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What was your win this week?

Jess Lee on January 23, 2026

πŸ‘‹πŸ‘‹πŸ‘‹πŸ‘‹ Looking back on your week -- what was something you're proud of? All wins count -- big or small πŸŽ‰ Examples of 'wins' include: Getting a p...
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Richard Pascoe

Well done, Andrew! Those language-specific badges are pretty coveted!

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Paras πŸ§™β€β™‚οΈ

I worked on one side project of mine. Improved its UI and added some features that I need.
In turn it helped me improve my starter template that I built to get quickly up and running on new projects.

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Richard Pascoe

Sound great, Paras! If the side project hosted anywhere at the moment?

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Paras πŸ§™β€β™‚οΈ • Edited

Yes, it is hosted on netlify for now.
It is currently very much catered towards my requirements :p
but would love to share here as well.
steadyox.netlify.app/

It's a small UI I built to track my investments, set targets, and see the total net worth in one place.
It's completely offline as it stores data in your browser and has no backend.
There are apps that do it but they require access to several stuff which I don't want to give due to privacy reasons.

Let me know your thoughts if you try it. Thank you :)

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Richard Pascoe

Ah, that is great! I have become more and more privacy-focused over the years myself. In fact, the majority of the applications and services I now used are focused that way.

Thanks for sharing the link!

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Paras πŸ§™β€β™‚οΈ

Coool. Good to hear that.

I will add more settings and customizations once I am done with the important stuff.
I will add settings like, currency change, using millions instead of lakhs, some more helpful widgets and functionalities. Let's see how it goes.

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Richard Pascoe

Indeed! Nice work so far!

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Paras πŸ§™β€β™‚οΈ

Also, I checked your dev.to profile, really liked that you built so many things. That's awesome!
It’s great to see how you are learning and sharing the journey openly. πŸ”₯πŸ”₯πŸ”₯

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Richard Pascoe

Thank you, Paras - means alot! The main reason I joined DEV this year was to stay consistent and - for want of a better word - honest with my learning. I'm really enjoying the latest version of the freeCodeCamp curriculum too!

Appreciate the follow as well!

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Peter Vivo • Edited

Our job is fixing two quite same legacy world scale webapp system - including inhouse version handling system. Each of these codbase was old, do so many mistace in architectual decision to a CVD ( CV Driven ) coding method ( Initialy package.json was 300 + lines ). The AWS cloud infrastructure also have a bad decision, so a real challenging is put that program to DEV - then we realize DEV is not exsist. After few weeks fight with devops team, we get a new DEV environment. -> version handling tool is so complex to fail to start and this is resonate AWS bad practices.

So on a previous week I was vibe code a POC version of tool. My goals is:

  • check copilot CLI vibe capability : OK
  • proof my minimal JS FW is worth : OK
  • make a fast Docerfile tester : OK
  • check the DynamoDB connection on AWS : OK
  • proof the overcomplicated react will be replaced something fare easier : OK
  • proof the jsDock is the cheapest way for type safe : OK

So I am very happy with this resul, everything is working as we expect.
POC code is working perfectly.

Compare old building size: 900kb a POC is 16kb ( withot zip )

My FW is found this article - which is a game for a hackaton but the real useful part contain in a fencer.js + vite.config.js is the important (repo link in article). But actually this FW don't communicated is a usefull one, technicaly this is the second program which is show it is working, maybe in the future I will reach the early pre beta state.

FW concept is burrowing instead of npm install to avoide dependency hell, coder maintanance latency.

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Richard Pascoe • Edited

Thanks to writing posts about my progress with the freeCodeCamp curriculum here on DEV, I’ve completed goals within their Responsive Web Design certification every single day of the year so far!

Due to the warmth shown by this community, I posted my first #discuss post - AI Productivity Gains? - which gave me the confidence to turn some orphan posts into proper series.

One of these is my journey away from Big Tech, which I’ve called De-Big-Tech-ifying My Stack, and I hope the series keeps me motivated to achieve that goal.

I’ve also decided to write a monthly retrospective to give an honest overview of my learning journey.

And even though any thoughts of game development are still a long way off, I’ve coined a provisional name for a book I’d like to write as a way to progress my journey with Godot Engine.

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Sylwia Laskowska

Some of you might remember my β€œNew Year’s resolution” about speaking at a conference.
This might still be a bit unofficial, but hmm… early spring in Bologna sounds AWESOME πŸ˜„

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Richard Pascoe • Edited

Incredible news, Sylwia! May I wish you the very best of luck - though I'm sure you won't need it!

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Timex Peachtree

Attempting the StackOverflow challenge for alphabet decoder.