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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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Jess Lee

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 :)

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Stephen Charles Weiss

Super excited about these! Already shared with our recruiting team!

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patrick cook

Thx Jess, DEV_Listings is a great feature addition to DEV.to.

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Joseph Thomas

This week, I... launched my first open-source NPM module! github.com/good-idea/use-shopify

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Ben Halpern

Awesome!

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Jack Harner 🚀

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!

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Jen Looper

This week, I joined Microsoft!!

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Nick Taylor

That's huge! Congrats!

aaww yeah gif

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Jen Looper

thank you!!!

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Peter Kim Frank

What a first day at work! Great meeting in person this week!

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Ben Halpern

Congrats!!!

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Speedmaster

Congrats!

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Jamie Ferrugiaro

Woooo congrats!!

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Aaron Powell

Welcome to the team 😁

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José Miguel Parrella

Welcome!

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Karthikeyan Dhanapal

congrats :)

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patrick cook

Congratulations Jen! You definitely win!

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Jon S

Welcome aboard! Modern Apps?

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Jen Looper

Cloud Advocacy as Lead for Canada/US/LATAM :)

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Noel Koutlis

congrats!!

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Debashis Dip

Congratulations _^ keep us posted about your journey

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Peter Kim Frank

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! 💛

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patrick cook

Peter,
How was it? I've never been to a conference... Inspiring, empowering, you tell us!

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Peter Kim Frank

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.

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Michael Tharrington

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!

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Jamie Ferrugiaro

Love it!!

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Jack Harner 🚀

Nice! What do you have growing there?

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Michael Tharrington

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!

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Jack Harner 🚀

That's a crowded box for sure! Good luck!

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Andrew Healey

Awesome garden 🌾🌱🌿.

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Andrew Schmelyun

I spot some peppers, nice!

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Michael Tharrington

Indeed! Love the peppers. 🌶🌶🌶

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Ben Halpern • Edited

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.

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Jack Harner 🚀

Wow. What A Milstone! Good luck passing HN!

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Vuild

Straight past.

Mark this comment.

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Jacque Schrag

This week, I spoke at my first meet up! I talked about code refactoring and my 3 guiding principles for how to approach it.

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Speedmaster

This week, I...

Had a few big wins related to performance testing of some internal web services.

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Alessandro C Silva

This week, I improved my Bootstrap skills. As I'm not a designer, many more new synapses to come...