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What was your win this week?!

Jess Lee on April 17, 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 p...
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Ben Halpern The DEV Team

Good weather!

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FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ (っ◔◡◔)っ

It's raining for me 😭

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EmberNoGlow

It's sunny for me. But they didn't turn off the heating 🥵 It's hot. So rain would be welcome. The occasional cloudiness is a saving grace.

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Athreya aka Maneshwar

It's so sunny for me here :(

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Peter Vivo • Edited

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Mark V.

Level up. The secret should be in the space(s) ;)

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Peter Vivo

You hit the nail on the head! Spoiler

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Christian Hitchcock

SPEAKING FOR THE FIRST TIME AS A PUBLIC SPEAKER AT BIRMINGHAM INTERNATIONAL SPEAKERS CLUB TOMORROW . WISH ME WELL 😀❤️.

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Athreya aka Maneshwar

Good luck mate!

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Christian Hitchcock

Thank You

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Jess Lee The DEV Team

Good luck!!! That's exciting :)

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Christian Hitchcock

Thank you

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Christian Hitchcock

thank you . i did it so well !

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Saint Zero Day

Me and my daughters just went to the Rapunzel ballet.

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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

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

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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?

Fire

Other than that, got another Welcome Badge! :)

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Athreya aka Maneshwar

GG

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Nahrin

Big week for me — I launched Navox Agents on Product Hunt today 🚀

8 specialist AI agents for Claude Code that work like a real engineering team. Architect, UX, Security, Full Stack, QA, DevOps — each owns one job, hands a structured brief to the next, human approval at every gate.

Stress-tested it by building a cybersecurity tower defense game I had zero experience building. Three hours later it was deployed on Vercel.

📹 Demo: youtu.be/dfQbU42DU2g
🎮 Play the game: frontend-beta-five-83.vercel.app
📦 GitHub: github.com/navox-labs/agents
🚀 PH launch: producthunt.com/products/navox-agents

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Klaudia Grzondziel • Edited

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 🎉

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Web Developer Hyper

I updated the Animation Editor and added more avatars and animations to my AI Avatar, and wrote a post about it on DEV.to. Please enjoy! 😊
🦸Let Superheroes Cheer You Up (AI Avatar v6: Chrome Extension + VS Code Extension)
dev.to/webdeveloperhyper/let-super...

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Julien Avezou

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

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Emin Salih Açıkgöz

Finally making my first post here, I've been a lurker for years now! :D

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Yaroslav Solovev

Went to a hackathon I was really scared about! Thought that it was way above my current level, but ended up connecting with tons of people and actually building something very fun and cool together 😌

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Jess Lee The DEV Team

That's the best feeling!

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Jen Looper

I built a planter for my deck and am waiting to plant my garden! Also I got my website agent ready using isitagentready.com/jenlooper.com

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Jess Lee The DEV Team

Oh that's an interesting tool!

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Arbeeza Aldana

I have purchased a Dead project with high earning potential- Hope so, I will make this project a source of passive income...😀

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crevilla2050

As for my win, a big step for humanity, a small step for Dennis: released version 0.8.1 of this codemod tool, and also launched the web site along with it. Dennis The Forge lives!

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EmberNoGlow

I MADE MY FIRST GAME IN 14 DAYS!!! poke

In the future, I will write a detailed article about how I got to this!

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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))

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Ben Halpern The DEV Team

good stuff

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Lex

I am testing my latest build for my app!

I'm starting with the bootstrap approach which means I am also my marketing team 😭😂🤣 so I am also learning to master SEO!

You are on the right path build, test, and then build more!

Best of luck to you!!!

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Henry A

Launched my first set of DevOps template packs on Gumroad — 7 products covering AWS security hardening, VPC architecture, GitHub Actions CI/CD, Terraform modules, Docker Compose stacks, Nginx configs, and Lambda patterns. Also wrote a deep-dive on the process: How I Packaged 130 Hours of AWS Infrastructure Into Reusable Templates. First time turning internal tooling into products. No sales yet but the Reddit and dev.to feedback has been solid.

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Peter Vivo

Finally I can describe my mental map / beleive in a js-like format:

1John1 + 5John17 |> 1Moses1 = (1Moses2 ... 4.22John21);
alpha & omega = !![];
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Peter Vivo

I bought a truck:

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adriens

To celebrate latest OpenBao v2.5.3 release, I produced a new version of its security trends

... and of course kept reading book for inspiration :

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BridgeXAPI

Big win this week:

Saw one of my posts randomly pick up again a few days later, didn’t expect that at all.

Been running into some weird production behavior where everything looks fine at low volume, then starts acting different once traffic goes up.

Same requests, same setup, but different outcomes.

Starting to realize the hard part isn’t sending messages, it’s everything that happens after.

Feels like I’m finally seeing what’s actually going on behind the API instead of just trusting it.

Curious what kind of stuff has broken for others once things hit scale.

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Lex

I'm curious about how my app will function once things scale!

I know enough to expect anything 😭😂🤣

I feel as if you are in a great stage... Being able to analyze real data and scenarios! Exciting! Best of luck to you!

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BridgeXAPI

yeah that’s where things start to get interesting

at small scale everything feels clean, but once you depend on external systems and timing, things can behave very differently than you expect

that’s usually where the real issues show up

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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.

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SDevr

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

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Pallaxa Holzapfel

Finished the iOS porting of marketgeist.com which is a tool that helps Solopreneurs and Small Business to do Market Research and find the right niche to sell their products.

But lets see what the review team has to say 😅

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Josue Chambilla

It was just last week, but it was the publication of my first article in Q2 magazine. I'm still so happy about this event every time I think about it. If you're interested, you can read it here. Advances in end-user water conservation technologies: a scoping review 🥳🥳

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Sonia

A small victory for me this week: I'm the co-founder of The Good Shell, a consultancy specializing in DevOps, SRE, cloud infrastructure, and blockchain systems, and today we had a very productive meeting with a potential client. It looks like we'll be starting a new project soon.
It's still in the early stages, but these kinds of conversations are always interesting.
Looking forward to seeing how it develops.

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PEACEBINFLOW

Honestly, my biggest win this week was finishing a full write-up of my EcoSynapse Volume III — the agent ecosystem layer.

It’s one of those projects that kept expanding the deeper I went into it, especially around multi-agent coordination and turning everything into something actually deployable.

Feels good to finally get it out of my head and into something concrete. Definitely one of those “this pushed me” kind of builds.

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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).
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BestCodes

Finally started writing blog posts for AgentOne, posting some on DEV soon!

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Jack

Nothing changed, just another week of the month.

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Graham McCann

Raining for me too lol

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Mark V.

Got to finally sleep as long as I wanted. (not much though)

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Diana Hernández

I submitted my first app for App Store review 🎉

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Ross Peili

Launched skillware.site for github.com/arpahls/skillware

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dpark

Did a huge code refactor of my project using my agents! So far so good!

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Sharjeel Zubair • Edited

I did a complete overhaul of my newly created PET clinic management system, built with Claude #claude and my instincts
pawdooor.net
😀

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Asjad Ahmed Khan

Seeing Justin Bieber at Coachella!!!

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Menahem Levinski

I did some spring cleaning on my app's code, removed unused imports, and shipped a new version.

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Cris Mihalache

Claude Opus 4.7 and Cursor

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ruguo

Sleep well.🥰

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AI monkey

Good weather ang going to gym 3 times

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Novice Mk

i started writing blog journal and tracking my progress on DEV

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Lex

I just finished the APK build for my app a couple of days ago! I'm testing and preparing for launch in the Google Play & App Store!

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Athreya aka Maneshwar

Implemented a tough testing feature in the workplace (supposed to be done in one month, finished in a week), got high recognition and appreciation.

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harrry

Got job as a SEO manager!!🤑

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Mike

I walked 30 kilometers in one day, which was a challenge for me.