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 😄

Comments

[Clay Murray]

Finally started on a new exciting project for myself. That ticks a lot of boxes for me.

• My wife likes the idea
• I like the idea
• It's reasonable in scope while still having challenge
• It fills a need I've wanted
• Saw people on the internet having the same need.

[Mauro Garcia]

That's amazing! specially if the scope is reasonable.
One thing I do on my side projects is try to plan ahead and break each feature into small tasks. In that way, the remaining tasks seams easy to complete and reduce the friction to keep moving forward. Good luck!

[KP]

Curious what your idea is now

[Clay Murray]

So there are plenty of events apps. But I'm trying to build something out that doesn't require the people you invite to have to make an account to use it.

The use case in my mind really helps with non-profits and grassroots groups.

There are quite a few orgs that still use Facebook for their events. That's pretty gated. I would like to interact with them too but I don't want to use Facebook.

Most of these orgs also have a mailing list. So I would like to have these two be able to be combined. That way you can see info about the orgs events as well as be notified without ever making an account anywhere.

[Clay Murray]

It also works for personal use. You might have a family outing. You have the family emails but not everyone is on one platform. Being able to send an email out with a private link to your event where you can have info and discussion all without having them ever make an account is really nice.

[KP]

That would remove a lot of friction and makes a lot of sense, especially for people that aren't on Facebook. I suggest checking the eVite flow, they do something like that (not requiring log in) for RSVPs. Good luck :)

[Clay Murray]

Oh cool thanks!

[Eddie]

Gotta have the wife like the idea or else.

[Clay Murray]

Yeah makes it easier to work on your project all weekend!!

[Saurabh Daware 🌻]

This week was 🦄🌈🌻 for me

• Got a call from HR of a really good company and they shortlisted my cv for next round
• Finally started learning RegEx and covered pretty much everything (now need to practice it)
• My new article How I brought down my project's dependency tree from 36 packages to 4 packages reached 100+ reactions!

[Mauro Garcia]

Congrats! I just read your article and it's really good! Your idea about asking "Do I really need this library?" before npm install really made me recall this article my girlfriend wrote last week:

6 ways minimalism can help you write clean code

Paula Santamaría ・ Sep 18 ・ 5 min read

#minimalism #productivity #practices #coding

[Saurabh Daware 🌻]

Hi I just read her article and loved it. I love how she explained how removing unnecessary code is important. Definitely deserves a lot of 🦄

[Lucas H.]

Congrats!!!

[Saurabh Daware 🌻]

thank you :)

[Sundeep]

Congrats on the article and getting the HR call!

If you don't mind me asking, Regex for which tool/language and the resource you are using?

[Saurabh Daware 🌻]

Thank youu! and I am using regex in javascript and currently using it to build a npm package called Pluck. It is not complete yet but after completing users will be able to plk.byQuery('div.coolClass',htmlString) to extract the string from that particular selector. I think it will be useful for extracting the data from web scrapped html string

[Ben Halpern]

Our latest launch was really well received 😊

You can now generate self-hostable static blogs right from your DEV content via Stackbit

Ben Halpern ・ Sep 26 '19 ・ 4 min read

#meta #projectbenatar #webdev #changelog

[Mauro Garcia]

My static site is already live and cannot be more happy about it: maurogarcia.dev/

[Michael Lustig - [e-mail]]

You are an inspiration to u s all.

I think we can all agree that it's really cool to see a site's creator participate so actively!

[Noman Gul]

Finally landed a JOB 🎉

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[Saurabh Daware 🌻]

Congrats noman 🦄

[Lucas H.]

This'll sound weird but... I finally mastered the bass part I had to master for music class that had been occupying my mind and worrying me for a while, and it's a really good feeling. Also my notes/summary was complemented by an IRL person, which is nice since I take them really seriously (I like taking really good notes for me and other people so I can share them and help others with them)

[Dennis]

This is awesome! What instruments do you play? I play the piano =)

[Lucas H.]

I play guitar and bass (Now!), haha. I also want to learn to play piano on a basic level to be able to make melodies on there, though. That's still in the pipeline..

[Antonin J. (they/them)]

I've been wanting to build a podcast site for a podcast I started recording. I managed to do it using Gatsby and the gatsby podcast feed plugin. and I was able to open up a PR to add some rough new functionality. Successful week for sure.

[Sung M. Kim]

Nice one Antonin~

And I'd like to check out the podcast when it's out :)

[Michael Tharrington]

I visited Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica... and found a house to rent that we're moving into in November! So happy DEV is supportive of remote working!! 😀

[Connor Tangney]

A few week back, I posted about how one of my weekly wins was making it through a few rounds of interviews with a potential new employer after sending off an application on a whim.

Today, I'm excited to share that I have both received and accepted an offer as a Front End Engineer with the company!

😬

[Vicente G. Reyes]

This week, I...ticked off most objects on the todo list for the NPO I'm working with. A buggy interconnected dropdown and deployment, are the last things on the list then it's fine tuning time with the client!

[Amber P.]

I got promoted to Bronze 1 in League of Legends.😅