What was your win this week?

#weeklyretro

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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!
Participating in the Hacktoberfest Writing Challenge 😉
Fixing a tricky bug
Going to the dentist before eating Halloween candy

Happy Friday!

Top comments (9)

Arindam Majumder • Oct 25

Published Three Articles and 2 got trending 🔥

And I'm working on 2-3 more. Super excited to publish them.

Also, joined Dev++

Ben Halpern • Oct 25

Big wins

Alexandre Plt • Oct 25

Cleaned up a lot of code, bumping coverage to 76% on my language, arkscript and improving performances again through compiler optimizations!

Hopefully this year I’ll start working on the new import system, I’m starting to have a clear idea of what I need and what I want.

Ben Halpern • Oct 25

Epic, what was your process like?

Alexandre Plt • Oct 25

I’ve setup code coverage, so that I can track untested lines and see what kind of tests I need to add, that saved a lot of time!

As for the optimization I compile a bunch of ArkScript code and look at the resulting IR, to see which instructions commonly go together and could be grouped as a super instruction. Then I benchmark first the script that uses those instructions pairs, write a quick and dirty optimization (new instruction code gen and VM code) and bench again. That provides a baseline to see if the optim is worth it and I clean up the code, add tests, and check regularly that perf do not regress!

Bumping coverage takes time too, luckily I have a big test suite that process ArkScript code and execute one or more compiler pass and checks its output. I have a bunch of source/expected pairs of files for that, also testing compiler errors to ensure we still detect those (you hate regressions in this field more than in any other).

Ryan Brown • Oct 25

Continued on my re-entering the micro-controller/electronics world:

Identified several ICs floating in my tool box
Used one such 74x14 (hex inverter) IC to REVERSE THE POLARITY! of the serial idle (low <> high) to allow an Arduino to talk serial to a picaxe controlled OLED display.
Used newly soldered ISP header on an old LarsonScanner project to:
- dump the existing ATTyiny program (as a backup)
- load the latest version of the code (freshly complied) from the project page for new features
Spectacularly ADHD'd my Halloween costume in that I'm supposed to have it ready for tonight... and have NOTHING! (because I was fiddling with micro-controllers instead!)

Mark Wragg • Oct 25

I also published three articles this week, and got none of them trending 😂

I joined dev.to 7 years ago, but decided this week it would be a good place to create some shorter form content to document and share anything interesting I worked on in the last week (so hoping to continue to find at least something to post once a week!).