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What was your win this week?

Jess Lee on May 08, 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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Kalin Dimitrov

Finally found some time to release the website I've been working on and boost it's traffic a little bit. It's essentially a database of Tech questions with the possibility to make quizzes on multiple topics and use an API to embed the questions on your websites - QuizAPI

It's so good to see the results of your work.

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Bobby Iliev

Looks great so far 🙌👏

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Kalin Dimitrov

Good to hear! I do have a lot of stuff to improve but everything needs time!

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Josh • Edited

Just took the HTML quiz, great questions! It was fun too.

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Kalin Dimitrov

Thanks Josh! Really love the hear that people like it!

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Lyubomira Manova

Congratulations! Good job! 👍

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Kalin Dimitrov

Thanks! If you have checked the app I feel honered

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Olayinka Zadat O

Great work 🔥. I like this 👍, I'm already thinking of building a small mobile app that throws random questions at users from this 🔥

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Kalin Dimitrov

Oh!! That sounds really cool, If you need any information about the App please let me know, will be happy to provide it.

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Alex Georgiev

Awesome, mate! Keep up the good work!

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Kalin Dimitrov

Thanks, I really try to!

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Artem

Cool site! I like it )
How did you implement these points and lines that follow the cursor near the header? Wow It is very cool! I want to learn

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mikkodc

This is amazing and really fun! I've also been working with the same idea on one project of our company's client and this is very well done.

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Kalin Dimitrov

Thank you for the great feedback! I hope the App gave you some inspirations for your project!

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Chris Lawrence • Edited

Love retros!

Wins:
1) Joining DEV!
2) Helping kick-off the Grant for the Web Hackathon with DEV
3) Foraging for wild ramps
4) Judging youth made games for the Games for Change Student Challenge
5) Making it through the week!

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Michael Tharrington

Woot woot, that's a busy week! Welcome to DEV, btw! 😀

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Chris Lawrence

Thanks its been fun already and I am excited

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Michael Tharrington

It was my cats' birthday earlier this week, so my wife & I bought and assembled a kitty tower for them.

https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/i/g2846ngp93p2q1y6epq8.jpg

That's Icarus there, having a moment!

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KiraJW • Edited

Your cat looks cute. And the other cat is white? I also have 2 cats, black and white. I sometimes think of Kusturica's film "Black cat white cat" when I look at my cats. I also recently gave them a gift and bought them a big cat house. But to my regret, they prefer a closet and an empty box from the washing machine. I read in a blog about pets that this is normal behavior and cats can take a long time to get used to new things. By the way, do you know any interesting blogs about cats? I like this one petsoid.com/what-is-a-group-of-cat.... There's a lot of interesting information here that I didn't know before.

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Peter Kim Frank

Icarus

Climbing higher into the sunlight?

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Michael Tharrington

Haha!

Hopefully not too close! says his Daedalus. (Commence the groaning...)

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Adnan Rahić

Finally closed a 2-month-old GitHub issue in an open-source repo I maintain. Such a dopamine hit!

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Jasmin Virdi • Edited

Closed an issue that was opened in my open-source repo. 😄
Also, started brainstorming about the new features that I need to have on my open-source project!

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Alba Silvente Fuentes
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Shannon Crabill

I passed my final project review and am now a Flatiron School Software Engineering graduate!

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Simone

Got font awesome to work on my first portfolio website ever. Obviously the first icon I put on there was the DEV (fa-dev) one to link to my profile!

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Fulton Browne

I finished migrating a bunch of database stuff, I'm glad that's over :]

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Tyler V. (he/him)

We had a bug report that 2 (seemingly random) users from all our company users were unable to get past the callback page for one of our internal apps.

Turns out their user group's time sync was off by 2 minutes, causing the tokens to be "created in the future" and invalidate themselves 😅 It was one of the weirder bugs I've ever pieced together!

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Vaibhav Khulbe

I completed Google Cloud Platform: Core Infrastructure course on Coursera! I thoroughly enjoyed all the assignments and Qwiklabs and got to know so much about the cloud.

Coursera certificate

Yay!

Celebration dance

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Jaye Hernandez

Finally created a README for my open source project after weeks of putting it off 😅

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Aroup Goldar Dhruba • Edited

From this week, I have started documenting my Leetcode solutions for the Leetcode May challenge. Although it is now about the Leetcode May challenge, I am planning to write playbooks with trips and tricks for tackling different types of coding interview questions that are encountered frequently in the FAANG and other medium-sized companies.

This is also my first time blogging in dev.to platform.

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Stephen Belovarich

I launched my personal website!

My favorite thing about it? The JavaScript bundle for the entire site is smaller than some libraries.

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amananandrai

Got my first bronze medal on Kaggle notebook.
kaggle.com/amananandrai/news-artic...

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rugamaga

Wins:
1) Create anyenv-tfenv-init and resolve my shell environment issue!
2) I get started google colaboratory. I didn't know it. but it's very good and free environment to learn machine learning or statistics!

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Bernard Baker

Getting together with peers from covidtender.org to discuss an organisational structure.

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Brian Heidrich

After spending the last 6 years in IT Support and Cyber Security I had an interview yesterday for a .NET Developer position in St. Louis. I was informed a few minutes after the interview that I got the job 😃!

I have never professionally been a developer and only ever did it as a passion/hobby so a company taking a chance on me letting me finally do it professionally is definitely well appreciated. I'm happy that I finally get to do something I love!

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N3U2O

Wins:

  1. Quit smoking for half a day. :D
  2. Fending off negative influence from a bad guy previously wasting a lot of my time i.e. (I hate this but had to be done) choosing my friends.
  3. Forcing myself to proper medication schedule and practice Japanese every day.
  4. Got the vote permission on Stack Overflow despite being a coding anti-talent by correcting a mistake!
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Nutrionik • Edited

I think smoking is related to stress levels and how competitive and demanding our working environment has become. I swear to my mom that I would never become a smoker beat the barcode, cannabis, or other pipe forms. That change very fast when I joined a multinational corporation and saw how relaxing it is to smoke once in a while. I just decided to keep the effect on my health to the minimum, which is one reason I adopted smoking through a bubbler pipe from mjarsenal.com/collections/all-bubb... . The smoking experience itself became much better as it's so smooth compared to cigarettes.

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Shakib Hossain

Getting my first PR merged into facebook/create-react-app. 😁

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Darko

A few days late to the thread but who cares.
Launched my side project FocusHub, a Productivity Social Network.
If you want to take your productivity to the next level and work alongside like-minded people, it's the place to be :)

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Jérémie Astor

I drastically improve type-checking in Gwion, notably giving the hability to define template structures.
Also fixed a few bug I found with AFL.
Mostly spent time enjoying live 🍾.

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Nick Taylor

Haven’t heard gopher in a long long time. 😎

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SaidiAli

Finished the twilio hackathon 💪
I learnt a lot and am very proud of what I built. Thank you dev.to and twilio

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Shraddha Agrawal

Wins:

  1. Got selected in Google Summer of Code under the Ceph Foundation.
  2. Started working on a new, long awaited, super interesting project! :D
  3. Had such a chill time on the Friday fun call with my awesome work peeps! <3
  4. Music found me again :)
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Brodan

I got a blog post published to the Twilio blog for the first time in nearly three years! I can't wait to keep exploring Crystal.

twilio.com/blog/2fa-authy-crystal-...

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zakwillis

Spending time with my son after fixing a lot of configuration issues and small bugs.

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Osinachi Chukwujama

I got into an internship with a FinTech company. It's surprising that I got in, but didn't take it seriously. I had it in mind that the application wasn't legit. But it did work out and I'm glad.

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Yechiel Kalmenson

A Pull Request I submitted to an open source project two months ago was just accepted!

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Alex

I got my first pre-order for my podcasting book📕

 
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Nick Taylor

Might as well use telnet to check your email too. 😉

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Christopher C. Johnson

I got mentioned for my volunteer work on LinkedIn

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Tony Metzidis

life. i won at it.

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Gavin Sykes

Published my first package onto NPM and created a Python bot to automate turning my GitHub repos into Gists.

Also built a new WordPress block to display said Gists.

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Bassem
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Samuel Munoz

Finally pushed my first Docker image to DockerHub!! It's a setup for Alpine+Apache+PHP 5.6 to support a really old php forum

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Bennett(he/him)

I managed to upgrade a huge project(written by an ex-employee) that was written in Angular v2 to v9

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Thomas Qvidahl

Debugging a 10 line Dart method going wrong in just about any possible way. Rewrote it several times, finally nailed it! 😅

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Dave

Finally making a complete C program to write CSV files. Yes, I know there's easier ways, but this is mine.

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Ngacho

I began understansing the workings of dependency injection w dagger 2 in android

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qang d tran

For me I'm not sure whatever it is a win or not when I'm switching my main text-editor to Vim (NeoVim) ¯_(ツ)_/¯