Michael Tharrington

for The DEV Team

Posted on Jun 2, 2023 • Edited on Jul 6, 2023

What was your win this week?

#discuss #weeklyretro

Hey folks 👋

Hope that y'all all 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
Celebrating Pride Month! 🏳️‍🌈

Top comments (18)

Andrew Bone • Jun 2 '23 • Edited

I got an article in the weekly top 7 for the first time 😯

Future of CSS: Popover API

Andrew Bone ・ May 23

#css #webdev #javascript #ux

Michael Tharrington • Jun 2 '23

Rock on!! Major congrats, Andrew. 🙌

Davide de Paolis • Jun 2 '23 • Edited

found some naive usages of dynamodb on a production app that were causing an incredible amount of Read Capacity Units and by making a few changes (described in this post brought rcu down from 50K to about 500. 🚀💪🤓

Dan Bailey • Jun 2 '23

greenlight for setting up an API stewardship group at the office
got creative framework for my side-hustle app nailed down -- logo, colors, and typography
spun up new Azure instance and got CosmoDB running
read the FastAPI documentation
quit drinking Red Bull

George Johnson • Jun 2 '23

Someone handed me a small novel problem to code up a small "Chaos Monkey" style prog, so I got given 2-3 days to code something up in Go that will just wreck stuff for fun in order test basic infra resiliency.

Matt Eland • Jun 2 '23

I got my Graduate Certificate in Data Analytics! Also, I moved out of a role with grace, prepped for the new one, and made significant progress towards course and book deals on major platforms.

Luc Gagan • Jun 2 '23

I started a new project – developer utilities.

I even have a few people using it so very happy with the progress!

Working on making the design prettier and will share it with more people next week.

Shai Almog • Jun 2 '23 • Edited

Finally got some shopify code working with Spring Boot. Still trying to get the damn app embed block working. Ugh.

Spoke at a meetup and two conferences (May/June are just loaded with all of these).

Made a comment on Reddit and supported it with a link to a video where I go into more details. I got back a detailed response explaining why I misunderstood the video. Apparently the guy in the video (me) was talking about something else...