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What was your win this week?!

Jess Lee on March 28, 2025

👋👋👋👋 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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Nick Taylor
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fmerian

lfg @nickytonline! Product Hunt wen? 😸

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Ben Sinclair

I've managed to successfully save some data to a system I've been struggling with for a week and a half.

Seeing my name change to "Testy McTestface" instead of getting a SOAP error or auth error or context ID error or or or or... yeah, feels good inc.

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fmerian • Edited

This week, I had a blast giving a talk at a Raycast meetup with ~100 attendees. I just published the transcript here.

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Anthony Max

I recorded my first video on YouTube, I think I'll continue posting my magnum opuses on programming.

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Amarta Dey

My win this week was unraveling a sneaky, complex bug in my code after hours of digging—super rewarding to finally see it click.

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Jess Lee The DEV Team

Nice

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adriens

🙌 I reached 25K followers

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Jess Lee The DEV Team

Very quickly stood up a new portfolio site for my partner to get him out of squarespace hell so he can go from paying $450/year to almost $0/year 😄

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Cesar Aguirre

I'm curious what platform did you use? GitHub pages?

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Jess Lee The DEV Team

I put him on the Netlify free plan and used a starter template that supports their visual editor (so he can manage all the content on his own). Soooo easy.

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Paulo Henrique

Netlify is perfect for small sites

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Mark Adel

I published the summaries of the four chapters I found most useful in Modern Software Engineering by Dave Farley. Check it out!

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Worked on forcing gemini-2.5 to return structured output for an AI app I'm working on 😮‍💨.

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Oleh

It’s always great to celebrate the small (and big) wins of the week! This week, I managed to stay consistent with my workouts and make healthier food choices, which is something I’ve been working on for a while. Staying motivated can be tough, but setting small goals really helps keep the momentum going. Speaking of health, I recently came across an option to Buy Mounjaro Online, which can be useful for those looking to improve their well-being and stay on track with their goals. Every step forward, no matter how small, is a win worth celebrating!

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Amjad Abujamous

Managed to get Google Ads working on customer's website after being disabled since their website was hacked months ago. The customer is happy and I am happy too!

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Mohammad-Ali A'RÂBI

Announced my upcoming book on Docker and Kubernetes Security. The first chapter is available here.

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Harsh

Nothing Much