWS. Feeling accomplished ha ha..

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Hemant Joshi • Edited

I made myself fully happy and a healthy mental state...
Played a lot of games and launched several version of Dev-Blogs Generator
Here is the quick link
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Run the following command in you terminal.

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Cheers You Blog is live on your System. And on localhost.

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Aakash Chaudhary

Learning Vim and Tmux πŸ”₯πŸ”₯. I used to be a big vscode fan but things started to get really slow and laggy when managing medium or big size projects . Then i got introduced to vim and I fell in love with it. Customizable, fast, very very lightweight , super powers like macros, keybinds .Vim is ❀️

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Hardik Upadhyay • Edited

I had a chill week with most of the time spent on practising coding interview questions as I am preparing for internships. Hope I get it soon! However this week I had to interview some juniors in my college for selecting them in a student chapter of which I am a part. I think that was fun!