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What was your win this week!?

Jess Lee on August 29, 2025

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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Laura Wissiak, CPACC

I finally submitted the application I had been dreading the whole month! πŸŽ‰

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Jess Lee The DEV Team

congrats!

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Ben Halpern The DEV Team

Awesome!

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Ali Farhat • Edited

Getting listed on the Top 7 Featured Posts of The Week with our Ghost 6 post πŸŽ‰πŸŽ‰πŸŽ‰

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Jess Lee The DEV Team

πŸ‘ πŸ‘

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Nube Colectiva

I managed to fix an error on a website's VPS, it took me several days.

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Dan Silcox

Went on a long hike with my 7yo and work-wise finally got the first version of a complicated feature working end to end!

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Jess Lee The DEV Team

That's so lovely!

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Kimberly Borg

Started using open source hosting on PikaPods. Made my life much easier.

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Ben Halpern The DEV Team

Great

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Sebastian Van Rooyen

I integrated syncfusion into my free productivity powerhouse. Syncfusion allows for better OCR performance when reading text from snippets that users take. Big win on my end, check it out here

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Grant Riordan

I resigned today, to begin a new challenge (still within development but a different industry) very excited to be starting a new job in 4 weeks time

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Prema Ananda

This week I built a multi-agent AI brand monitoring system with n8n and BrightData! πŸ€–
It automatically tracks brand mentions across the web and analyzes sentiment. If this doesn't win me a prize this time, I'll have to put my AI agents to work finding me a job instead of monitoring brands πŸ˜…

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Chris Zhang

Met the founder of a n8n at their New York kick-off party and start an initial conversation to be their official partner.

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Jess Lee The DEV Team

That's exciting, hope it works out!

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Chris Zhang

Thanks Jess!

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Khushiii

Just 2 days into my internship, I ended up leading a team of 8 (including people more experienced than me).
Last night, I was literally in tears over some stubborn bugs… but I kept coding through it.
After that sleepless night, I finally solved it β€” and even better than before.
Today, I’m genuinely proud of myself. 🌸

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IO_Node • Edited

got 2 this week. anytime ive cleared a breakpoint i consider it a win XD i can now import modules dynamically from dynamic local sources and can detect which type of console argument is fed with hard limits. those two made me scream haha

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Ariel Frischer

Got 1k $ aws startup program credits.

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Sanjay Singh

I have launched stackdevflow.com/, it is not big as other blogging site but it works

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Nigel Stratton

I added biometric login to a Flutter app I'm writing. It's not hard, but this is my first Flutter app, and it makes it look so cool.

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Muhammed Sabith

I made my own VS Code extension πŸŽ‰πŸ‘‘

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Tito O • Edited

I created a nextjs project starter template, that can easily be used for App or Page router with minimal configuration, and scale nicely for both small and large projects

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Etienne Burdet

Most liked post of last week! (I think?)
Started hydrofoiling and it's awesome.

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Lisa Cee

I went to my first professional conference, WordCamp US, and finally met some of the people that I work with in person.

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Coral • Edited

πŸ“– Reading a good architecture book: πŸ‘‰ Facilitating Software Architecture - by Andrew Harmel-Law

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Tawhid

I wrote code for an IK arm that finally worked

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Tony Costanzo

Here we are on Friday afternoon, and I'm still looking for it!

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Atul Vishwakarma

Starting and completing a new project

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Joost van der Schee

You can read that here: dev.to/jhvanderschee/responsive-ti...

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subhadip pahari

I published a node package for cache : dev.to/subhadip_pahari_1cd6ddc60/i...

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Zuhair Ali

I nullified manual daily query tasks into a proper procedural method with the frontend.