What was your win this YEAR?

Hey there!

I'm mixing up this week's win thread in honor of the upcoming new year (for those cultures that recognize the New Year as beginning this upcoming Saturday, that is).

Instead of looking back on our weeks, what would you say your biggest win was for this past YEAR? What are you proud of having accomplished?

All wins count — big or "small" 🎉

Examples of 2021 'wins' include:

• Starting a new job
• Learning to value your personal strengths
• Taking more time off to unplug with loved ones regularly ... or whatever else might have sparked joy and purpose ❤️

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Congrats on your accomplishments in 2021! You're amazing 🌠

Comments

[Mukund Raghav Sharma (Moko)]

This year was truly the most transformative!

• Moved to San Diego to work fully remotely.
• Read 45 books this year. I wrote about it here
• Released a pretty big security patch.
• Learnt React.js
• Started driving more confidently.
• Traveled to 8 new cities.
• Meditated for 90 days straight.
• 400+ days of Italian.
• Learnt how to record and produce music and have 8 recordings so far here
• Successfully contributed to my first open source project here
• Reconnected with a considerable number of my friends.
• Finished my first journal.
• Wrote 15+ blog posts.
• Created a tool for Perf Engineers with 3000+ views, being used by 70 people from Japan to South America. Details can be found here.

^ these were definitely some memorable ones!

EDIT: Adding more so I can look back next year to get an idea of the growth made.

[Gracie Gregory (she/her)]

AMAZING!

[Nick Taylor]

Nice!

[Turry]

Splendid

[Md. M Najmul]

Great job!

[Amrin]

This year was the best year ever.

• I learned to code.
• Started my blog and YouTube channel
• earned my first $ online
• also got admitted in Uni

many more but can't remember them. :)

[Nick Taylor]

[Atharva Shirdhankar]

This year I contributed to 20+ open source projects and still few pr are awaited for review🚀.
Started writing articles on Devto and sharing my knowledge and experience.
Won my first ever hackathon as a runner up organized by Devto + GitHub 🎉.

And moreover learned lot many things this year.

[Nick Taylor]

That's awesome! 🔥

[Code White Dev]

This year was good in my Programming journey and at the same time, it was worse.

I finally learned Node and python Django
Got my first freelancing project
Learned about crypto
Launched my first Portfolio site [codewhiteweb.cf]
created bots for discord and telegrams
and many more...

and the worse part was that...
I lost my relatives and friends due to covid 😢

[Lauren Fosgett]

Congrats on starting freelancing! Those are some big wins. Sorry for your losses as well <3

[Fidal Mathew]

This year, I got started with web development and open source.
I started blogging and made new connections.
Joining twitter was one of the best things I did.
It was a great year, wishing to grow more in 2022. 😄

[Nick Taylor]

Congrats!

[manu]

let's take a look...

Take a look at the languages I learned since 2019:
languages.manuthecoder.repl.co

• Released my app, Smartlist.
  • smartlist.ga
  • Pre-released my App's collaborate feature
    • collaborate.smartlist.ga
• Hit 1 million users on Smartlist :D
• Have ~275 followers on dev.to!
• Hit 18 followers on GitHub!
• Halfway through 8th grade!
• Worked on my other apps,
• Redesigned my GitHub profile
• Learned a new programming language!
• Released EdPoll Beta - edpoll.ga/
• Published my first NPM package!
• Created a blog, blog.manuthecoder.ml/
  • lol i have only one follower, please follow me 😔
• played minecraft for some time
• I have 6 A's and a B LOL

My record for staying up late this year:

• 7:00 AM

My record for actually sleeping this year lol:

• 6:00 PM - 12:30 PM

Other things I did:

• Went with my friends to an escape room nearby.
  • didnt escape successfully lol
• Watched netflix
• Watched MrBeast and mark rober :)

[Bervianto Leo Pratama]

• Achieved some certifications
• More active to write blog post
• Learned a new programing language
• Learned more about DevOps

I wrote the summary in here. 😃

[Nick Taylor]

[Minecodes]

I did nearly finished my first database/database bundler.

[Jones Zachariah Noel]

Just today I tweeted it.

Jones Zachariah Noel

@zachjonesnoel

My 2021 was all abt
🎖️Transitioning from a Full Stack Developer to Cloud Architect - Serverless
🎖️Contributing to various GitHub repos
🎖️Contributing to AWS ASEAN community
🎖️Becoming a AWS Community Builder
🎖️Speaking at AWS Community Day ASEAN 2021
🎖️Starting my own newsletter

04:53 AM - 31 Dec 2021

And to add on,
🎖️Learnt a couple of new tech
🎖️Being part of GitHub Actions Hackathon and learning about workflows!
🎖️Hit 30k views with 444 reactions across all my blog posts on Dev.To within less than a year.
🎖️Networked with a lot of like minded folks.

[Nick Taylor]