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What was your win this week?

Jess Lee on November 06, 2026

👋👋👋👋 Looking back on your week -- what was something you're proud of? All wins count -- big or small 🎉 Examples of 'wins' include: Getting a pro...
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FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ •

Finished my first hacktoberfest and got this!

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Sᴛᴀʀ⭐ • • Edited

Wow 😯😯😯 congrats 🗽🗽🗽

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Varshith V Hegde • • Edited

I did my first ever 5K run today . It was slow but finallyy i reached a milestone ... Happyyy

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Sᴛᴀʀ⭐ •

5km Awesome 🥰

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Varshith V Hegde •

Thanks

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Ben Halpern The DEV Team •

Congrats!

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Varshith V Hegde •

🙌🙌😌

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xulingfeng •

Ran a successful session on AI‑powered automated testing, which gave our company’s upcoming AI‑driven collaboration transformation a solid push forward.👏

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Akhouri Anmol Kumar •

the best feeling ever right?
congrats bro.

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Peter Vivo • • Edited

Yes this is a great feeling, when you can controll the whole 3D space without need to be understund a big 3D software each painfull solution. There is the core rule, each object have a physical surface.

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Ali Farhat •

We got listed on n8n with our node! 🙌🏻
n8n.io/integrations/geo-search-leads/

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Jean-Sebastien Beaulieu • • Edited

My win this week was surviving a 96-hour surgical audit to track down 9 silent memory leaks in my AI brain's 05:00 AM "glymphatic" state-drainage loop—and finally sealing Layer 0 at 60/60 Actions PASS and 173/173 Pytest PASS! 🧠🛠️

The wildest catch of the week? Discovering that a naive substring parser (if "STATUS: VERIFIED" in stdout:) had matched the string "STATUS: VERIFIED" inside the exact French sentence where my hostile auditor AI explained why it refused to verify the code ("Je n'ai pas écrit STATUS: VERIFIED...")—and that a fallback bug was silently injecting Human Insulin (P01308) whenever a live UniProt protein query returned zero hits!

I replaced binary PASS/FAIL grading (which forces LLMs to fake completion with hollow pass stubs) with a zero-bias Python AST harvester and Neutrosophic Logic <T, I, F>—giving the system a dedicated mathematical third state (I — Open Indeterminacy) so unfinished work is preserved honestly instead of hidden.

Just published the full engineering breakdown here on DEV {{ dev.to/jsb-securedme/the-missing-t... }} (along with the 58-page Zenodo monograph) right in time for the upcoming NASA Space Apps Challenge! 🚀 Happy Friday everyone!

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Federico Navarrete • • Edited

To secure my next presentation about local LLMs in a new European Institution after the FinOps conference and promote local agentic programming, and I finished my first video game:
tstories.federiconavarrete.com/mem...

I'll be curious of your feedback.

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Muhammad Murtuza Hussain •

getting 8 hours of sleep!

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Ali Farhat •

Thats a great achievement indeed! 😁

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amananandrai •

great achievement 😀

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Akhouri Anmol Kumar •

yeah but it was post of what is your win this week dude is that whole week sleep? 8 hours per day or whole week combined 8 hours 💀

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Gábor Mészáros •

Releasing the UI for agent diagnostics

more on it here

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AK DevCraft •

Finally found good youtube channels explaining software architecture and specially DB sharding concepts in depth. More importantly, I was able to watch some of them and enjoy 😉.
Once a software engineer, learner forever! 😆

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Elmar Chavez •

I just finished the foundations for the backend and database for my full stack web app and now I'm excited in building the frontend.

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Cesar Aguirre •

I finished the first draft of the 3rd book of my Street-Smart Coding collection. Already ordered a book cover and reached out to my loyal beta readers.

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Soumyadeep Dey •

Had hopes for winning kaggle challenge, bit disappointed

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Adam - The Developer ✨ •

Finally getting to release v1.0.0 of Piper. the 3 year long project!

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Sᴛᴀʀ⭐ •

Congrats 🥰

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Shambhavi •

My win this week was earning all 10 badges as part of Google Cloud Learn with Communities that our university's GDG (Google Developer Groups) was organizing.

I had missed out on completing it last year due to being short of 2 of the required 22 badges last year so I'm happy to be able to finish it this time.

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Manan Sharma •

I learned about Prometheus this week, and used it to monitor my projects

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nyaomaru •

My win this week: I launched Necoz, a new open-source organization! 😸🐈

Seeing it turn into an actual little community so quickly made me really happy. 🎉

Small. Simple. Useful. 😸

Necoz · GitHub

A friendly open-source community building small, simple, and useful tools together. 😸 - Necoz

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Congrats ✨

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Oleksandr •

My win this week was finally tracking down a gnarly memory leak that only showed up in production. Turned out to be one missing cleanup function. Felt like a detective for a solid five minutes! 🕵️‍♂️

Also, I finally cleared out my downloads folder. Baby steps! 😂

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Umer Farooq •

Resumed posting on the Dev Community 💪💪

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Nitish • • Edited

client paid me the 40% for the project that i was working on for 2 months 😅

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Yonka • • Edited

I felt a need to belong to a dev community, and found dev.to! I hope, to find many like-minded people here.
Also created articles to publish :D

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amananandrai •

Finished upgrading a side project Monuments of India, added more details to the monuments.

A site showing some famous monuments of India in Threejs
monuments-of-india-nu.vercel.app/

Also, got more than 1500+ views on a Dev.to article after nearly 3 years.

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Ankith M • • Edited

Two wins this week:

  1. Shipped Gatekeeper for Flip the Switch: four AI agents that live in team chat and check what coding agents install, before they install it. It's open to try live in our demo Discord, and when a reader here asked about alert fatigue, it became a feature the same day. Write-up: My coding agent asked another agent for permission. It said no.

  2. Hacktoberfest wrapped with 69 merged PRs in Kestra, most from bugs I found and reported myself.

My wins this week: Gatekeeper shipped, open to try live, a reader's question became a feature the same day, and 69 merged PRs in Kestra

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TomNighy •

Updated my handrolled c++ inference engine to work blazing fast with my 15 year old Win 7 pc's cpu, using Qwen2.5 1.5B and 3B.

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Ronak sarda •

Trying to bring back my first ever project I made with actually useful features
gitspace.me , alot more updates coming soon ( my github is ronaksarda )