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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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I published my latest dev.to article directly from my own WordPress editor using the plugin I built for the GitHub Copilot CLI challenge.
Small win on paper — but a real one.
For the first time, I just wrote, hit publish, and the whole pipeline worked: formatting, sync, deployment. No manual export, no copy-paste, no friction.
I could simply focus on writing (ironically, about who we’re writing for 😄).
That's so cool Pascal!! I wouldn't call it a small win. I want to try this too!!!
You’re very welcome! Everything’s already in the article — I shared the full explanation and the GitHub repo there, so you can explore or try it out whenever you feel like it.
It’s still evolving, but the core idea works, and honestly it’s been a pleasure to finally write and publish without breaking the flow.
you could make money with that :)
My win this week was publishing something before it felt perfect.
I tend to overthink, refine, and wait... but this week I shared an article about why I started creating bedtime stories for kids.
Not a huge launch.
No big announcement.
Just pressing publish.
Sometimes consistency is the real win.
That's truly a big win Rune and this mindset shift is only going to compound your wins in the future!
Thank you! I really appreciate that.
Trying to lean more into shipping instead of polishing forever. Let’s see where it leads 🙂
I've been meaning to make some changes to an API, but the fear of breaking things for customers has kept me from updating it for months. I kept thinking and thinking if I had missed something, did a lot of testing and analysis, and did it all over again from the beginning. This week, I finally pulled the plug, and it went up to the production server, and it worked!
I'm very happy about it because that update was keeping me from shipping a new service I need to offer to my clients. Hopefully, I can start selling this new service and increase my revenue so I can hire some help to run the project.
It’s Chinese New Year this week, but I still managed to publish a few articles on DEV. This marks my second week on the platform!
新年快樂!
谢谢！
That's amazing! Looking forward to seeing your posts!
I built a multilingual programming language that can also run on the web, thanks to WebAssembly (WASM). This is one of dream projects and I am glad to see it working. I also published a dev.to article about this.
This week, I submitted my project for the Github Copilot Challenge. I got a lot of reactions which has made me eager to explore this project further.
I also got awarded a Top 7 badge for my recent post: Why Learning Basic Robotics Made Me a Better Software Engineer in the Age of AI which I am super grateful for :)
Have an awesome end of week everyone!
Glad to hear you had many wins! 😀
My biggest win this week was letting frustration dictate my engineering output.
I sat down to write a standard article about the AI productivity crisis and the difference between chatbots and real execution.
Halfway through, I got incredibly frustrated. The draft felt like just another theoretical opinion piece.
Instead of publishing it as it was, I scrapped the theoretical approach.
I went down a technical "rabbit hole" if you will and wrote a Python script, and pulled raw data directly from the Yahoo Finance API to prove the market reaction to Anthropic Claude Code.
I documented the raw terminal logs and the exact AWS architecture required to build actual systems of action. You guessed it : It really didn´t work for the LONGEST time.
The published article on dev.to was just a "byproduct."
The real win was refusing to publish what I consider "fluff" and forcing myself to build the verifiable proof. The friction created the value.
This week we resisted the urge to build our internal social media scheduler and will instead use an existing third-party solution. For now. 😀
I Finished my CV for a Developer Relations role at Expo.😀
Over the past few months, I’ve discovered how much I enjoy learning new tech and turning it into simple, practical tutorials!. I’m excited about building a career where coding and teaching go hand in hand.😊
This news, of course 😄
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Ben Halpern for The DEV Team ・ Feb 18
But also, I went to a local pitch event last night and came back feeling quite inspired by all the founders and their businesses. Learned a bit about space debris and made a few connections.
Congrats again Jess and crew!
+1
Congrats 🤩
Once again congratulations to the DEV Team!!
Congrats!
passing my two first IEEE Peer-Reviews as a independent Researcher on PQC and being scheduled as a speaker at a IEEE conference this summer.
Forgot to mention it a couple wins of the week ago, but I got renewed for a second year as a GitHub Star!
Pumped to be a GitHub Star for a second year. Let’s go! https://lnkd.in/e5dyU4Bh | Nick Taylor | 36 comments
Pumped to be a GitHub Star for a second year. Let’s go! https://lnkd.in/e5dyU4Bh | 36 comments on LinkedIn
Nice, Nick!!
Awesomeeee!!!
Published the last best practice post in the Reporails series ~ Mermaid for Workflows
yeah ... that was it ... this week was boring.
Hey a win's a win Gábor! You maintaining the momentum is definitely something!
fair enough
I have been getting such an amazing response (both at my workplace and here on DEV) to my Copilot Challenge submission. That honestly means a lot.
I have wanted to build this app for a long time to help the community. Maybe it was laziness, maybe I was just busy with other things. Either way, I never actually sat down and built it.
The hackathon finally gave me that push.
I am genuinely happy with what I was able to build over the weekend. It feels good to finally use my engineering degree to build something meaningful, something that feels like tech for good, and something that can actually help people.
That's amazing Ujja and honestly well deserved!!
This week I spent too much time overthinking about the future but I still got a few small wins:
Many wins as always. I hope you get used to your new job soon.😀
Thank you so much WDH!! I am really grateful for your support and encouraging words!
A lot of wins there! Nice to see :)
Thanks Julien!
Big win for me: building instead of just consuming.
I’m actively working on a Salesforce project and documenting the journey here — not just learning concepts, but applying them in real scenarios.
A lot to learn from everyone here, and I’m grateful for the community.
Start of my journey
WINNING A DEV CHALLENGE! 🔥
Congrats to the "New Year, New You" Portfolio Challenge Winners and Runner-Ups!
Jess Lee for The DEV Team ・ Feb 19
I can't express enough how grateful I am. I started my career as a graphic designer, so web development is something I grew into as I grew passionate for it. I've always struggled with so called "imposter syndrome" for years even after years of experience in a developer role. This was mainly because I didn't take the "traditional" route. I'm extremely grateful for this challenge particularly because it let me create something that was truly me at it's core, while also adding to the fact that I can say "imposter syndrome" no more. 😁
That's awesomeee Enrique, congratulations are in order!!!
Gets more than 4 hrs sleep one night this week. Big win
Definitely a win!
I closed a contract with customer #3.
I presented my company at a pitch contest and met a bunch of amazing founders including @jess who introduced me to this place!
I learned I sweat when networking in a suit.
I learned a suit isn't necessary or ever worn for a startupgrind pitch event.
I learned communicating the problem, solution, and traction of a business my 3 minutes is really difficult.
I stopped my remaining self-sabatoge habits.
ahhh, hi @civicdialog! great to see you here!
That's honestly a real good set of wins right there! Great work man! 🖖
My open-source AI CLI tool (Cognix) hit 100% execution accuracy in a benchmark against Claude Code and Aider — using the same LLM and same tasks.
Also redesigned the landing page to show the proof right in the first viewport.
Small wins, but for a solo dev, they feel big.
Benchmark report | Project
My win of the week was managing to finish the CLI I was working on to help reduce supply chain attacks
If you want to see it and leave feedback 🙂:
dev.to/r9n/safeinstall-um-aliado-n...
I invented an app that reduces stress, and I wrote a post about it. 🤯 Please give it a try! ↓↓
💥How to Reduce Stress for Free (Mega Bazooka with React Three Fiber + AI)💥
dev.to/webdeveloperhyper/how-to-re...
Pushed a new tool to GitHub: a Git friendly - single-file (python) knowledge tracker. Content agnostic, useful for issue tracking, research logs, D&D World Building and more. Markdown+YAML = source of truth, SQLite rebuildable index = fast searches. MIT License. Repo link (Demo GIF and Readme) on request. CLI only, (no background processes, no cloud connections)
That's so coool Matthew!
Thanks! It's kind of a capstone to some 30 years of work (I wrote a web based issue tracker in C back in the 1990's before all this fancy SQL database stuff came about, LOL). This is a tool I wish I had for about 100 things in the last 30 years.... now I do! (and others do to, if they want/need it - MIT license - github repo)
I got a raise!
There is new tool similiar to openclaw which is called pico claw. I finally understood it and installed it in my window pc successfully
nice! curious: what does pico claw do different and/or better than openclaw?
My win this week: Released Markdown Weaver v1.3.0 after months of iteration! 🚀
Ditched the clunky VS Code Markdown workflow for this visual studio—mind maps from headers , instant slides from notes, AI-powered editing, and a command palette that feels like home.
Wrote this post in it, no distractions. Who's ready to weave some Markdown magic? Check it out: dev.to/vasughanta09/why-i-stopped-...
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I wrote an article about adopting AI tooling over the past several months. I want to get in a habit of writing more (explicitly not generating either!) so i took about 40 minutes this morning to get in a groove
Published some cool releases on open source software! github.com/mnfst/manifest added an LLM Router on our OpenClaw cost saving platform. It evaluates your query and selects the appropriate model.
Also I managed to get a new adopter and contributor to our open source
geoldevops tool :My win of the week was managing to finish the CLI I was working on to help reduce supply chain attacks 🙂
If you want to see it and leave feedback:
Explanation here
Getting out of the hospital
Been using AI coding agents for my projects for a while but always hit a wall when trying to build full features with them. Context goes stale, costs pile up, you end up babysitting every step. Tried the Ralph loop pattern which helped a lot - fresh agent per task, no accumulated mess. Kept adding stuff on top of it, quality gates, semantic code search, failure memory, and at some point realized this should just be its own thing. So I made it one. Hit v0.3 this week and finally wrote about it.
dev.to/craftogrammer/craftloop-ope...
I shot a little live - and very satisfying - demo yesterday evening, to be released tomorrow :
Last weekend I published the article just on time for the Gh Copilot Challenge
My senior colleague asked me to update a module for him and said it takes time to do it.
But I gave the errorless updated version to him at the end of the day.
He was surprised...yea that's my win this week
Win? Published a couple of articles! And updated my portfolio with a headless hashnode blog, services page, projects page and more! vicentereyes.org
I am doing a 100 Days of Code challenge where I am learning and building. During it, I built a tour app in React in just two days. This was a huge win for me because, previously, I used to overthink a lot about building and how to build it. Plus, I didn't really know or understand what I was trying to build or what was happening in the code. But this time, it took only two days with just an idea of what I wanted to build. No overthinking, no unnecessary planning, just building with what I have learned. Also, some days ago, I built a React weather app that displays weather details based on the name of the city that the user types in a search bar, all in a couple of hours.
love this! sounds like a great challenge! good luck!
Significantly improved the quality of our Hyperlambda Generator by reducing LR multiplier and epochs, resulting in 100x better "generalisation", to the point where I can run through 100+ example prompts, with an error ratio of less than 5% ^_^
Published dev.to/siy/no-framework-no-pain-wr...
Got a potential CLIENT!
Launched pomonoise
A Free pomodomoro timer with Ambient Noise selectors. I developed this for my self to improve my focus. instead of switching between apps, I built both the timer and ambient noises in a single page tool.
I built a SRE agent for k3 for diagnostics, so far 0 hallucinations post refinements on a 12b model locally running like a dream hehe
Questa settimana sono riuscito a far funzionare la prima versione del mio IDE mobile per programmare dal telefono !!
Non è perfetto, ma vedere qualcosa che prima era solo un’idea prendere vita è stata una grande vittoria!
Hello! I made a game, published post here about it (for unknown reason, got over 100 views there so far!)... also tried to make song to go with it but there still with no success. Now I'm with harder part, tryin' to solve levels...
Starting my own B2B company. Turning my skills and psychopathic work ethic into money.
Started working on a cool project, really excited about it.
Using full autonomous agent to add unit tests to a 10yr old code. We're at the point that it's better than nothing
My one year old apixies.io side project suddenly went from having practically 0 impressions to 3000 impressions/week and made to first page on Google.
You have wins this week? Time to get mine! ahahaha...