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Jess Lee Subscriber Community Curator for The DEV Team

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What was your win this week???

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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:

  • Getting a promotion!
  • Starting a new project
  • Fixing a tricky bug
  • Beating a level in a game you've been stuck on 🎮

Jim and Darryl from The Office hold video game controllers.

Happy Friday!

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EmberNoGlow •

I released the beta version of my dream project and wrote this long post!

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EmberNoGlow •

Thank you!

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Pascal CESCATO • • Edited

In a first time I solved a cloud cost mystery on my CV analyzer - turned out the "obvious" bot cost €0.01/month, not more. Real culprit: WebSocket timeouts. One config change → -93.5% cost

And I started writing again! Working on a new project and documenting the journey. Feels good to be back at it.

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Jess Lee The DEV Team •

woohoo!!

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Ben Sinclair •

I treated myself to the remake of Silent Hill 2 to play over Christmas and got a couple of hours into it before the first boss fight. I then uninstalled it because I'm 20 years older than when I played it through last and can't be dealing with repeatedly trying to complete a stupid mini-game with an unskippable cutscene and sluggish tank controls. It's a great game, but... boss fights ruin great games. They take the atmosphere that's built over hours of puzzle-solving and remind you you're playing a video game. A lot of modern games have a "story" difficulty setting, and I used to think it was silly, but nowadays not so much. SH2 on easy combat difficulty was making me sad.

So like I said, I uninstalled it.

Then this week I reinstalled it and downloaded a cheat which I turn on for the boss fights. I just god-mode through them and don't have any regrets. Life's too short.

And I'm happily playing the next spooky part.

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Aryan Choudhary •
  • Biggest win? Fixed sleep schedule! (hope this weekend doesn't break it again)
  • Got better at handling things at my new job, posted a reflective blog about the same experience.
  • Fixed code for a vibe coder multiple times... 😮‍💨
  • Also learning GSAP animation on the side for my portfolio
  • Got back to reading Japanese after a month's break (would like some recommendations, need some good material to learn the language)
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Dilippurohit47 • • Edited

successfully hosted one app on cloudflare track-habits.xyz
simple and most effective I used to track in excel but I always struggle so I make my own the goal is to keep it simple

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Nyanguno •

Nice tool, brother. Kindly explain how it works?

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Dilippurohit47 • • Edited

Hello brother, let me explain how it works.
I tried many routine and habit tracker apps, but most of them are too fancy — too many pages, features, and complexity. Also, many of them don’t have a simple monthly tracker where you just complete a habit and tick it off.

So I built a very simple, purely client-side app. There’s no signup or login required. You just add habits from Manage Habits or the Add New Habit dialog, and it shows empty boxes in a monthly habit table.

Whenever you complete a habit, you mark the box. From that, it calculates things like success rate, last 3 days momentum, and habit-specific consistency.

The main goal is to help people who struggle to maintain a routine by keeping everything simple and distraction-free. I can make complex tool but it complexity doesnt matter in routine tool it should be simple the adding habit and marking it should not feel task in itself so i make these.
Currently it is desktop tool only .

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Nyanguno •

Aaah! Now I understand.
I'll be trying it out

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Dilippurohit47 •

Hey Please give feedback

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Nyanguno •

Will do

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Julien Avezou •

Started learning basic robotics with a starter kit. As a software engineer I want to broaden my intuitions towards hardware too. So many new things to learn, makes me very excited to continue.

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Jess Lee The DEV Team •

Share a link to the kit?

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Julien Avezou •

Here it is
UNO R3 Super Starter Kit

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Makanju Oluwafemi •

I won't call it a win; however, I was able to recover well from losing my job on my first workday of the year.

If you want to know more about this, you can check my post dev.to/miracool/laid-off-on-the-fi...

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Razumovsky •

Built from scratch and released my own browser extension for Youtube that hides shorts, comments, recommendations and other stuff to focus on what really matters. Got it in 3 days and i'm very proud of myself

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maker89 •

This is a cool idea; YouTube keeps insisting on showing me shorts even when I try to get it to stop. Congrats on building!

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Razumovsky •

Shorts was actually the main reason why i started to build this extension. I figured out i spend so much time on it and wanted to change it. Thank you!

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Daniel Nwaneri •
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Namasivaayam L •

I developed my first ever VS Code extension: Ghost Line and published it as my first ever blog at Why Global Undo Sucks: Building Line-Level Undo/Redo for VS Code 👻.

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