What was your win this week?

Hey my peeps 👋

Hope that everybody has a wonderful weekend. 😀

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
• Spending time outside 🥾🌻

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Comments

[Erin A Olinick]

Hey y'all! Seeking some inspiration to share your wins? Check out these highlights from last week's thread: @juandadev secured a new job; @thormeier rocked impactful tech outreach, introducing 14 girls to software development; and @adhirajk wowed us with some stellar blogging. And a special shoutout to @nombrekeff for an amazing coding comeback—overcoming challenges and sharing mental health insights.

These achievements will also be featured in our Weekly Wins newsletter, which goes out every Friday. We love cheering you on and getting inspired. Thank you so much for being such an integral part of the DEV community. ❤️

[Pascal Thormeier]

Thank you for the shoutout! :D

[Adhiraj Kinlekar]

Hey @erina_olinick_8195c361b0, thank you for the shoutout

[Matt Eland]

I built a lot of the AI code in Semantic Kernel for my workshop in January and a conference talk I'm giving in early December. I've got my own little mini-Bat Computer at this point.

[Michael Tharrington]

[Bala Madhusoodhanan]

i see a Dark Knight theme building for this week

[Anita Olsen]

📰 I published a post on the DEV community ✨

Are You Ashamed of Your Old Code?

Anita Olsen ・ Nov 12

#discuss #beginners #codenewbie #python

💟 I got the Top Discussion of the Week badge, the 2 Week Community Wellness Streak badge & the Warm Welcome badge! ✨

🔦 My latest post received a mention in Discussion of the Week - v11 , read it here! & in the Trending Discussions section in the DEV Community Newsletter! ✨

✴️ I have been granted the Trusted Member role on DEV! ✨

👥 The follower count on my DEV profile has exceeded 900 followers! ✨

💻 I managed to make the letter "A" appear and move around on the in-game game console I recently unlocked in the programming puzzle game, EXAPUNKS! ✨

🎮 I finally joined the closed beta for a new app which I have been looking forward to test out! ✨

[Michael Tharrington]

That little Redshift gizmo looks so dope. 🔥

Thanks again for sharing that awesome discussion post and just for being such a positive force across the community, Anita. Happy to have your help as a Trusted Member! 🙌

[Anita Olsen]

Thanks, I love it! 😊

Thank you, I am happy to be a part of the community! 😃

[Carlarjenkins]

• Secured 2 job phone interviews
• Created 2 new apps using AWS PartyRock: positive quote generator: partyrock.aws/u/carlarjenkins/9acJ... project management assistant to help you better manage projects: partyrock.aws/u/carlarjenkins/6YII...

[dbxDev]

After reading for a while, I had created a Dev.to account and started writing my journey 👋🏻

[Michael Tharrington]

Wooohooo! Awesome to have ya with us here. 🙌

[Lev N.]

Mind I ask what is your profile picture? I have seen multiple users with the same style of picture, just wondering.

[Michael Tharrington]

Good question, Lev. I believe those animal photos are our generic profile pics for folks who haven't yet set their pic. Some folks choose not to set one but we need to put something in there, so that's what that's all about!

[Lev N.]

Thanks for clarifying! My mind slowly slipped into wild places about hacker groups and bot networks, haha. Glad to know these are just default photos. 😅

[Michael Tharrington]

Haha! All good, Lev. 😄

To your point, spammers/bots/hackers do occasionally join DEV, and frequently they'll just have one of our default pics. I think it's because often they're moving quickly and creating throwaway accounts, most of the time to drop backlinks to some shady place on the internet. And they do this, every. freaking. day. 😱😂

Luckily, we got mods and various procedures that are helping us to regularly remove these accounts.

In any case, I think our new friend dbx is good people. They shared a cool, helpful post earlier this week, so we can let our digital guard down. 🙂

[dbxDev]

Ya @michaeltharrington right, @lnahrf I will update it soon.

[Bala Madhusoodhanan]

spend the last week learning and created a Product Comparision which was much appreciated and featured in couple of technology weekly new letter...

[Michael Tharrington]

Sweet comparison! Appreciate ya sharing your post.

Also, in case you didn't know, you can embed your posts here in comments like so:

A Tale of Two Heroes: Azure Form Recognizer vs. AI Builder

Bala Madhusoodhanan ・ Nov 13

#powerfuldevs #azure #powerplatform #ai

I did so with the following syntax:

{% embed https://dev.to/balagmadhu/a-tale-of-two-heroes-azure-form-recognizer-vs-ai-builder-18dm %}

Anywho, just wanted to share that little nugget of info with ya in case it's helpful in the future. 🙂

Hope ya keep sharing cool content like this and enjoy your weekend!

[Bala Madhusoodhanan]

appreciate the super cool tip

[Anita Olsen]

That is incredible, well done! ✨

[Phil Ashby]

I suspect I've spent much too long reading Java internals manuals in order to re-implement the appletviewer (remember that?), on top of my existing re-implementation of the Swing GUI library

All this just so I can run a #retrocomputing emulator of the Texas Instruments TI-59 calculator I found: git.sr.ht/~phlash/appletviewer

You: Phil, you're mad and nerdy!
Me: ....yeah, you got me.

[Afroza Nowshin]

Writing this and getting featured🫠

dev.to/afrozansenjuti/how-to-predi...

[Anita Olsen]

That looks like an amazing project you made there! ✨

[Afroza Nowshin]

Thank you 😊 👍

[DadangRokes]

• Started to ditch my anxiety.
• Started to try to engage in community and try being part of it. Hopefully I can be real contributor to an open-source project. Although, still looking for a fitting open-source project for me. Looking here and there and browse GitHub on daily basis has been started.
• Familiarize myself with bigquery and firestore GCP API SDK and started adding new feature from scratch.
• Started to learn the real stuff instead of jumping from one tutorial to another.

these look like a win for me already.. cheers

[Monty Harper]

I've reached a milestone with the app I'm writing; all the features I planned for the MVP are working. I just need to add a settings page so other people can use it, since the user-specific details are still hardwired specifically for my own use.