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What was your win this week?

Michael Tharrington on January 19, 2024

Hey hey hey! πŸ‘‹ Hope y'all are doing well and have had a wonderful, successful week! πŸ™Œ Looking back on this past week, what was something you wer...
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GrahamTheDev

Made my GitHub readme responsive, animated and beautiful!

GrahamTheDevRel GitHub profile on Desktop in dark mode. 5 buttons at the top like a menu, Graham with thumbs up next to a speech bubble that says "nice, using dark mode I see, like a true developer! hehe!". Below that are 4 sections talking about projects and work he has done.

And literally just released the article explaining some of the tricks I used here:

dev.to/grahamthedev/take-your-gith... πŸ’—

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Elizabeth

This looks so cool

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Pachi πŸ₯‘

This looks soo good!

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GrahamTheDev

Thanks! πŸ™πŸΌπŸ’—

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Stefan Moore

The win for the week is that I am studying more. Just need to retain what I have studied and to keep it up.

@michaeltharrington share your win(s) with us.

Let's all get inspired!!!

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Michael Tharrington

Shoot, that's a good question! I feel like my win was kinda subtle this week... I steadily ate well, slept well, and worked out daily too. It was a good healthy week for me.

Aside from that, we had a broken disposal and then our sink got clogged... we were dealing with it all weekend and finally got someone out to fix it on Wednedsay. Yeah, not the most exciting, but I realized just how frequently I use my sink and it's so nice to have it back, lol.

Thankya for asking, Stefan! Best wishes on your studies. πŸ™‚

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Stefan Moore

No problem. Sharing is caring. Glad your sink is fixed. Plus you had bigger wins...sleeping, eating, working out. Sticking to your goals...that's what's up!!!

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Dan Bailey

Registered for the first class of my next degree: Bachelor of Applied Science in Software Application Development. Massive progress in my self-guided Python education. Major headway in Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.

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Elizabeth

Congratulations!!! πŸ”₯

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Thomas Bnt
  • I updated my website and my Discord bot youhouuu! πŸ“¦πŸš€
  • Read books about trains and the world of Harry Potter (I really love it!) πŸš‚πŸšƒπŸšƒπŸšƒπŸ₯°
  • I did a bit of cycling in this cold πŸš΄πŸΌβ€β™‚οΈ
  • Make a little contribution to OSS world βš’
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Pachi πŸ₯‘

I had the BEST interview today. I did great, and I am really proud of myself.

Wish me luck!

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Michael Tharrington

Woot! Good luck, Pachi. πŸ€

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Makita Tunsill

Good luck

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Carlarjenkins

3 big things:

  • Had an IT Specialist interview yesterday and scheduled another interview next week
  • Got accepted into ServiceNow Administrator workforce development program
  • Tinkered around with PMI (Project Management Institute) Infinity AI assistant.
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Matt Eland

Last night I sent the draft for Chapter 1 of Data Science in .NET with Polyglot Notebooks on to the publisher. The project isn't getting a ton of my time yet as I work on other priorities including my computer vision course, but it's nice to see the start of a new book.

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Matt Eland • Edited

Oh! I also got started with HackTheBox this week learning some offensive cybersecurity in a safe and legal way. It's really eye-opening. I managed to hack a training box to exploit an unpatched vulnerability to get access, then carry out privilege escalation to gain root.

The world is a scary place.

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Medea

I started using Godot and started making a game with it!

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Shai Almog

I was warned about an exploit since once of our dependencies at Codename One uses jdesktop.org and that domain elapsed. So I bought the domain and saved on the effort of fixing many dependencies.

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Neeraj Gaur

I was accepted into the AWS Cloud Institute and started digging deep into the course work :)

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Milan Jovanović

Wrapping up the work for releasing my new product. It's a large update to my existing course, a V2.0, if you will. Releasing it to the public next week.

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✨⚑️CrazyPaine⚑️✨ • Edited

I'm actually getting the hang of codewars, doing maybe two or three at a time and I'm making a calculator just doing the small steps before putting it together.

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Ranjan Dailata

Publish two articles related to "AI".

  1. Future of Generative AI
  2. Reliability Score Analysis
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Anita Olsen

πŸ“° I published a post on DEV! ✨

🧡 My post received a mention in the DEV Talks section of the DEV Community Newsletter! ✨
My post mentioned in the DEV Community Newsletter

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Jaime LΓ³pez

Return to work after my vacation period. Blue Monday was too much blue for me πŸ˜”

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Mohammed

Mmm. Probably did more studying than programming this week.

But, I did get a basic DirectX 11 Renderer working, and my god is it better designed than OpenGL, even though the row-major math is kind of dumb but you can flip it using XMMatrixTranspose().

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Giuliano1993

This week I was for the first time responsible for the onboarding of a new teacher in the programming academy I work at! It was huge, since I love mentoring other devs and make them feel welcome, it was a great experience for me :D

I also published the contributing file on a project I'm getting ready to make fully open source, you can find it here if you wish!

github.com/Giuliano1993/serverManNode

I want to push this a lot in the next months, so hop in if you wish!

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Corners 2 Wall • Edited
  1. Returned in a forum.
  2. Write an article.
  3. Fixed and Merged an issue in open source.
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Adam Crockett πŸŒ€

This week I had an interview that I throughly I crushed but actually didn’t so I’m winning by trying to process what went wrong and not repeat the same mistakes

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Monty Harper

My wins for the week:

  • Started a portfolio and made it public.
  • Sent in my first job application!
  • First meeting with mentor @lddmarc scheduled for tomorrow!
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Alberto Rojas

Develop a go program that reads my gas, power and water pdf bills and creates and entry in a SQLite, then graph it in Grafana

Also learned to "use" the hclwrite lib from HashiCorp