Michael Tharrington

for The DEV Team

Posted on Nov 25, 2022 • Edited on Apr 7, 2023

What was your win this week?

#html #gratitude

Heyo! 👋

Hope y'all all are having a fantastic Friday and that you enjoy your weekends!

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

All wins count — big or small 🎉

Examples of 'wins' include:

Starting a new project
Fixing a tricky bug
Playing video games until your thumbs are sore! 🎮

Oldest comments (35)

Michael Tharrington • Nov 25 '22

My wife, Katelyn, and I celebrated our 10 year wedding anniversary last week in Alaska and flew back home to NC late Monday. We stayed in a variety of places, but the highlight of our trip was 2 nights stay in a "cube" at Borealis Basecamp where we saw the aurora. Here's a few pics from our trip:

Vincent A. Cicirello • Nov 25 '22

Congratulations

Ayu Adiati • Nov 25 '22

Beautiful view! 😍
And happy anniversary! 🎉

Stephen Whitmore • Nov 25 '22

My wife and I just had our 10 year as well! This looks like an awesome idea for a trip. Boomarking for our 15 year 🙂

Michael Tharrington • Nov 28 '22

So awesome to hear that you just had your 10-year as well!! Congratulations to you and your wife. 🙌

And I highly recommend Borealis Basecamp. Such a fun trip!

Andy Piper • Nov 26 '22

So awesome - happy anniversary! 🎉

Gabor Szabo • Nov 25 '22 • Edited

Celebrated my birthday 🎂
Started to post here on DEV again, got a few likes and several new followers. 🎈🎈
Recorded 4 new videos and published them on YouTube. 2 in English that were published here as well 2 in Hebrew.
Went to a concert of László Dés in Tel Aviv and a party after that 🎉
Managed to make nice progress on my work project as well.
I found this post "series" so I don't have to start my own

Michael Tharrington • Nov 25 '22

Rock on! I've seen a number of your posts popping up this week and it's so good to see ya writing here again.

Not only that, but big ups for reporting spam to us! Really really appreciate ya doing so. 🙌

Gabor Szabo • Nov 25 '22

Thanks. I was surprised to see so much spam coming in.

Michael Tharrington • Nov 25 '22

Word up! It's a pain to fight, but we do have multiple methods in place to do so, some of which are mentioned in this post:

Help fight spam in our community! 🙌

Michael Tharrington (he/him) for The DEV Team ・ Jul 26 ・ 5 min read

#meta #community #spam

But as is stated in the post, we rely heavily on helpful community members like yourself to recognize and report it!

If you have ideas for how we might improve our spam fighting features, don't hesitate to let us know via GitHub discussions in our repo.

Fadhil ⚡ • Nov 25 '22

Got a new dev job, Failed in my class tests

Kurtiss Frost • Nov 25 '22

Started learning CSS. I really want to start on my journey to becoming a front-end developer. I figured what better place to start than the "trifecta languages" (HTML, CSS, JavaScript). I've almost completed my first project! 😀
Purchased some new vinyls for my collection.
Started looking into how to improve my writing skills.
Finished another Python project I was working on

Rocky Kev • Nov 29 '22

Nicely done!

Hacking CSS in devtools was how things started to click for me about how CSS affected HTML, and where JS fits! Keep it up!

Matt Eland • Nov 25 '22 • Edited

I made 9 videos in 7 days on YouTube. One of which hit 300+ views in a single day, which is huge for me currently.

I also wrote a desktop app front-end for a One Night Ultimate Werewolf simulator I wrote in July as an AI fun project.

Lucy Linder • Nov 25 '22

celebrated my birthday (like @szabgab, happy birthday!)
got the PSM I (professional scrum master 1) with a 97.5% score
found time to play with publishing docker images with GitHub actions (may give rise to an article on dev.to?)
read about Java 20 road map (nice but still far away from kotlin)
started sewing again!
still strong on my minimum 10 minutes reading challenge (going on for 2+ years now)

It's been a good week 😊

Gabor Szabo • Nov 25 '22

Happy birthday to you too!

Thomas Bnt • Nov 29 '22

Happy birthday! 🎉

Gabor Szabo • Nov 30 '22

What is your min 10 minutes reading challenge? What do you read?

Lucy Linder • Nov 30 '22

The challenge is easy enough: read at least 10 minutes a day. This has really positively impacted my life: better sleep, less stress, an easy win for each day, the joy of reading.

I read novels of all sorts, but I especially enjoy time travel stories and light science fiction that makes us reflect on our world (1984 and the like). And weird/original books (e. g. house of leaves) ! My discovery of the year : project hail Mary.

I track everything here: derlin.github.io/reading-stats/ (slow loading time, sorry for that)

Gabor Szabo • Nov 30 '22 • Edited

Well, calling 1984 "light" is strange, but then again you might say lighter than the current reality.

But wow! Your graphs are impressive :)

Your reading is too.

Lucy Linder • Nov 30 '22

Light opposed to hard science fiction (with aliens, spaceships and crazy technology, very far from our reality). Because content-wise, I agree, there is nothing light to 1984 😂

Thank you!