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
• Fixing a tricky bug
• Cleaning your house...or whatever else that may spark joy 😄

Happy Friday!

Comments

[Fulton Browne]

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

[Fran C.]

I managed to post 3 times!!!

[Andrew Brown 🇨🇦]

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

[Ben Halpern]

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.

View on GitHub

Thanks to @vaidehijoshi for being the catalyst on this.

[Syed Faraaz Ahmad]

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

[James Eastham]

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

[Antonio Djigo]

Oh man.

Not quitting on posting my daily dev.to series. 🤨

[Ben Myers]

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

[Clive Da]

easy peasy ! an oracle #liveforthecode #epaper #codecard from OOWLON sooo cool :)

[Michael Tharrington]

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!

[sibi]

Landing a new job 🎉

[Vaibhav Khulbe]

That's great! Congratulations!! 🎉

[sibi]

Thanks @vaibhavkhulbe 🙏🏼

[genzouw]

Congrats!

[sibi]

Thanks @genzouw

[Audiophile]

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]

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]

Maybe it is :)

[Ryan Kahn (he/him)]

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

[Audiophile]

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)]

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

[Ryan Kahn (he/him)]

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

[Yechiel Kalmenson]

Just bought my Codeland tickets yesterday!

Can't wait to meet everyone!!! 🥳

[Ashish Kumar]

I have started to read python from last week.

[Roelof Jan Elsinga]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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...