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What was your win this week?

Hey hey my peeps! 👋

Hope everybody is enjoying their Fridays! 🙌

Looking back on this past week, what was something you were proud of accomplishing?

All wins count — big or small 🎉

Examples of 'wins' include:

  • Starting a new project
  • Fixing a tricky bug
  • Having a fun time on New Year's Eve đŸ„ł

A silly-looking, Muppet-like puppet wearing sunglasses and a party hat, bobs his head back and forth from side to side with a serious looking face on while confetti pops behind him in the background.


Did you know we feature wins in our "Wins of the Week" email every Friday? Subscribe to our weekly newsletter emails to get wins delivered right to your inbox! 💌

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Anita Olsen

📰 I published a post on DEV! ✹

❄ I have survived the Norwegian wintertime so far! ✹
90 centimeters with snow

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Alex MartĂ­nez

Geeeez! And I'm complaining because of the cold... at 14ÂșC!

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Anita Olsen • Edited

Funny, it is -10°C over here as we speak and nobody complains.

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Michael Tharrington

Wow! That snow tunnel is seriously impressive... and looking festive with the Christmas tree and lights! ☃

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Anita Olsen

Snow tunnel 😅 I suppose, yes. My town is one big snow tunnel of late đŸ€Ł I love the lights, we call them winter lights (at least officially) to not offend non-Christian religious people. We have only one Christmas tree and it is on the square all the other trees are just winter trees or winter decorated trees. We need all the light we can get because it gets so incredible dark during our wintertime. During winter people tend to go to work in the dark and come home in the dark so we only get sunlight for some very few hours during the dark season.

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Michael Tharrington

Oooo I like the concept of winter lights, then you have a good excuse to keep them up all winter and not just during the holidays. Also as a non-religious person, I do find that to be nice & inclusive. Norway sounds like a cool (and cold, haha) place. Hang in there until the sunlight returns!

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Ranjan Dailata • Edited

The biggest wins or achievements are the recurring users who are following me :) So far, I have published 22 blog posts on dev.to, it's unbelievable how the users are following me. It's like 50 per day. I feel excited and it indeed inspires me a lot.

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Anita Olsen

Congratulations! Well done! ✹

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Christine Belzie • Edited

Seeing @thomasbnt’s, @adiatiayu’s, & my articles trend on Dev.to. It feels awesome to know that people appreciate our work.

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Michael Tharrington

Awwww yeaaaaa! Good stuff, Chrissy! (and Thomas!) 🙌🙌

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Thomas Bnt

Yeah soo cool !

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Ben Halpern

Added some new signals to the DEV feed to reduce clickbait. Will write about this once we see the impact

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Medea

i've started a new project which is going great so far

it's a website where you can track your music production, by creating tracks and albums, and logging when you work on each one and what you do in each sitting

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Michael Tharrington

Wow, this sounds super cool, Medea! I've started producing more music at home using Ableton and would love to see what this is all about.

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Medea

thanks!
i'll let you know when i release it!

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Matt Eland

So many solo wins playing Spirit Island these past few weeks...
Spirit Island

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Michael Tharrington

Woooaaa! That looks fun. Is that a new game for ya? Not knowing much about it, it's beautiful.

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Matt Eland

Yeah, my sister got me Horizons of Spirit Island for Christmas, which is a cheaper version of this that's very accessible. It's a great single player or co-op game and it has a "choose your own complexity level and playstyle" mechanic.

If I had more time, I'd be very tempted to train a reinforcement learning routine to learn to play this.

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Michael Tharrington

Oooo I'm gonna have to look this up.

I'm honestly not much of a board gamer, but when I do get introduced to new games, I generally like'em.

My wife and I are going on a ski trip at the end of the month with another couple, and I know that they are board gamers... might be fun to get something like this and bring it along for when we're off the slopes!

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Eli

my friends and I have been playing Divinity 2 for a months. It was quite annoying to gather everyone to play, so I created a bot that polls our Telegram group chat each day, asking, "Are we going to play tonight?" If all four players answer "Yes," it notifies everybody.

Baldur's Gate 3 came out, and I returned to this bot to make some changes and add ChatGPT support so we can directly ask stuff while chatting all together
this is my first time sharing my code to anyone but to be honest I proud of my simple project
github.com/freezerain/telegram-bot

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Michael Tharrington

Nice!! This looks slick, Eli. Good stuff! 🙌

I like all the fun APIs you pulled into place for it to — GIPHY, DogCEO,
Chuck Norris... sounds like a good fun tool for hanging with your friends.

I had a crew of 4 that I was gaming with for a while, but we kinda fell off... still, I could imagine using this tool. It seems helpful and fun!

Appreciate ya sharing!

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Eli

hey ty, it was very simple to hook up telegram to cloudflare, if you ever found your self in the situation where you need this specifiec combination of APIs I will happy to help!

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Michael Tharrington

Much appreciated! Admittedly I have hardly done any development, but what you described sounds like something I'd potentially attempt to do if I was to get into it. Sounds like a really fun project — if I get inspired, I'll hit you up!

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Keith Solomon • Edited

My “win” was only 1 Sagittal band in my hand was ruptured
so the chances I need surgery went from 75% to 20%


I’ll know for sure in 6 weeks
on the up side, I’m learning a LOT about the lead/management side of dev


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Mohammed • Edited

I tried to write a Raytracer in an OpenGL Compute Shader with C++. It turned out fairly well, although specular lighting looks off. This is my second C++ project after 5+ years with Java. It's going well so far!

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Simi Lika

As as first for this year for the win is that I finished a project for new Features on Angular 17 as part of presentation that I will do.