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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 released the beta version of my dream project and wrote this long post!
Thank you!
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.
woohoo!!
Had to smile at the "Fixed code for a vibe coder..." bullet point!
Real, it gave me a laugh too.
Hard to work, Have to work, Have to succeed!💪✌️
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.
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
Nice tool, brother. Kindly explain how it works?
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 .
Aaah! Now I understand.
I'll be trying it out
Hey Please give feedback
Will do
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.
Share a link to the kit?
Here it is
UNO R3 Super Starter Kit
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...
Several small wins this week. Being able to engage with some of the wonderful members of this community. Making sure I continue to learn something everyday via freeCodeCamp. Lastly, using my writing as a way to stay consistent on my learning journey.
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
This is a cool idea; YouTube keeps insisting on showing me shorts even when I try to get it to stop. Congrats on building!
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!
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 👻.
I shipped my first indie game in Rust this week!
I'm still a newbie game dev but I had a lot of fun making it. Shipping it taught me a lot about how making the game is only half the battle.
For the first time, I now had to start thinking about distribution and cross-platform compatibility (still need a lil help here) and user experience. And don't even get me started on marketing/promotion! There's definitely a lot more to making even a simple 2D game than I initially thought. This was kind of humbling for me, but in a good way.
In the end, I felt there was a million things for me to improve or polish before it was ready. So I just decided to ship anyway. The game is currently only playable on macOS :( But I'm committed to making it cross platform.
Question. Does anyone know have any ideas on how I can make a game more cross-platform? The only solutions I can think of at the moment, is either I:
Anyway, I am excited to create something tangible and hope to learn more as I keep going! Win is a win!
Oh, here's the game if you wanna check it out
I wrote this:
dev.to/dannwaneri/i-built-producti...
I created a CRAZY roller coaster builder and wrote a post on DEV.to. Please enjoy the crazy world! 🙀↓
dev.to/webdeveloperhyper/how-to-cr...
I created a beta version of an encrypted P2P messaging service and finished a 3D model of the Ancient City of Baghdad both using only 1 singular index.html file (I don't know why but I felt like challenging myself so I packed everything into one index.html)!
I made my 1st Lovable template + launched it as a side project!
I wrote my first two articles ever for my Technical Writing portfolio. Here's to a new step in my career!
An excellent start to your time here at dev.to, Brandon. Well done!
I released (and made a demo) about along awaited feature : a native
duckdbexport ingeol, which will open datascience and dataviz opportunities. In the plan I want to produce some ready-to-use Quarto notebooks ;-pLocked myself in for 48h last weekend with the "Get-The-Sh#t-Done" focus. Finally released my frontend framework which I already planned to release in the mid of 2025!
Now my 2025 backlog is clean and I can work on the 2026-backlog ;-)
Whoa that's awesome, congrats!
Thanks. It was quite a lesson to learn that creating the project (ie.framework) is one thing - but the hard part (at least for.me).was.adding all the remaining stuff (e.g.docs, guides, website,examples....)
Finished up the Hyperlambda Generator allowing me to use the entire programming language using only English :)
I completed my rewrite of
cachix/elm2nixand wrote up an announcement post about it. Then, Sloan the DEV Moderator shared my post on X which was an unexpected but delightful surprise.My client loved the website I spent all week day in and out designing 🙏 not even a single change requested 🥳
Ayyy nice job!
Discovered that I can easily locally run SLMs (small language models) on my PC using only the CPU. I began with ollama and interacted with the model using my (Linux) terminal, I then moved on to a simple Python interface (github.com/ben-santora/SLM) which was educational. I'm am now using Jan (jan.ai) for everything. These new quantized SLMs have shown me that not having a NVIDIA GPU isn't a deal-breaker anymore. Tech always seems to find new and diverse ways to overcome limitations.
Awesome
Thanks Jess - These new quantized SLMs are amazing and I'm doing a lot of testing on them. See this post:
dev.to/ben-santora/slm-and-llm-log...
They can be run on computers lacking expensive GPU's - meaning that they'll make running a local language model available for more people and on more devices. And they are only going to get better. I think they're really going to shake up the industry.
Finally finished my GitHub Integration for Habitica: habitica.bebic.dev
This weekend, I improved the UX/UI of my side project Squidly, which I’ve been building for a little over a year 🚀
Squidly is still in BETA, and I’m looking for beta testers to get early feedback. If you’re curious to try a tool that helps you manage and monitor all your GitHub workflows in one place, I’d love to hear from you.
✨ Perk: beta testers will get free access to the paid plan when Squidly goes live.
I got a bit bored this week and decided to relive some childhood memories by building a game! It’s inspired by Chicken Invaders, I call it Chicken Intruder.
You can play it here (runs right in the browser!): Chicken Intruder Game
I wish I could embed the window directly here for you guys to play, but the Netlify link is super fast. Let me know what high score you get! 🚀
I build a discord server for Marko Sluga from AWS. The win ? He posted it on LinkedIn and gave me credit. I am blown away. The year has just started and I can’t believe this happend
Here is the link to my blog entry:
„After 8 years in IT Operations, I made a conscious decision: I’m not just going to "learn" Cloud...“
Cool!
Thanks Jess! Loving the platform to share my journey
I released my open source project Vectra.
I did represent our overcomplicated legacy applications - webapp with inhouse versionhandling system with customization capability - environments chaos to a single table in confluence. That can easy mapping our problems, status and different teams actions.
Head is:
Repo, INT, DEV, UAT, PROD
Finally worked up the courage to post my side project publicly! 😅
I've been building an AI app builder solo for months to solve the 'token anxiety' I had with other tools.
My Win: Posted it here yesterday and got my first real user feedback confirming it actually works!
Here is the post if anyone is curious: dev.to/balram_kapoor_68fae11112b/i...
Tomorrow launch on product hunt for Dev kits, Unzip and deploy. Check tomorrow and vote ❤👍I can give Kit for every supporter 👍❤
It was a couple of weeks back now but I found an incredible domain that would have cost me a few hundred dollars but was available for registration.
I redesigned a lot of my public websites, especially my portfolio. Let’s be real: it no longer looks like garbage. I’m finally happy with the result and the move to Next.js SSG.
Hello! Completed 100 tasks on the leetcode! It was very cool!
Finished my complete CRO optimised home page revamp, just need to get some animations in and then its done
I'm happy to finally share a personal project with the community: The lightweight, high-speed Postbear API client. github.com/carban/postbear
Here is the first article!!
A blog post that I wrote has started getting traction
It’s been a massive week for me!
I finally published my first two apps on the Google Play Store.
My open-source tool, LogVoyager, unexpectedly started trending and hit 60+ stars and hundreds of views in just a few hours.
It feels amazing to ship products and see people actually using them.
I have built a coding agent named
amcpgithub.com/tao12345666333/amcpJust released the v0.9.0 version.
This week I started learning the Rust language through the Rustlings course.
I have currently completed 77/94 exercises.
I also started my own project (a seedless web3 wallet) to learn developing product using Rust and GitHub Copilot.
Now I 'm struggling with MCP concept to run own MCP server for my project.
I committed to build a website to help homeschool my kids over the summer and decided to do it with new tools and exploring front end development for the first time ever.
🎨 Excited to announce iFarouqCSS v2.0 - A Comprehensive Color Framework!
After months of development, I'm proud to share iFarouqCSS with the developer community. Built with modern SASS and designed for today's web.
What makes it special?
🎯 36 Complete Color Families
Each color comes with 9 carefully crafted shades (100-900), giving you 326+ color variations to work with.
🌈 92 Stunning Gradients
From subtle "low gradients" for elegant backgrounds to vibrant "medium gradients" for eye-catching CTAs. Every gradient is production-ready.
💎 True Glassmorphism
Built-in liquid glass effects that work with all 92 gradients. Create that modern frosted-glass aesthetic with a single class.
⚡ Smart Utilities
.is-active)🎨 Framework Stats:
Perfect for:
✓ Landing pages
✓ Dashboard UIs
✓ E-commerce sites
✓ Portfolio websites
✓ SaaS applications
Built with passion for modern web design. Free and open-source!
Check it out: ifarouqcss.ifarouq.dev
What do you think? Would love to hear your feedback! 💬
WebDevelopment #CSS #SASS #Frontend #WebDesign #OpenSource #ColorTheory #UIDesign
Hello.
That is good breakdown.
How can I join your google developer team?
I finally built my first OFFICIAL SaaS - FormWatch.app - it's something that started out as a tool for my personal use, but evolved into what it is now. It's like UptimeRobot but for forms; get alerted when a contact/lead capture form on your website breaks - works without any plugins/code and on any platform. I'm actually writing a post about it on Dev.to as I write this comment!
My win this week:
I focused entirely on building the ledger core for a small shop system, prioritizing correctness and data integrity over UI.
Tech stack and implementation:
Frontend: vanilla HTML, CSS, JavaScript with no frameworks
State and persistence: browser LocalStorage as the primary data store
Backend and logic: Python used to prototype and validate ledger rules before porting them to JavaScript
Ledger design:
Append-only transaction model where each entry is immutable and classified as profit or not profitt
Running balances are derived rather than stored to avoid drift
All totals are recomputed from the ledger on load to guarantee consistency
Clear separation between raw transaction data and computed summaries
Validation and safety:
Strict input validation for amounts, types, empty fields, and invalid values
Protection against duplicate submissions and double-click entries
No destructive deletes; corrections are done using compensating entries
Code quality focus:
Small, pure calculation functions for balances and totals
Predictable data flow with no hidden mutations
Emphasis on readability, traceability, and auditability
It’s not visually polished yet, but the ledger now behaves like a real accounting system: predictable, auditable, and hard to break. That felt like a genuine engineering win this week.
Big win for me this week: I completed my MindsEye Ledger app in Google AI Studio. ✅
It’s basically my “ledger-first brain” in UI form — append-only memory, graph-based state, and focus shifts as first-class events instead of vibes.
What I’m proud of is I didn’t just “demo something cool” — I got the core loop working end-to-end:
Initial activation spins up nodes + edges (system boot)
Expansions generate new state and commit it into the ledger as a real entry
Focus switching logs a FOCUS_SHIFT event so the system’s perspective is traceable (no silent context jumps)
UI is split cleanly: Graph View + Inspector + Ledger Panel, so you can actually see the system think
And the best part: it’s not “prompt magic.” It’s structure. The model can only move through the rails I give it — which is exactly the point.
Link: https://aistudio.google.com/apps/drive/1IzUSNtTwT1PYfKgyaykpg9UwL70PgFZd?fullscreenApplet=true&showPreview=true&showAssistant=true
Completed my first online course: Introduction to Front-End Development (from meta)!
link
Nothing. Currently planning to start a web app which would make use of an llm.
i open sourced this baby github.com/complexus-tech/fortyone...
Reached highest stars of any of my public repositories on github:
github.com/ariel-frischer/autospec
CLI for streamlined spec-driven development
I built never-schlafen.online/, and more info can be found here: dev.to/scorreaui/i-built-never-sch...
I manage to wash my dishes
I completed two big assignments for my code bootcamp
I started the tip calculator project
We launched our startup just over a month ago, and we’re genuinely happy to see our first clients and users showing interest in our product 🚀✨
"starting a new project"
bruh i do that every weekend lmao
Nice tool, brother. Can you explain how it works?