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Looking back on your week -- what was something you're proud of?
All wins count -- big or small 🎉
Examples of 'wins' include:
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It was quite a depressing week for me and I am really grateful seeing heartwarming comments when I expressed my feelings so far:
Achievement that feels shallow on paper
I am behind, and I can't prove it but does it matter?
It made me feel inclusive and feel like I belong here. After years of searching for a community to be part of, I believe I have found my place here on DEV. I will respond each one slowly to have more time to think for each comment. Thanks DEV community for being with me :)
Hey, that's what the community is for - to support each other. You definitely belong here!
And thanks for inviting me to DEVengers. It's an honor!🫡
Yea for sure and no problem! If there is a post you like to have under the org, let me know beforehand! :D
Sure thing. Do you guys have a chat or anything like that, like a Discord server or something? How can I reach out? Or maybe you can reach out with this username:
georgekobaidzeI sent you a friend request. We can talk from there. Thanks Giorgi!
How you do link so fancy? Teach please 🤯 I can build an OS in 5 days, but mind still blown at fancy link embedding (I'm serious though, how you do that?)
Please and Thank you, hope next week is a better for you. You really are a pillar in the community and you should never sell yourself short. You're still studying if I remember correctly, well being a pillar in a prominent developer community while studying is already more than most do? That's commitment to the art, which shows your dedication to the career and enthusiasm for being helpful.
A bit behind the curtain, I've been depressed lately too (must be mercury retrograde or something again), life got busy, I'm buying a house for my fiance and myself, I'm trying to find a new job (market is dead af in Namibia), I've been working 108h weeks for the past 6 months, because everything just gets more busy and I dont see it slowing down anytime soon and I just feel burnt out. But the depression is a result of doing alot and feeling like I'm getting nowhere... I wont say I know how you feel, but I hope it's relatable in some way. I've been doing the whole V.E.L.O.C.I.T.Y. OS as a way to clear my mind and just relax a bit, get caught up in a project so I just forget how life is crumbling around me. It's not easy and getting nowhere for it just makes it all worse... So heres to a better week ahead, may the sun shine and the weather be sweet.. Makes you wanna move.. Your dancing feet now 😄 (Bob Marley)
This week, one of my biggest wins was publishing an article that turned into one of my best-performing posts on DEV 😀
What I'll remember most, though, is the conversations it started. I never expected so many people to share their own stories, experiences, and reflections in the comments. Reading them and replying to everyone has been incredibly special, and I'm really grateful for it.
If anyone would like to read it, here it is: I Wish I Had Started Documenting My Tech Journey Earlier
Congratulations Hema!!❤️
Thank you so much, Divyanshi 🧡
I totally saw that in the top of my feed for like a week! Alot of the best articles are personal and relatable! It's scary to share sometimes, and I think that exposing a little bit of discomfort, is actually classy in that sense. A real human with real experiences, classy!
Having a well performing post is a great feeling. I encourage you to keep sharing your experiences. Great job!
Thank you so much, Anna!
You're right, it can be scary to share something personal. I still feel that way sometimes before I hit publish, but comments and conversations like this remind me why it's worth doing.
Thank you for reading and for such kind words. They really mean a lot 😀
The previous and current months have been extremely unproductive for me here on DEV and for a good reason. I got promoted to Engineering Manager, and there was so much to catch up on that I simply didn’t have the mental capacity to write.
Now that the dust is starting to settle and I’ve managed to establish the essentials, I’ve already published two articles in one week, which is something I don’t usually do.
And the best part? I already have 5-6 more articles waiting in the queue.
And they’re gonna be good ones. Much better than these two. Not even close.
Just put out the teaser and first post of the new series — #2's on the way.🤣
Published a benchmark comparing 8 AI coding agents on the same project. The results were interesting — but what I didn't expect was the comment thread.
@unitbuilds showed up to mention Kimi K2.7. By the end of the week, that same thread had covered: a custom zero-allocation binary format (NDA), a model runtime with 4x KV-cache compression, a sandboxed IDE that starts in 200ms and uses 30MB RAM, BitNet distillation for mobile inference, and a theoretical path to 1M+ TPS on FPGA.
From "have you tried Kimi?" to a new programming language in one comment section. That's the kind of conversation that makes writing worth it.
Out of curiosity, have you ever tried Agent Workers through Cloudflare? They have Kimi K2.7 on there and it's quite affordable too (I mean it's a 1T param behemoth, for $4 output per m tokens and 27c per input mil token). Would be interesting to see how it compares, given that it acts as a pretty decent competition, often beating all the other models, including pro SOTA models at coding?
Nawww shucks, yeah gotta say it's been my win of the week too. It's been so much fun going down the rabbit hole, seeing how far it goes and now it's weekend 🤩 so lets see what we can do about those flying saucers 😂
I got serious FOMO after watching over my boyfriend's shoulder and have decided to embark on Network Chucks Summer of CCNA course about half way through the program. Time to high-tail it! 😂✨️
This is after deciding to take the summer 'off' of school to give myself a break. My brain did this by itself I cannot be held accountable for my own nonsense. LOL
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shipped a write-up this week on 5 metrics i'd actually use to track AI's impact on a team. first time the metrics framing made stakeholders ask follow-up questions instead of nodding. small win but i'll take it.
I was invited to Samsung's event in Delhi, the capital of India.
I finally published my article about using llm to analyze API logs and detect running attacks 🙂
If you want, you can read it here and any feedback is much appreciated
Using llm to analyze API logs
Got a new badge for the Gemma4 DEV Challenge :
My win this week: launched Apiarium after getting tired of managing 4 different AI API accounts for every side project.
One API key for GPT, Claude, image gen, TTS and transcription. Got the first real users this week which felt pretty surreal 🐝
Brutal feedback welcome apiarium.dev
I had an ahah moment with my team. I built a hook to capture progres notes on a story when my team was running the imdone HDD skill in claude and noticed we didn't have any progress notes one day. One of my teammates told me he was plate spinning and wasn't on the skill, so the hook didn't engage. This led me to create a new
imdone aicommand that launches claude or codex with story context and progress notes guidance in the first prompt. It's out and I'm already getting feedback!New win of the week, posting a 12 part series in a day 😅 Wanna find out how I built an OS in 5 days?
Part 1
Progress with my Browser OS
fixing fortnite with the tool I programmed myself lol 😂 😂
Well convinced my brother to install Arch Linux and also to play same game as mine together
Been posting my new startup on different platforms. The only win is I am getting views but no paid users.
What's the platform name?
I decided to share my YT Zero project with the world. YouTube but without logging in or using content recommendation algorithms, and it turned out that a lot of people liked it. I didn't expect that :D
github.com/Pelski/ytzero
Bit late but whatever .Had a great week! It was my birthday, so I celebrated with my parents and took a one-day solo trip. I also started an AI agent project, stayed consistent with the gym, and, most importantly, let go of a mental burden I'd been carrying. Feeling grateful for the progress and fresh start. 🎉
make a good friend!
Wrote an article after few months
got appraisal today 🤩
I found a new library which became my go to
Finally got the usb token for ev code signing. Cost me $600, but now I can submit to microsoft to sign my custom drivers for the remote desktop project. Wooohooo!
My win this week was staying consistent with learning and creating content every day. Small progress adds up over time.
I finally gotten past a bug in apk build that was literally driving me nuts for over a week 🙃
no wins but more learning.
Finally sat down to create a new program!