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What was your win this week?

It's Friday!!!!

Looking back on the week, what was something you're proud of?

All wins count -- big or small!

Examples of 'wins' include:

  • Getting to all your meetings on time
  • Starting a new project
  • Fixing a tricky bug
  • Cleaning your house...or whatever else that may spark joy 😄 🎉

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Ben Halpern

We try to do more "showing" than "telling" in this organization, but this week I felt the urge to tweet about how great our site is and it was super well received!

It brought it a bunch of new, curious folks to the platform—which is great. 😄

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Jose Gonzalez

This is the reason I’m on Dev.to and not on medium anymore

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Gift Egwuenu

I personally love the dev.to community.

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Ali Spittel

This week, I... announced my course that I've been thinking about for the past year!!!

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Gift Egwuenu

I was really excited about the news. Can't wait to see what you come up with :)

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Jess Lee

This week, I...realized my flight was going to get snowed out so I got on an earlier flight to have a stress-free vacation!!

And even though I had nothing to do with this, @sarthology 's post felt like a win to me:

happy kermit the frog

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Sarthak Sharma

Oh dear! It surely is 😊

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Dan Newton

This week, I... told my team that I handed in my notice to start a new job next month. A bit of a weird one, but one that I dreaded doing. Just glad that I did it.

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Matthew Wilson

I know that had to be tough. Congrats, and good luck (and I mean that in a good way). Ending something stinks, but that's behind you so now you get to start something new...and that's almost always exciting!

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Peter Kim Frank

This week, I crossed a bunch of items off my to-do list, including several that I had been putting off because I knew that they'd be especially tedious and frustrating. I've also been making a lot of progress in writing (non-technical) documentation for some of our internal processes. It feels really good to get more of this knowledge recorded.

typing fast and furiously

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Sunny Singh

This week, I had the first guest on my podcast where we talked about websites, social media, and content ownership (which greatly relates to Ben's win this week).

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Matthew Wilson

Listened, and subscribed on Google Podcast. Great work...keep it up. Looking forward to the next episode.

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Sunny Singh

Appreciate it Matthew 🙌

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Glenn Carremans

This week, I... brought attention to the linting issues in the DEV project and helped open a discussion.

Could view linting be suppressing contributions? #1828

I have the feeling that view linting could be presenting a pretty strong burden to contributions. You could make a small contribution and get hung up with a huge linting fix chore as it currently stands.

I just feel like as an outsider without context it could add a bit too much burden at the time being. Thoughts on taking it away as a blocker to pushing and leave it as something folks can voluntarily make progress on until the app is at a closer place to being fully linted on the view with our preferred styles?

smart

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Eoin Murphy

This week, I...continued working on a .md template generator CLI and finally got data returned the way I needed it in my biggest SQL query yet (8 window functions).

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Nick Taylor • Edited

This week, I helped improve the code coverage in our front-end code base as well as merge code coverage reports. Outside of work, I'm close to finishing the enabling of strict mode in TypeScript for the Refined GithHub browser extension (Chrome, Firefox).

Enable strict-mode for TypeScript #1783

Basically going with the non-null assertion operator in almost all places, because as mentioned in github.com/sindresorhus/refined-gi..., the assumption with the extension is that the DOM nodes referenced in most cases are expected to be there. If they aren't, the extension breaks, a bug is filed and it's fixed.

One thing to note @bfred-it, is currently dom-chef types need to handle JSX (Element and IntrinsicElements) or we import @types/react.

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Gift Egwuenu • Edited

This week, I was added as a maintainer of Gridsome. A static site generator for vue.js and also got a lot of positive feedback about my last article!

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Jess Lee

Whoa! That's awesome!