Michael Tharrington

for The DEV Team

Posted on Apr 28, 2023

What was your win this week?

#discuss #weeklyretro

Hey everybody 👋

Hope all you folks enjoy your weekends!

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
Cooking up a delicious meal 🍛

Top comments (38)

Thomas Hansen • Apr 28 '23

I built a company, from scratch, with two team mates, from a new domain, to a working product, with revenue, and we did it in two weeks.

Kubernetes cluster, check!
Stripe payment integrations, check!
Back office admin interface, check!
Automatic deployments from trial accounts and pro accounts into K8S, check!
Super slick SEO optimized website, performing in the 1% range, check!
30 plus super high quality articles attracting 300+ daily visitors, check!
Setting up several paying clients into production, check!

Budget? €7 😂

Seriously!! 😎

I freakin' adore my team 😎😁

imronpuji • May 1 '23

Wow great !

Michael Tharrington • Apr 28 '23

Mine is bonding with my cat Nianna who we affectionately call Baby Key. She has been following me around all week wanting attention and snuggling up with me whenever I sit down to watch tv or lay down to sleep at night. She can be quite devilish, so seeing her be so sweet has been a really nice treat. 🙂

Thomas Bnt • Apr 29 '23

Aww 🤩

BekahHW • Apr 28 '23

Scheduling my first official Twitter Space for @opensauced next week! We're doing an hour answering questions and chatting about open source:

twitter.com/i/spaces/1OdJrzpRenpJX...

Hiro • Apr 28 '23

Yeah, in my case, I started my account from Dev.to and it's really a big start of something.
Something exciting and memorable. I got the talented and passionate community here. Thank you, DEV Team!!!

Michael Tharrington • Apr 28 '23

Oh that's awesome to hear, Gabe!

Welcome to DEV, it's great to have ya with us. I hope you keep enjoying the community. 🙌

Also, if ya have questions about anything, feel free to hit me up right here in this thread or via email - michael@dev.to.

Hiro • Apr 28 '23

thanks Michael.
Hope someday i could be in DEV team

Ben Halpern The DEV Team • Apr 28 '23

Thank you for being so enthusiastic Gabe!

Hiro • Apr 28 '23

Nice to meet you Ben

Davide de Paolis • Apr 28 '23

i haven't loose my job yet. (and it's not looking good actually)
seriously. the trend is scary and depressing.
lots of support to everyone affected by layoffs

Michael Tharrington • Apr 29 '23

It is indeed a rough time! But, I'm really glad you still got your position... here's to you keeping it! 🍻

Thomas Bnt • Apr 28 '23

I'm Freelancing now, and I've got my first client 🥳

Michael Tharrington • Apr 29 '23

Awwwww yeaaaaah! That is so awesome, Thomas. Congrats!

Thomas Bnt • Apr 29 '23

Thanks Michael! ✨

Camilo Martinez • Apr 29 '23

Learning a lot of node.js, applying dependency injection to add easy support for different package managers and versions, only changing a configuration file.

All that to add new compatibility for #yarn classic and berry to #swpm (switch package manager) 🧶🥳

npmjs.com/package/swpm

Jack Lewis • Apr 28 '23 • Edited

finally hit 100 followers on DEV!

Michael Tharrington • Apr 29 '23

Woot! Congrats on that one... hundred. 💯

Aarushi Kansal • Apr 28 '23 • Edited

I've started writing again, this time on Generative AI!

Michael Tharrington • Apr 29 '23

Very nice! That was a super cool post, Aarushi. 🙌

By the way, when ya are dropping posts in comments, you can embed them if you wanna so that they look like this:

Giving your Large Language Model skills: Stoicism Meets AI

Aarushi Kansal ・ Apr 28 ・ 5 min read

#ai #python #chatgpt #programming

The markdown for that is as such: {% embed https://dev.to/aarushikansal/giving-your-large-language-model-skills-stoicism-meets-ai-5gd1 %} ... you def don't have to do this, but I thought this might be helpful to share with you!