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What was your win this week?

Michael Tharrington on January 26, 2024

Howdy folks! 🤠 Looking forward to your weekend? I know I am! 🙌 Looking back on this past week, what was something you were particularly proud of...

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Thomas Bnt • Jan 26 • Edited

I won a Award from Astro for my active participation in translating the Astro Docs into French ! 💜

Astro Community

Celebrate the Astro Community

community.astro.build

Finished my work, the code works finally
Contributed more into OSS projects!

Anita Olsen • Jan 27

Congratulations! That is awesome! ✨

Thomas Bnt • Jan 27

Thank you ! ✨

Michael Tharrington • Jan 26

Nice! That's what's up Thomas. Rock on. 🙌🇫🇷

Thomas Bnt • Jan 26

Thank youu Michael!

Stefan Moore • Jan 27

How long did it take you to translate and how did you do it?

Thomas Bnt • Jan 27

Oh I don't count hours, but a lot ! I joined the Astro community and I simply offered to translate. It's open source, you just have to follow some simple contribution rules.

MonsterPi13 • Jan 26 • Edited

Built my personal blog based on Open source and send 2 PRs to original template
Post my first article in DEV

Michael Tharrington • Jan 26

Sweet! I remember seeing this post. Nicely done with the site. 🙌

By the way, I don't know if you're considering reposting articles from your personal blog onto DEV, but if you are, we have a feature called Publishing to DEV Community from RSS that you can access from here in your settings which allows you to more easily import posts from elsewhere on the web to repost right here on DEV.

You also have the ability to set up canonical links, which makes it so that the DEV version of the article will point back to the original version of the article on your site — this is important if you care about building SEO for your personal blog.

Anywho, hope this info is helpful! You def don't have to use this feature if you don't want to and if you have any questions, feel free to hit me up.

Thanks for sharing your work on DEV!

MonsterPi13 • Feb 2

Hi, i'm using this feature. But i can't see my new article auto saved in my dashboard, do you know the reason, this is my RSS link

Michael Tharrington • Feb 2

Heyo! Let me do some testing here and I'll get back to ya shortly. I've been meaning to test this feature, so this is a good opportunity to do so!

MonsterPi13 • Feb 2

Thank you very much

Michael Tharrington • Feb 5

Heyo! Apologies for the long hold-up.

I didn't actually get around to testing this out until today, but I can confirm I also was unable to import your blog via RSS.

That said, when reviewing the link you provided here - monsterpi13.dev/writing.xml- I think your RSS lacks enough info. For example, when I look at Digital Ocean's RSS here - digitalocean.com/blog.atom there are paragraphs of content and it includes everything that is in their blog posts.

To be honest, I'm not a developer and I don't fully know how to set up RSS to be imported by DEV, but I believe you need to have a more thorough setup. I'll look around to see if I can find any helpful resources to send your way!

MonsterPi13 • Feb 6

Thanks for your research. my RSS subsrcption link is valid, content is the optional option in RSS link. However, i think the DEV website need this option to generate the content. So, i think this is the problem, maybe i will spend some time to follow the DEV's rule. BTW, thanks for your help.

Michael Tharrington • Feb 6

Hey, no probs at all! And really appreciate your patience both with me and the system in general.

For starters, you're right that your RSS is valid... I always use this tool to test RSSes - validator.w3.org/feed/ and yours checked that box. Most of the time when folks have RSS issues, I point them here to follow the guidelines and that generally fixes the issue.

However, you didn't have that problem. As such, I looped in a dev yesterday and they pointed out that there was no content, just "title" and "link" ... so yes, I think you're correct that DEV requires content to be explicitly filled in.

Anyway, hit me back if this doesn't solve your issue and I'll be happy to help or loop in someone who can! 🙂

MonsterPi13 • Jan 27

It's queite good to know this message, i will try this feature in next article, thank you.

Shai Almog • Jan 26

I increased traffic to my new project (gdocweb) 6 fold. It's relatively easy at this point since it started at a low number, but I'm using relatively tame strategies.

On the downside engagement isn't as great so I need to work more on conversion. That's a bit challenging since I don't track users and I don't have enough real world feedback yet.

Michael Tharrington • Jan 26

Wow, a 6x increase is impressive... you certainly haven't been slouching, Shai! But also understand that you're starting small so the growth curve is more drastic right now.

You have a really cool product on your hands here! I think with some tweaks you'll get there. The following is all unsolicited advice:

I feel like the landing page is just a bit visually overwhelming right now — I think you're just a few design changes away from something that works well though.
I like the video at the top a lot and appreciate how quickly it gets into explaining how it all works.
The question I immediately had (and it's probably because I'm coming from DEV) is whether this is for normal, everyday people or just for developers — appears to be for normal folks but maybe there's a way to make that even clearer.
The Templates section really helped me to understand the possibilities; this also helped me realize it's for normies, haha.

Anyway, I hope things continue to improve for ya here. Like I said, I think you've built something pretty cool! If you can find the right target audience and make them aware of this thing, I think it should be successful!

Shai Almog • Jan 27

That's fantastic feedback. Thank you!

Ben Halpern • Jan 26

Published this post and really happy about the feedback in all directions

Tackling Clickbait on DEV: Strategy and Technical Approach

Ben Halpern for The DEV Team ・ Jan 24

#meta #ai #webdev #machinelearning

Looking to keep making iterative improvements here.

Michael Tharrington • Jan 26

So siked to see this coming together. I'm sure we're gonna have lots of folks who appreciate these moves and hearing your thoughts behind the approach. 🙌

Griff Polk • Jan 26 • Edited

I reached 2k followers on DEV,

confirmed hiring of TCG’s first Employee (his name is Carter, @thatcomputerguy2 on DEV), and yeah, that’s about it!

Michael Tharrington • Jan 26

Woot woot! Congrats on that 2K milestone, Griff!

By the way, I know I still need to catch up with ya soon on the interview stuff... hadn't forgotten about ya!

Imam Ali Mustofa • Jan 26

I win Turso Database SDK! 🔥

I create a PHP SDK to conect and play with Turso Database and now My Community SDK is publish in Turso Official Docs.

darkterminal / turso-http

The PHP library for Turso HTTP Database API

The TursoHTTP library is a PHP wrapper for Turso HTTP Database API. It simplifies interaction with Turso databases using the Hrana over HTTP protocol. This library provides an object-oriented approach to build and execute SQL queries, retrieve query results, and access various response details.

Requirements

Intention and Courage
Instinct as a Software Freestyle Engineer
Strong determination!
Turso Account
Don't forget to install PHP on your machine
A cup of coffee and the music you hate the most
Dancing (optional: if you are willing)

Installation

You can install the TursoHTTP library using Composer:

composer require darkterminal/turso-http

Usage Example

use Darkterminal\TursoHTTP
require_once 'vendor/autoload.php';

$databaseName       = "your-database-name";
$organizationName   = "your-organization-name";
$token              = "your-turso-database-token";

$tursoAPI = new TursoHTTP($databaseName, $organizationName, $token);
$query = new SadQuery();

$createTableUsers = $query->

…

View on GitHub

Michael Tharrington • Jan 26

Wooaaa! That's awesome stuff, Imam. Congrats on the new creation. 🙌

Imam Ali Mustofa • Jan 26

Thank you mate!!! This is a 🔥 deal for me...

Jorge • Jan 26

I've created a bash script to detect spam in dev.to, run it every day and reported ~20 posts

ahhh and published the script in dev.to, of course

Michael Tharrington • Jan 26

Say what?!?!

That's awesome, Jorge! Thanks for taking the time to craft a script like this. I'mma share a link so others who pop in can more easily see.

Checking if some article in Dev.to is spam

Jorge Eψ=Ĥψ ・ Jan 16

#bash #devto #httpie #jq

Anmol Baranwal • Jan 26

Reached 3k Followers on DEV
Kicked off the project (you know the one to save articles)
Squashed some savvy bugs during the LinksHub Rebranding
🤣 Trying to understand life. LOL!

Michael Tharrington • Jan 26

Wow, 3K is a lot — gonna have to call you Anmol 3000. 😀

If you figure out life, lemme know, haha!

Anmol Baranwal • Jan 27

🤣 Anmol 3000. LOL!

The competition is intense between "me" and "life" to see who figures out the other earlier.

Ayu Adiati • Jan 26

I'm officially become the Open Source Team Lead at SheSharp community! 🥰

Michael Tharrington • Jan 26

Oh rock on! This sounds like a seriously cool community. I'm gonna share this with the team!

Ayu Adiati • Jan 27

Woot! Thanks, Michael! 😄

Anita Olsen • Jan 26

📰 I published a post on DEV! ✨

Can Everyone Become a Programmer?

Anita Olsen ・ Jan 14

#discuss #programming

🧵 My post received a mention in the DEV Talks section of the DEV Community Newsletter! ✨

💟 I received the Icebreaker badge! ✨

Michael Tharrington • Jan 26

Booooyaaaah!! Another successful one!

By the way, major thanks for helping us to break the ice. Annnnnd, just to say every time I go looking for folks to award the Warm Welcome badge to, your name is near top of the list... you've of course, already gotten it but you continue to say hey to folks there every week and it's just super generous of you to take the time. Appreciate ya being such a kind, uplifiting member of our community, Anita! 🙂

Anita Olsen • Jan 27

Teehee 😁 Yay!

Aw, you are very welcome! 🙂 😁

It is a pleasure to be here! 😃

Matt Eland • Jan 26

This one was a huge week for me:

I created an AI system proof of concept for my client in just a few days with great performance
I led a community AI event at work for a dozen executives at various organizations around town
We kicked off our first yearly meeting of the Central Ohio .NET Developer Group to a large crowd
My A/V setup got approved by LinkedIn for course recording
I hacked my first box on HackTheBox
I finally ran out of sticker space on my old laptop and decided to upgrade, but upgrade to a Linux machine this time around

Michael Tharrington • Jan 26

Wow, that does sound like a big week, Matt!

There's a lotta cool stuff in here, but for some reason that HackTheBox caught my eye. I wanna know what that's all about... from looking it up, it sounds like it's a sorta cyber-security assessment or class. Is that correct?

Anywho, congrats on all the dang wins here! 🙌

Matt Eland • Jan 26

It's a way of practicing pentesting and learning about cyber security without going to jail. Lots of VMs set up to challenge you on certain skills and concepts. It's a SaaS company, and if offers both the labs for active hacking practice and the academy for different labs with some fantastic written supporting content associated with them. Plus, my .edu E-Mail address let me get academy for $8 / month, which is great!

Matt Eland • Jan 28

Oh! My other win was LinkedIn named me a tip voice in software engineering!

Stefan Moore • Jan 27

@michaeltharrington what's your win for the week?

I wrote my first Bash script. It failed somewhere. Not to sure where I failed, so I'm going to execute it line by line till I see the error. It's only a 5 line script that updates Ubuntu. I wonder if I can have it so it runs in the background when I log in? That's another mission.

Michael Tharrington • Feb 1

Sorry for the hold up, Stefan!

My major win was that I've been away on vacation — skiing in Telluride, Colorado. ⛷

I just returned today and am feeling nice and refreshed... and most importantly, not hurt, haha!

Anywho, I'm doing my big catch-up day now — DEV notifications, emails, Slack, Discord, etc. It's wild how much activity can happen in ~ a week.

Stefan Moore • Feb 2

Vacations are an automatic win in my book. It's just the amount of work waiting for you when you get back that gets me. Glad you back and rested.

Vicente G. Reyes • Jan 26

My win this week was:

testing negative from COVID
fixing 2 bugs that hinders job seekers to apply to jobs and a bug that hinders a company to hire a job seeker

Michael Tharrington • Jan 26

testing negative from COVID

Haha, always good news! I'm gonna be on an airplane headed to Colorado tomorrow and I'm hoping I stay in the clear. 🤞

Vicente G. Reyes • Jan 27

Safe travels!!

Buzzpy 💡 • Jan 27

It's my best week in 2024 so far!

I got featured in the top 7 for the first time!
My first 1.1K followers!
One article passed 6K views for the first time ()
Got a partnership invitation for writing.
Published my first book review + tiny giveaway (and it's the longest article I've written): "The Programmer's Brain : How it works and how to make it work" 🎉💃💃🎉

Michael Tharrington • Feb 1

Wooohooo!! That's a super successful week right there. Good stuff, Buzzpy!

Giuliano1993 • Jan 27

I finally opened my repo ServerMan to Open Source Contributions and had the first working version with DigitalOcean, Netlify and Vercel
Give it a look ( and a try / contribution / star ;) ) here if you wish

Keith Solomon • Jan 26

Knocked out 3 junior dev interviews. Didn’t go completely ok, but this was my first time doing more than sitting in on one.
Got a new feature for our framework almost ready for a pull request.
Made plans for some organizational changes to streamline some of our processes

It’s been a busy week…I’m pooped! 💩😂

GrimKillingbeck • Jan 27

Thank you for asking!

I finally made the last revision to my resume
After lollygagging, I started my first Capstone Project as a beginner in HTML
I successfully made it through several virtual co-working spaces with progress on almost everything I planned out
I applied to 19 jobs yesterday
I've been laid off for two weeks and I'm not feeling depressed at all. Just hopeful about my new journey lol

Michael Tharrington • Feb 1

Wow, I'm really impressed with your positive attitude. You rock! 🎸

I realize I'm a wee bit delayed at responding here, but I just returned from vay-k. Just to say, I hope the job hunting has been going well for ya. Sounds like you've been up to some really cool stuff and working hard! Keep it up and I bet you'll find just the right spot for you! 🙌

Kyle O'Brien • Jan 26

I got my first real interview scheduled for next week in my 2024 job search!

Michael Tharrington • Feb 1

Oooo heck yeah, Kyle! 🙌

I'm a little late at responding here cause I took off late last week for a ski trip in Telluride Colorao. Good times.

Just to say that I hope the interview went well — or if it hasn't yet happened, that it goes well.

Kyle O'Brien • Feb 2 • Edited

Thank you Michael, the ski trip sounds like a blast. I'm very envious of your hills, being from Northwest, Ohio we got corn, and that's about it.

The interview went well, I'm moving on to a larger committee interview. Now that I have learned more about the position I'm much more hesitant. What the employer is asking is WAY more work than they are offering. I'm going to stick with it mainly for experience, and to see if I get an offer and ask for more or to use as leverage at my current job. The joys of negations.

Michael Tharrington • Feb 2

Haha, well the hills in NC are much smaller than those out west, but we do got'em haha!

I'm glad to hear the interview went well, but dang that sounds like a tough gig. Sounds like you're playing your cards right though! Hopefully, it catalyzes a nice raise for ya.

David Gao • Jan 27 • Edited

Here's how my week goes...

getting many rejections but not depressed
aced an OA(I guess?)
updated my github readme
complete and understand 10 leetcode questions!
start learning llm
find this wonderful community! 🥳

sofia • Jan 26

Started learning Astro! And I’m advancing pretty well, eager to publish my website and keep learning :)

Michael Tharrington • Jan 26

Oh very nice, Sofia! I hope ya consider sharing your website with us when it's ready. We got a tag called #showdev for showing off anything ya build (and hey, we got #astro too) so if you decide to go for it, please remember to pop that tag on your post. 😀

sofia • Jan 29

Thanks Michael! I will absolutely share it with the community 😄😄

Jaime López • Jan 26

I hung out with workmates in person. We talk almost all days but remotely. Today, we ate together, talked a lot, and, overall, had a great fun time. 👏👏👏

Michael Tharrington • Jan 26

Nice! It's so good to get that in-person time in with your team. Glad to hear y'all had a good time!

Mohammed • Feb 1

Wow I'm late. Got devkitPro setup and tried out some Wii U homebrew

Michael Tharrington • Feb 1

Oh dope! This sounds like a fun project, Mohammed.

Kieran Venison • Jan 26

I learnt more about unity dedicating a couple of hours a day to focus on it. And have made great progress in a mini space shooter game 🎉

Michael Tharrington • Feb 1

Oh rock on, Kiernan! Hope the game dev progress has been going nicely for ya!

adriens • Jan 26

here is the win of the week... I'm quite excited now to storytell it 🤩

Michael Tharrington • Feb 1

Dang! This sounds really cool. Just glancing through your most recent related post.

🦿🛴Smarcity garbage reporting automation w/ ollama

adriens ・ Jan 31

#ai #opensource #automation #dataengineering

As a non-developer some of the tech side goes over my head admittedly, but I really dig the topic of industrial iot and your concept here to use AI to take a pic of the scene and have humans review it to decide whether to take action sounds super practical. You're onto something cool here!

Kuberdenis • Jan 26

I wrote three new blog posts, two of which tutorials. I've been absent from writing for almost two years and now I feel wonderful!

Michael Tharrington • Jan 26

Woot woot! Siked to hear that. I saw some of your posts earlier this week and I'm happy to say that ya still very much got it. 🙌

It's healthy to take a little sabbatical every once in a while, but glad you're back in action. 😎

Choice Clash • Jan 27

As a choice clasher, my win this week was to write another article this week and make choices easier for people.