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What was your win this week?

Let's end the week on a high note.

Looking back, what was something you're proud of?

All wins count -- big or small!

Examples of 'wins' include:

  • Getting to all your meetings on time
  • Starting a new project
  • Fixing a tricky bug
  • Cleaning your house...or whatever else that may spark joy πŸ˜„

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Anna Rankin

This week, I learned about using NOT EXISTS in a SQL subquery! I was able to use this to get rid of a left join and speed up a hairy database query πŸŽ‰πŸŽ‰πŸŽ‰ It really made my week lol. Also had a really good chat with a mentee about equivalence vs. equality in JS and Ruby!

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Dian Fay

I wish SQL had a negative join operation consistent with other join types because the fact that a NOT EXISTS subquery outperforms the outer join + null test approach just doesn't seem right.

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Anna Rankin

I absolutely agree - I actually found this by googling "opposite of a join query" πŸ˜‚ it would be cool to have an EXCLUDE operation or something similar

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rhymes

(can it be non-dev related? Please @jess πŸ––)

This week, I went back to the gym after the physiotherapist benched me for a few weeks because of an injury! It gives me an energy boost and... it sparks joy :D

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Jess Lee

Yes it can (i'll update with an example)!!
and heck yeah!!!

Glad you're doing well :)

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rhymes

Cleaning your house...or whatever else that may spark joy

LOL

Glad you're doing well :)

ahah thanks! :-)

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Ali Spittel • Edited

This week, I.... turned this post into a lightning talk and gave it at a Women Who Code event I organized!

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Vicente G. Reyes

This week, I... was able to earn my Responsive Web Design Certificate via FCC, was able to launch my Amazon Affiliate site, started reading The Art Of War of Sun Tzu and started developing my Web Design company website.
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Dave Follett • Edited

This week, I made five 3-pointers (4 in a row) in a pickup πŸ€ game and setup Code Climate on an open source project.

Great idea for a discussion, I ❀️ it!

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Sung M. Kim

This week, I added code climate check for one my open source library.
It was tough to get code coverage test work but with help from Dave Follett πŸ‘Š,

10+ commits

I got it working last night.

Add test coverage task list #54

Test Coverage tasks

  • [x] Add test coverage flag to Jest: reference
  • [x] Add Code Climate configuration to CircleCI: example
  • [x] Add Code Climate test coverage badge: markdown

Validate CircleCI configuration file

And a CircleCI issue was due to an indentation error, which Dave pointed out πŸ˜›

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Ben Halpern

CodeClimate πŸ‘Œ

Tremendous tool

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Sung M. Kim

Uber cool.

It reminds you of the time when you first used eslint(or Resharper) and see massive errors πŸ˜›

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Dave Follett

In addition to being a great tool, Code Climate generously gives itself away for free to open source. Amazing stuff.

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Gift Egwuenu

This week, I got promoted at work

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toby2nice

Awesome dear.

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Jess Lee

This week, I... finally started reading "Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby: An Agile Primer" by @sandimetz and have been enjoying it SO much. What a fantastic writer!

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Ali Spittel

Omg! That's one of my favorite books of all time. I actually use a quote from it as my "goodbye" to students on the last day of class. May or may not have cried a few times.

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rhymes

Nice! Let us know how it is when you finish it!

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buphmin

This week, I....

Coded a lot of stuff in Go! I spent a lot of time thinking about how best to approach the problem and making sure test along the way. So far I have about 85% test coverage according to

go test -cover

and 100% test coverage of exported utilities.

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Josh Hadik • Edited

This week, I finally started sharing on Dev! I’ve always wanted to get involved in a dev community and start writing about my perspective on things but always got caught in the trap of trying to β€˜overperfect’ everything I wrote (and never actually posting any of it.)

This week I finally just posted something. Then another thing. Then another thing after that. I know the writing could use a lot of work, but hey, I’m not gonna learn by rewriting the same five articles on Evernote a thousand times!

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Jess Lee

Awesome! Will check those out.

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Max Antonucci

This one was actually from earlier today! I was struggling with a PR, so I thought it'd be a smarter, more productive move to walk away and address another bug. When I tracked down the cause of this other bug, I wound up finding an issue that broke several key parts of our app while slipping through a blind spot in the tests. Thanks to me finding it, we managed to get a fix to production before the weekend!

I count it as a win since it shows my old habit of banging my head against something to prove myself, it's often not as good as moving to where I can be more effective for the team.

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