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What are your goals for the week? #172

Chris Jarvis on March 30, 2026

Had an increase in responses last week. Thanks to @francistrdev for the shout out in their posts. I enjoy hearing what you are building and learnin...
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FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ (っ◔◡◔)っ

Thanks for the mention Jarvis! I appreciate it and glad that post made an impact!

I did get off the wait list for Virtual Coffee as I mentioned in my latest Monthly Dev Report. I will try to see to join their weekly zoom meet tomorrow!

Great work again :D

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Konark Sharma

What's Virtual Coffee? Is it a place for developers to meet and hangout? Can I join?

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FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ (っ◔◡◔)っ

As far as I looked into their website, yes!

dev.to/virtualcoffee

You can become a member by joining their wait list.

virtualcoffee.io/resources/virtual...

I recently got an email that I was off the wait list and now all I have to do is join their weekly meeting and I am in their Slack channel (becoming a Full Member). I only notice this group since Jarvis is part of the org and I was interested in joining. Seems quite chill tbh.

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Konark Sharma

Ok nice. I'll check it out and see whether I get off the waiting list. Thanks for the help.

Congrats on becoming a full member. Do tell me your experience of attending your first virtual coffee.

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FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ (っ◔◡◔)っ

Will do! :D

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Nyanguno • Edited

I've checked the comment section: @francistrdev and @konark_13 You two should probably exchange numbers or meet up for a coffee.

Just saying

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Konark Sharma

My goals for the week are

  • Write 1 or more articles
  • Start a new 30 day challenge.
  • Read more
  • Get deeper into GCP/AWS
  • Increase typing speed
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Chris Jarvis • Edited

There's a game called Z-type. That might help. It's like space invader or Galaga, where you shoot alien ships. But the aliens are word and you have to type that word to shoot the ship.

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Konark Sharma

That sounds too much fun. I'll definitely try it and get better at wpm. Thank you so much for the website and sorry for spamming your comment section by me and Francis.

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Chris Jarvis

Good luck. Sometimes Hardest part on writing is starting. More you type faster you can go.

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Konark Sharma

Thank you so much Chris. Any tip you wanna provide for a beginner writer like me? What you feel quality is better than quantity in terms of writing?

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Chris Jarvis

You have to do quantity before you get quality. Everyone's early writing is bad, which is fine cause no one's reading them at that time. But you get better as you write.

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EmberNoGlow

I'm going to participate in my first Game Jam! I don't expect to win, but actually, getting anything done in two weeks would be a victory for a lazy person like me. 🤔

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FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ (っ◔◡◔)っ

Good luck! Sounds fun :)

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Francisco Luna

I'll be:

  • Delivering new features at work and working on DevOps
  • Releasing 2 new features in my open source tool, Envoy
  • Creating 1 AWS architecture diagram and document the trade-offs made at work
  • Challenging myself to start a new project in Golang :)
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Chichi Johnson

My goals for this week will be

  1. Start posting actively on here about my quantum computing journey. I made a post today. Yay 🥳.
  2. Job search. I am a front end engineer with 3+ years of experience. Looking for a job while learning about quantum computing on the side.
  3. Grow in my relationship with God.
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S.M. Jegan

All the best for your future career.

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Chichi Johnson

Thank you so much

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Mark

I have been increasing my api logging capabilities to better understand system demand constraints, and it has been informative as my automation is performing more requests than I would have first thought. Now next steps involve taking action to address these higher than expected volumes of requests.

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Julien Avezou

Hey Jarvis, nice goals you have there. Best of luck this week!

On my end:

  • I had a lot of fun at my local OpenClaw event last week. I got inspired and am currently setting up my own agent at the moment
  • I dropped the first post regarding an open source project I am planning to release soon, the goal is to help non devs how to code with best practices while building a tangible project. As promised last week here is the link to the post: dev.to/javz/building-a-coding-cour...
  • This week I am planning to continue writing the rest of the series for this experimental project
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Chris Jarvis

Thanks, good luck with your goals.

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Jeevan Mb

Hey there! New to this community and this is quite interesting.
I'm building a cyrptogram based Unity game which I have been just procrastinating on for a long time. Finally, I got claude subscription and got some good progress going. Finally, it looks like I might be able to release it soon.

So, my goal for this week is to finish the v1 of this app. Core gameplay is done. Remaining things are -

  • to do some basic polish - sfx, haptics, little of UI polish
  • to set up firebase for analytics and crashes
  • to set up a vibe layout - a new feature I'm trying for the build.
  • and finally to make out the official v1 build and give for internal testing.

that's it - hopefully by week 174 I'd be able to release it!! 😁

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freerave

Hey Chris, thanks for the check-in!
My goals for this week:

I actually built a Terminal-based portfolio! 😂 It fits my Kali Linux vibe perfectly. Why use a standard UI when you can use a CLI?

Doing a major refactor for dotShare and dotfetch (part of my open-source DotSuite) to make the UX much smoother and user-friendly.

Smashing through all my goals for the April challenge!

Have a great and productive week everyone!

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Mince

I am back to Dev.to after a long gap and i really want to build and share awesome stuff. My goal for this first week is to make smthg for the april fools challenge.

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Nyanguno

My goals are:

  1. prepare well for my new job
  2. Continue marketing my sas
  3. Do a lot of DIY
  4. Do laundry
  5. Sleep for least 7 hours and finally finish that series. I dont know if they'll all fit in one week; I'll try
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Admin Chainmail

This week: trying to get the first paying customer for a desktop Gmail client I built (ChainMail). Been running an AI agent (Claude Code on a cron job) as my autonomous marketing CEO for two weeks now. It has written 12 blog posts, submitted to 11 directories, sent 37 outreach emails... and generated exactly $0 in revenue.

The honest lesson so far: AI is an incredible execution engine, but execution without distribution is just organized futility.

This week I am focusing on actually getting in front of humans instead of writing into the void. Starting with engaging here on dev.to.

Good luck to everyone with their goals this week!

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Mykola Kondratiuk

This week: shipping the next article on PM governance in an AI-first org. Been watching the Oracle PM cuts closely — the orgs that survive these waves aren't trimming overhead, they're restructuring decision-making. My focus is on documenting the patterns that actually help PMs stay indispensable. What about you all?

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Scott Raisbeck

Finish off github.com/microsoft/RustTraining/...! I've been enjoying it way more than I thought i would hah!

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v. Splicer

stay away from my abusive ex and keep power so i can stay on my laptop. oops, too real! i meant to say- finally put the remu.ii device together on the esp32/tft touch screen ive acquired!

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Kira Zenith

That “increase in responses” line is motivating shows that consistency + visibility really pays off over time.

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François

My goals are:

  • Write 1 blog post
  • add 3 new features on gitnotifier based on user feedbacks
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François

Update:
✅ I wrote my blog post 😁 lepape.me/my-new-programming-langu...
✅ And pushed the new features! docs.gitnotifier.com/changelog

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Menny Levinski

My goals for this week:

  • Do some marketing for my open-source / free projects
  • Update the documentation for my top GitHub repositories.
  • Not lose my mind waiting for SEO to catch up
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Tijmen de Jong 💻🚀

My goals for the week:

  • Building a agent team platform to deploy fast agent teams that work together for new businesses to use.
  • Finish the Claude Courses
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Moon Light

Great.

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fibograzi

just launched my project after a very long late night streak!

This weeks schedule: cool of a little bit and start engaging with the community 😉

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Michael Weber

Solid goals, Francisco! Working on DevOps and shifting to Golang in the same week sounds like a heavy lift. I’m also looking into some Go-based tools for automation lately—the performance delta is hard to ignore. My main goal is just to finally clear my 'Read Later' tab before it becomes a 'Read Never' tab. Have a productive one!

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Mamta Bankoti

My goals for this week are:

  • Work on blog content about entertainment and real-life based movies.
  • Improve storytelling and content creation skills.
  • Spend time with a friend over the weekend to relax and feel refreshed 😅
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Muhammad Zazaan Qazi

I tried so hard to become Independent but in vain. My goals are to earn my own. For that I coded something..

Lately,I kept rewriting the same backend logic in every project — sending emails, Slack alerts, calling APIs after events like user signup. It got annoying, so I built a small API for myself where I just trigger an event like "user_signup" and it handles everything automatically. It’s basically a simple workflow system through an API.

Now, Im looking for developers to have a look or use it. After then, I will scale it something livelihood.

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Calqora

I don’t think AI will replace developers, but it will definitely reshape the role.

It’s great for speeding up development, especially when building practical tools, but human thinking is still key for solving real-world problems.

I’ve been building small utility tools recently, and AI helps a lot — but it still needs guidance.

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Elmar Chavez

Wow, I got curious about the Virtual Coffee thing and I think that's a great way to network with other developers such as myself. Great read!

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Dev For

My goal is to improve my project Progflow via you guys feedback and help Progflow github

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Prashant Srivastav

Form being Engineer to Marketer.

Marketing my product github.com/rapidaai/voice-ai