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What was your win this week?

Jess Lee on October 25, 2019

👋👋👋👋 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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Aimeri Baddouh • Oct 25 '19 • Edited

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

William Lake • Oct 25 '19

Congratulations!

Jess Lee • Oct 26 '19

YAY!!!

José Cage • Oct 25 '19

Awesome. Congratulations :)

cashkl • Oct 26 '19

Congratulations Sirr !!!

Christophe El-Khoury • Oct 29 '19

Run while you still can

Gustavo • Oct 29 '19 • 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.

Douglas Fugazi • Oct 30 '19

Congratulations on the new role!

Adnan Babakan (he/him) • Apr 2 '20

Congratulations!

Jess Lee • Oct 25 '19

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

Jess Lee • Oct 25 '19

whoops didn't realize how huge this gif was!

Dan Silcox • Oct 25 '19

Not a problem when the puppy is that cute!

💾 bun9000 • Oct 25 '19

Yaaaas!! Big ups on catching up!!

Ben Halpern • Oct 25 '19

I had a lot of fun shipping this...

There's a new DEV theme in town for all you 10x hackers out there (plus one actually useful new feature)

Ben Halpern ・ Oct 24 ・ 1 min read

#meta #changelog #css #ux

💾 bun9000 • Oct 25 '19

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

Andrew (he/him) • Oct 25 '19

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!

Adnan Babakan (he/him) • Apr 2 '20

Congratulations, that must have felt really good standing there!

Zac Haluza • Oct 25 '19 • Edited

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

Time Management for Self-Taught Coders

Zac Haluza ・ Oct 24 '19 ・ 4 min read

#productivity #webdev #learning

Jess Lee • Oct 25 '19

Woohoo!!

Zac Haluza • Oct 25 '19 • 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.

Nick Taylor • Oct 25 '19

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

Time Management for Self-Taught Coders

Zac ・ Oct 24 ・ 4 min read

#productivity #webdev #learning

Tyler V. (he/him) • Oct 25 '19

You can use liquid tags like this:

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

which displays as:

What was your win this week?

Jess Lee ・ Oct 25 ・ 1 min read

#discuss #weeklyretro

You can find a full list of available tags here!

Zac Haluza • Oct 25 '19

Niiiice. Appreciate the tip!

Saurabh Daware 🌻 • Oct 25 '19

I made DEV widget 🌻🌻

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

Ellie S. • Oct 25 '19

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.

Ronald Flores Sequeira • Oct 25 '19

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

Chris Achard • Oct 25 '19 • Edited

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

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

John Luke Garofalo • Oct 25 '19

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

Tim Ryan • Oct 25 '19 • Edited

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

John Luke Garofalo • Oct 26 '19

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.

Tim Ryan • Oct 26 '19

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

Michal Rogowski • Oct 25 '19

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

Nic • Oct 25 '19 • Edited

Active user per day of blog, considering it's just almost 30 days side-project, it's a big progress.

Peter Kim Frank • Oct 25 '19

Nice! 📈

Pato • Oct 25 '19

I was able to handle a task using GraphQL,AWS Amplify, ReactJS and Gatsby. I didn't know anything about any of those technologies and I finished my task and a little bit more. I even created a webhook to our Amplify built that gets triggered when we publish data in our CMS

Mark Sta Ana • Oct 25 '19

Just accepted a very exciting job offer! Can’t wait to bore all of you about it with all my future DEV posts 🤪

Nick Taylor • Oct 25 '19 • Edited

Fixed a bug fairly quickly and I have some unit and end to end tests for it so that it does not happen again.

community.shotgunsoftware.com/t/lo...

bacole-vhp • Oct 25 '19

Getting a demo set up for a website rework I've been doing!

Katie • Oct 31 '19 • Edited

Came up with a way to translate the double entendre between "boooooo" (disappointment) and "boo" (ghost sound) and keep my blog post today Halloween-themed in two languages:

"Hou là là"

#IThinkItWorks?

#Franglais

Wouter van Marrum • Oct 25 '19

Finished an alpha version of my laravel livewire table component.

This now allows me to get all data that I want from my models(tables) in a way that let's me apply filters and searches on top of those filters.

Asineth • Oct 25 '19

Started a petition as a joke for better toilet paper at my high school and within 3 hours I now have 204 signatures.

Andrew (he/him) • Oct 25 '19

Sometimes the little things are the most important

Martin Beentjes • Oct 26 '19

I am working on getting my blog up and running! I have started a series on writing backend services in Ktor as a Spring Developer. The first short introduction has been posted at: beentjes.me/programming/2019/10/25...

I am currently looking into gathering advice on writing and article structure and such.

Anthony M. • Oct 27 '19

I got to go to React Conf 2019. Take a look at the 19 takeaways I brought home with me!

Jean-Michel 🕵🏻‍♂️ Fayard • Oct 25 '19 • Edited

I got an email with two nice smileys from @DHH

Jess Lee • Oct 26 '19

Aw, DHH!

Ronald Flores Sequeira • Oct 25 '19

This week I'm finishing a project, that took forever to complete, and got me on a rollercoaster of emotions XD

Carlos Augusto de Medeir Filho • Oct 25 '19

That feel that I'm learning more and more everyday <3

💾 bun9000 • Oct 25 '19

I almost completely caught up on non-engineering admin and doc work that I’ve been behind on since conference season started. Feelsgood!

Daniel Mayovsky • Oct 25 '19 • Edited

I finally figured out how to publish my package on pip

Published my first Python program: Bysy

github.com/Godje/bysy

Shannon Crabill • Oct 25 '19 • Edited

I made some updates to Halloweenti.me 🎃
Got caught up on course work early this week 💪
Applied for a thing 👀

Shannon Crabill • Oct 25 '19

I'll add that Halloweenti.me was included as a resource in the Codenewbie Newsletter 👀

Peter Kim Frank • Oct 25 '19

I caught that today! Very cool.

Fulton Browne • Oct 25 '19

A couple of more things and my app will be on google play!!

Vicente G. Reyes • Oct 27 '19

I'm on my 14th day of 100 days of code!

Ali Abbas • Oct 25 '19

Created an open source repo on github which received 32 stars. 😎😎😎😎

Pablo Rubianes 🇺🇾 • Oct 26 '19

Goodbye bug two weeks but you are finally gone... hahaha

MrM • Oct 26 '19

Created a small project in RoR and deployed it through heroku!

Kevin Smith 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 • Oct 25 '19

Finally tracked down an incredibly annoying bug which turned out not to be a bug but a config error. 🤬

Also getting an au pair tomorrow! 👩‍👧‍👧

Vinay Hegde • Oct 25 '19

I switched over as a SRE to India's largest entertainment platform that provides tickets across 5000+ events

José Cage • Oct 25 '19

I finished working a "Push Notification" feature in a project with AdonisJS.

And tomorrow me and a friend will organize #Hacktoberfest2019 in my city (Luanda, Angola)

Abdelrahman Ismail • Oct 25 '19

I was able to configure JavaScript optional-chaining to work with Meteor and Vuejs 🤩🤩

Steven Mercatante • Oct 25 '19

I shipped my React Timeline library. I’ve got a write-up of it here

📢 Announcing React Timeline

Steven Mercatante ・ Oct 23 ・ 1 min read

#react #javascript #showdev #opensource

Médéric Burlet • Oct 28 '19

Building a fully functional React Native Boilerplate with RSA authentification and AES data exchange to an API with OverminJS integration.

Shahjada Talukdar • Oct 25 '19

Just wrote the next part with ZSH ❤️

Part-2: Make your dev environment awesome with OhMyZSH + VSCode 🔥⚡️🔥 plugins, fonts, Icons and others

Shahjada Talukdar ・ Oct 25 ・ 2 min read

#vscode #javascript #node #react

Varun Barad • Oct 25 '19

Had quite a few wins this week, but the biggest one was that I finished my 4 PRs for Hacktoberfest this week.

Jess Lee • Oct 26 '19

Nice job!

Alex Oladele • Oct 26 '19

I wrote 15 unit tests for an application (also written by me) going into production.
I've never really seriously unit tested before and I've never helped deploy an application

Chris Finnigan • Oct 26 '19 • Edited

Setup the tooling on a test project to try out TailwindCSS and a redesign that just happens to need an 8pt grid lands on my desk the day after...I have just the thing!

It was a bit too spooky...