What was your win this week?

Jess Lee Jun 14 ・1 min read

#weeklyretro

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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:

Getting a promotion!
Starting a new project
Fixing a tricky bug
Cleaning your house...or whatever else that may spark joy 😄

Happy Friday!

BTW - I'll be doing all the things associated with 'getting married' starting next week so Michael will be taking over the next three retro posts! You should follow him :)

Michael Tharrington

I'm a friendly non-developer from NC who enjoys playing music/making noise, eating veggies, and hanging out with my best friend/wife + our 3 cats.

MichaelMadcat michael-tharrington

DISCUSS (58)

Sam Ringleman

Jun 14

Well after 4 months at my job, I was told that I am a lead over an entire new api that we are building. Plus they gave me someone that I get to guide in the direction of the API. This is huge for me, I am so excited that I get to mentor someone!

Awesome!

Thanks Ben!

My current project ServerMonitor reached 10 stars on GitHub today! 😍

ChristianLutzCL / ServerMonitor

ServerMonitor is a web application for monitoring websites.

ServerMonitor

| Main branch

| Development branch

ServerMonitor is a web application for monitoring the status of web pages based on their response. It also gives you additional information about the website like IP adress, ping and the location of the web server.

What's the intention of this repository?

Mostly, the goal is to learn (more or less) everything about web development Starting from getting an idea what to build, over planning what to do next up to coding the actual application Also getting into working with others on such a project is something, I want to accomplish with this project.

Can I already contribute?

Simple answer - Yes Unfortunately, there are currently no contribution guidelines for this project and therefore there is no "correct way" to contribute. If you have an suggestion for something that could be improved, simply do a PR (Pull Request).

I'm happy about anyone who…

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Andrew Brooks 👨‍💻

Jun 15

Congrats! Hopefully I can get 2 stars one day 😜

Christian Lutz

Jun 16

Thanks. :P
Simply make it more public! ;)

Make that 11 😉

Nice! Thank you Ben! ✌😁

Make it 27! :)

Wuuhu, awesome!
Thanks. :D

This is great!

I went from idea, to feedback to execution on my idea of doing Design Reviews for developers and beginning designers in less than a day.

I'm super excited by the feedback I've received and the amount of folks that were interested!

A big thanks to the DEV community for giving me the power to move it! Also on the back of it, I went from 85 followers on here to 215. That was an insane move in 24 hours for me.

From

Do you want a design critique? I want to help

Bryan Robinson ・ Jun 13 ・ 1 min read

#design #css #beginners #discuss

15:09

Design Critiques: @pixmy portfolio website design

Bryan Robinson ・ Jun 13 ・ 1 min read

#design #beginners #css

In about a day of work :D

Corey Alexander

Jun 14

I think it's awesome how fast you turned around this idea and executed it!
Definitely an inspiration to do something similar for code reviews, keep your eyes peeled this weekend hopefully 😄

Jack Harner 🚀

Jun 14

It's kinda small but I brought my lunch to work every day this week! Trying to save money by eating out less/only on weekends. Super stoked for the Green Chile Enchiladas I've got for today!

Sarah Katz

Jun 14

I attended two women in tech networking events (networking is always hard for me).

(And congrats on the upcoming wedding! Wishing you and your future spouse all the best!)

Ben Halpern

Jun 14

networking is always hard for me

Same. Congrats!

Bruno Goerck Confortin

Jun 14

I am a frontend developer with 4,5 years of experience.

I recently switched jobs and I passed my first performance evaluation (first 45 days). My boss said: "You behaved exactly like I thought you would."

I was like: "Oh God!".

She continues: "You brought into our company your former work experience, which is very positive, and you are always willing to help, always available. All I can say to you is: keep doing that."

I felt very proud of myself :D

Amazing!

Introduced a student that is working with us to strong pair programming and managed to finish some work together in a couple of hours, and show him the difference between really clever code, and code that you will be able to read in a couple of months 😃

Mazen Touati

Jun 14

This is my win this week

I was very excited about contributing to 'dev.to' but the fact that I'm not a ruby developer made me hesitate. Fortunately I can contribute to the client-side part. Also, this made me consider learning Ruby in the near future.

Gift Egwuenu

Jun 14

Yay Congrats Jess!! 🎉

My win for this week is that I got the Big Thread Badge which is very exciting. 💃💃💃

Jon Fincher

Jun 14

Got new running shoes and managed to put in four runs this week so far. Ready to start marathon training again!

Oh, and finished a paying project, sent out the invoice, and started on new one I've been wanting to work on for a while.

Anna Buianova

Jun 14

I've started writing regularly this week after a while 💪, mostly to my Telegram channel [ru]

Anna Buianova

Jun 14

And published a post on DEV after a while! :D

How to read more books 📚

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#books #tips #learning

Jess Lee

Author

Jun 14

Go Anna!

THREAD

Anna Buianova

Jun 15

Thanks for your support! 💙

Ben Halpern

Jun 14

Our pup Ruby doesn't have a DEV account (yet), but she got her very own Instagram account this week:

instagram.com/ruby_magoo (I'm a Facebook critic, but haven't yet cut ties to the ecosystem 😬)

I tweet a lot about her too:

Ben Halpern 🤗

@bendhalpern

I think Ruby needs a dev.to account

21:17 PM - 05 Jun 2019

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Ben Halpern 🤗

@bendhalpern

Since I started sharing pics of my new pup Ruby, there has been a lot of demand for pictures of her “on Rails”.

12:22 PM - 01 Apr 2019

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Chris James

Jun 15

Learned about bash traps.

Extremely useful for cleaning up your scripts but still want them to return whatever exit code you want.

#!/usr/bin/env bash

set -e

function finish {
  docker-compose down
}
trap finish EXIT

docker-compose down
docker-compose up --build --abort-on-container-exit --exit-code-from acceptance_test acceptance_test

jtenner

Jun 14

Got a big pull request done on my testing software!

jtenner / as-pect

Blazing Fast Testing with AssemblyScript 🎉

as-pect

Write your module in TypeScript and get blazing fast testing with web assembly speeds!

Philosophy

Testing is the first step of every project. It's important to make sure that the library or app you've chosen to become responsible for works in the manner you wish to have it work. It only takes a few minutes to get setup even if the benefits are transparent.

Usage

To install as-pect, install the latest version from github. Once AssemblyScript becomes more stable, as-pect will be published to npm.

$ npm install jtenner/as-pect

To initialize a test suite, run npx asp --init. It will create the following folders and files.

$ npx asp --init
# It will create the following folders if they don't exist
C ./assembly/
C ./assembly/__tests__/
# The as-pect types file will be created here if it doesn't exist
C ./assembly/__tests__/as-pect.d.ts
# An example test file will be

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David Wickes

Jun 14

this

#!/bin/bash
#
# bconv
#
# converts integers from one base to another
# defaults to base 10 for input and base 10 for output
# bases in the range of 2 to 16 only

i_flag='10'
o_flag='10'

print_usage() {
  printf "Usage: bconv [-i input_base] [-o output_base] number\n"
}

while getopts ':i:o:h' flag; do
  case "${flag}" in
    i) i_flag="$OPTARG";;
    o) o_flag="$OPTARG";;
    h) print_usage
       exit 0 ;;
  esac
done
shift $((OPTIND-1))

if [ "$1" == "" ]; then
  print_usage
  exit 1
fi

# clean the input - dc can only accept upper case letters for numbers
input=$(echo $1| tr '[:lower:]' '[:upper:]')

# use dc(1) for the calculation
dc -e "$o_flag o $i_flag i $input p"

Been reading/writing about dc(1) and thought I'd try and build something with it... it's probably easier just to remember

dc -e '2 o 16 i DEADBEEF p'

but it was fun

José Muñoz

Jun 14

After a month on my new job, yesterday we finally presented our MVP!

Austin S. Hemmelgarn

Jun 14

I finally finished a huge refactoring pass on the internals of a web app I've been developing. I've been working on just this refactor for the past two weeks, and I'm super excited to finally have it done because it cut down CPU usage by about 60%, reduced load times by about 15%, and fixed almost a dozen bugs involving synchronization between the DOM and the internal state of the app.

I also finally figured out what's been causing network performance issues at work that I've been trying to fix for the past six months.

Glenn Carremans

Jun 14

Found the source of an WiFi issue a specific device model was having for months at the clients office and their IT departement had no clue what was going on 💪
The reason why only that model was having issues was because it only used 2.4GHz and all other devices used 5GHz, and their 2.4GHz netwerk kept rebooting every 30-60 minutes.

Steve Layton

Jun 14

Congrats!

My "win" is a bit silly... I actually remembered to update my article code repo with the latest code. (It's still missing a few older ones though... There's always next week lol)

shindakun / atlg

Source repo for the "Attempting to Learn Go" posts I've been putting up over on dev.to

Attempting to Learn Go

Here you can find the code I've been writing for my Attempting to Learn Go posts that I've been writing and posting over on Dev.to.

Post Index

Post	Code
Building a Downloader Part 01	-
Building a Downloader Part 02	-
Building a Downloader Part 03	-
Building a Downloader Part 04	-
Building a Downloader Part 05	-
Consuming a REST API	src
Continuing REST Adventures	src
Now Sending REST Requests	src
REST API and A Bit On Templates	src
Sending Email Via API Again	src
Let's Get Modular!	src
Let's Get Modular - Again!	src
Building DevLog Part 01	src
Building DevLog Part 02	src
Building DevLog Part 03	src
Building DevLog Part 04	src
Building DevLog Part 05	src
Listing Files By Extension 01	src
Listing Files By Extension 02	src
Dev.to API 01	src
Dev.to API 02	see above code
Issuer

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Andreas Jakof

Jun 15

Ported a website and some webservices to .NET Core and installed AppInsights on the web site.
Getting ready to put the website to azure. Have to merge three subsides first. Already changed the underlying design to support this.
Babysteps, but continuity wins in the end.

Nguyễn Việt Đức

Jun 15

Finished my first freelance project after 1 month. It's pretty unbelievable to me when I look back at it, but I've just graduated from university for 1.5 months and had my first professional job for 1 month. :D

David Clark

Jun 15

Met up with someone and they offered to be my mentor! 🕺🏼

Amazing!

I went to my first big developer's conference and learned so much and had a ton of fun! I'm really working hard on getting out to events and networking more and the fact that that whole day went so well was a huge win for me!

Nicolas Polhamus

Jun 15

This week we had a huge issue where one of our clients highlighted some potentially missing data. Understandably, they weren't happy, and we were extremely concerned about this new incident. Well, after some detective work in our database, I was able to find the missing data. I was grateful for the opportunity to learn about and handle this gap in a system I've been in charge of for only 3 months.

Antonin Januska

Jun 14

Congrats!

My big win this week has been writing an article on dev.to! I've been meaning to write something for a while and I was glad to publish it and to get such an overwhelming response

Nice! 🔥😎

Dude, I not only got my first P3 bug accepted on Bug Crowd (no cash reward, but I did get points) which boosted me into the top 4000 hackers on the site, but I also got invited to a private bug bounty program!

Michael Tharrington

Jun 17

Getting a quick shout-out in this post was def a win!

But all that comes with it too... I'm quite happy to be taking over this thread for the next 3 retros as reading all these wins gives me the feel-goods all over. 😀

Gerard Klijs

Jun 14

Just two weeks in at a new place, done with the development part of a new service. How everything is set up makes much more sense than my previous assignment. And had The Dutch Clojure meetup finally in our office.

Eldin Zaimovic

Jun 14

I publish my personal website eldin.space and write blog post about it .

Michael Kohl

Jun 17

Late to the party, but this weekend we had the second PyCon Thailand here in Bangkok and it was a great success :-) Last year I was part of the core organizing team, while this year I was only involved in speaker selection and as MC because most of my energy is going towards Thailand's first RubyConf this coming September. Anyway, it's amazing to be part of such a big event and I encourage anyway who gets a chance to try it out at least once.

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Source repo for the "Attempting to Learn Go" posts I've been putting up over on dev.to

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