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What was your win this past week?

Jess Lee on January 04, 2020

👋👋👋👋 Peter, Ben & I were having a brainstorming session all Friday and I totally forgot to post this! Sorry about that! Looking back on your ...
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Michael Jolley

Was awarded a Microsoft MVP for Developer Technologies!

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Jaime González García

Congrats!! 👏

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Emmanuel G. Brandão

Congrats! Welcome to the program!

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Andreas

I successfully finished my first complete year as full-time freelancing software developer and consultant! 😊

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Jaime González García

Congrats!!

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Andreas

Thank you 😊

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Nick Taylor

Boom!

Person making a boom gesture

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S1nus

wrote my first blog post on dev.to!

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Stephan Nijman

I got my new site up on a new domain! since1979.dev and started a new series of posts with weekly-ish WordPress code snippets. :)

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Adnan Babakan (he/him)

Well I actually got a badge. The best Vue post during 7 days.
Thanks again DEV.to

This is the post that got me the badge:

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Saurabh Daware 🌻

I wrote a feature in pocketbook.cc that lets you share notebooks as a link so that others can read it.

Here's my notebook explaining how I made PocketBook: pocketbook.cc/saurabh/secrets-of-p...

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John Au-Yeung

Posting stuff on this site is my win.

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Jaime González García

I wrote and published an article everyday for 11 days. My goal was to keep it up for 30 days but life happened 😅. 11 days was a good run though 😁👍

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Nick Taylor

My win this week is that I’m on vacation until Monday and then it’s back to the grind.

A person waking in a hamster wheel.

Note: my work is not boring, I just liked this animated gif. 😎

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Aditya Rao

Bought a new .dev domain name for my personal website adityarao.dev.

Redid the styles of adityarao.dev for the new year.

Presenting myself as Front-End developer to everyone.

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Joel Turner

Nice! Looks good!

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Aditya Rao

Thank You!

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Marius Eisenbraun • Edited

I finally started to share my knowledge about CSS (here on DEV) and present myself as a frontend developer in public:

eisenbraun.dev and on Twitter: @Mr_Eis

"by the way" I setup my first site with Netlify and it is amazing how fast and easy this process was.

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Vaibhav Khulbe

I wrote my first article here at DEV and I've received positive feedback!

Also, I fixed a Stripe API backend issue after banging my head numerous times only to know that I needed to change the acceptable currency value from 'usd' to 'inr', all thanks to Chrome Dev Tools! <(^-^)>

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Joel Turner

Posted my first Dev.to posts this week!

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Nick Taylor

Congrats on your first post!

1st place in Mariokart

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Joel Turner

Thanks!

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Batuhan

Discovered this site.

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Jess Lee

sweet.

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Varun Horril

Not tech related, but finally decided to quit smoking. And sticking with it. 😉

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Helen Kent

Yes! Your lungs will thank you x

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Burdette Lamar

Well, not quite last week, but the week before. On Christmas day, Ruby released version 2.7, which contains some of my contributions to its spec tests and documentation.

The most visible difference is in the doc for ENV, where I've:

  • Expanded the introductory sections.
  • Added example code for most of the methods. (That work continues.)

Here are the before and after pages:

(I don't promise not to post separately about this.)

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Laura Ojala

This was huge for me - finished Full Stack Open course (more than 200 hours of free time JS/React/Redux/node.js programming during 2019). I wrote a post about it: dev.to/laojala/full-stack-open-ref...

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Helen Kent

Amazing! Well done! xx

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twevente_farkas

I started a huge side project with my ex-colleague that we will have to deliver by the beginning of February meanwhile reached the first 60K running milestone this week and finished the third day of the 100DaysOfCode challenge.

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Narendra Kumar Vadapalli

Got my own domain and hooked up my website deployment with AWS amplify ! narenvadapalli.com. Will be blogging about the tech stack pretty soon in the blog section soon.

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Matt Eland

Remembering my day job after a week and a half away from it, and agreeing to give a lightning talk at CodeMash next week in addition to the 60 minute talk I've been preparing for.

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TeRri Valentine

I completed my Tribute Page on Free Code Camp last night. I was so nervous and it took me several hours. Whew!

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Vicente G. Reyes

Started a podcast with my friends - not dev related tho

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Bayu Angora • Edited

In the middle 2019, I submitted my website to Web Design Awards. Few days ago, I got an email from Web Design Team. The message is about announcement that in early 2020, my website will be displayed as a winner.

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Bryerstone Apps

Well, my big win was installing and running Nginx on WSL 2 Ubuntu 20.04; The joy was getting it to work; The week before was getting flask to work in python3 virtual environment on Ubuntu 20.04. The next goal is to get UWSGI to communicate with Nginx and Flask in a python 3 virtual environment built with pipenv on WSL 2 Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. I am using VS code via WSL2 Remote Server

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wilsonsujames

can you give some tips how to do this? while I stuck on """sudo systemctl start myproject"""

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Supun Kavinda
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JeffUbayi

I developed a Password Locker,a python shell script that stores and generates password for various accounts

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Shivan Moodley

Been building out my portfolio/blog in React and finally found a look and feel that feels true to me. Almost ready to ship it!

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Cyprian

Buying a hosting plan, setting up my cpanel and deploying two apps.

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Zane Milakovic

Decided to start a new project. Made it my 2020 goal to build something I can have people pay for.

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Helen Kent

-Spent three hours cleaning and putting away the decs yesterday, house is looking f-f-fresh.
-Dev.to tweeted a link to my bootcamp post and I was more excited about it than i should have been!
-Babysat my nephew last night and he was very cute.
-Spent lots of quality time with fam and fiancée.
-Dinner is cooking and i'm about to learn more CSS!

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Der Sascha

I fully learned the (for me New) cqrs pattern. For this I create an example. Also I cleaned my desk too 😂👍

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Jeremy Meiss

I was able to successfully stay away from work and finish out my 2wk vacation without having done a single piece of work!

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Zhiyue Yi

I finally figure out how to write drag & drop effect using vanilla typescript 🤪

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Santhosh Kumar • Edited

I just published new version of the fcal 0.4.0
It took me 3 months

Fcal

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Joe Hobot

Made it through 2019 :)

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Pablo Tejada

Wrapped up and published a mini composer package I started months ago...

packagist.org/packages/ptejada/lar...

Now I just need to write my first blog post about it :)

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Mustapha Salehi Pour

I bought a new mobile

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Dominic Duffin

I got my personal website live! dominicduffin.uk

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Stephan Nijman

Haha... yeah i know im getting old! :p