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What was your win this week?

Jess Lee on February 28, 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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Zubair Mohsin • Edited

It has been an amazing week for me related to writing articles on DEV.

  • More than 700 followers overall 🙏
  • more than 3000 views 👀
  • Approximately 200 reactions 😍
  • My latest article was shared on LaravelDaily Twitter account 😱

It's been so overwhelming.

Couldn't be more thankful to DEV community 🙏🙏

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Waylon Walker

congrats on the great success! It feels good when you get featured in specialized accounts like that.

The DEV Community is ✨Amazing

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Zubair Mohsin

Yaas! 🥳😍

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Casey Brooks • Edited

My wife and I bought our first house!!! 🏠

Also, I released a new major version of Orchid: 0.19.0

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Waylon Walker

👪 Life-changing week in the Brooks house!

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Ben Halpern

Cool!!

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Suzanne Aitchison

I gave my first meet up talk!

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Saurabh Daware 🌻

yay congratulations🎉 What was the talk about? how did it go? how was the overall experience? This is huge🐨🌻

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Suzanne Aitchison

Aw thank you! It was titled "Becoming an accessibility-focused developer". And it went so well! I was nervous in the run up but people were really nice and asked lots of good questions after 😁

The video will be released soon but I have the slides up on bit.ly/a11y-focused-developer in case you're interested

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Saurabh Daware 🌻

This is amazing! Thank you for sharing the slides I will check them out. I gave my first talk 2 weeks back and I had a similar experience, people were super nice!

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Suzanne Aitchison

Oh awesome! What did you speak about? Do you think you'll do more?

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Saurabh Daware 🌻

It was titled "Web Performance Hacks 😎" I talked about HTML Parsing and Rendering in the beginning and then I talked about how we can get the first paint as quickly as possible.

And yes I loved the overall experience so I'm totally looking to do more!

Here are my slides for web performance hacks talk

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Suzanne Aitchison

That sounds so interesting! I'll definitely check out the slides 😁

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Waylon Walker

Woot Woot 🎉

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Syed Faraaz Ahmad

Launched the beta of my startup debugg.me and had 3 users sign up on the first day! It's not much but it's honest work :)

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Dan Silcox

Nice job! Nice meme reference too ;)
Honest work meme

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Waylon Walker

That is an awesome looking landing page

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Syed Faraaz Ahmad

Thanks! It means a lot. The landing page is one of the things I'm most proud of

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Victor Hazbun

NICE! 🎉

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Marko Shiva

I made my first Android app, at least something that I can actually call a functional app. Its a game.

Also I done full backend of one of my projects in flask so it stayed to finish when I have time the part that is frontend related. It will be Vue.js.
Also I worked on one more of my projects and done quite a lot on the level on improving my organisation and notes talking and prioritisation.

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Maxim Chechenev

Wrote my first article here and it’s quite nice feeling, it makes me want to write and share more :)

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Waylon Walker

The DEV community seems to have that effect on many of us! Please share a link. This is a place you are welcome to plug your work shamelessly.

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Waylon Walker

I learned about publishto.dev/ and queued up a number of articles.

I kicked off a new series with my article what-is-kedro. The next one will be out on Monday.

what-is-kedro

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John Dinh

My wins this week were...

  • Taking the initiative of turning web development as a hobby to web development as a career.

  • Taught myself Docker so I could transition deploying my apps from Heroku to DigitalOcean (Saving a bunch of money each month)

  • Attended a coding meetup where I actually engage with other members

  • Created my portfolio design from scratch and deployed a pixel-perfect copy that was mobile responsive.

  • Sent out my first resume

Thank you so much for this post to help me reflect on this hectic week. I wasn't confident if making the decision to turn my hobby into a career was the right choice in my life, but I definitely feel like I am moving towards... well, something :)

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Gagan Deep

I fixed a bug on a Django web application. The development server used to crash while converting HTML to PDF using WeasyPrint with Segmentation Fault. I found the reason to be wrong external URL which was making it to fail. It took a whole week to find this out. I wish I was a better developer.

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Alvaro Montoro

After writing a couple of web-relared arricles, I got the CSS badge on DEV.

At work, the whole team had a great sprint, we had a release of our component library, and got closer to our end of March deadline 🙂

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Matt Eland

I posted my first lesson to YouTube, had a [redacted] and will be [redacted]!

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Bobby Iliev

I did a lot of productive work on a side project that I've been thinking about for a long time! It is going to be an API based on #Laravel. I like how it is turning out so far, but there's still a lot of work to be done.

I just released my landing page though: quizapi.io

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Joe Attardi

My still-budding open source project, Emoji Button, hit over 1k downloads/week for the first time last week! I was very excited about that.

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Fulton Browne

got from 0 to 40% code coverage on a pretty large project :]

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Saurabh Daware 🌻

Lately, I was finding it a little difficult to write but this month I ended up writing 3 articles!

Also, I made GUI for DEV.to widget 🌻:
dev-widget.netlify.com/create

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Jennifer Tran

I successfully managed to trim my cat's nails this week for the first time ever 😺

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CamDHall

Signed a lease for a much nicer house that's a little closer to work for myself and my wife. Also finally learned a (mostly) non-hacky way to serialize dictionaries in Unity.

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AndreKelvin

Finally learn Dart. Flutter next ⏭

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Chuck

I finished at Flatiron and graduation is March 12th. It is so exciting to finish and incredible to gauge how much more I now know. I'm actively searching for that first DEV position.

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Mohammad Javed

Mine was doing my first GIT Repo merging. It went well, still not convinced and just waiting for that knockout punch to arrive, so far so good. 😂

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Vaibhav Khulbe

It was my sister's wedding and it went sooo amazinng! I'm totally into wedding vibes right now. 🎊

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Vicente G. Reyes

I started tracking my time using wakatime.

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Victor Hazbun

This was my win this week 🔥 dev.to/victorhazbun/yet-another-st...

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Ben Halpern

We shipped an update to how our home feed is loaded on DEV, which is going to really help folks.

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Kimono90

I shared my very first dev.to post 😄. And did my first small dev task at work 🎉