Michael Tharrington for The DEV Team

Posted on Apr 21, 2023

What was your win this week?

#discuss #weeklyretro

Hey folks 👋

Hope y'all all have wonderful weekends!

Looking back on this past week, what was something you were proud of accomplishing?

All wins count — big or small 🎉

Examples of 'wins' include:

Starting a new project
Fixing a tricky bug
Going hiking! 🥾

Top comments (32)

Dan Bailey • Apr 21 '23

✅ got my Azure AZ-900 certification completed
✅ got my girlfriend's Wordpress site spun up
✅ registered for Microsoft Build conference in May
✅ stayed super productive despite the grey/rainy/depressing weather

Andy Piper • Apr 21 '23 • Edited

Oh, I have a few:

I'm Mod of the Month (thanks for the lovely interview, @michaeltharrington!)
my wife and I launched our new studio site and got the sign up!

I built a Brachiograph plotter... (more to come on this)

Michael Tharrington • Apr 21 '23

Woooaaa! This brachiograph plotter is so cool! I def wanna hear more about this...

And it was my pleasure interviewing ya, Andy! Plus, thanks for all the help — from interviewing to editing — you really did a lot to make this interview come to fruition!

Andy Piper • Apr 22 '23 • Edited

Getting arty with a Pi

Andy Piper ・ Apr 22 ・ 4 min read

#raspberrypi #art #python #maker

Chris Greening • Apr 21 '23

Finally back in a place where I can resume my homemade projects/hobbies :~) I've been on the road a lot this last year so it's been hard to pursue non-computer related hobbies but this was the first week I felt settled in quite a while

Fired up some pizza, froze 2 gallons of homemade chicken stock, and acquired a pressure canner so I can start canning some soups and sauces 😎 the weather finally took a turn for the better in New York so I'm generally excited for the warm season to start fishing, gardening, hiking, etc. again, been cooped up for way too long 😅

Some pizza I made ;) :

Michael Tharrington • Apr 21 '23

Wooooaaaaa, that pizza looks freakin' amazing! YUM!!

The warm weather is rolling into Carolina right now too and it has been a very welcome change. I'm planning a little camping trip up to Grandfather Mountain next month to get my fill of woodsy activities... can't wait!

Erin A Olinick • Apr 21 '23

That is some gorgeous pizza!

Ben Halpern • Apr 21 '23

Nice!

Jean-Michel 🕵🏻‍♂️ Fayard • Apr 21 '23 • Edited

I have been overwhelmed with joy seeing the reactions to my article about developers careers. I have been obsessed by this topic since at least 3 years, because there is so much waste of human talents, and it seems that now, at last, at very long last, all pieces of the puzzle are finally coming together.

Keep Calm And Just Say No To Coding Challenges

Jean-Michel Fayard 🇫🇷🇩🇪🇬🇧🇪🇸🇨🇴 ・ Apr 19 ・ 5 min read

Job Hunting: Just Submit Your CV and Hope for the Best?

Jean-Michel Fayard 🇫🇷🇩🇪🇬🇧🇪🇸🇨🇴 ・ Apr 17 ・ 13 min read

#beginners #career #healthydebate #interview

Career Resources For Developers - 🙋 I'm Jean-Michel Fayard

Laziness, Impatience and Hubris

jmfayard.dev

If you like music, this is the kind of overwhelming joy I'm feeling right now

Chris Greening • Apr 21 '23

Yayy I'm so happy for you :D no better feeling than getting that validation on your passion projects - congratulations!

I haven't read these pieces yet but I'll check them out later today 😎 keep up the great work!!! :D

Rachel Fazio • Apr 21 '23

This week we launched the Featured Mod of the Month interview

Featured Mod of the Month: Andy Piper

Michael Tharrington for The DEV Team ・ Apr 19 ・ 14 min read

#interview #meta #moderation #community

that I designed the visuals for!! I was super excited about this one and am proud of how it came out.

Also played tennis for the second time since I was a child this week!

Michael Tharrington • Apr 26 '23

Oooo heck yeah!

You are always rocking the graphics, Rachel. They turned out brilliant. 🙌

And hooray for tennis... I used to play regularly but it's been a couple years. I really wanna get back out there on the courts! 🎾

Erin A Olinick • Apr 21 '23

Yeah, this interview is sweet and the graphics just accentuate that. Congrats to you, Michael, and Andy, of course!

Maciek Fitzner • Apr 24 '23 • Edited

After mostly mucking about with 3D CSS on Codepen for the past two years I finally dipped my toe in the back-end side of things. I did have some prior experience with PHP loops and arrays, now I'd like to code something myself from start to finish - using Laravel
...and JS, which I'd also shied away from before. Not really ready yet, but I did manage to cobble together a Candy Crush clone (based on a tutorial by Ania Kubów
The drive to get into back-end in no way means I'm going to stop muching about with 3D on Codepen. If anything, I'm speeding up! Two pens CSS pens in week (on top of the Candy Crush clone)

OpalesCSSent:
Sea-Sickening Starfish: The SeaQuel:

Nald • Apr 24 '23

This looks cool, good job!

Michael Tharrington • Apr 26 '23

Wow, these are awesome!! Digging them all but especially love the candy crush clone, haha. 🙌

Abishek Haththakage • Apr 21 '23

Got Another dev moderator tags.

Erin A Olinick • Apr 21 '23

We ❤️ our tag mods!

Nick Taylor • Apr 21 '23 • Edited

I've been on panels, given talks at meetups and Lunch & Learns, but this week, I gave my first conference talk, "Fresh: a new full stack web framework for Deno"! It was remote, but still feel pretty good about it. Next goal, an in person conference talk!

The recording isn't available yet, but you can check out the slide deck and demo for now.

Lou Willoughby • Apr 23 '23

I had my yearly review Friday and was promoted to Front End Team Leader! 🥰😭 it’s the first time for our department being split front and backend development as we’re still quite a small business so being in charge of the front end development I’ve been putting my 6/12 month plan together and I’m super excited 👏🏻🤩

Carlarjenkins • Apr 21 '23

-Landed a senior solutions architect phone interview
-My new YouTube podcast hit over 500 views in its first week

Shai Almog • Apr 21 '23

Was offered a CTO role in a new startup. Haven't decided yet.
Wrote a new post for another publication.
Had another interview come out and scheduled another interview in a relatively large channel.