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What was your win this week?

Michael Tharrington on December 29, 2023

Hey all 👋 Hope everybody has had a wonderful weekend! Looking back on this past week, what was something you were proud of accomplishing? All wi...
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Ben Halpern

Really excited about 2024!

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Anita Olsen

Me too! It is going to be a BLAST! 🌟

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Anita Olsen • Edited

📰 I published a post on the DEV community! ✨


💟 I got the 8 Week Community Wellness Streak badge! ✨
8 Week Community Wellness Streak badge

🥤 I got a free soft drink! ✨
Coca Cola Zero

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Nick Taylor

Pam from The Office saying Nice!

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Michael Tharrington

Haha, the free soft drink part made me laugh! 🥤

Really awesome reflections post, Anita. 🙂

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Anita Olsen

Oh, just saw. LOLOLOL! Thank you for pointing that out, laughing now, too funny! 😂

Thank you 😊

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Nick Taylor

I hit a million post views on DEV!!!!! Thanks to everyone that's been reading my posts. 💜

My DEV dashboard saying I've had 100, 000, 626 post views

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Thomas Hansen

Najs!!

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Anita Olsen

Congratulations! 🎉 ⭐

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Nick Taylor

Thanks Anita!

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Monty Harper

In May I started learning iOS programming with a goal in mind of making a calendar app for my mom, who has temporal lobe epilepsy. This week I delivered her an iPad with the app on it!

Over the past few days, I've collected a long list of issues to fix (and fixed about half of them) based on her and her care-givers' interactions with the app. At the same time I've seen the app start to help a bit; I've been able to say on the phone, "look at your calendar" and verify that it answers her questions. I'll keep making improvements, fingers crossed that it will eventually help relieve her constant anxiety about the future!

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Jaime López

Keep doing what you're doing. This is amazing!!!

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Michael Tharrington

Woooaaaa!!!

That is such an awesome win, Monty. I remember you talking about that goal in one of your early posts. I'm so happy to hear that and I hope you feel a good sense of accomplishment now that she has the app in hand. 🙂

I'm sure you'll continue on learning more and find new ways to improve the app based on her experience with it.

It warms my heart to hear about you doing this for your mom. Wishing you two the best! 💚

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Nick Taylor

Let's go!

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Rachel Fazio

Very excited also for the new year!

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Carlarjenkins

Got my blog post accepted into AWS in Plain English Medium publication aws.plainenglish.io/recertify-your...

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Michael Tharrington

Woot woot! Congrats, Carla. That's awesome stuff. 🙌

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Carlarjenkins

Thank you!

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Shameel Uddin

This week, I started a YT channel which I have been thinking since September 2022.

I will try to share what I know here.

Link: youtube.com/@ShameelUddin123

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Nick Taylor

Captain America saluting

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Michael Tharrington

Nice!! Sounds like you've put a lotta thought into it, Shameel.

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Shameel Uddin

Not really putting a lot of thought.
I tried to record a lot of times but I always thought it wasn't perfect. Months passed by and I couldn't get through it.
But somehow, I now started with my old headset and my current work system just to get it up and running.
Hope, I can be consistent enough; upgrade and improve along the way :)

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Learning rescript

GitHub logo DrSensor / rescript.nix

nix devshell for using rescript compiler without JS runtime

ReScript with nix

Status: Works on simple example

Important

no JS runtime is involved or harmed in any way in this experiment

meme

Usage

nix develop github:DrSensor/rescript.nix
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Dev

Clone the repo first (don't do human cloning because the code written here is not designed for that)

git clone https://github.com/DrSensor/rescript.nix.git
cd rescript.nix/
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Activate nix devshell (you can also use nix develop)

direnv allow
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Let's test out by compiling the simple example

cd examples/simple/
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૮༼⚆︿⚆༽つ

Seems the social preview didn't work on dev.to 🤔

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Michael Tharrington

Uh-oh! I think it looks like it's working now though — at least the GitHub preview.

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૮༼⚆︿⚆༽つ

Is there a special syntax to display social preview (i.e og:image) instead of GitHub preview?

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Michael Tharrington

Oooo I'm sorry I misunderstood ya.

So, all of our embeds are essentially the same and follow this formula:

{% embed https://... %}

There are a couple exceptions here with codepen and codesandbox for instance which read as follow:

{% codepen https://... %} & {% codesandbox https://... %}

I've logged this issue here.

To be honest, I'm not entirely sure what kind of social preview you're expecting, but if we don't provide it, you can consider putting in a feature request here.

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૮༼⚆︿⚆༽つ • Edited

I mean the standard opengraph image. GitHub user now can customize the social preview of their repo. To help with the debugging: what I'm seeing now is the preview of README.md file, not the opengraph-image.

Honestly it's not that important for me, I'm just curious if dev.to has alternative syntax to embed a link that display an opengraph-image 🙂 (maybe I miss something in the docs)

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Michael Tharrington

Oh right on — thanks for that thorough explanation!

I don't believe we do offer that yet, but that would be nice. I'll mention it to our Product team as something we might consider adding next time we're looking into embeds.

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Anmol Baranwal

Nothing much. Feeling the side effects of the end of the year and exams. LOL!

Finally, a public announcement that I'm part of international team on LinkedIn :)
(joined around October)

guidlify

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Michael Tharrington

Haha, I'm still kinda in end-of-year vacation mode myself.

Anywho, sounds like a good org you're a part of — it's so cool seeing all the different flags of your different team members. 🙂

I know @darkterminal! 🙌

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Imam Ali Mustofa • Edited

I know you too @michaeltharrington 🔥 Happy Vacation and Happy New Year!!!

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Imam Ali Mustofa

OMG!!! 😎 I am look pretty awesome 🤣

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Christine Belzie

My article on my first paid tech writing gig is one of the top 3 discussions and trending articles on Hashnode

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Michael Tharrington

Boooyaaah!! That's good stuff, Chrissy.

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Devin MacGillivray

Two day work week for me this week, finished the engineering around a 3rd party app integration and thats pretty much all I needed to get done!

Happy new years everyone

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Stefan Moore

I created my first CloudFormation template. A few issues, looking to resolve soon.

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Michael Tharrington

Good stuff, Stefan!

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Stefan Moore

Thanks, still trying to resolve. Not sure where the error is.

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Michael Tharrington

Damn! Hope ya get it. 🤞

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Stefan Moore

Still in a clueless space about it. It's on hold for the time being. Still won't stop the show.

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Jaime López

Meet with other moderators and play a funny game. I'm a shy guy but I did it and I shared great moments with the guys there.

Can't wait for the next event 🎉🎉🎉

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Michael Tharrington

It was so nice having ya with us, Jaime. If you were feeling shy, it didn't show... had a good time getting to know you better. 🙂 Also, congrats on winning one of the rounds!!

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Thomas Hansen

I almost made it to 10,000,000 downloads of our open source NuGet packages ...

NuGet downloads

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Michael Tharrington

Wooohooo!!! That's a bunch of downloads right there, Thomas. 🔥

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Thomas Hansen

Well, it's not "real numbers" since there's 50 projects, and one CI/CD pipeline build trigger download of 43 - But it's still some fairly "drastic numbers". Magic is responsible for 2% of ALL downloads at NuGet these days ... ;)

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Thomas Bnt

I'm officially an ambassador for my city, I saw my family over the Xmas, and went to see Aquaman 2 in cinema (very cool movie) 🤩🥳

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Michael Tharrington

OOooo awesome! Sounds like good times all around, Thomas. 🙌

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Imam Ali Mustofa

Nothing Fancy but the punk is this

GitHub logo darkterminal / fck

The fck PHP Framework for Freestylers

fck - Work in Progress

Welcome to my fck framework! This project is a work in progress and is being developed just for fun. It follows the Model-View-Controller (MVC) architectural pattern and aims to provide a structured and modular codebase for web development.

Project Overview

This fck framework is designed to showcase my dancing knowledge, experiment with different features, and serve as a playground for trying out new (old) ideas. Please note that this project is not intended for production use (yet), and some features may be incomplete or under development.

Features

  • MVC Architecture: The project follows the MVC architectural pattern for better organization and separation of concerns.
  • Routing: Custom routing system to handle URL requests and map them to appropriate controllers and actions.
  • Views and Templates: Implementation of views and templates to render dynamic content.
  • Controller Actions: Handling user requests through controller actions for different…
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Matt Eland

I finished the code for my workshop on AI Orchestration and Semantic Kernel on the 9th

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Muhammad Ahmad

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techmifa

I joined this platform and excited for 2024

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NaveenKumar Namachivayam ⚡

revamped my site naveenkumar.pro

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Stefan Moore

To give up on sanity and just go insane.