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What was your win this week?

Michael Tharrington on August 18, 2023

Hey y'all 👋 Hope you all have wonderful weekends! Looking back on this past week, what was something you were proud of accomplishing? All wins c...

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Bala Madhusoodhanan • Aug 18 '23

Was a lovely surprise to receive a "4 Week Community Wellness Streak" badge

Michael Tharrington • Aug 18 '23

Awww yayeah, Bala! Nicely done. Appreciate ya participating so consistently on DEV. 🙌

Nick Taylor • Aug 18 '23

Yeah!

Rachel Fazio • Aug 18 '23

This week we launched the first episode of CodeNewbie Podcast's Season 25 ! It was a long anticipated launch and I redid the graphics for the new season prior, so the release felt a lot more satisfying. Happy to see how it goes!

Mike Stemle • Aug 18 '23

It’s a little off topic, but I get to go on a weekend trip just my wife and I. We haven’t gotten to do any trips like this just the two of us in eight years, so I’m rather excited.

Nick Taylor • Aug 18 '23

Michael Tharrington • Aug 18 '23

Oh that's awesome, Mike! I hope y'all have a great time.

Shai Almog • Aug 18 '23

Got my new virtual machine to compile and run. Didn't work but it's getting to hello world. Right now it's 4k lines of code which is just the start but it's taking form.

Got my first freelance gig approved and a request for more. So I'll be working on that. This was an accomplishment from way back but it got published this week, the 5th and final interview I did with Adam Bien is up.

Michael Tharrington • Aug 18 '23

Woot! Sounds like a nice productive week, Shai. Good stuff!

Giovanni Mazzuoccolo • Aug 18 '23

Apparently this comment was very appreciated by the dev.to community 😂

Ben Halpern • Aug 18 '23

Good stuff right there

Nick Taylor • Aug 18 '23 • Edited

Saw whales this week!

Michael Tharrington • Aug 18 '23

Hot diggity! I got just the song for you, Nick...

Ben Halpern • Aug 18 '23

Wow!

Thomas Bnt • Aug 18 '23

Streamed just this night about more 7 hours, and amused with people in chat and also in game.

It was very funny 🤩

Michael Tharrington • Aug 18 '23

OOoo nice! What game, Thomas?

Thomas Bnt • Aug 18 '23

Minecraft 🌱

Chantal • Aug 18 '23

No win on my side this week. Been doing some automation testing on our web app using Selenium and Python and l'm still stuck. It's been days since l started working on it and am too far from winning.

Michael Tharrington • Aug 18 '23

All good! Sometimes it's like that. But, I bet you're getting closer... figuring out the things that don't work is still progress.

Chantal • Aug 18 '23

Really? Thank you for putting in some hope in me @michaeltharrington. I can now have a bright weekend knowing that l've been doing great with the lil progress l made for the past days hahahahaha.

I appreciate you!

likemcode • Aug 18 '23

sending you much strength , you got this!!!!!

Chantal • Aug 21 '23

Thank you, @likemcode

Paul Preibisch • Aug 18 '23

Dove into the doldrums of our software's workflow engine... wrote company wiki article about it. Pumped out a few PR's to add new states and transitions. Happy to see them accepted and get merged. Also worked on adding new data reports... sounds boring, but nice to add value...

Maciek Fitzner • Aug 20 '23

I posted two blog entries this week - part 4 of my cycle on spiral patterns, and an unrelated one about laying out dots on a dice using CSS :nth-child, :is and :not pseudo-classes and display: flex (and also made a 3D dice doing the same but with display: grid)
Part 3 of said cycle is apparently "Trending in CSS" this week :O
Getting back into SVG and making a lot of fun discoveries. E.g. I had no idea even viewBox was animatable :D
Following my recent (re)discovery of the sheer joy of swimming while on holiday, wife and I decided to make it a regular thing. Testing local swimming pools - a quarter of a century after I last visited one.

Vicente G. Reyes • Aug 18 '23 • Edited

Started again developing my passion job board project
Had a total of 89kms in biking this week!

Mitchell Mutandah • Aug 18 '23 • Edited

It's been a long week mounted with stressful tasks and bugs in one of the projects I'm currently working on.
However, I received a Warm Welcome Badge from the community.

Lucas Fieri • Aug 18 '23

Advanced the company design system project a lot this look

Ashish Khare😎 • Aug 19 '23

I finished up with half of Rust the book. Also, created database for Bleach anime. Of you want to know all bankai, check it out!

Dan Bailey • Aug 18 '23

Finished my Azure AZ-104 certification prep course. Started digging in to learning Docker/Kubernetes. Wrote some elegant stuff in Python.

Medea • Aug 18 '23

just finished completing all 4 rooms of my solo virtual escape room!

Kevin Luo • Aug 18 '23

I've got 1.5k+ followers 😍

Joe Mainwaring • Aug 18 '23

Scored an 89% on a Codility Code Test for a unicorn I'm interviewing with, making all the practice tests I took this week worth it.

Saman Mahmood • Aug 23 '23

Icebreaker Badge! 🧊🔨 hope so

Sindbad_X • Aug 19 '23

Finally, published my first blog on dev.to this week. I had been procrastinating for last 15-20 days.

Oscar • Aug 19 '23

Learned a lot about UI/UX design! I may have mentioned this before, but I am not an artist, so a lot of these concepts are foreign to me. It's a nice challenge though!

Zoe • Aug 19 '23

I managed to create a tricky animation the designer requested! It was tricky but so worth the effort x

likemcode • Aug 18 '23

finished my masters degree exam , though but got through by the grace of GOD

Noel Vieira • Aug 18 '23

I published my first article on DEV!
Had a great time exploring analog integration with astro

Carlarjenkins • Aug 18 '23

3 Wins:

Having multiple people on different platforms say that my blog posts have helped them with certifications. -Also a lot of people coming to my LinkedIn profile over a video.
Receiving my Oracle Race to Certification sector 2 badge after passing my multicloud architect associate exam last week Friday.

Debakar Roy • Aug 19 '23

I trained around 70 developers for 12 hours (4 hours for 3 days) a course on intermediate Python. This was done internally at my company. I have all the material compiled in a GitHub repository: github.com/debakarr/intermediate-p... if someone wants to have a look 😄

Eddie Hale • Aug 18 '23

Coding win: Aggregate SLO data across multiple applications in Prometheus, visualized in Grafana for better visibility
Non-coding win: Medically cleared to start flight school for my private pilot's license!