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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!
Top comments (120)
This week, I joined Microsoft!!
That's huge! Congrats!
thank you!!!
Congrats!!!
Welcome!
Welcome aboard! Modern Apps?
Cloud Advocacy as Lead for Canada/US/LATAM :)
Woooo congrats!!
congrats!!
Welcome to the team 😁
congrats :)
What a first day at work! Great meeting in person this week!
Congrats!
Congratulations Jen! You definitely win!
Congratulations _^ keep us posted about your journey
We've been making a lot of progress on dev.to lately and I noticed that we recently passed Product Hunt in traffic according to SimilarWeb
We don't need to define our success as a competition with anyone, but Product Hunt is a tech community we looked to along the way while getting started. So to see that graph is interesting!
Next up, Hacker News:
SimilarWeb is just an estimation, but in an apples to apples way I think it's somewhat accurate as a gauge on these kinds of things.
Straight past.
Mark this comment.
Wow. What A Milstone! Good luck passing HN!
This week, I...helped launch DEV Listings! It's felt like a much needed feature for the community and it's been awesome seeing people list all sorts of opportunities :)
Thx Jess, DEV_Listings is a great feature addition to DEV.to.
Super excited about these! Already shared with our recruiting team!
This week, I got a new phone to replace my old broken one.
Annnnnnnd... I took a picture of my garden to share since I couldn't show y'all one in last week's wins session!
Nice! What do you have growing there?
Let's see here...
3 tomatoes (2 Roma, 1 Cherry)
2 poblanos
2 jalapenos
2 bell peppers (1 yellow, 1 red)
2 eggplant
1 blackberry bush
1 blueberry bush
and from seed:
several butternut squash
several watermelon
... honestly, I might need to kick some of it outta the box before it's over with haha!
That's a crowded box for sure! Good luck!
Love it!!
I spot some peppers, nice!
Indeed! Love the peppers. 🌶🌶🌶
Awesome garden 🌾🌱🌿.
This week, I... went to my first big tech conference — Microsoft Build! It was great to hang with a bunch of DEV members, honestly too many to list out and @-mention here. But a special thank you to @bnb for helping make it possible for me and @aspittel to attend! 💛
Peter,
How was it? I've never been to a conference... Inspiring, empowering, you tell us!
I was really surprised by the sheer scale of the conference. So many developers in one place. So much fanfare. And I gather that this isn't even at the high-end of spectacle (that would be something more like AWS re:Invent or Google I/O).
It was amazing to meet so many internet friends (Twitter and DEV contacts), and new friends while at the conference. Twitter is really a connective platform that adds a touch more permanence to fleeting in-person interactions.
It was inspiring to see how positive and excited people are, even about relatively niche products being offered by Microsoft or the Azure crowd. It reminds you that there are a ton of people out there quietly building and pushing projects and businesses forward using this wide array of technology.
And I really liked the AI demos, especially around visual recognition.
This week, my Facebook group Women in Web Development reached 2000 members!
So rad! What’s the group?
It's called Women in Web Development. Here's the link: facebook.com/groups/womenwebdev/
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Congrats!
This week, I made some serious headway on my first full React app I'm building. Plan is to be a no-nonsense color repo, a place for palettes, gradients, and other cool color things. Uses React on the frontend, Node/Express on the back, and MongoDB for storage.
Super Stoked!
Hahahah love the straightforwardness. Is it open sourced?
Thanks! That's definitely what I'm shooting for.
re: opensource: Not yet. I haven't quite figured out the authentication side of the app yet, but it's definitely something that's going to get added to the GitHub portfolio once it's ready.
This week, I gave first presentation in Dutch (I'm originally British) for my colleagues.
Mutilated the language (het spijt mij!), but was apparently understandable!
Goed bezig! :)
I'm having a hard time presenting, let alone doing it in a language that's not native to me. Well done!
You are so brave! I’d be really nervous speaking in another language. Kudos to you!
Thanks! It felt great to finally do, if a little scary! The upside is that it was for non technical people and my technical Dutch is awful, so I had to keep it simple!
Dankjewel voor de moeite.
Goed gedaan! Goed bezig hoor :-)
My mother is native Dutch. I asked her to translate my LinkedIn, because, I'd love to work in Europe... I was unceremoniously rebuffed. De pijn is echt!
blijf zo doorgaan!
This week, I...called someone out on some bad workplace behaviours and wasn’t murdered for it.
They wanted some work done but we weren’t in a position to help. And so they used a combination of name drops, company strategy, and contractual deadlines to bully me into trying to do it. So I pointed out that their behaviours were unacceptable in the workplace and that if someone made a bad decision at the top people shouldn’t just keep pushing shit down hill hoping everyone would fall into line.
They quickly apologised for their actions and we were able to work together on a solution
We talk a lot about mental health and healthy work life balance in my company so I felt confident that I could nip this one in the bud.
amazing job! thank you ❤❤
This week, I spoke at my first meet up! I talked about code refactoring and my 3 guiding principles for how to approach it.
This week, I started a blog and wrote 6 articles. I doubt I'll be able to keep up the pace but I'm loving it so far!
Link or it didn’t happen 😋
Https://drewtown.dev. I'm still building out the functionality as I go along but it is getting there 😁
Are you using any platform or developing it from scratch?
I'm using Gridsome for the static site generation and Netlify CMS. All of the frontend features I will develop. I have plans to create the archive, a more advanced search and a personal achievements/timeline dashboard so far.
This week I...
Went back to Andrew Mead's GraphQL course, which I previously crashed and burned HARD on during the intricate setup of Heroku/Pgadmin/Docker/Prisma. I got the setup working correctly this time, and got a solid grounding in Prisma and how much work it saves!
Hey, can you write steps for setup of Heroku/Pgadmin/Docker/Prisma. Thanks in advance.
How do you like Mead's course?
I had great initial difficulty with the Prisma installation, but I think he's one of the best, if not the the best teacher on Udemy. This was the first time I started one of his courses with no real experience in the technology, and it definitely gave me a solid grounding in GrapqhQL and it's related technologies. Highly recommended!
Thanks. Can't wait to get started. GraphQL has been on my todo list for a while now
This week, I... launched my first open-source NPM module! github.com/good-idea/use-shopify
Awesome!
This week, I built a silly webapp, and people have really seemed to like it!!
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Desi
This week (this very moment in fact), I am at UXPA Boston!