What was your win this week?

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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 😄

Comments

[Jess Lee]

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

[Ashlee (she/her)]

This gif is perfect 🤣

[Andrew Brown 🇨🇦]

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

[Charles Landau]

This is an enormous win. The win is huge.

[Juneau Lim]

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

[Mauro Garcia]

Congrats! It's not easy!

[Ashlee (she/her)]

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 🌻]

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)]

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]

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

[Ashlee (she/her)]

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

[Ashlee (she/her)]

Done! :D

[Juneau Lim]

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)]

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

[Juneau Lim]

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)]

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

[Talking Tech With D]

Congrats!

[Paul Bricout]

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]

Way to go!

[Paul Bricout]

Thanks! ☺️

[Nihar Raote]

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

[Paul Bricout]

Thanks!

[Mauro Garcia]

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

[Paul Bricout]

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

[Martin Beierling-Mutz]

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

[Matt Eland]

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).

Understanding SQL Server Deadlocks

Matt Eland ・ Sep 11 ・ 5 min read

#sql #sqlserver #performance #database

[Andrew Ackerman]

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]

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

[Andrew Ackerman]

Thanks! I appreciate it! :)

[Nicole Peery 🌵]

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

[Chris Achard]

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 Arias]

Your post is wonderful! ❤

[Chris Achard]

Thanks!

[Dzhavat Ushev]

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

[Chris Achard]

Thanks!

[Jijin P 👨‍💻🦄]

I started working on an Opensource Project 🎉

Github: github.com/PJijin/Show-Path

[Rudy L.]

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

[Jijin P 👨‍💻🦄]

😃 Great.

Feel free to contribute to this project 🎉

[Rudy L.]

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 👨‍💻🦄]

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 👌🏻

[Paul Rumkin]

I've created my own list for fullstack web app development. It has several things not presented in your list. Feel free to copy.

Ultimate web app requirements list

Paul Rumkin ・ Aug 22 ・ 2 min read

#web #dev #knowledge #experience

[Jijin P 👨‍💻🦄]

Cool 👍🏻

[Jake Murray]

I wrote my first (simple) program!

[Juneau Lim]

Congrats!! what a historical moment. You must be super proud of yourself.
Share it with the rest of us, please!

[Ana Liza Pandac]

This week, I've started working on a Google Chrome extension. I always had a problem when I'm streaming some videos and it's starting to annoy me so I figured I can fix it by creating a browser extension.

I managed to finish the very basic functionality that I want but there's still room for improvement so I'm working on that.

I might write about it as well to share some insights the why and how of it.

[Gayan Hewa]

Today I figured out out Ruby's string class has a .to function that replaces text like a charm. Saves time when compared with, having to iterate over a string and replace them one by one. Thanks to exercism.io

[Cécile Lebleu]

This week I achieved more than I usually do in a month. Needless to say I am exhausted, but really happy to prove my capabilities to myself. The two main achievements were:

• I started a new job that I love 👩🏼‍💻
• I moved a big server to a new one 💪🏻

[Saurabh Daware 🌻]

This week I didn't read the holiday message on college group so I went to college and everything was closed. Then I felt like if I go back home it would feel like a waste of time so I took this opportunity to explore the area around college.

So I started walking on a random road and after some time I reached a lake which I had no idea existed (It's pretty close to my college and I've been going to college for last 3 years 🙈)

So I roamed around and read 20 pages of a book ("The Grand Design" by Stephan Hawkings) while sitting beside the lake

So it became a very successful and positive day for me 🌻🌻🌻

Here's a picture from that day (sorry had to degrade the quality to post here) :