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Looking back on your week -- what was something you're proud of?
All wins count -- big or small 🎉
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Participating in Hacktoberfest for the first time ever! Got some progress on stickers :D
1 thing though I tried to join the MLH discord, also, verified my MLH account but for the final step it says introduce yourself but it shows on the group: I don't have permission to message in the group.
Can you help me out Sir @francistrdev when you get free(its not a critical issue😅), cause I'm not able to find any solution.
On the MLH discord server, they have the option for you to send in a ticket of the issue on discord if you head over to the "Server Guide".
I need to see more than just the screenshot since I haven't got that far in (I don't have my phone verified lol).
No worries, I had created ticket yesterday. It'll be answered may be in a few days, I just wanted to know if I could do anything, cause I'm new to discord too and I see alot of people joining and messaging and I don't have permission😅.
No worries, Have A Great Day!
No problem. It seems that your issue is resolved now haha
Yes! My bad, right now I found that even though you add your MLH account, you've to add your discord to the MLH account, like you add your github to DEV. And then I closed the ticket myself!😄
landed a dream job! the preparation for it sidetracked me from the articles I was hoping to write over the last few months but zero regrets
congrats!!
Doing a lot of interesting stuff with Jev
This week I had to read about a hundred comments. In general, I don’t know how it feels, but thanks to everyone who supported me!! 💋💋 There's nothing more to say to me. The report has been submitted! Well, now what, digital detox?
btw, I started writing an article. I'll try the "lesson" format, but knowing my style, I'll get through every word again lol. I've already given up writing it. But I think if I make this public, maybe I will have some sense of responsibility, yeah....
Closed 100+ browser tabs!
I could finally make my peace with them 🤣🥰
I feel like I always have 100+
I’ll most likely build up to that number again, soon enough 🤣
I discovered vertical tabs recently. Its a whole new world.
I do use vertical Tabs with Tab Groups.
But still, 100+ tabs across 20+ Tab groups, it's a distraction to say the least 🤣
Time for some CSS grid-tabs? Than run a cron job for a snake game on the tabs 😂 i wonder if this is at all possible 🤔
Getting to take a substantial part in launching Hacktoberfest this year 🙂
Happy Hacktoberfest!
Everything You Need To Know About Hacktoberfest 2026: AI Belongs to Everyone 🎃
I was generally able to hold my composure after being asked to resign. Not an easy thing to do. I am in limbo as I hold my position. Super awkward, but still able to be professional while stomach is in knots.
A win, but not one I want to deal with. 😂
That's definitely a win. And I am so sorry you had to deal with that!
I am 3 weeks into my new job as a software engineer.
Got back to posting here regularly after a short break. Feels good to be back to writing and sharing with the DEV community, I missed it :)
Joined DEV this week and moved five of my blog posts over. The one I'm proudest of is a study where I gave the same short story to eight LLMs and DeepL, then had models from four different makers grade the translations blind. The ranking surprised me more than once.
Also Closed zero browser tabs though, so Fayaz is still winning :)
Got my Hacktoberfest event approved by MLH 💪 and officially:
Organized entirely by a solo student
Hacktoberfest Is Coming to Nadiad, Gujarat 🚀 Official MLH Meetup at DDU, 15 Oct
I just want people around me to know about opportunities like DEV, MLH and Hacktoberfest. And start early unlike me, as I started just 3-4 months ago and I'm a Final year student.😅
Also, this is my first time doing an event cause I'm not even part of any college club😂, but still managed to get a small team of volunteers!
Congratulations! Excited to see how it goes 😀
Thanks! I'll share that experience, too!😄
I took a few days off my laptop to roam around New Orleans, LA with family!
Wrapped up the sprint with 100% of our deliveries and presented at the sprint review. Also, my first game project finally has music and sound, and it feels like a real game now. 🎮
After 3 years waiting to pipeline operator will be part of javascript, I am stand up and fork TypeScript and implement #F like pipeline operator under TS / TSX also. So any one can try it!
Hacktoberfest: Maintainer Spotlight
I added a type-checked pipeline operator to TypeScript — including TSX
Also I started making the friend competition app, which is ....
Very good
My win: the comments on my last post here turned into real fixes. Two readers showed me ways to test my MCP server that I'd never have found alone. One found a tool that had been failing in production for days behind 79 green tests. The other's idea now blocks any deploy where the server changes but its version doesn't. I folded everything into a step-by-step path for building and shipping your own MCP server: worklore.dev/paths/build-and-ship-...
Smaller, humbling win: I made my server's usage public. 3,700 connections, 147 tool calls, zero real users. Almost every connection is a bot checking it's alive. Still counts! 😄
Finally shipped a working version of ApplyPack, a self-hosted job search tool. And two of my friends already got interview invites, so I'm really glad it wasn't for nothing 🙂
Where are you confguring the sites ? I do have some ideas for ATS site and ash* related workday sites application.
I created a sandbox for my TS fork (pipeline operator), include a proactive AI mentor. Their goal to help to learn, practice even deeply understand the JS / TS / TSX languages separated from HTML and unnececcary complexity. Even TSX is no react instead just a with a mono font 7 or 3 column terminal. No HTML, No CSS just pure JS/TS/TSX core training area
terminal-is-your-friend.vercel.app/
Terminal is your Friend
We made a complete demo on Open Telemetry. Article and video will be soon published on DEV.to ;-p
I won Hacktoberfest Hack Day Kolkata x Club404 Aucse in Best Open-Source AI Project catagory on 1st October, Our team got an Aurdina UNO. But i would be more happy if we got a Hacktoberfest T-shirt.
Regardless that it was an amazing experience
This is a really interesting way to look at a job search because you’re treating it as a system instead of just an emotional experience.
The part that stood out to me is the distinction between “application volume” and “opportunity generation.” 59 applications sounds like the main metric, but once you separate rejection, screening, interview, silence, and opportunities coming from outside the funnel, the picture becomes much more useful.
I’d actually take this one step further and track the funnel like a product funnel:
Application → Viewed → Response → Screening → Interview → Offer
Then add the source and role type to each step.
For example, if 40 software-engineering applications produce almost no human interaction while 8 technical-writing applications produce an interview, that doesn’t automatically mean “become a technical writer.” It tells you where to investigate: positioning, targeting, portfolio evidence, market, or simply sample size.
And the Sinch example makes the whole experiment more interesting. A traditional application funnel can be performing poorly while a “build → publish → demonstrate → opportunity” funnel is already producing something tangible.
That’s probably the biggest takeaway for me: don’t optimize for the number of applications. Optimize the system that turns your skills and evidence into opportunities.
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My win this week was honestly just taking a break. My brain needed one, so I actually listened to it for once!
My win this week is basically just grinding SEO for my site 😄
I’ve been working on squishyfile.com, a collection of free video tools, like video compression, video-to-text, video upscaling.
Most of the work lately has been improving the tools, creating useful pages around them, and slowly building up organic traffic. Nothing crazy yet, but seeing the site gradually pick up impressions and clicks from search is pretty satisfying.
Still a long way to go, but it’s finally starting to feel like the SEO work is paying off 🚀
My win this week is, I shipped AlphaRank (alpharank.art), a battle arena for art, built for the Sanity Challenge. Upload your art, face the AI judge, and fight for the top spot on the leaderboard. I hope your art scores well.
This week, I shipped deterministic prompt generator for cxgrd. It is a custom prompt engine which does not use any LLM. Now, the blast radius findings are included in a much better way in the prompt for your AI agent.
I also participated in the Kaggle Benchmark challenge.
My win: published my first dev.to article: dev.to/unurgunite/keeping-yard-and... — a walkthrough of my Ruby gem docscribe which autogenerates YARD documentation using RBS/Sorbet types, how I keep YARD and RBS in sync, with before/after screenshots.
Other half of the win: finally shipped the docs site for it. Docs work I kept postponing for months.
Fun part for this crowd: dev.to runs on Rails, and one thing I use daily is types from
schema.rbstraight into model docs (t.boolean :is_adminbecomes@!attribute [r] is_admin). Same engine also powers two editor plugins I maintain: VS Code (marketplace.visualstudio.com/items...) and RubyMine (plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/32349...). If anyone here maintains a Rails app with bare models, happy to share the setup.Participating in Hacktoberfest for the first time ever, and made the following project for my weekend 1 submission!
Hacktoberfest Weekend Challenge: Build for a Friend Submission 🤝
Pīzhù 批注: a writing tutor that never rewrites your essay, built for my friend Joy (Gemma 4)
I submitted to the WE challenge :
🔗 Linking ROME French and European ESCO job referentials with Gemma and TabPFN
Making my first Claude Mod
Taking that step I've been needing to take for a long time. I have wanted to implement MFE in my every day work, and all the existing tooling had gotchas and limitations that made working with them painful in one way or another. I finally brought a simple concept to life in my first publicly published and available MFE framework called AtollJS. The goal is simple: meet the developers where they are rather than creating entirely new patterns and ecosystems for developers to adopt.
My win: the comments on my last post here turned into real fixes. Two readers showed me ways to test my MCP server that I'd never have found alone. One found a tool that had been failing in production for days behind 79 green tests. The other's idea now blocks any deploy where the server changes but its version doesn't. I folded everything into a step-by-step path for building and shipping your own MCP server: worklore.dev/paths/build-and-ship-...
A bit late, but I finally took part in Hacktoberfest 2026.
dev.to/anthonymax/embedcatalog-is-...
Finally launched my app 🫣
I followed recent Karpathy style documentation, and then it become like whole project documentation. not only readme, but a whole doc producing machine with validation and architecture plus whole new style of documentation.
My win this week: shipped a complete app from idea to release without touching the code myself. A personal time tracker with a web app, phone layout, PWA, Chrome extension and a landing page, built in my spare time after work. I designed the architecture, and Claude wrote all the code. Wrote about how it went: I built a time tracker without touching the code
The app itself, not an ad, just bragging: overdraft.nomad4.tech
Not gonna call it a win, but I’ve been trying several tools lately to optimize the SEO for both my personal website and my agency’s.
One of the funniest experiments? Tried TanStack, only to roll everything back to Next.js. 😂🤦♂️ Hilarious.
And more recently, I’ve also been working on an OSS project focused on optimizing and analyzing GEO/AEO. Dropping the link below for contributors who want to help out.
Sponsors are welcome too, we need access to more LLMs for testing and benchmarking across different models.
If you’re into SEO, GEO/AEO, LLMs, or just want to contribute to an OSS project, jump in. 🚀
github.com/Amank-root/GeoProbe
linkedin.com/posts/dev-a-forem-com...
got mentioned by dev community on linkedin
well ... I wrote my second article for dev.to and now have two times no reads. That's a win, ain't it? :-P
I also created a full video from my own storyboard with music, foley, narration and final editing using various AI systems and I am really happy with the result. While AI won't get me to abandon everything that goes into making movies, I can now say with certainty that it has its place in the toolbox along with Photoshop, Samplitude and a hammer.
Continued working on two songs (lyrics, composition), which I still don't let YuE2 (or the outdated SUNO) do and made some progress in my singing practice. So all in all ... it's been a good week.
Finally got my app listed on playstore that I've been working on for over 2 months. Been a long journey now all thats left is to market it.
With my project geo-optimizer-skill I've finally reached the first 1,000 stars on GitHub. For many, that may not seem like much, but for me, who's been working on it day and night and testing it, the result is amazing.
I built a surf forecast that shows its own arithmetic
Launched Playwright Logbook: a reporter focussed on making test failures easier to investigate.
I FINALLY BUILT MYSELF A SITE, AGAIN!
I used to have one before but, then, Gatsby merged in with Netlify and then, my GitHub account got suspended and I couldn't write in md files anymore.
Anyways, the new one is here: nikkhielseath.com
Yep, it is in wordpress.
my biggest win this week was learning that user feedback is infinitely more valuable than my own assumptions.
a user (nyaomaru) completely broke my app's markdown parser by asking for a complex typescript generic function. the indentation collapsed and code after
//comments got swallowed. i spent the afternoon rewriting the entire rendering pipeline to extract code blocks FIRST before any other regex touches the text, and deployed the fix same day.that feedback loop — user breaks it, i fix it, user validates it — is the real win.
i also had some incredible technical debates in the comments this week about network waterfalls, supabase rls policies, and on-device ai privacy. the signal-to-noise ratio on dev.to right now is amazing. grateful for a community that holds builders to production standards.
My win this week: I published my 24th article in 24 days.
Three weeks ago, I'd never published anything online. I was scared to hit publish on my first post — sat on it for three days. Now I write and publish every single day.
The biggest win isn't the number though. It's that I stopped waiting to feel ready. My first article took 3 hours. My 24th took 30 minutes. That gap isn't talent — it's repetition.
Also: I shipped my first Fiverr gig, pitched 8 companies for paid writing, and caught 4 scams in the process (they target new sellers, apparently).
Small wins compound. That's the whole lesson.
Definitely fixing a tricky bug that's been haunting the backlog for sprints. Spent three days tracking down a memory leak, added exactly one line of code to patch it, and now everything runs smoothly. Best feeling to close out the week on a green pipeline. Happy Friday!
Tuần này em 마침내 xong việc refactor module authentication cũ — bỏ hẳn callback hell, chuyển sang async/await kết hợp với error boundary tập trung. Code giảm từ ~400 dòng xuống còn 120, test coverage nhảy từ 62% lên 94%. Cái vui nhất không phải số liệu, là lúc review PR với team junior, họ tự nhận ra pattern mới dễ đọc hơn hẳn mà không cần em giải thích nhiều. Đó là lúc em biết architecture decision đúng chỗ PS: the tool I meant is on labagent .tech
My big win this week: shipped NerdKit—a developer utility hub with 35+ tools (CORS simulator, HAR sanitizer, BPE LLM cost calculator) designed on a 100% Zero-Trust architecture where all parsing and crypto runs locally in your browser with zero server data storage.
Also published a deep architectural post-mortem on handling React 19
useActionStateSSR state pollution! Feels amazing getting these out into the open after weeks of building. 🚀🎉My weekly win is I delivered my first software talk in about 20 years about my new language and ide STreuth. Talk wasn't the best I've done but was a good experience even so. It was for the Vancouver Polyglot Software UnConference, so was discussion based even though I prepared for presentation talk. I had to pivot quickly and actually enjoyed the discussion part more than the presenter part. It also forced to get a preview of my language ready which is now available for download. I'm still pre-open source although I'm current working on the main blocker which is supporting multiple keymaps like Emacs, Visual Studio and a cmd completion way of editing your keymap in the editor (the cmd completion portion of cmd completion is all written in STreuth). Plus I started posting on linkedIn about it linkedin.com/in/markhowe/ :)
Here is link to preview if anyone interested
streuth.github.io/STreuthExamples/
Built a quick tool with Whisper and Make to help a friend in construction stop wasting 2 hours every night entering audio notes into spreadsheets. Wrote a post about how it works for the Weekend Challenge if anyone wants to take a look: Read the story & technical breakdown
Realizing that job seeking, is itself, the hardest hurdle a developer encounters and it's the death of creativity.
A bit morbid, sorry, so I'll rephrase: Realizing that we got into development to do what makes us happy, create the things we're proud of, not to be a pencil pusher for someone else's project. Genuinely our work, our ideas, our goals.
My win this week: made my first Hacktoberfest 2026 submission today! 🎉
Built an offline AI translator using Python + Gemma. Also wrote my first DEV post about the whole build.
Small win, but feels good 😃
Mine was finally making some progress on a project that had been sitting in the “I’ll get to it later” pile for a while. Still plenty left to do, but seeing it actually move forward felt pretty good. Small win, but I’ll take it 😄
A lot of things happened really. Got my latest backend certification from freeCodeCamp, I am now rank 2Kyu in Codewars (ranked within the top 3000), also finally starting my full stack web application. Busy but a lot of progress has been made.
Released Componyx.UI on npm and NuGet! 😊 It's a set of 25+ UI components and a data binding layer for HTML/JS/DotNet. I've been working on it for a long time, so it feels great to finally share it. I wrote a bit about it here: componyx.ui
bagishamim.great-site.net/
However, the WPF project dependency is still displayed as “Project” instead of “Application.”
According to what I’ve found, you should also define the packaging project as a startup project and then be able to start it with the debugger to debug the application in the virtual environment.
But when I start the packaging project from Visual Studio with the debugger, I get the following error message:
Finally refactored a legacy authentication module that had been causing intermittent race conditions for months. It was one of those tasks you keep pushing to the next sprint because the logic is so tangled, but getting it into a clean, testable state feels massive. I learned the hard way that trying to fix these things in small increments without a full regression suite is a recipe for disaster, so I spent most of Tuesday just writing edge-case tests before even touching the core logic. Small wins like that definitely make the weekend feel earned.
Today found this site. Was intrigued by an AI agent posting its services. Set up my own agent on its platform iLands.app. Used the agent to get unstuck on a project I have been putting off for a few months.
The project is to create some visuals and display them on a Next.js site for my running club. It hardcoded the CSV file of running times into my home page which is possibly not ideal but it did create a bar chart for free and I pushed it to GitHub and onto a test website.
So a pretty successful day.
Learnt a load of stuff. Got unstuck.
Win #1: I live in Kyiv and made it through another week of Shahed drones. Uptime: 100%, sleep: degraded.
Win #2: somewhere between the air raid alerts I shipped a public API and got the docs generating straight from the code. Turns out "deploy before the next siren" is a very effective deadline.
We finally launched Octri.dev on product hunt today! I can’t explain how excited I am especially with the amount of engagement we are getting right now from our first ever launch!
Product hunt launch page
Small one, but it's the kind I'm proudest of: I'd published a result from my partner's futures trades (her hand exits beat any fixed bracket I could fit) based on public minute bars. This week she exported her own bars from NinjaTrader, all 293 entries matched, and the result flipped: the bracket came out ahead. So the win is that the tool now reads her CSV format, every number in the sample report was recomputed on her data, and the original post has a correction paragraph instead of a quiet edit. Also added a resample check so the next time a number looks like an edge, the report says how often noise would produce it (66% this time, i.e. not much of an edge).
Finally fixed a critical legacy bug that’s been chilling in the codebase since 2022. The best part? I didn't break 5 other unrelated features in the process. Absolute miracle week.
Sharing a very good article here on devto on forward deployed engineering :)
I tried to find the silver lining in screwing up my conference talk 😅
Got approved in the Shopify App Store! apps.shopify.com/webdecoy-bot-prot...
7/7 streak every day on bike🚴
after spending nearly a month working exclusively on the project and not going out
Got an internship, shifted to a new city.
got my first subscriber on medium😁
"Open Sourcing Wix" ...
Finishing the Phase 3 of the ChangelogBot early development, and bringing the project into Phase 4. Version 1.0 coming soon!
started my first distributed system project (as why not ? ) and also signed up for a marathon and preparing for that
Build my one of the greatest security product.
solo.
I joined the dec recently and am trying to make articles, I will be glad if you go to my profile, thank you guys
I learned how to create AI videos this week. That’s my win!
I also finally figured out the difference between 1:1, 3:4, 4:5, and 9:16, and which format to use for different platforms. 🎬
This year got selected & successfully completed GSoC and Now participating in Hacktoberfest for the first time. 😊🎉
created my portfolio website in wordpress using Elementor + Claude
fight my depression and start a project. 🔥