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Looking back on your week -- what was something you're proud of?
All wins count -- big or small π
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Four new badges in the bag.
Not too bad, eh? π
That is an amazing badge
Absolutely! Each one is precious.π
Haha definitely could be worse π
There should be a badge for getting 4 or more badges in a week π
I got a new badge
I love this "++" on my profile <3
Congrats! And yes, this "++" is a nice little reminder you've done something special.
oh wow, that is certainly a cool reward!! looks super official! <3 congrats on the win :)
Was a great week! Attended networking events around my city, made progress on some projects, wrote my weekly post here on dev.to, and have been following a new fitness program.
Good stuff
AWESOME WEEK! I am one of the TOP 5 to win the Google Gemini Writing Challenge! This is my third challenge on dev.to and within 3 months, I won my first challenge! Great Milestone:
Congrats to the "Built with Google Gemini: Writing Challenge" Winners!
So great to see other people's post! Here is my article for that challenge!
Built with Google Gemini: Writing Challenge
I used Google Gemini for the First Time. A Deep Analysis of my Experience so far! β¨
Also, got 20+ likes on the Meme Monday so far! Check it out (Hope to reach 25) :D
Meme Monday
I have made 4+ PR for Forem and was wondering about the 4x Dev Contributor Club badge. Not seeing any info about it since I just notice it.
Other than that, historical week for me! So excited to see what's coming next week :D
Oh wow! You really are on fire!π₯
Thanks! Can't wait what accomplishments I will make in another 3 months!!
Finally got v1.5 of zeroMcp out. Spent far too long trying to get Resources, Prompts and Templates to be returned by MCP. And then spent even longer trying to get Codex to recognise prompts, before finding it out doesn't support them.
Congrats!
This week, I built a simple backend project, a payment proof tracker for freelancers.
Itβs still early, but it can track projects, add payment proof, and mark it as pending, verified, and rejected.
Kinda proud of myself for finally shipping it after overthinking it for a while.
If youβre curious, hereβs my post: the link
Biggish release on an open source project that I maintain. It's all been maintained in my spare time, I had hoped to get some dependency updates and new features 2 weekends back but it drifted into last weekend. One final big push on Sunday got it over the line.
Got my portfolio site updated as well and applied for a few new roles.
I also went and saw Project Hail Mary, I read the book a few summers back, loved it and I am pleased to say I was thorougly impressed with the film as well!
Nice! Sounds like you've been super productive.
I really want to see Project Hail Mary on 70mm.
I definitley recommend it, probably one of the best films I've seen in a while. Yeah I can only imagine it on something like a 70mm IMAX, even on a standard screen the scenes around Adrian were breathtaking.
That being said ironically the visuals are not the stand out in this movie, for me it was all about the story, I just walked away from the film feeling more upbeat and optimistic about, well, everything. I love films that do that to us.
my win this week was finally figuring out why my dashboard took 47 seconds to load, turns out i was making 30k databse queries for like 200 users lol, begginers errors I think, week was humbling but at least i learned what N+1 queries are the hard way
Write a dev.to article about it. I'm sure people would find it useful
I launched Earleaf (an audiobook app that I built for myself) and somehow got featured in a Boing Boing article, so it got some attention and actually made a few sales. Would never have thought that I'd make a single buck from this app, so it was a nice surprise. π
That's just delightful news!
Two Reddit posts went semi-viral in 3 days. One about Xiaomi's MiMo-V2-Pro competing with Anthropic on AI benchmarks hit 118K views on r/singularity. Then today a "I ripped Redux out of a production app" post is climbing on r/reactjs: 14K views in the first hour. Also been building out a content cluster around running AI locally for different professions. Productive week.
Share your redux post!
The Reddit post about redux was taken down just shortly after I wrote that π it was a rework of this blogpost: aimadetools.com/blog/stop-using-re...
I am very happy that I participated in the Dev Gemini Writing Challenge. Although I didn't win, I will give my best effort to win the next challenge. When I received the notification, I thought I was the winner.π
-I've been consistent with practicing PowerShell this week
Finally joined the DEV community this week! π
Also made solid progress on two fronts:
Small wins add up. Excited to start sharing what I learn here.
Surviving a house full of sick people and somehow not getting sick!
This is a serious win.
I tried that as well, but when everyone got healthy again, I did have to give in to the BUGS
I gave my first icebreaker speech at toastmasters, and I'm about to grab a coffee with someone I met at a meetup a few weeks ago. She was early engineer at Codeacademy and I'm excited to learn more about what it was like to work in ed tech!
I tuned the
vacuumin the DEV Postgres instance to make fore fewer slowdowns. Real exciting stuff.In all seriousness a bigger win is reviewing and helping deploy some really interesting org and general markdown enhancements from @jonmarkgo β among several other awesome community and team contributions this week.
Look forward to some powerful new features, which will soon be more visibly rolled out to orgs and then I hope user profiles.
My memoirs:
dev.to/pengeszikra/vibe-archeologi...
Finally came up for air after shipping 3 things!
Spent the week finishing a Vue showcase of my 1.5-year tech journey and an Astro site for gigs. The highlight, though, was wrapping my SvelteKit tool in Electron; the offline-first logic and bundling took a while, but I got there in the end. :D
I added Pose Editor to my
AI Avatar VS Code extensionand wrote a post about it on DEV.to. Please enjoy! πAI Avatar v2 with Pose Editor (VS Code Extension)πΊ
dev.to/webdeveloperhyper/ai-avatar...
As someone who's recently unemployed, I took my wife's advice and added structure to my week, so I have 2 days for personal projects and 2 days for getting myself ready to get back into the job market.
It's surprisingly effective.
Wrapped up Month 2 of development for WitnessChain.
Not just βprogressβ, but actual system movement. Architecture hardened, components integrated, and a lot of assumptions that looked nice on paper got stress-tested against reality.
Itβs one of those wins that doesnβt look flashy from the outside, but internally itβs the difference between an idea and something that can survive contact with production.
Small milestone on paper. Foundational in practice.
Launch of NanoPdf Editor and NanoShot :)
NanoShot
NanoPdf Editor
My win this week was getting together for dinner with colleagues from an old company where we all worked, almost 10 years ago. We hadn't seen each other in a few years. We are really now friends, not just former colleagues. Even though we are all in different places in our careers and life, going forward, we can still share ideas, get advice and network. A good reminder to hold onto certain connections, even as you move in a different direction.
Busy week in the VDI dev room...
I finished and reviewed and amazing book:
I write my first post on dev.to "I was asked to delete my comments before committing".
And release an open source project with success! =>
git shadowπi won the built with gemini: writing challenge! :)
Reached 10 GH Stars on our Go CLI :
Wow the peoples are crazy in here so many achievements)
As for me - we got a competition with my friends for push-ups.
The goal to reach - 100 push-ups per day.
So using AI (OMG what a crazy time we are leaving) I've built simple web-app - that allow you to track your progress - and also Telegram Bot - that notice you and motivate everyday.
Lol it took only a day for build from the scratch. I'm really proud of it π€
.... got a new badge :
Launched Sparkam.ng
Sparkam is our new AI-focused startup project incubated under the Renovate brand.Sparkam AI Music Brain: An AI-powered marketing tool designed for independent artists to automate social media promotion. This app uses the Spotify Web API to analyze track metadata (tempo, energy, and mood) and generates tailored, high-fashion marketing copy and visual themes to help artists reach new audiences on social platforms we have officially moved into our live beta testing phase as of our launch on March 16. Our web interface is currently processing real-time data for a select group of independent artists.
Got to pitch live on stage at LAUNCH FEST in SF. A nice opportunity to tell the Nexlayer story to a panel of angel investors. Got some positive feedback and inspired by all the other startup founders at the event.
Finally set up a proper CI/CD pipeline for a side project I've been procrastinating on for months. GitHub Actions + automatic deploys to a VPS. Took about 3 hours to get right but now every push to main just... works. Should've done it ages ago.
Also started actually reading error messages instead of immediately googling them. Sounds dumb but I realized I was wasting so much time searching for answers that were literally in the stack trace. Old habits die hard π
Quality of life improvements so I can make managing the product significantly easier. Small daily gains make for a big overall change.
The main one being: by further improving disposable email detection, it needs less manual intervention. I've been tracking how things are changing and I'm rarely needing to intervene which is nice and lets me focus more on code.
I managed to get an implementation of Scheme that I've been working on for almost a year...and dreaming about for over a decade...to self-host!
Check it out: vibe-lang.org github.com/vibe-scheme/vibe π
My win: shipped Claudeck β a browser UI for Claude Code with parallel chat, agent DAGs, cost analytics, and Telegram AFK approvals. Built it solo in 15 days, 55 commits. Zero framework, 6 npm deps.
npx claudeck
dev.to/hamed_farag/i-built-a-brows...
One of my articles got me an invite to speak about my views at a conference.
If my proposal gets approved I will be presenting one of my dev.to articles and my thoughts behind it on an international stage...
thank you dev.to community for showing me that consistent effort and daily learning can lead somewhere.
I just posted about Sassy, but GUI, with which I'm fairly happy! The thing, not the post. Okay, the post is only moderately okay. But, finally, I can say "Done!" to something.
At least until I realise how it should all be torn apart, re-modeled, etc. But for now, it's done!
I posted an update to an Open Dataset to tell them I used their datas and what for :
I've been working on a prompting setup for repository creation and review, borrowing from J.L. Austin and John Searle's work on speech acts. Oddly, because I am a baseball fan, it makes perfect sense to me.
The idea is fairly plain: I built a GPT that asks structured questions, then uses the answers to generate bootstrap files for CLI-based AI tools.
It turns out this framing helps. Asking an LLM to do something isn't just a request. It IS an attempt to do something with language. Sometimes it works. Sometimes the language does something else entirely, and learning WHY it did is interesting and helpful.
Either way, treating prompts as speech acts has made the results more consistent and a bit less mysterious.
This week was all about performance for my solo project. π
βMy biggest win was achieving a perfect 100/100 Lighthouse score by ditching frameworks and sticking to pure Vanilla JS.
βItβs amazing how Google rewards speed.
βProving that 'No-Framework' is still a superpower in 2026 was definitely the highlight of my week
I got selected from the Top 1000 to the Top 300 in the AWS 10000 AI Ideas Challenge.
If you are interested, you can check my article here
Givvy
Managed to get a new badge!!
Also completed a couple of really neat tools, both CLI (love me some command line aesthetics lol) and both are also made 100% with free tools and cost nothing to use.
ffmpeg-ai is a totally free AI tiktok/reels/yt shorts generator in the command line, like i said, 100% free to use
three-js-widget-viewer is a bit more of a passion project- a kde plasma 6 desktop plasmoid (aka widget) that displays various threejs decorative widgets on your desktop.
Released EnvZen an Open Source toolkit for type-safe env validation
Helps validate process.env on startup, catch config issues before runtime, generate typed output and keep sensitive values redacted.
CLI included: init, sync (.env.example generation), check (.env diff).
Works with Express, Vite, Next.js and NestJS
My win this week: launching my own cloud storage project π
Built Aroshka Cloud β a simple and affordable alternative to Google Drive. Still early, but getting first users and feedback now.
Big step for me π
The week the RV went live.
I run a self-hosted security operations center from a 40ft fifth wheel RV. This was the week it stopped being a build and started being a broadcast.
What shipped:
β mpdc.dev went public. Ghost blog, self-hosted, custom theme β matte black, acid green, terminal aesthetic. Landing page boots like a 1986 DOS machine. The 404 page is a Spaceballs Easter egg. The subscribe button says "Get Spammed." All data stays on my stack.
β Self-hosted MCP server. ~105 lines of Python, six tools, every Claude project now has live access to the full system brain. No more pasting context every session. The AI just knows.
β Socials wired up. Bluesky domain handle verified (@mpdc.dev). Gravatar connected. LinkedIn dropping comments with links. Substack newsletter launched. infosec.exchange verified with domain checkmark. dev.to profile live. The distribution layer exists now.
β Full system audit started. Weekly Lynis hardening, Wazuh alerts review, CrowdSec ban list, Suricata/Zeek log review, monthly Docker image audit, monthly credential rotation, quarterly full network traffic analysis. Sixteen recurring security tasks formalized and ticketed.
β First article written for the new audience. Not a tutorial. A front door. "You Were Already Looking For This." The piece that tells the self-hosted crowd they're in the right place.
28 Docker containers. Local LLMs. Zero cloud subscriptions. One builder. Cold beer.
The building never stops.
M.PxD.C
Gave my first conference presentation on Tuesday at the National Association for Court Management (NACM) Midyear Conference in Albuquerque.
I started from a non-technical background and learned to build with AI tools as partners. Since then I've built five pilots for court operations: a jury eligibility chatbot, an OCR prototype, a data analysis pipeline, an automation attempt that revealed the real problem was vendor data quality (not AI), and a public education video.
The talk was about how court leaders can support frontline staff who want to explore AI responsibly. Shared frameworks, templates, and lessons learned.
First time speaking publicly in a very long time. The audience asked real questions and laughed at most of my jokes. I'll take it.
Not going crazy while people misunderstand my work or get annoyed that I won't give up proprietary code yet. You can try it thought. Local, persistent, learns and grows from you and with you. Run it locally with Ollama and big tech can never take your AI again. This one is the same no matter the plug and play LLM.
AuraCoreCF.github.io
formalized my theory of instruction system architecture quality.
Weekly Othex update (week of March 23):
Big one this week β shipped the first working version of our AI-assisted task routing engine. It takes incoming support and workflow requests, classifies intent, and routes to the right handler without manual rules. Getting ~87% accuracy on our test set which is good enough to start running in shadow mode alongside the manual process.
Also got our waitlist to 340 signups. Slow and steady. Focused on building in public and letting the product speak for itself rather than blasting marketing channels.
Whatβs everyone else shipping this week?
Redesign my Vibe Coder Planner landing page for better conversion on signups
vibecoderplanner.com/
Building my online directory MadeOnSol, I have new ideas everyday to implement. :D
Deployed call to edit your voice agent on KaiCalls.com
different UI loading improvments, the devil is in the details π
Got a new fun title this week!
I felt gate kept. Got me confident that I'm on the right path
Building an autonomous invoicing system β self-hosted, no subs, quotes + e-signature + invoices + paid tracking. Zero DB, full control.
my first every PR got merged into my most used OSS: github.com/thingsboard/thingsboard...
Have my efforts to build traffic to my sites in a non spammy way start working.
This weekends i added 10 more languages to my global utility tool.
Finally shipped a small collection of dev tools (JSON formatter, JWT decoder, etc.) that run fully client-side.
Not perfect yet, but happy it's live.
Made a first post on dev.to about my open source library π
I thought you meant in life and not on this platform, so I was ready to say that not offing myself was a big deal πππ€£
I fixed one animation issue that the scrollbar jumps from carousel layout animations. It was fun to troubleshoot it. :)
I published my first OS project ever. It was vibecoded but I've been using computers since 92, so it was time haha. its in coinnect.bot and its a Waze for your money.
my 2 months project is really close to launch I am so excited