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Jess Lee
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What was your win this week?

👋👋👋👋

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 😄

winning

Happy Friday!

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Aimeri Baddouh • Edited

I'm getting married tomorrow! That is one of my biggest wins!

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William Lake

Congratulations!

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Jess Lee

YAY!!!

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José Cage

Awesome. Congratulations :)

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cashkl

Congratulations Sirr !!!

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Christophe El-Khoury

Run while you still can

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Gustavo • Edited

wow Aimeri, that is one of the biggest wins of your life, congrats!
I hope the 26th was the best day of your life SO FAR.
All the best,
Gustavo.

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Douglas Fugazi

Congratulations on the new role!

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Adnan Babakan (he/him)

Congratulations!

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Jess Lee

This week, I...finally got a task done that I've been dragging my feet on forever. Such a relief!

puppy-climbing-gate

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Jess Lee

whoops didn't realize how huge this gif was!

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Dan Silcox

Not a problem when the puppy is that cute!

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💾 bun9000

Yaaaas!! Big ups on catching up!!

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Ben Halpern
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💾 bun9000

I had a lot of fun trying to explain the satire to my younger community members. 🙃🤣👌

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Andrew (he/him)

My team at NIBRT won the "Small Project of the Year" award at the Irish Pharma Industry Awards for software we're developing for the biopharma industry :-)

That's me on the far left!

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Adnan Babakan (he/him)

Congratulations, that must have felt really good standing there!

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Zac Haluza • Edited

This week I published my first DEV post! Already have a few more in progress.

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Jess Lee

Woohoo!!

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Zac Haluza • Edited

Thanks! (Side note: should I format my link differently to get it to display like Ben’s above?)
EDIT: Fixed! Appreciate the quick feedback.

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Nick Taylor

Use the liquid tag {%link https://dev.to/zhaluza/time-management-for-self-taught-coders-1o18 %} and it will look like this:

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Tyler V. (he/him)

You can use liquid tags like this:

{% link https://dev.to/jess/what-was-your-win-this-week-4n93 %}

which displays as:

You can find a full list of available tags here!

 
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Zac Haluza

Niiiice. Appreciate the tip!

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Saurabh Daware 🌻

I made DEV widget 🌻🌻

And got a lot of postive feedback from everyone in the DEV community (ben said he is super impressed :D)

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Ellie S.

I completed my second Hacktoberfest!
I also got my One Year Club badge here, but found that (much to my embarassment) I haven't written a single post in that time. :(
I hope to report next week that I have made a worthy post.

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Ronald Flores Sequeira

The same here, It's being a long time ago since I write about code and never post here.

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Michal Rogowski

I’ve published 4 articles in a row. One every week! This Sunday next one is coming :)

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Chris Achard • Edited

I got both the "Fab 5" and "Beloved Comment" badge for my "win of the week" comment last week! 😅

fab 5

(for this comment: dev.to/chrisachard/comment/gkhp)

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John Luke Garofalo

Quit my job to go full-time on my startup :)

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Tim Ryan • Edited

That's a big one. Well done, and welcome to the ranks! What's your Startup?

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John Luke Garofalo

Thank you, sir! It's called Front Yard Fantasy. It's a platform that mediates trade talks between fantasy league mates to help them discover mutually beneficial trades.

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Tim Ryan

Sounds awesome. Best of luck to you, and do keep us all posted on your progress!