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What was your win this week?

Michael Tharrington on August 11, 2023

Hey my peeps 👋 Hope everybody is enjoying their weekend! Looking back on this past week, what was something you were proud of accomplishing? All...
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Shai Almog • Edited

Finished implementing the bytecode compilation part of my new JVM. I'm now building the Java API. Since I'm doing it as a clearn room implementation this is a huge task but I'm starting small and focusing on getting hello world to compile. Then slowly building from there.

Did an AMA in CodeRanch about my newer book (I have two new books so this is confusing) this boosted it to the top spot for application development for a couple of days.

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Nick Taylor

Awesome!

Hackerman from Kung Fury putting on a Nintendo Power glove

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Henry Williams

That's pretty cool. Are you building a compiler for learning purposes? Or are you writing a book on compilers? 👀

By the way, the link you shared is broken. Looks like bad Markdown.

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Shai Almog

Thanks, fixed that link.

I already wrote an AOT JVM a few years back for Codename One. Since then I gave this a lot of thought and I think I can make an AOT compiler that will produce binaries as fast or faster than C. I think this can be very useful especially with the rising popularity of GraalVM. I think there's room for an AOT VM that's purely about performance and low overhead.

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Saurabh Rai • Edited

My Discord gained 225+ people, my open-source project has 200+ forks and over 1,400+ Stars. But more than this, there are people willing to contribute to it more and more. That's the spirit of open-source development.

Thank you all 🙏

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Ben Halpern

Cool!

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Nick Taylor

Noice!

Noice!

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steffyG

Might be able to use this, love the idea.

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Nick Taylor

I had a really fun Twitch stream this week. We did a workout and then discussed Anna Nettles journey into tech. She's a career transitioner going from personal trainer to engineer.

Here's a highlight from the stream where you get to see me ugly sweat lol.

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Michael Tharrington

Awesome! Cool spin on things, doing a not-so-typical live stream for programmers. 🏋️

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Nick Taylor

Actor Zach Galifianakis giving a thumbs up in a convertible car

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Medea

I started learning Three.js and React Three Fiber.
Now I'm creating a virtual escape room.

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Ben Halpern

Virtual escape room, neat!

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Joe Mainwaring • Edited

Today I celebrated my 50th round of chemotherapy. That's an incredible amount of invasive drugs being pumped into my veins, but the treatment benefits far outweigh the inconveniences, set-backs, and side effects these last 27 months.

I likely have years of treatment ahead of me, but I'm incredibly optimistic about my future. This morning I also had my first interview with a cancer technology 🦄 for a few roles that would enable me to contribute towards better cancer solutions for patients and providers.

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Sijmen J. Mulder

50 over 27 months, I can't even begin to imagine how tough that must be! I've had people dear to me reduced to shells of themselves with much less than that.

All the best for you can good luck with the unicorn, hope it works out!

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Thomas Bnt

I continued [lives on Twitch[(twitch.tv/thomasbnt), playing Overwatch and Islanders (the game). I was enjoying to stream and share my content !

I also thinking to put "jesuisen.live" who mean "I'm in live" in Open Source. Thinking if Nuxt or Ruby On Rails be good to that.

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Thomas Bnt • Edited

I tweeted about this idea

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Bobby Iliev

I’ve reached 10k followers on DEV 😱🥳

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Michael Tharrington

Woot woot! Congrats on that Bobby. 🙌

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Bobby Iliev

Thanks a lot Michael 🥳

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schBenedikt

My win this week was that we are now self-hosting our own instance of Moodle. We'd love to see many register and then post their guides to help us become one of the biggest tech learning platforms!


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Allen

I spent 2 years teaching myself how to program. After a few months of job searching, I quit due to overwhelming declines. I decided this week, I will restart my journey. I will start from the basics again and refine what I lacked to be a better developer than I was after I quit. Wish me luck!

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Kaamkiya

I built my first JavaScript plugin! It's called Random.js and it has functions for things like random numbers, strings, and even colors. Then I built a Scratch extension, because I've always wanted to :)

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Sadeedpv🥇 • Edited

I built a chess game using Pygame Chess

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Michael Tharrington

Oh nice one, Sadeedpv!

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Aiden Oliver

Started conducting UAT on an Integration release which was developed in December 2022. Deployment was put on hold due to pending UAT resources but I have just been given the go-ahead to conduct UAT myself. In the process of creating the test strategy to propose to the stakeholders so fingers crossed that this release can be deployed to Production mid-next-week.

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schBenedikt

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I reached more than 2400 Follower!

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Atul Kushwaha

I have a mentor we worked on his open source project, and a month back he thought to start his own company and he gave me a GUI project and paid me too

And that's how I earned my first salary 🐬

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Michael Tharrington

Woot woot! Congrats on that, Atul. That's fantastic!

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Atul Kushwaha

Thanks 🫂

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Anders Persson

Fund a way to lower my blodsuger (have Diabetics) and i can do it sitting down and coding :)

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Arpan Gupta

Got my first tranche of stipend this week which is also my first salary. Refactored code in a PR and solved some bugs.

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Oscar

Started learning how to design a basic UI/UX. I completely lack any artistic skills whatsoever, so this was a big learning experience for me!

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Dan Bailey

Finished the coursework for my AZ-104 Azure Sysadmin certification. Going to take the practice test this weekend in preparation for getting certified by the end of the month.

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Yuriy Yakym
  • Travelled to Krabi, Thailand
  • Just finished a big refactoring PR code review for Websktop. Secondary icons are coming soon
  • Registered on dev.to
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Michael Tharrington

That rocks, Petro. It takes a bit of courage to put your work out there. I hope the community here offers ya good constructive criticism!

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Lluís Xavier Casals

Post my first article! And the first of many. dev.to/lluis_x_casals/brewing-qual...