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Looking back on your week -- what was something you're proud of?
All wins count -- big or small π
Examples of 'wins' include:
- Getting a promotion!
- Starting a new project
- Fixing a tricky bug
- Making a dreaded phone call you'd been avoiding for weeks βοΈ
Happy Friday!
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Finally finished my finals for the Semester and now I can work on projects and be more active on DEV.to! :D
Good! "More active" - ββmuch more, you are already very active and we appreciate it.
thanks
Indeed! I was wondering if you want to join my DEVenger org since I am planning to focus that more this Summer!
The DEVengers
Good suggestion, maybe, idk, I think I'll go crazy in the summer if I'm programming at +40, so I'll probably be sitting on dev.to (in the basement) too (& bsky), lol. We'll see.
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awesome!
Even more active???
Yep lol (Except weekends. Weekends is anything but DEV to prevent burn out).
good
Well deserved, Francis)))
It was a super productive week for me! π
I wrote my first post on dev.to:
Relatable memes on collaboration styles
5 types of engineers I met as a Technical Writer
I created my first static site using Docusaurus. It's still on localhost for now, but I'm pretty satisfied with the outcome:
Great job @klaudiagrz ππ»
Thank you! βΊοΈ
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launched Kilo Code on Product Hunt this week. ranked #1 Product of the Day, currently #1 Product of the Week. oss ftw!
Thatβs a real achievement. I have given up on product hunt lately, but congrats to you on getting the top spot
thanks! we keep it simple and just launch constantly. it pays off!
congratulations fmerian
I'll like to learn about product hunt too and any opportunity out there
thanks! from my perspective, ProductΒ Hunt is definitely a great place for devtools. published some lessons learned in this 6-part series.
AMA
Lessons from 42+ launches on ProductΒ Hunt
That's awesome, congrats. upvoted!
Thank you! β€οΈ
That's awesome π Huge congrats @fmerian π
@hadil Thank you!
Well done! Kilo is really nice.
strong +1!
Wrote my weekly post here and making steady progress on my side project!
Published neat blog that got pinned here by @jess β€οΈ
Great job Sean! Welcome to the community resource list family :D
My talk was selected in a local meet up of PyUtrecht and I am thrilled to be speaking of Python with Karel. Something that's pulling me forward for sure, so I can find other like minded people in the beginning of their journey into the world of Programming that has endless possibilities!
Congratulations! That's so exciting :)
The past week was pretty intense: finishing an app, building the website to sell it (with Astro), and creating the online documentation (also with Astro). I wanted everything wrapped up by Sunday night, and by Sunday night, everything was live.
I maded a LLM RPG 2026 test
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Just finished my submission for the Gemma 4 Challenge this week π
Iβve also been trying to become more active in the DEV community and spend more time engaging, rather than just reading posts quietly in the background. Small step, but a meaningful one for me π
I know exactly how it feels π It was a big step for me too to start commenting on posts here, especially since I'm rather introverted and struggle with anxiety disorder. But the community is super supportive, and hey β it's always very pleasant to read someone commenting on your post π€ Good job and keep going!
Aww, thank you, Klaudia π
I can already see how supportive the community is π
Thanks for taking the time to reply, it made me smile π
This week I finally proved out end-to-end infrastructure provisioning with GrapeVine, my provider-agnostic IaC library β spun up real DigitalOcean resources programmatically as part of CitrusWorx, the platform ecosystem I've been building alongside my CS degree.
The big unlock: GrapeVine abstracts the provider layer cleanly enough that the same provisioning logic will work across providers without rewriting your infrastructure contracts. It's been a long time coming and seeing it actually work in production felt like crossing a real threshold.
Also making progress on Nectarine (YAML-driven backend with parameterized SQL generation) and Juice (token-based design system with an attribute-selector API). Slow build, but the pieces are starting to talk to each other.
What was your win this week? π
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