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What was your win this week?

Jess Lee on February 14, 2020

👋👋👋👋 Looking back on your week -- what was something you're proud of? All wins count -- big or small 🎉 Examples of 'wins' include: Getting a p...

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sibi • Feb 14 '20

Landing a new job 🎉

genzouw • Feb 18 '20

Congrats!

sibi • Feb 19 '20

Thanks @genzouw

Vaibhav Khulbe • Feb 15 '20 • Edited

That's great! Congratulations!! 🎉

sibi • Feb 15 '20 • Edited

Thanks @vaibhavkhulbe 🙏🏼

Andrew Brown 🇨🇦 • Feb 14 '20 • Edited

Built my own open-source markdown editor in a couple of days, and increased my productivity by 500%. no big whoop 🙃

Ben Halpern • Feb 14 '20

I decreased the likelihood that one of our admins accidentally submits a dangerous site config option...

Add additional safeguards for config write access #6064

benhalpern commented on Feb 13, 2020

What type of PR is this? (check all applicable)

[ ] Refactor
[x] Feature
[ ] Bug Fix
[ ] Optimization
[ ] Documentation Update

Description

This related to this issue: #6049

I wouldn't want to say it fully closes it, but is a step in safeguarding this area.

This pull request adds extra safeguards for the /internal/config area of the site. This area contains values which could cause big problems if accidentally changed. It makes sense to restrict them even more thoroughly than other parts of the internal experience.

It now makes it so that anyone with admin, super_admin or single_resource_admin Config can view this area, but only users with the role single_resource_admin Config can write to it. And they need to submit this phrase when making a change as confirmation:

My username is @your_username and this action is 100% safe and appropriate.

The details here really should not change very often, so I think this is all pretty reasonable.

Added a message to make it clear:

Also made a small tweak to /internal/permissions to make it clearer which exact permissions folks have.

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Thanks to @vaidehijoshi for being the catalyst on this.

Tuna Çağlar Gümüş • Feb 14 '20

My son born on valentines day. I think we can call it a win.

jastuccio • Feb 15 '20

...and with one fell swoop Tuna covered this year's valentines day gifts and all future valentines day gifts like a boss 😂

seriously Congratulations Dad!

Tuna Çağlar Gümüş • Feb 15 '20

😂 i need to step up my dad jokes this year. So I'm posting this from the upstairs computer. (image a dad laugh here)

Syed Faraaz Ahmad • Feb 14 '20 • Edited

Launched my website debugg.me and posted about it. Got a very good response and have 16 people subscribed to my email list. Now working on getting my beta ready

Audiophile • Feb 14 '20

I was able to fix an issue I'd been having with a Reacstrap(bootstrap + react) component, by actually going to the GH repo and reading the source code.

It was nowhere to be found in the official docs.

I'm usually scared of diving deep into a repo for a package to see its source code because it literally hurts my brain most times, especially if it's written in TypeScript(and I don't know TS yet).

I'm proud because I overcame my fear, solved the issue I was having and didn't procrastinate about writing an article about it. This is a win for me.

Emmanuel Raymond • Feb 16 '20

The "especially if it's written with TypeScript" is my situation also. I don't even waste my time whenever I see the library is written with it. it's becoming unpleasant these days. perhaps, it's a sign to learn it ;)

Audiophile • Feb 16 '20

Maybe it is :)

Ryan Kahn (he/him) • Apr 21 '20

Woot! Congrats, I know the fear! TypeScript can be scary, but it has no teeth...only error messages. 😜

Audiophile • Apr 21 '20

Haha thanks Ryan! I already plan to learn it (and fall in love with it) in the coming month, the confidence I've gained since solving that issue has increased!

Ryan Kahn (he/him) • Apr 21 '20

I would say if you solved an issue in code using Typescript, you are well on you way!

Ryan Kahn (he/him) • Apr 21 '20 • Edited

I have a resource for you actually (one of mine)! It's a "game of life" clone you can edit 🏝️.fm

Fran C. • Feb 14 '20

I managed to post 3 times!!!

Saurabh Daware 🌻 • Feb 14 '20

I gave my first ever tech talk!! I feel sooo happy to overcome my public speaking fear🐨🐨🎉

The talk was about web performance, here's an animated version of the talk: visconf.netlify.com/saurabhdaware/...

Roelof Jan Elsinga • Feb 14 '20

Finally set up my personal cloud at home! No longer depending on the big cloud storage providers is very freeing and I'll be doing a lot more with it in the future I'm sure!

Also, I was able to refactor some very complicated code into something that's simple and easy to understand. As an added bonus, everything is covered by unit testw, so I know it won't break soon.

Carlos Guzmán • Feb 15 '20

I want to setup a personal cloud too but I have not decided yet which tools I should use for this, what do you use in your case?

Roelof Jan Elsinga • Feb 16 '20

I use a raspberry pi 4 4gb, an external hard drive and NextCloud as the software. So far it works really well! My latest post on here goes into more detail, so maybe that helps you as well.

Carlos Guzmán • Feb 16 '20

I was thinking about using OwnCloud or Syncthing, but I will take a look to NextCloud too. Thanks for sharing the post, I would like to see a post about how you expose your cloud to the internet too :)

Roelof Jan Elsinga • Feb 16 '20 • Edited

My next post will have a section about that, it should be on dev on Thursday :)

Edit: The post is right here! dev.to/roelofjanelsinga/how-to-set...

David Taitingfong • Feb 15 '20

I finally started a personal blog. As a dev I was spending way too much time tryna decide if I wanted to build it from the ground up, use Wordpress, etc...eventually I just told myself to quit messing around and START. So I did! 🥳

Eka • Feb 15 '20

LOL this is me, permanently stuck halfway in the attempt to build my personal site! Congrats for getting out of the indecision black hole!

David Taitingfong • Feb 15 '20

Thank you! Honestly I still want to build my own site, but as of right now I know that getting my ideas out is what I need to do. Hopefully I can find some down time to get my own site up and running.

Good luck to you though! Just remember: progress is progress.

Michael Tharrington • Feb 14 '20

I just moved to Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica this week!

Things took a little longer than originally expected. My comment from a previous What was your win... thread:

Michael Tharrington (he/him) • Sep 27 '19

I visited Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica... and found a house to rent that we're moving into in November! So happy DEV is supportive of remote working!! 😀

Pura vida!

Ami Scott (they/them) • Feb 16 '20

I had my first week with my new project team. Basically my current job is leading a group of web dev students through building a product or adding on to a product from a former team. I'm with each team for two months as the team lead and it was so hard to say goodbye to my last team as they moved on to study computer science...

I met my new team and started working with them this week and they are all so awesome and I'm so excited to see what we come up with over the next two months!

Javier Escobar • Feb 18 '20

I think that's very interesting! Students learn to program before learning computer science! 10 years ago, I had to study PCs architecture, operating systems, and so on before learning how to code in C++ or Java.

Good luck with your new team!

Ami Scott (they/them) • Feb 19 '20

We start with learning HTML/CSS/JS and then jump into learning React. Once we do a section on Node/Express and backend fundamentals we get into the section I'm leading now which is about product development.

I agree it's interesting but it does help you get some relevant job skills more quickly which is nice 😊 I think it also helps lower the barrier of entry a lot.

Ben Myers • Feb 14 '20 • Edited

I finally got another accessibility blogpost (and the Dev.to link) out, after weeks of starting and shelving drafts!

jastuccio • Feb 15 '20 • Edited

I refactored a FISH script to mute Spotify temporarily from the command line. The commercials were killing my concentration. I listen to instrumental tracks when I am coding. It used to turn the Macbooks volume off. Now it only turns Spotify's volume off in case I am watching a tut.

It started out using an NPM package, but I could not get it working that way so I went to sleep. I woke up with a new idea. I learned the osascript commands I needed by reading through the npm package Github repo.

Now my script gets the current volume, mutes Spotify, then raises the volume back to the original level after a while. 6 lines of code and no packages required 😄

Jess Lee • Feb 17 '20

Neat!

jastuccio • Feb 19 '20

Thanks Jess 😊

Ahmed Mohamed Abd El Ftah • Feb 15 '20

wrote my first post on dev.to 😁 Notable Features In Laravel 7

mirko • Feb 15 '20 • Edited

After two years of work in my spare time on Thursday I have released the first major version of my project Resting 🎉🎉🎉

AndreKelvin • Feb 14 '20

finally started learning Dart... 🎯

Fulton Browne • Feb 14 '20

Finished a big database and user account migration. I am so glad its done.

Pierre Bouillon • Feb 15 '20 • Edited

I pushed my first NuGet package ! (and plan to post about it later)

I also successfully tweaked SSL certificates in order to save hundreds of ours to one of the developer in my company !

Nothing incredible but it feels great to achieve small things ! 😄

Ryan Kahn (he/him) • Apr 21 '20 • Edited

I created a new react hooks library for state management, and it was tweeted about by the creator of MobX! Now its approaching 40 stars on GitHub! A solid OSS contribution been a goal of mine for some time, so I'm happy! 🌈

James Eastham • Feb 14 '20

Passed my AWS cloud practitioner and signed up another freelance client. It's been a good week :-)

Ivan • Feb 15 '20

Managed to save a major feature from being down for a long time because the 3rd party API it uses is being deprecated. Researched a few alternative options, managed to make the new integration work in a day. In the long term it is a better quality service, that will help us with another feature and is about 10 times cheaper. All this just a couple of weeks before my last day at the company. :D

Yechiel Kalmenson • Feb 14 '20

Just bought my Codeland tickets yesterday!

Can't wait to meet everyone!!! 🥳

Waylon Walker • Feb 15 '20

I got kedro in the changelog. They did a wicked good job talking through the story of a really game changing framework for data pipelines in python. I was 🤩 hearing my own name on the changelog!

changelog.com/podcast/380

Waylon Walker • Feb 15 '20 • Edited

Ooh ooh I also launched my newsletter.

waylonwalker.com/newsletter

Matt Eland • Feb 14 '20

I got a book offer which I rejected, started working on my own self-published book (stay tuned), got started as a Pluralsight author doing assessment questions, and as of today... [redacted].