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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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Gained Confidence on practicing for my Interview on Monday (Will update on the next "What's your Win this Week?!").
Wish me luck :D
Good luckkkk!!! Let us know how it goes! Rooting for you!
Good luck, Francis!
Good Luck!
Good luck Francis 🔥
Good Luck.
Managed to put another 20 minute read article together, which is so large, it's almost impossible to read if your attention span isn't at "I read documentation for fun" levels.
Well, I guess I can never learn my lesson. I always end up writing book chapter-sized posts. 😒
Oh, by the way, I received my GitHub Universe 2026 ticket that I won in the GitHub Copilot CLI hackathon. Thanks again @cassidoo 🤩
Awesome!!
Congrats @georgekobaidze 🥳
Thank you!
Might have missed the http
queryverb, if not for this comment !Keeping the 36 Stratagems series on a daily-update streak, and every single one making it to the front page🎉 — grateful to this community for the platform, and to every one of you who reads, likes, and comments. 🙏
I've finished my SQL audit tool, wrote an article about it:
Summer Bug Smash: Smash Stories Submission 🐛🛹
Eighty Percent Done Is Not a Real Number
and created a website to promote it:
dbgrade — Independent PostgreSQL & MariaDB/MySQL Audits - Security, integrity, performance — scored and explained
Independent SQL audits for PostgreSQL and MariaDB/MySQL. 16 security, integrity and performance metrics, scored, with a PDF report you can act on — even if you don't read SQL.
Incidentally, I'm starting to learn how to use embeds 😁
I start a new project. Become a software developer.
Genuinely curious about what this means to you in the age of AI.
almost completed dev summer bug challenge
Last sunday I submitted for the Weekend Challenge: Passion Edition :
Started a new powerful book :
Made a quick and dirty todo app with a MCP connection. So I can easily manage all the todos Claude adds for the project.
Other than that, rolled out a bunch of smaller fixes and tweaks for Old Light. Looking forward to building bigger things again for it.
managed to continue my loop engineering article and put together a nice demonstration how your instructions decay conceptually:
full playground is -> here
Gave a presentation at a California Court Leadership Summit about frontline staff leading AI innovation!
Going in production on an Open Data and AI driven job publishing pipeline... inlcuding Nano banana covers :
Shipped v0.4.0 of Observer this week — my offline, MIT-licensed code-security scanner.
The win I'm most happy about: you no longer need the command line at all. Double-click the binary and it opens a dashboard in your browser — paste a folder, hit Scan, read the report. Trying to make a security check something anyone on a team can run, not just terminal folks. 🎉
My win this week was making another big leap on an AI I've been coding from scratch in vanilla JavaScript for a little over a month. I improved the BBPE tokenizer and built a configuration UI that makes experimenting with and tuning the model much easier.
It's still a work in progress, but it's been rewarding seeing it come together from the ground up. My next milestone is porting it to C++ to speed up further development.
Shipped scrolling capture for my Mac screenshot tool. Select any scrolling region, it stitches the whole thing, including panels that scroll inside a page.
While testing it I found something I wasn't expecting. Long screenshots get shrunk before an AI model reads them. I measured one: went in at 3066x28800, the model received 276x2600. Text basically gone.
So the feature ended up different from what I planned. Instead of one tall image it splits into frames small enough to stay readable. I'd have shipped the wrong thing if I hadn't checked what actually arrived.
Solid advice! The combination of free tiers from different services can take you surprisingly far. I use Neon for database and Railway for deployment. MonkeyCode (monkeycode-ai.net) is great for productivity too.
Got my one year club badge yesterday. Guess I can actually commit to something.
Woohoo!
Shipped Guardrail for AWS Console — a free/MIT extension that adds a confirm dialog before destructive Console actions (Terminate instance, Delete bucket, security-group rules opening 0.0.0.0/0), naming the account you're about to act in.
The bigger win was finding a bug in my own safety tool before it mattered: a 6-second bypass window I'd added as a UI workaround was quietly leaving every other destructive action unguarded. Wrote up that and the other things that broke (capture-phase click interception, an iframe'd Security Group editor, AWS's design system eating my modal CSS): dev.to/cowijin/i-built-a-safety-to...
I finally started something I was afraid to start for years, making a Mac OS app. It sounds complicated to create one, however, I just made the layout for my app and it seems kind of fun! I am making an IDE code editor with AI coding partner features, file explorer and more to come. I will keep everyone posted when I actually start building it.
I am currently open to any advice, especially if you have made a Mac OS app before.
I have finally release the beta version of a rule-based splitter lib in python I have been working on.
I automated a tedious report by leveraging a bit of python and an LLM. its throwaway code, but, at least I wont throw away my time anymore compiling a bunch of metrics into human readable form.
Started a new Project that deploys project and handle them from terminal
I finally finished building my website that I originally started for fun, it just took 3 weeks xD
I maybe not get many interviews, but one of my photographs will be exhibit in a gallery in Berlin so hell yeah to me.
Got my new project, Codelet, online. Simple usage-based billing for startups on Stripe and Paddle. Pumped to get this going!
I started a little Go project during the holidays
I finished a paywall for a project this week, which is the first time I've ever implemented one on a website.
Awesome write-up! The productivity gains from AI tools are real. What's your daily workflow like?
This is exactly what I needed. I've been compiling free developer resources and this saves me hours. MonkeyCode (monkeycode-ai.net) is another great free tool for AI-powered code generation.
Discovered that OpenRouter sometimes has models (and not small ones) for free!? I mean Nemotron Ultra, a 550b MoE from Nvidia, for free???
I was learning Tailwind CSS, and I finally mastered it.I have been consistent...that's a kind of achievement for me...