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Looking back on your week -- what was something you're proud of?
All wins count -- big or small 🎉
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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.
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
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.
Most Welcome dear mate
awesome article thanks for sharing!
I'm glad you liked it. Thank you so much.
Great achievements so far!
Great week so far and congrats to others as well :D
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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☕ and 🍺, of course 😁
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.
preview:
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.
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.
I’m looking forward to seeing you make movements like that GIF animation! 😁
Hahaha(≧▽≦)
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 !
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.
Nice!! GitHub + Gitbash is a great start 😄 Everyone begins with the baby steps — that’s how it grows.
Thanks bro 😎
Good for you! Baby steps are necessary foundations, well worth celebrating 🎉
Appreciate that bro 🫶🏽
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.
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 👋
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! 🍻
It's been a truly alchemical week! 🔱
Shipped 3 articles here on DEV:
Good luck to everyone still pushing through — may your last bug be shallow and your Submit button satisfying. You've got this! 🚀
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.
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.
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.
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 :
This week's win: finally launched Squish Lab Pro — a variable font engineering tool I've been tinkering on for months. It uses "quantum blink calibration" (basically a fancy way of saying you adjust until the text stops pulsating) to help designers find the perfect dark mode grade.
You can check it out here if you're curious: fontpreview.online/squishlab.html
Also hit 1.4K users across the FontPreview tools, which still feels surreal for a side project.
Oh, and I discovered that the new Justice album is perfect coding music. So that's a win too. 🎵
What about you all?
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
created a chrome extension with all my favourite feature from Arc browser and more that I wished arc had. Details here
Love reading these wins.
Just managed to finish my entry for the first weekend challenge :)
dev.to/olaproeis/devto-weekend-cha...
What a fun initiative!
Wrote a new Article and also improving my open source skills to contributing to real projects as well.
dev.to/yashksaini/i-built-a-tui-th...
I also am working on my blog writing skills, and making more meaningful contributions as well, exploring more TUI projects.
i have been trying to write more on dev.to on a regular intervals. for now, i target to write at least once every 2 weeks.
I launched my first Micro SaaS.
It's used to convert code to documents, like really useful docs, not readme.
docflow.mmopro.in/
Dive deeper into NeoVim, refactor some old projects 😰 , and, if possible, deploy them :D
How has your experience with NeoVim been so far? Does it still deliver as much value as it used to?
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! 😁
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 🙂
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
Upgraded 6 browser games on itch.io in a single session — Tower Defense got tower upgrades + speed toggle, Dungeon Descent got a full roguelite soul/prestige system, Snake Arena got AI enemy snakes, Coin Factory got a prestige loop + golden coin events, Space Dodge got powerups + star collection, and Brick Breaker got a combo multiplier system up to 10x.
All pure JavaScript, no frameworks, no backend. Each game went from "functional demo" to "actually has a reason to replay."
Also discovered that every single CTA link in my 11 Dev.to articles was pointing to a typo'd URL (double x instead of single x in a domain). All 797+ article views were funneling into a 404 page. Fixed in one batch. The kind of bug that's invisible until you actually click your own links.
Small wins: still at $0 revenue. But at least now the plumbing works.
I setup my on location, DIY, vibe coding platform, to run out of my living room. Which I think was a pretty frikkin' cool "homegrown computer thing" to do.
Setup is MacMini for $800 or something. Magic cloud using docker files, Cloudflare tunnel to connect my domain to it - And voila!! tada - And yes, that's my vibe coding platform.
I don't allow others to vibe code on my box, because it requires root access - But you can setup something similar in a few minutes by following the link above ...
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!
Go check it out and build something on top of it!
Github repo: github.com/fpindej/netrock
Demo: demo.netrock.dev
I won my b-ball tryouts!
Since End of Minio Community, I celebrated an alternative with some security benchmark, thnaks to
pgsty/minioalternative, which looks really great:I started publishing videos on my YouTube channel.
I'm building in public and sharing my journey, but only with tools that I create.
You can check the idea here:
rndthts.dev/posts/building-in-public/
This week I shipped something I’ve been working on — a VS Code extension that helps you convert Selenium tests to Playwright in seconds
Check it out: [marketplace.visualstudio.com/items...]
Feedback welcome !
I built and deployed this NLP, MCP, RAG chat that tells you information about Ivan Cepeda's campaign rally speeches for the Colombian presidential race this year.
cepedanlp.streamlit.app/
and it has some MCP tools you can ask it about
Techies can also connect to the MCP server with an api key I can provide.
Finally executed the idea I had in mind from a long time to experiment with website themes using chrome extension for the weekend challenge!
After a long week, my win is finally shipping Sigilla.
I’ve been building it for a while in the background and it’s one of those projects that kept growing in my head. Lots of small decisions, lots of rewrites, lots of “is this actually useful or am I just tinkering”.
This week I pushed it over the line and made it live and stable. It’s a simple “waiting room” for links before they end up in your notes, so your Obsidian vault doesn’t turn into a graveyard. Save, read in a clean view, highlight what matters, export clean Markdown.
Honestly I’m just proud I didn’t quit when it got messy. Shipping is hard, especially solo.
If anyone here has ever built something like this, you know the feeling.
Honestly, that's a much better description than on your website! I'm not native english, I don't know ad hoc what a PKMS is. Why should I use this? But if you couple this with Obsidian or Zettlr, this could be quite useful for a Zettlkasten method.
thank you for the honest feedback! You make a really good point. When you are deep into building a project, it is so easy to get stuck using acronyms like PKMS and forget that it just confuses people. I definitely need to update the website copy to be as clear as my comment was.
And you are spot on about the use case. The whole idea is to read, use the spaced repetition to remember the core ideas, and then export the clean Markdown straight into tools like Obsidian or Zettlr for a Zettelkasten setup. I really appreciate you taking the time to point this out, it helps a lot
Two wins this week!
Shipped v0.16.0 of my app Tonkatsu Box — a media collection manager for movies, TV shows, games, anime, and visual novels. This release added VNDB integration (5th media type!) and a full search redesign with genre/year filters. The app is now at 55K lines of code across 178 files.
release
Also wrote my first ever dev article — about building the whole thing with an AI coding agent, having zero Dart/Flutter knowledge going in. Got some great feedback from the community.
article
Feels good to finally put the work out there 🚀
hoesntly just tryna fix my sleep schedule, all the debugging literally mess up my whole sleeep :(
Talked to some VCs and gave some good presentations about Coasty, my startup.
I published my first open-source library after my very long 2-year burnout... And when I thought I'd never do programming again, I'm so proud of myself to get back to work!
Migrate my backend for the new version of AdonisJS 7 💜 of my SaaS Squidly - All your Github workflows in one place.
If you want to try the beta, it is free for now and if you have some feedbacks do not hesitate 🤓
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
Completed the Front-End Developer path at Scrimba. Journey is just started, excited to learn and build more! :)
While juggling family life, a full-time job and other obligations, it was a nice milestone I was proud to reach!
My win this week is that I kept the whole thing moving without cutting corners. I published Protective Computing Core v1.0 and Field Guide v0.1, and I also shipped more real reliability work in PainTracker. I tightened up export related validation and got the tests green again. Quiet progress, but it makes the project more trustworthy and easier to maintain.
What was your win that made you feel calmer after you shipped it
I have finished an website for a big school arts in my city, it is also big for entire latin america (Basileu França). I'm receiveing a good money and probably today or tomorrow we are going to let it working on. This is my first big project, and probably will improve my career.
Big week for us at The Seventeen.
We shipped AgentSecrets: zero-knowledge secrets infrastructure for AI agents. The idea: your agent manages the full credentials lifecycle autonomously without ever seeing a single value. Check status, detect drift, pull, call APIs, audit — the whole thing. No human touches the credential workflow.
A few highlights from the week:
Still a lot to build but the category is real and the timing feels right.
github.com/The-17/agentsecrets
I wrote an article after a while in here, about an app me and my wife launched as a family project not much time ago, we still need people to use it, test it give it a try, and please contact me if someone wants to help us in testing, i will give full access to premium features for free in return, dev.to/krlz/we-built-a-pet-medicat...
Gave myself the challenge to do a full project from brainstorming ideas, trying new tech stacks to MVP from the 1st till the 28th of February and it's only stopped by Apple Review atm ^^
March project already in brainstorming and continuing on my personal challenge: one release every month!
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! 🚀
Здравствуйте, хочу тоже похвастаться успехами. Сегодня я получил письмо от администрации о принятии моей первой публикации!). Я не ветеран этой странички или этого сайта, зашел по пути дабы донести информацию)). Получилось так, что донес, но не имея статуса, лайков и так далее, не могу распространить информацию до всего цифрового или айти сообщества)). Я тут новенький друзья, эту неделю посвятил косякам языков программирования), так как обнаружил косяки, попытался обнародовать и донести)), и тут нюанс))- я тут никто)). Так что за неделю порешал вопросики, зарегался тут к Вам, опубликовал и жду реакции)). Заранее спасибо))
Published my first DEV.to (dev.to/) article!
It's about WiFi CSI (Channel State Information) — how your router's radio waves can reconstruct human body poses through walls. Wrote it from a security engineer's perspective.
Also built an HTML tool with Claude Code for a Sales colleague that turned his 1-hour daily task into 10 minutes. The next day he came back asking "can we make it 1 minute?" — that's the real power of AI tools.
Small wins, but felt good!
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!
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.
Launching a 5-Week AWS & DevOps Workshop Series as a Student Lead
Last week, we kicked off a milestone project at FAST NUCES Peshawar: a 5-week intensive workshop series through our AWS Cloud Club.
As the Technical Lead, my goal is to bridge the gap between classroom theory and the industry-required skills our juniors need to succeed.
The "Why" Behind the Workshop
I am currently a 3rd-year student (6th semester), and to be honest, I am still in the thick of learning these technologies myself! I remember my first year clearly—overwhelmed by "fancy" keywords like Linux, Docker, and CI/CD, with no clear roadmap on how to actually build things.
I decided that the best way to master these skills is to teach them. I wanted to make sure the students coming after me wouldn't have to struggle in the dark the way I did.
Our 5-Week Roadmap:
We’ve structured this to take students from "Zero" to "Cloud-Deployed":
Week 1: The Hacker Setup (WSL2, Linux Terminal, and Git/GitHub CLI).
Week 2: Backend Foundations (Python & FastAPI).
Week 3: Cloud Infrastructure (AWS Setup, IAM, and Security).
Week 4: The Shipping Container (Docker, CI/CD, and GitHub Actions).
Week 5: Production Launch (Deploying ML models on AWS EC2).
Seeking Senior Guidance 💡
Since I am learning these things alongside my students, I would love to hear from the experts in this community:
Teaching is the highest form of learning, and I'm excited to grow with my community!
#showdev #aws #learning #mentorship #devops #students #career
My OSS project, Superset became trending on GitHub this week which was very cool and unexpected
love superset.sh
After around 2 weeks of learning and developing I am finally done with the backend of my start up product. I have done personal projects earlier but the sheer depth of concepts and handling edge cases while testing, thinking about concurrency, rate limiting, and the list goes on. Enjoyed every second of it, these 2 weeks taught me more about system design, product thinking and good practices more than 4 years of CSE.
Hoping to ship in March. Wish me luck!
hello,
I recently built a small project which is a simple log aggregation and analytics tool , it was at beginning of my web development journey that this thing took me 28 days to learn and build , of course nowadays people can vibe code some thing like this in 2 days but i only used ai to see what's the best way to do it . tried my best to make it production grade but since I'm still a beginner I'm not sure how good it actually is yet.
thank you everyone for reading this and wish you all the best in what you'll do.
I shipped 3 projects this week, one I've been working on for months, one I made in 2 days, and the last one is one I built with for the weekend challange
Getting my first article finished. Here
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Just the small wins that keeps me going
Finally got my SaaS on live, waiting for new users.
I released a new version of my personal website, something simple but I rebuilt after almost 4 years
I have migrated by portfolio from next.js to astro, felt lighter simpler and faster
phaneendra-kanduri-portfolio.netli...
Dug into first issue in codebase at be job. Felt good to contribute for the first time; learned a lot!
I have win 1 customers this week.
I published my first youtube video
Hectic, created a new telegram bot, debugged my previous project(webapp) and added some new features
The pentesting tool I am involved in hit with 13 new paid signups.. that's huge for me, a startup!
i wrote my first article ever here in dev.to
I bought an Apple MacBook Air M4 and used it to write a program for a To-Do software. I have to say, the experience of using this computer is really excellent!
But it's frustrating that I cannot enjoy any services from Google and Yahoo in Chinese Mainland, such as Gmail and Google One.:-(
making a real os
This week's success was discovering DEV.TO.