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What was your win this week?

Michael Tharrington on April 28, 2023

Hey everybody 👋 Hope all you folks enjoy your weekends! Looking back on this past week, what was something you were proud of accomplishing? All ...

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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 • Apr 28 '23

Thank you for being so enthusiastic Gabe!

Hiro • Apr 28 '23

Nice to meet you Ben

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

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! 🍻

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!

Aarushi Kansal • Apr 29 '23

ohhh awesome, thanks for letting me know Michael!
And glad you liked the post

Levi Schouten • Apr 30 '23

I wrote my first bash script and I even blogged about it.

dev.to/levischouten/streamlining-b...

Still lots to learn of course, but I had lots of fun!

gdjohn4s • May 2 '23

We built a website to help developers looking for public and free APIs, and it's totally open source ⭐️
APIVault

In only 78 hours we reached:

🌎 over 2.1k users from around the world
👀 2,600 repository views
⭐ 92 stars received
👨‍💻 7 contributors to the project.

I made a post here on dev.to if you want to check it out.

I'm so proud of this!!

adriens • Apr 29 '23

i managed to get a PR from one of our OPS into one of our base software (a shell inside a docker image). 🤗

Deveesh Shetty • Apr 29 '23

Well, this is a pretty big win

I started flutter and I followed a document tutorial from Google codelab in official Flutter docs. First time i learned something just by reading docs and blogs and no video tutorials.

Carlarjenkins • Apr 29 '23

Pretty good.
-Completed my Python Essentials I course.
-Debuted a new YouTube podcast series on technical training.

Shai Almog • Apr 28 '23

Crossed the 1,500 subscriber mark with my 5 month old YouTube channel. Invited to speak at a couple of conferences and on a major podcast.

Imam Ali Mustofa • Apr 28 '23

Yes!!!! @michaeltharrington this week I can't share any music recommendation cz, this is really my win!!!

StreetCommunityProgrammer / metaphore

Story as Code. Public Collections of Metaphore our Freestyler accross the world. Gain knowledge with unusual perspective from our Punk members.

Metaphore

Public Collections of Metaphore our Freestylers accross the world. Gain knowledge with unusual perspective from our Punk members.

See it in action!

Every Punk can make any contributions to share your styles and unsual ~~code snippet~~ metaphor that belived it's something ~~wrong~~ different in traditional theory or usual business, but it's work! That our Punk Freestyle Engineer. Welcome to the Street Community Programmer

How it's work?

- We use GitHub issues templates to create a new metaphore.

- Once the metaphore is accepted, we use GitHub Action to generate a markdown file that contains the metaphore.

- The website vercel build is triggered and updated automatically.

- Your metaphore is now live online!

[ I have a story to list ]

Create & Share Your Metaphor Story

Don't ask how to contribute, just share what you want to share!

[ Let Me In ]

Notes

Every…

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Michael Tharrington • Apr 29 '23

Haha! All good... this week I missed my Music Monday post anyway. I was outta town!

And woot! I've seen some of things you've been sharing around Metaphore, Imam. Sounds like a really cool initiative. Side note: I love the branding — the name and logo! 🙌

Imam Ali Mustofa • Apr 29 '23

Thank btw you noticed about Our Metaphore. I believed we're doing same thing in daily life, many improvisation and unconventional method,

Thank you very much @michaeltharrington

Krisztián Maurer • Apr 29 '23 • Edited

I learned how to make my own custom GitHub actions and made one. I also learned a lot about the OpenAI API and GitHub API.

dev.to/maurerkrisztian/improve-git...

Michael Tharrington • Apr 29 '23

Super cool, Maurer! This sounds like a really handy tool for OS maintainers. Wishing ya the best on the GitHub + DEV 2023 Hackathon!

Krisztián Maurer • Apr 29 '23

Thank you for your feedback! I'm glad you find it useful. I'm excited to implement my new feature ideas, which include all comment summarization (progress report), label suggestion, and more.

PaZapp • May 4 '23

I discovered how to use online tools to improve on content creation. Keyword research and unique content writing.

Mikael Silva Nascimento • Apr 29 '23 • Edited

My biggest win was to complete my front end development libraries on freecodecamp website. At the moment, I’m refreshing everything that I have learned before going forward others certifications!