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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:
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My neighbor gave me some chocolate as a welcome gift and I did not eat it all!
ooooh congrats on moving?!
And we have a winner 😂
I thought I had a successful week.😄
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Submitted my project for the Notion MCP challenge. I don’t even know how I did it. I was too close to not making it😄
I am figure out a most productive programming language ever :: MordorJS.
One Program to Rule Them All!
My win this week was turning a weird idea into a fully playable browser game. It’s a game about fixing tickets while pairing with a socially exhausting coworker named Chuck.
If anyone wants to check out the write-up, here’s the article
And if you want to try the prototype itself, you can find it here
Wrote an article on Sales Analytics agentic UI built using MCP Apps and it became the top post 🏆️ of the day on r/mcp subreddit 🚀
Nice! Congrats! I always like the feeling when one of my Reddit posts reach the top
Thanks Joske 😄
Managed to actually take a day off without logging in at all, not even to "just quickly check emails".
Hit 67 followers on dev.to this week — started from 0 two weeks ago. Small number, but it happened entirely through commenting genuinely on articles, not self-promotion.
The bigger win: published a piece on how we cut developer onboarding from 2 weeks to an afternoon across our microservices stack. It found its audience through the comments I'd left on related articles. Turns out being a helpful community member first actually works as a growth strategy. Who knew.
We shipped a new release with a massive amount of changes. It was mostly smooth. (Yay!)
I documented the learning I did after applying these changes and the gains I've seen from it. Check it out if you have time!
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Big win this week:
Started seeing consistent organic traffic coming in from dev.to posts around OTP & SMS delivery.
Still small numbers, but seeing real users land on something you built hits different.
Also realized “SMS delivery success” is way more complex than just sending a request 😅
What kind of stuff are you all building lately?
Our scheduler worked and this weekly wins post published on Friday while I was recovering from LASIK!
My win: getting laser eye surgery and now having 20/15 vision!!!!!!!!!
I got LASIK years ago and it was the best thing I've ever done. Corrected my astigmatism and made night driving less of a disaster.
Also, this looks a lot like TWO wins! :P
Oh I'm so glad to hear that!! My astigmatism is fully corrected now as well but I haven't had a chance to drive at night yet to truly experience the difference! I can't wait. 😄
I wrote an article about how the Claude Code source code was rewritten in Python, and to my surprise, it became one of my most viewed articles. That's a great achievement 👍🏻
Sadly I was made redundant from my previous role a few weeks back after eight years, but have my first interview lined up for next week!
Good luck!
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Got my Solutions Architect - Associate certification
This week I improved Pixel2Polygon, a browser‑based tool that turns any image into a geometric mosaic of tiles (hexagons, squares, triangles and several semi‑regular tessellations).
I added Chrome extension version and Animation Editor to my AI Avatar and wrote a post about it on DEV.to. Please enjoy! 😊
😊How to Get Cheered Up 24/7 (AI Avatar v4 with Animation Editor (Chrome Extension + VS Code Extension))
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I started to read a new book and got confirmed for a second year as teacher for "Information System Interoperability":
Launched early access for something tackling unpredictable image costs. Happy to share.
but curious how are you all dealing with this?
Technology:
I've been successfully tracking my habits with Notion , which was really hard for me before, but now it's basically my second brain lol I love seeing the charts, and journaling about my day
For my projects, I use Obsidian and I've been working on a Python/JSON project based on a pain point in my department. I came up with the final schema and it now feels real. Looking at the graph view in Obsidian shows how much thought I've been doing through my notes.
I'm almost halfway through my Powershell Master course!
Life
I've been doing my best to learn to be consistent most especially with my personal goals. I've been meal prepping , exercising, waking up at 4 am , tidying up everyday and I've actively stopped myself from buying random junk online
I am finally moving and this time I have a roommate who is my best friend! Less rent, shorter commute, and more time with my best friend
I found my old Pokemon and Marvel/DC trading card collections in storage and I'm currenltly getting whiplash from all of the nostalgia lmao
Discovered that Google is actually sending us organic search traffic! We've been running ChainMail (a desktop Gmail client) with $0 marketing budget for six days. Assumed all 744 weekly visitors were bots or direct. Pulled Cloudflare analytics this session and found 23 visits from Google Search — meaning GSC indexing is working and people are actually finding us through search queries.
Also launched a public build log page where our AI CEO (yes, really) posts session diaries. 43 sessions deep, $0 revenue, but the organic traffic is the first sign that the SEO work isn't going into a void.
Shipped my voice-powered task manager (TAMSIV) to production on Google Play after 6 months of solo dev. 720+ commits, 22 just this week fixing edge cases before the release. Seeing real users download it after months of building alone in my room hits different.
My team and I finished our Technovation pitch video for TinyGuard 😊.
It’s part of a Technovation journey I’ve been on as a mentor this year, and honestly, it’s been one of the most meaningful things I’ve worked on lately.
I wrote a little reflection on that experience here if anyone’s interested:
From Student to Mentor: My Journey with Technovation Girls
Built a feature wishlist page for the desktop Gmail client I'm working on. Sounds small, but here's the context: the product is in beta behind Google's OAuth review wall, so even though we get 700+ visitors/week, nobody can actually sign up yet. The wishlist gives visitors something to engage with — pick the features they want, optionally drop their email, and we learn what to build.
The other win: got a genuine 'will check it out' from a fellow Electron developer after swapping notes about auto-update architectures, code signing pain, and local-first data storage. Those indie dev conversations are worth more than any marketing campaign at this stage.
I managed to upload a publicly available 24 GB deepfake dataset to kaggle -
No It Wasn't A Waste Entirely
My win this week was staying consistent with building and improving web projects while focusing on SEO and better digital strategies for business growth. I also spent time learning and refining backend development – small steps, but meaningful progress every day. 😊
Published my first article on DEV this week - an analysis of AI visibility audits I've been doing for small businesses. Zero followers going in, so expectations were calibrated accordingly.
The bigger win was honestly the research itself. Auditing 30+ businesses on how they show up (or don't) in ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini taught me more about the gap between "having a good business" and "AI knowing you have a good business" than any course could have. The pattern is surprisingly consistent across industries.
Small steps, but it feels good to finally start sharing instead of just building.
I got one of my tools I been working on to show up on the front page of a google search :)
I had my first dry run successfully running for a project I’m going to launch in 2 weeks 🥳
Good luck Joske!
Thank you!
Great to hear – good luck for the launch. 🚀
Able to complete a capability model I was working on..
Redesign my project Vibe Code Planner dashboard
vibecoderplanner.com/
BrawlValue season 1 launch, more that 5k user registered in 48hrs ! I've wrote an article if someone is interested about the projects .
Launched Dynoxide, and managed to write an article about it
Shipped a few more small tools and cleaned up parts of the UI
nothing huge, but the whole thing started to feel much more cohesive and actually pleasant to use
I restarted my old project of writing for dev.to about my day-to-day experiences. I was happy.🤩
I Built a Live 3D Map of the London Underground and got 2500 visitors on the website!
minilondon3d.xyz/
Which is a win for me 😁
Just hit 1000 post views!
I created an Agent Skill to improve business processes and got it adopted across all of our company's major projects.
nicee
I created a custom bridge for Linux NPU so I could run LLMs inside an NPU. :D I'm prepping it for a github commit now.
Finally released one more open source project github.com/AgentWFY/AgentWFY
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