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What was your win this week?!

Jess Lee on February 27, 2026

👋👋👋👋 Looking back on your week -- what was something you're proud of? All wins count -- big or small 🎉 Examples of 'wins' include: Getting a p...
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Konark Sharma

I recently wrote an article on Dev.to and was honestly overwhelmed by the response from the community. So many people resonated with what I shared. I truly didn’t expect such warmth and support.

I’m really grateful for this platform and for the incredible community that continues to encourage and uplift new voices. The love and feedback I received means a lot and motivates me to keep sharing and improving.

Thank you to everyone who took the time to read and engage with my work. Incase, you are wondering this is my article.

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Queen Esther Chirima

Hie Konark, l just read your article just now, and it is a good one, l was well motivated, l recently joined the community and hoping to learn more

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Konark Sharma

Hi, Queen Esther Chirima. First of all, welcome to the community. I'm really glad you joined the community. The more the merrier.

I'm really delighted that you found my article useful. I'm sure we all will be learning from you as well since you have two deployed projects. All the best for all your future endeavors and hope you get a job asap.

Feel free to share your thoughts as well. I would love to read your articles and learn from you.

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Queen Esther Chirima

Most Welcome dear mate

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Peter Vivo

Start to make a new WASM text format, which is much more to fit my Z80 assembler memoire. At least I try to more understand WASM as ever before.

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Cathy Lai

I’ve made another YouTube video :) Even though under 2 minutes, it still feels rewarding.

I’ve discovered that it’s great for build in public - it’s like I’m just showing a colleague what I’m doing. It’s really super easy to make !

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Julien Avezou

This week I attended a few meetups around my city and made interesting connections. My weekly post here actually surfaces the importance of human connections in the age of AI and my thoughts on this.

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HomelessCoder

Launched Omnismith in public beta - a data management platform I originally built to solve my own problems. Years of building admin panels for clients, hitting the same limitations over and over, eventually turned into: why not build the tool I actually want?

Everything was done by one person. The architecture, the frontend, the infrastructure, integrating payments, setting up a legal entity while in immigration, in a country that isn't mine, in a second language.

The launch was quiet. But what stayed with me is how differently I now think about building from zero. Not "what's the fastest way to ship" or "make the code clean and maintainable" but what actually holds a product together long-term - technically, legally, commercially.

Genuinely one of the hardest and most rewarding things I've done as an engineer.

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Bharathkumar • Edited

My biggest win this week was officially launching an open-source tool I've been pouring my heart into: snip! 🎉

As someone who basically lives in the terminal, I was completely tired of constantly hunting through my .bash_history or scattered notes for that one specific command or Docker script I use once a month.

So, I built a solution! snip is a lightweight, cross-platform CLI for saving, searching, sharing, and running reusable code and shell snippets instantly. ⚡️

A few features I'm really proud to have shipped:

🖥️ Interactive TUI: Fuzzy search through all your snippets instantly (snip ui).

⚙️ Parameterized Snippets: Add variables like {{name}} so the CLI prompts you for values before running.

🔄 Cloud Sync: Push and pull your snippets directly to/from GitHub Gists.

⌨️ Shell Widget: A Ctrl+G hotkey to search and paste snippets right into your prompt!

Seeing it go live on npm (snip-manager) and getting the docs polished up was a massive milestone for me this week.

If you're a terminal junkie like me, I'd absolutely love for you to check it out, give it a star, or drop some feedback on the repo!

🔗 GitHub: github.com/Bharath-code/snip
🌐 Docs: bharath-code.github.io/snip/

What do you all think? Hope everyone else had a productive week too! 🍻

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Fredrick Chukwuma

Ok on this, I can say I got started with GitHub so far this week. Getting introduced to Gitbash, and some new commands haha 😁.... It's really a baby step for me, but I'm dedicated to learning and getting better.

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Dawn

Good for you! Baby steps are necessary foundations, well worth celebrating 🎉

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Gábor Mészáros

It's a Friyaay!

This week was a lot of engineering fun. Thanks to the writing rhythm that I learned on dev.to, I've managed to connect the dots between my two previous posts and out of that born something anew: Why /bootstrap should be the first Command in every Agent session

It basically combines Backbone patterns and Mermaid workflows into one action, ensuring context correctness for coding agents.

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Nikola Brežnjak

My win this week was long-coming: (slight) blog redesign: nikola-breznjak.com/blog

As I got back into writing, it finally had to be done (it only took me several years) 😅

I also published a post, a rather weird take, on utilizing one's monitor.

Have a nice weekend y'all 👋

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👾 FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ 👾

Great achievements so far!

Great week so far and congrats to others as well :D

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Pascal CESCATO

Being in the Top 7 this week felt fantastic. Writing about RFC 2334 was especially rewarding, and drafting RFC 1516 in response to a joke from @sylwia-lask was a real highlight. All in all, it’s been an incredibly fun and energizing week!

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Aaron Rose

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Pascal CESCATO

☕ and 🍺, of course 😁

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adriens

Since End of Minio Community, I celebrated an alternative with some security benchmark, thnaks to pgsty/minio alternative, which looks really great:

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adriens

I started to use the data we generate from our cli :

And now, I can automate software lifecycle benchmarking for clever data-driven choice for security/maintenance :

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Aryan Choudhary

Not a lot of wins this week just stabilizing into my new job, restarting on some side projects and language practice as time and energy allows. Also started training for calisthenics (again). Planned out my next month's goals too.

Funny calisthenics gif

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Cesar Castillo

Dive deeper into NeoVim, refactor some old projects 😰 , and, if possible, deploy them :D

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Giorgi Kobaidze

How has your experience with NeoVim been so far? Does it still deliver as much value as it used to?

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Cesar Castillo

So far, so good! To be honest, I don't think it's a massive game-changer compared to other tools, it's mostly a matter of personal preference.
However, I’m using it alongside tmux and I’m absolutely loving the workflow. The synergy between the shortcuts and the accessibility is great. It’s something I had promised myself I’d learn, and I’m glad I finally did! 😁

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Sylwia Laskowska

My post got well over 10k views in two days. Funny thing is, this one actually felt less “opinion-driven” to me. Apparently the community really needs that kind of curated lists 🙂

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Tom Schwartz • Edited

I got an appointment at the foreign police office to get my work permit renewed after years of trouble with this untenable document which culminated in my losing a job to its lapse in December. Good news is it let me work on my dev project and bring it up a crucial step. Time to get on the job search grind but all I wanna do is sit out in the sun. #Languapps

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Shakib S.

Consistency.
It always surprises me how out of no where new opportunities or visions comes from consistency. I had forgotten that for a while. But not anymore!
I realized (in a good way) that my talent is really of no use if I'm not visible to people. So, now finally I've somehow started being consistent in my writing and building.
Have a happy weekend.

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Adarsh Kant

Shipped 4 new SEO pages for my voice AI startup (AnveVoice) in one session — 2 competitor comparison pages and 2 India-market blog posts.

Also did my first Show HN and posted on Indie Hackers for the first time. LinkedIn continues to be our best channel (12 UTM visits from a single post).

Biggest learning this week: fix your funnel before driving traffic. Had 41 visitors with 0 conversions because the demo was buried 3 clicks deep. Moved it to the homepage and it changed everything.

Small wins compound! 🚀

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Luftie The Anonymous • Edited
  • Getting final clarity on my career. Finally had picked myself up and got enough boldness to decide to leave web-dev after 3 years of hurdling there and moved into shifting into cryptography and blockchain/protocol architecture.
  • Applied for a web3-hackathon to take part in it as my farewell (as main focus)
  • Continueously feeling gaps on DSA (Data Structure and Algorithm)
  • Received a book - "Understanding Cryptography", by Christof Paar, the newest version for free
  • Started a project, that will be a library with cryptography components (hash-functions, symmetric and assymetric ciphers, helpers like Euler's Phi Function etc.)
  • Found a perfect place (Dev.to, to share my work <3) and journey (honestly linkedin and X, trigger stress in me and it's not so dev focused as Dev.to)

From bad things, I kind of could not control the excitement in me, thus my focus and achievements in actual coding are low. Now I calmed down and should go smoothly into work ethic.

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utkarsh upadhyay

this week i built some few basic but good projects that improve the logical thinking by myself, completed my java course upto 60 to70 percent. i have stopped using ai tools for making and started focusing on a single skill. i am in college and for starting 3 sem i was using ai tools to code everything for me and hopping around different stacks fields, and not focusing on a single thing, and in the end the net output was zero. i have learned from my mistakes, currently in my 4th sem and i have promised myself that till the end of the college, i'll become a cracked programmer with multiple projects

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Louis Liu

I wrote my first game in JavaScript and published it in the VS Code marketplace.

Building a Mini Basketball Game as a VS Code Extension

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M Saad Ahmad

This week, I began developing a VS Code extension that plays the iconic "FAAAAAAAAH" sound whenever an error is thrown in the terminal. This occurs either when you run a file that throws an error or when you attempt to run a test that fails. This is a significant achievement for me as it is my first product-level project. Additionally, I am doing the 100 Days of Code challenge, which I am posting about daily here.

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Jared Santos

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Harsh

Finally deployed my Gemini-powered pet photo generator! 🐶 Been working on it for the Google Gemini challenge. Seeing shelter animals turn into professional portraits with AI was definitely the highlight of my week. Oh, and I fixed a memory leak that's been haunting me for weeks!

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Manas Mishra

I launched my first Micro SaaS.

It's used to convert code to documents, like really useful docs, not readme.

docflow.mmopro.in/

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Junyan Qin (Chin)

Finally got my SaaS on live, waiting for new users.

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sagar saini

Just the small wins that keeps me going

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Filip Dorian Pindej

I launched an open-source project, went public with on Reddit, scared as hell. Got surprised how well it got accepted and gained over 160 stars during first 3 days!