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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!

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Adrian Mejia

This week, I published my new book about Algorithms in JavaScript!

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Jess Lee • Edited

This week, I...'hunted' the DEV Android app on Product Hunt! Big shoutout to @maestromac who lead the project. Definitely one of the more special weeks we've had -- lots of wins as a team with lots of merged PRs 😉

Personally, I tried out a new kickboxing gym where they didn't just have you hit a bag, but each other! I loved it.

animated-girls-boxing

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edA‑qa mort‑ora‑y

Kicking each other is lots of fun! I used to do that.

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Peter Kim Frank • Edited

This week, I finally figured out how to solve a semi-technical problem that I've been battling off-and-on for over a month. It required some lateral thinking, tons of trial/error, and many frustrating dead ends before finally arriving at an elegant solution that will be scalable and maintainable going forward.

My reaction upon realizing it was all going to work:
such relief

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Bhupesh Varshney 👾

Can you give a gist on which problem you were brainstorming on ?

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Andrew Healey • Edited

This week, someone that I'm mentoring completed a big Python project! I'm in awe of their passion and work ethic. They inspire me 😊.

an excited dear

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Casey Brooks

I learned basic 3D design in SketchUp, and started designing a coffee table I'm going to start building this weekend!

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Jamie Ferrugiaro

So cool!

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edA‑qa mort‑ora‑y

Don't forget the progress pictures!

That top panel will be a bit of a challenge in precision cuts.

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Casey Brooks • Edited

Here's the top, all cut, but unfinished:

Day 1 progress

By the magic of unintentional mathematics, the angles on the top ended up being exactly 22.5 degrees, which is easily marked out on my chop saw and so everything fit together quite nicely. I've got the rest of the wood cut too, but by that it was too dark for the pics to turn out.

I plan on writing up an article here in a couple weeks when it's finished about what programmers can learn from woodworking (with many more progress pics), so stay tuned for that!

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Katie • Edited

This week, I...

  • Made quiche
  • Made guacamole
  • Went off social media for days (feels great)
  • Got weeks of clean laundry put away
  • Jumped right back into the saddle with exercise after traveling
  • Am keeping my head just above water with traveling, working, coding, blogging, and speaking commitments (how did I let all this pile up in a 2-week timeslot?), which is better than not managing it!
  • Implemented my first coding project using a "stack" data structure (turning a timestamped log file into an XML tree)
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James Hickey

Guacamole... that's like a year's worth of win!

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Darren Vong

This week, I finally gathered enough energy to publish my first independent tech blog post about my experience of going to React Amsterdam on my own! 🎉

I did it!

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Jack Harner 🚀

This week, my girlfriend and I finished moving into our new apartment! We're super stoked about it. A lot more space for us and the cats, plus a washer and dryer in unit 🙌🙌 (fuck the laundromat). It's great!

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Jess Lee

sweeeet!!

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Ryan Smith

My team got through all of the incremental improvements that I proposed to unify a legacy cruise pricing system. It will be nice not having to work with a different copy-pasted-modified set of spaghetti code for each cruise line in the future.

red panda working out

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John Alcher

Accepted a job offer earlier this week. I'm officially an employee for the first time in my life. Yay!

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Jamie Ferrugiaro

Congrats!

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John Alcher

Muchas gracias!