Happy Friday :)
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 😄
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This week, I deployed my first VPC and app on AWS Elastic Beanstalk! Gonna be writing a tutorial series next week
Nice!
This week, I accomplished my goal of sleeping eight hours every day! I've been losing some sleep here and there, but I managed to get the bed early enough every day of the week. Feels much better to be rested enough and have the energy to do things!
I feel this! It's amazing how sleep can affect so many things: your mood, your work ethic, your happiness meter. :)
I really need to do this...
I hit the big 4-0 a few months ago and I'm getting too old to subsist on six or less hours of sleep a day. Played Subnautica on the PS4 till gone midnight on Wednesday night and was yawning my way through Thursday.
Oof yeah. Video games were too much of a timesink for me and my sleep has been much better without them.
Man I feel you on that one! I pulled a long shift for the first time in AGES on Tuesday and it cost me...
I really need to work on sleeping early. I try to do some reading before going to sleep but I get so engrossed that it goes on till midnight. Sometimes I get to an interesting part and it even goes past midnight. I need to restrain myself.
I'm the same, but classic books usually do it for me. It can even take me months to finish one because I usually start yawning from the third page 😂
I do the same with non-fiction books 😂. A few minutes into a chapter and I start feeling sleepy. I take so long finishing such books 😆
This week was good on a few fronts, but one thing I'm proud of is that we shipped some modifications to streak badges in response to this thread from a little while back:
How do you feel about chasing internet points, badges and the gamification of everything?
edA‑qa mort‑ora‑y
We issued a hard limit on streaks so that folks don't feel like they are endlessly grinding of badges and plan to keep this in mind for future gamification-related stuff. In general folks really appreciate the badges but we want to do it in a way that is fun for everybody. Anyone who gets the 16 week badge will be eligible for special stuff in the future but won't be on a never-ending path.
Thanks to @mortoray and folks like @dmfay and others in the thread for sparking a helpful discussion on the topic.
That sounds like a win for everybody. Thanks Ben.
Great thoughtful post and discussion!!! Love when you are trying to figure out a topic for the week and it just falls in your lap
This week, I wrote my first article in a while about the importance of learning source control management first.
No gif needed. :)
Want To Learn Programming? Learn How To Track Changes First
Jonathan Irvin
This week, I successfully did something not programming related and made my first cooking class. Several hours of video editing reminded me of how much more fun programming is! :D
I'm quite happy with the video. The fruit and nut bars I create are a good snack for your long work days, and after the daily workout you're doing. ;)
This looks awesome! Great job with the production.
And wow, I want these fruit and nut bars now!!
whoa!! cool!
I got prime rib on sale.
This week, I was just happy that I was able to get a free replacement to my computer charger since it was broken but is just barely 6 months old! Also, being able to use my personal computer again.
This week, I...
Wait you did actual physical work, that's dope and congrats on the other stuff. I'll hide your last point from my wife before she gets ideas of what my next chores might be
This week, I was accepted to give a lightning talk at the Joy of Coding conference in Rotterdam
Congrats!
Yay congrats!! That little jump from the mascot is priceless lol
Lots happened this week, but what I'm most proud of happened today. I wrote a blog post for the first time in forever! And I posted it to DEV.to too! Very excited about blogging right now :D
dev.to/jesseskinner/formatting-dat...
Great stuff Jesse and welcome to the community.