What was your win this week?

Hey y'all! 👋

Hope everybody has an awesome weekend!

Looking back on this past week, what was something you were proud of accomplishing?

All wins count — big or small 🎉

Examples of 'wins' include:

• Starting a new project
• Fixing a tricky bug
• Celebrating a birthday 🥳

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Comments

[Matt Eland]

Turns out my content is doing REALLY well right now on my AI blog. I've not had a lot of time for blogging in January, but it's worked well!

[Gutopro]

I joined Dev.to community and honestly I feel at home, I'm finally were I should be. thanks to this wonderful community

[Michael Tharrington]

Awww yeah! So good to have ya with us. 🙌

[Gutopro]

lol thank you Michael I'm honoured to be here with y'all. P.S. you're my brother's namesake

[Michael Tharrington]

Haha! Very nice. Lotta great Michaels out there... your brother and I are in good company!

[Gutopro]

it seems like I have alot of Michael's to learn from. I'm in great company

[Thomas Bnt]

Welcome here 🥳

[Gutopro]

Thank you Thomas it's nice to meet you

[Alvin 💻]

Welcome

[Gutopro]

Thank you Alvin 💪

[Maciek Fitzner]

• Tried out trigonometric functions in CSS calcs - and created a semi-realistic fish: (the trigonometry defines the sinusoidal curves on the fish's back and belly). The browser support is poor - Firefox and Safari only, but still, it's glorious how simple it makes things.
• Had some long and interesting exchanges with fellow bloggers. Even Twitter seemed less like a dead void this week.
• Getting a hang of subdivision modelling in Solid Edge (CAD software we use at work). Still awkward, but definitely getting a feel of it, and getting things done.

[Michael Tharrington]

Holy cow fish, I love that!

[Maciek Fitzner]

How about "holy carp"? ;) And thank you! Still a WIP, I'd like to redo the colors - but it's been a real fun exercise

[Michael Tharrington]

Hahaha! "Holy carp" is perfect. And oooo yeah, I bet you could do some cool stuff with the colors.

[Shai Almog]

Been an exhausting week. Interviewed to 3 podcasts.

Moderated a panel at a conference. Talked at a local meetup, was supposed to talk for 50 minutes but took 90 and was cut off after 75% of the talk. But it was a great and very engaging talk.

Did a few new videos but not as much as I normally do but this one was nice.

My book is the number 1 new release on the debugging category.

Passed 1k subscribers on YouTube.

[Alvin 💻]

This week has been amazing:

• I wrote an article on dev.to
• Send out my first newsletter yesterday
• I'm finally starting to understand Node.js

[Kurtiss Frost]

• I survived the work week. This was the ultimate win for me. It's been a rough week.

Just gonna enjoy the weekend and try to recharge for next week.

[codeyStein]

Sadly got badly sick, but took advantage of the free time and built my first custom keyboard! (after around 2 years of waiting)

That's also why I haven't really posted a new article in a while, but hopefully will get back to it better than ever!

[Israa Gargar]

I published my first post on dev.to 😊

[Ervin Szilagyi]

Became a dev.to mod for #rust, #serverless and #containers tags. 🔥

[Thomas Bnt]

😎

[Ken S]

I made some progress on a "Mortal Kombat Strategy" interactive strategy guide. That's a project I used to dream up when I was a kid and CD-Roms were cool. It has been a blast.

I also started a Substack to blog about lessons learned on the way and get some content out there for potential employers or clients.

It was a good week so I'm going to work ahead a bit for my tomorrow-goals. Then I'll make mixed drinks and enjoy WWE's Royal Rumble.

Thanks for the post. It's good to intentionally focus on the positive from time to time. Especially in today's crazy world of divisive politics, war, and the recent wave of tech layoffs.