Heyo 👋
Hope that everybody is enjoying their 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
- Going go-karting with friends 🏎
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📰 I published a post on the DEV community, read it here! ✨
💟 I got the 1 Week Community Wellness Streak badge! See it, here! ✨
🖼️ I finally figured out how to link a file from the same folder into my HTML file! Check out my website here! ✨
👥 The follower count on my DEV profile has exceeded 300 followers! ✨
🧩 I completed a difficult programming puzzle on Exapunks! ✨
🔓 I also unlocked the games issue zine in-game and the TEC Redshift development kit, so now I can make games for the TEC Redshift player!
📕 I got a book for free! ✨
That has been a great weeks it seems! So happy to read about it!
Thank you, yes, it has! :D
Way to go! 🥳
Thank you so much! 😊
I love your very well formatted wins. Keep at it!
Thank you! I will! 😄
Very good, I was inspired to do my own. hahah
Fixing a tricky bug
just one :)
Here we go again!!!
Got around to checking if my
fillPolyalgorithm that I came up with in my head weeks ago was correct. It was!I got:
Also learned and prepared content about Auth2.0.
Great community and coding wins there! That is great 💪
Thanks @giuliano1993 =)
Congratulations, well done ✨
Thank you
Great wins
This week i published my first npx command ( you can give It a look here) , I'm totally thrilled 'bout it and looking forward do code more!
I also just fixed a bug I have been struggling lately for a personal project of mine!
Has been a great week for coding!
Well done, Giuliano! That was a great week with coding! ✨
Thank you! 😃 yes it actually was 💪
In Switzerland there is a thing called "national future day" where kids aged 11 to 14 can visit a company to learn about the jobs performed there. Yesterday was that national future day and at my employer we organised a day for 14 girls (yes, we made that day girls-only on purpose) to show them what it's like to be a software developer, a UX expert or an agile coach. They received a participation certificate at the end that they can use to spice up their applications for apprenticeships later on in their lives. Most girls were surprised how fun computer science was and they really enjoyed it. For me, this day was a huge win because the entire organisation went very smooth, we had no incidents and perhaps we inspired a few of the girls to get into computer science!
Wow, that's awesome Pascal. Cool holiday and sounds like y'all did a great job organizing things — happy to hear about so many girls getting siked on computer science. The future is looking bright! ☀️
It appears I've finally gotten out of the rut I was in! I'm a mostly functional human again!
Care to share some learning?
Well, It's very personal this, and what worked for me might not work for you. I will share some stuff that has helped me. I've had anxiety and depression, it's not gotten to extreme levels, but enough to not be able to do most things I like.
Share it. Talk about it. And do, do stuff. Don't let it stop you from doing what you like. It's hard to do when you're in that situation, I know, but after forcing yourself to do them, they start to help.
In my case, I stopped doing almost everything, from socializing to not doing what I like most (climbing). I even stopped relaxing, resting and taking care of myself. Any time I was not doing what I was supposed to do, the bad thought appeared and made it even more difficult to do. I thought I didn't deserve to rest as I had not done the chores or obligations I had, even if trivial.
One key point for me has been, acknowledging that there will be periods where I will not want to do as much stuff and periods where I might not even do anything. But that's okay. At this point, take care of yourself, but really care. Force yourself to read, do sport, anything that has given you joy in the past, not necessarily at that moment.
Don't force yourself too much at the start, go little by little. One day or week go for a walk, the next week try taking the walk and also do a chore that you've been ignoring, the next week do all that plus something else. But if at any point it's too much, or you're starting to feel bad again, take a step back.
Another key point has been opening myself to my family about how I'm feeling. Seems trivial, but exteriorizing the issues makes them seem smaller. And if you can, go to therapy. They might not directly help you, but they will give you tools so that you can help yourself.
Note that this process, has taken 3 months. It could've been less or more depending on a lot of factors
Finished the nightmare project I took over last week…the client getting hung up on “but I can do this in Figma, why doesn’t it work the same on the web?” 🤦♂️
I think it’s prolly for the best that she won’t be a repeat client…
I had a few this week: I had a really good talk with Packt about a potential book in the new year, I got a quarterly award at work (my first full quarter at the company too), and it looks like "Refactoring with C#" is doing well on pre-order as I've now seen them increase the price a little on both Kindle and Paperback editions.
I managed to compose three articles this week and have scheduled them for the upcoming weeks. 😌