Jess Lee

for The DEV Team

Posted on Jul 12

What was your win this week?

#weeklyretro

👋👋👋👋

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
Finally finding the remote control after days of searching 📺

Happy Friday!

Top comments (37)

Mr. Algorithm • Jul 12

This week was one of the most thrilling for me,

started my open-source contribution journey
I completed the Python basics
participated in Wix Studio #devchallenge

Loving this community ♥

Jess Lee • Jul 12

Nice!

heyeasley 🍓🥭 • Jul 13

Nice.

Bobby Iliev • Jul 15

I crossed $1k in sales for my Terraform eBook 🥳

Dan Silcox • Jul 12

Ran a 5k yesterday without dying :D

Also finally deployed a big DB migration I've been working on for months!!

Jess Lee • Jul 12

👏 👏 👏

Mr. Algorithm • Jul 12

impressive

heyeasley 🍓🥭 • Jul 13

What's 5k ? What about DB migrations ?

Dan Silcox • Jul 15

5km run - this was a migration of DB stack, long story :D

heyeasley 🍓🥭 • Jul 15

OK. OK it is running race for nurturing body. 5Km. DB Stack is for what ? Do you want to replicate MySQL/MariaDB/PostGreSQL ?

Dan Silcox • Jul 15

Essentially a zero-downtime migration from 1 DB cluster to another. Won't go into specifics as it's all internal stuff but was made way more complicated due to various internal constraints.

heyeasley 🍓🥭 • Jul 16

Right.

adriens • Jul 12

I built a full locally & open source AI based semantic router, sorting topics within less than 10ms, on Kaggle :

🔀 Semantic Router w. ollama/gemma2 : real life 10ms hotline challenge 🤯

adriens ・ Jul 10

#opensource #ai #showdev #python

Stacy Cashmore • Jul 12

Finally modded my keyboard to improve the sound, and even managed to both write a blog about it (and feel good enough to hit publish!)

And... After nearly 18 months of sick leave, I was well enough to brainstorm with a colleague that I have really missed working with 😍

rhizene • Jul 12

wasnt much but I finally posted something!
hundreds followed after that post.. please do not have pitchforks, feedbacks are appreciated though
felt content with current portfolio status, will take a breather

Antonio | CEO at Litlyx.com • Jul 12

This week was cool but can be better:

I Had two new introduction to VC's in Italy, pretty raugh time. Fundraising is hard.
We are getting near 200 Stars on Github -- Please help ❤️
Trying to figure out better SEO optimizations
Working on a new Documentation explaining our product
Working on new Design for my App

That's it! We will see in the next weekly post.
Love from Italy.

heyeasley 🍓🥭 • Jul 13

Congrats!

ppaanngggg • Jul 12

I added a blog for my webapp

SmitS • Jul 12 • Edited

Read a novel "The midnight library"
here's the quote that I liked

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see - Thoreau
started cleaning up the inbox of one of my Gmail accounts.
- I looked at the number 27k, it stressed me out. I'm down to 7k now. and aiming to clean up further by next few weeks.
installed the brave browser to fight the YouTube addiction.
spend some time on online courses.
fixed couple of bugs on one of my personal project.

things I learnt this week (bash on it!):

database
- column orders matters when creating indexing.
- create a view if joins are being used a lot to improve the performance.
dotnet core
- use user secrets with combination of env variable and digital lockers to secure connection string.
- take extreme care of nullable and use null-forgiving (= null!) only when you're sure the value ought to be initialized later. (and there are other checks in place, like database constraints)
- use query tags, parameter and PII loggings on local/dev for debugging.
- use AsNoChangeTracking() for queries that are not going to be modified.
- use non-blocking fetch for collecting data in a asynchronous stream when downloading big chunk of data.

João Esperancinha • Jul 12

I completed a video series about using Insomnia and Inso in an open-source way. That was a lot of work totaling 70 one-minute short YouTube videos with the source code and instructions on how to the project that it implements.

Thaísa Vieira • Jul 13 • Edited

This week I started a new project of scheduling activities in a cat cafe and I customized my ZSH terminal with a new theme, font, and additional plugins.

heyeasley 🍓🥭 • Jul 13

Wow, good. What's ZSH terminal ?

Thaísa Vieira • Jul 17

ZSH is a command interpreter like bash. I plan to write a little about him soon

Aditya Gupta • Jul 14 • Edited

Got 9.15 GPA on scale of 10 in my clg this sem🚀🚀
And published my submission for my third wix challenge WiX Challenge 🚀

Vasilis Soumakis • Jul 15

I created my first open source project on Github for introducing the necessary functional programming monads and utilities in Java.
Zero dependencies library and latest JDK.
FunctionalUtils