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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:
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A week of quiet wins and lively conversations.
The PHP/Symfony community kept things interesting, with @jeandevbr publishing a thoughtful piece that builds nicely on recent discussions. Watching ideas circulate, evolve, and occasionally come back smarter than they left is one of the best parts of writing here.
I also finalized my personal dev.to publishing tool. The built-in editor is genuinely great and a pleasure to use, but I still enjoy tinkering with my own setup — equal parts practicality and harmless stubbornness. Let’s call it “artisan workflow engineering.” And you know how it goes: some habits age like fine wine, others like friendly dinosaurs 😁
The reading queue was once again full of gems. Choosing a weekly Top 7 is never straightforward when so many strong articles compete for attention. A difficult selection usually means a healthy community.
This week is the most accomplish week I have made so far in anything. I am so proud I made this much progress this week. Here is the list:
Thank you all for this wonderful week!
haha devengers
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hehe lol thanks
I released the 3rd beta version of my dream project SDF Editor! It was challenging, and I learned a lot along the way, but the most important thing I realized was that Tkinter shouldn't be used with Imgui, at least not the way I did it! (I ran Tkinter in a separate thread.)
Managed to get the linkace up and running!
Spent some time reading a gentleman in Moscov.
setup opencode for document analysis.
nice
I released another post! Writing them by hand is quite some work :)
Also, I worked on my pet projects and half-implemented a new little game. It is going to be fun I hope but it still has a bunch of issues. Maybe some success story for next week!
This week was about a big win for me:
I also wrote some guidance to reduce exploration tax to coding agents that we all pay
Fun times ^^
ps.: I'm forever grateful for the "What was your win this week" series, I read so many wins and it gives such uplifting energies
Much like @francistrdev, my biggest win this week was landing in the Top 7 for my own post - Moltbook is Not an AI Society. I’m genuinely grateful for the recognition.
I also passed the 4K follower mark. That said, despite my daily - and somewhat draining - ritual of clearing out the inevitable “Buy Medication,” “Gamble Here,” “Overcome Addiction,” and countless other spam accounts, I suspect around 30% of that number is made up of placeholders. I never thought I’d say this, but I do hope tools like Gemini - or something similar - can eventually help prevent those accounts from being created or auto-block them after creation.
With the HTML section of the Responsive Web Design certification behind me at freeCodeCamp, I’ve brought my Learning with freeCodeCamp series to a close. I’m hopeful that the posts on HTML will continue to encourage those entering the field to explore the freeCodeCamp curriculum for themselves. I'm going to continue with it - certainly.
As I won’t be sharing updates on my freeCodeCamp progress going forward, I’ll be stepping back from posting every day. That said, you can still expect a few posts each week - and a Python series in the near future. I’m toying with the idea of 30 Days of Python or perhaps 100 Days of Python; I’ve yet to decide which.
Let me also take this opportunity to thank the members of this truly wonderful community who’ve shown me such encouragement and support - you are what makes DEV what it should always be.
This week was a win for me:
This was a great week for me!
In terms of writing, I got my first Discuss badge from my post this week Why Learning Basic Robotics Made Me a Better Software Engineer in the Age of AI. I am happy that my post sparked such discussions and that it inspired some of you here.
I have another post in the works that I am eager to share with you all next week.
I am also well on track with my reading challenge this year, which is to read 30 books.
Have a fabulous weekend everyone.