What was your win this week?!

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Looking back on your week -- what was something you're proud of?

All wins count -- big or small 🎉

Examples of 'wins' include:

• Getting a promotion!
• Starting a new project
• Fixing a tricky bug
• Calling an old friend instead of just texting 📱

Happy Friday!

Comments

[Ben Halpern The DEV Team]

Good weather!

[FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ (っ◔◡◔)っ]

It's raining for me 😭

[FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ (っ◔◡◔)っ]

@ben Merged my PR where on Dev.to, the sidebar is now fully hidden when your article is on Draft Mode.

Hide Sidebar for Draft Article #23116

FrancisTRAlt posted on Apr 09, 2026

What type of PR is this? (check all applicable)

• [ ] Refactor
• [x] Feature
• [x] Bug Fix
• [ ] Optimization
• [ ] Documentation Update

Description

This PR address the issue where the Mod Icon and the 3 dots appear on the left side of the article when it is currently a Draft Article

This PR fix the issue where the Mod Icon and the 3 dots are hidden when the article is a Draft. If the article is published (No longer a draft), the bar appears that include the multiple reactions, the Mod Icon, and the three dots on the left side.

Related Tickets & Documents

• Related Issue #19305
• Closes #19305

QA Instructions, Screenshots, Recordings

Make sure you are signed in.

• Click "Create Post".
• Enter text and save the post as a draft.
• You should see the 3 dots and the Mod Icon hidden.

What gif best describes this PR or how it makes you feel?

View on GitHub

Other than that, got another Welcome Badge! :)

[Klaudia Grzondziel]

I agreed to give a talk at the content-related meetup in my country! 🙈 I will share my experience adding AI support to our company's documentation processes. This is a big step out of my comfort zone, but I feel I can do it! 💪🏻 The meetup is in June, please keep your fingers crossed 🤞🏻

Also, I got a new badge: 1 Week Community Wellness Streak 🎉

[Julien Avezou]

Shared a couple of posts here and worked on a prototype for my latest app!

[Peter Vivo]

I prude to present our improved office: dev.to/pengeszikra/mcm-mordor-coff...

Watch this video and join to the resistance, we are hope to survive the great AI crack!

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[Andrew Rozumny]

Small win, but feels like an important one.

Shipped a new post + landing around SEO in 2026 and started testing ideas on my own site instead of just reading about them.

Main shift for me this week: stopped thinking in “topics to write about” and started thinking in “things a user (or model) actually wants to do”.

Still early, not sure if any of this will work — but at least now it feels like I’m learning something real instead of just guessing.

Curious what everyone else is testing right now — feels like a weird moment to build anything))

[Ben Halpern The DEV Team]

good stuff

[Alex Miller]

My biggest win this week: I finally took the plunge and published my first-ever article on DEV!

It's the first part of a series on setting up secure remote server monitoring using VPN sidecars in Docker. It took some effort to structure my infrastructure experience into a post, but I'm feeling pretty proud of getting it out there.

If anyone is into DevOps, Docker networking, or home labs, I'd love to hear your feedback.

[SDevr]

It's an interesting article.. thanks for sharing...😇

[SDevr]

• Browsed dev.to which I stopped after discovering hacker news couple of months ago.
• Paid few bills off and set some of them to auto pay.
• Improved performance of critical production APIs by ~10%
• Setup VPN tunneling for home server.
• Spent some time reading The Second Mountain
• Looked into PocketBase for an easy backend access for public facing apis.
• Walked around 10k steps two days out of five (transitioning to summer habits).