Jess Lee

Posted on Sep 13, 2019

What was your win this week?

#weeklyretro #discuss

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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
Contributing to OSS
Cleaning your house...or whatever else that may spark joy 😄

Top comments (106)

Jess Lee • Sep 13 '19

This week, I...started working on a talk!

Ashlee (she/her) • Sep 13 '19

This gif is perfect 🤣

Andrew Brown 🇨🇦 • Sep 13 '19

I did the morning grocery shopping with both babies all by myself.

Charles Landau • Sep 13 '19

This is an enormous win. The win is huge.

Mauro Garcia • Sep 13 '19

Congrats! It's not easy!

Juneau Lim • Sep 14 '19

👏Great job! What a win. God bless you and your family. 💝

Ashlee (she/her) • Sep 13 '19

I gave my first talk and was on a D&I panel at my work! I didn’t think public speaking was too scary before, but I’ve shown myself that I can do it. 🎉

Saurabh Daware 🌻 • Sep 13 '19

That is so cool! congratulations! I've applied to my first talk in local javascript community. I am super scared though.

I've given a public presentation in one of the hackathons before but it didn't go that well, I was scared during the presentation too so I missed out some important points.

I hope I'll do good this time :)

Ashlee (she/her) • Sep 17 '19

I shared my slides from this talk on Twitter!

ashlee 🐯

@ashleemboyer

@ASpittel Gave my first talk last night! Was so much fun and I really appreciate how engaged people were with the topic of accessibility. 🎉

Here's a link to the slides: docs.google.com/presentation/d…

Check out the speaker notes too!

#A11Y #SpooniesWhoCode #DisabledTwitter #DisabledDeveloper

17:50 PM - 11 Sep 2019

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Douglas Fugazi • Sep 16 '19

Congratulations, may you share the slide to learn more about it? 😊

Ashlee (she/her) • Sep 17 '19

Yes! I will grab the link and paste it directly below my comment.

Ashlee (she/her) • Sep 17 '19

Done! :D

Juneau Lim • Sep 17 '19

Wow, this is amazing. Always first is the hardest one. Let's do one more, to forget there was a time you were scared by it.
& congrats on being the first person of the newsletter❣️

Ashlee (she/her) • Sep 17 '19

Thank you! May I ask, what newsletter are you referring to?

Juneau Lim • Sep 17 '19

My apology for being unmindfulness. I just assumed that everyone in dev community is receiving this by default. maybe not the case.
by newsletter, I meant the one from dev.to

Double congrats again❣️

Ashlee (she/her) • Sep 17 '19

I just spent SO much time looking for this! I found it in my notifications settings. 🤣

Talking Tech With D • Sep 17 '19

Congrats!

Paul Bricout • Sep 13 '19

First week at my new job! Don’t have a lot of tasks yet, but I guess that it is normal when one arrive in the middle/end of a sprint. But I managed to complete the few ones that I got! 😁

Charles Landau • Sep 13 '19

Way to go!

Paul Bricout • Sep 13 '19

Thanks! ☺️

Mauro Garcia • Sep 13 '19

Congrats! It's totally normal to start slow. Even more in the middle of a sprint. Wish you good luck

Paul Bricout • Sep 16 '19

Thanks, Mauro, that's comforting to know that it is a normal thing!

Nihar Raote • Sep 14 '19

That's great. Congrats on the new job and good work completing those tasks on your first week!

Paul Bricout • Sep 16 '19

Thanks!

Martin Beierling-Mutz • Sep 13 '19

I didn't open work slack while on my PTO this week 🙂

Matt Eland • Sep 13 '19

I wrote a series on database concurrency, gave a well-polished and well-received internal talk to my organization on the topics in that series, and practiced the presentation standing instead of seated to see how I might do standing to speak at a conference - though I used my old cane (my knee is bad and my feet have nerve damage).

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Andrew Ackerman • Sep 13 '19

Mine is sort of a strange "win", my week started with me being laid off from my trainee position, not due to anyones fault, just the company wasn't ready to grow just yet. I really loved the position so Monday and Tuesday was a stressful time as I'm not really ready to be in a junior developer position as my skillset is quite limited.

But instead of letting that get me down I decided that the best way forward was to up-skill so applied for Lambda School for Web Dev and have been accepted! While this will mean that my wife and I will be on a extremely tight budget for the next nine months and will be living in a friends garage, it's also super exciting to be part of something which will get me into a great job!

Chris Achard • Sep 13 '19

Quite the roller coaster! Good luck with Lambda School - hopefully it's great!

Andrew Ackerman • Sep 14 '19

Thanks! I appreciate it! :)

Chris Achard • Sep 13 '19

My git crash course post got picked up by some aggregators and got almost 9,000 views 🤯🤯🤯

(link):
dev.to/chrisachard/confused-by-git...

Marcelo • Sep 13 '19

Your post is wonderful! ❤

Chris Achard • Sep 13 '19

Thanks!

Dzhavat Ushev • Sep 13 '19

Well deserved because the post is quite nice and easy to follow :)

Chris Achard • Sep 13 '19

Thanks!

Nicole Peery 🌵 • Sep 13 '19

I got on a video call and didn't die (just got a red, blotchy neck) 😅

Jijin P 👨‍💻🦄 • Sep 13 '19

I started working on an Opensource Project 🎉

Github: github.com/PJijin/Show-Path

Rudy L. • Sep 17 '19

And another thing:

"99% of the time, you won't be the first person to come up with your idea. That's fine! It's a sign you've hit on something real." -- dev.to/csallen/three-tips-for-buil... Go for it!

Jijin P 👨‍💻🦄 • Sep 17 '19

I have seen several roadmap threads and images. Through show-path I have tried to include some basic details & video tutorial that can help beginners to level up. 👨‍💻

Nice article 👌🏻

Rudy L. • Sep 17 '19

I had an idea for a learning path tool since I recently started traversing the containerization web. I thought the idea just died, but I guess it found a nurturing home in your mind.

Keep on keeping on! :D