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Michael Tharrington
Michael Tharrington

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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 😄

Happy Friday!

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Michael Tharrington

I wrote a folksy/bluesy tune this past week! Hoping to record it soon. 🤠/😎🎸

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Vicente G. Reyes

This week, I was hired to be a Django Developer Intern for IdeaMkr 🙌

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Andy Zhao (he/him)

I got engaged last Friday!

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Stacy Cashmore

Gefeliciteerd!

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Michael Tharrington

Woot woot! Congrats!! 😀

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Vicente G. Reyes

Congratulations Andy!

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Sung M. Kim

Yes! Congratulations, Andy!

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Adrian Mejia

Wow, congratulations!!

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Peter Kim Frank

🙌 Congrats Andy!!!

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Florian Rand

🎉🎉🎊🎎💒🗽🌁🏙️🌆🌅🗿🗽🗼🎢⛩️🕌🏛️🌃🌆🏙️🚆🌦️🌈⭐👩‍❤️‍👨👨‍👩‍👦👨‍👩‍👧‍👦!!!

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Nick Taylor

Congrats Andy!

Oh My God OMG

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Michael Lee 🍕

Congrats Andy 🥳

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Stacy Cashmore

Writing my first Web Component!

(Even if it was a simple one 😛)

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Brian Hanna

I made my first GraphQL API! It's small right now, and I pulled what's left of my hair out trying to break apart the types and schema, but I'm proud of it. I've been dying to try it out, and it's very interesting.

Code

App

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Bradley Collins

I have 2 wins this week!

  1. Went to my first ever meetup
  2. Made my first (very small) contribution to open source last night and saw that my PR was merged to master this morning!

Super pumped.

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Tyler V. (he/him)

Nothing quite like that feeling when your first PR is accepted to a project! :D

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Bradley Collins

For sure! It was also nice to finally contribute so now maybe I'll feel more confident looking for more!

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Jean-Michel Plourde • Edited

I shipped my second feature in Django. From testing to shipping, it took drastically less time than my first feature.

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Adrian Mejia

Two minor wins ;)

  • My offer to buy my first house got accepted!!! I can't believe yet!!
  • I finally created an ePub/Mobi version of my Algorithms ebook. It was a lot of work but it looks nice in all devices now :)

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Juneau Lim

Wow, that's not minor wins at all. Congratulation!

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Adrian Mejia

Thanks!! :)

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Juneau Lim

I made my first business card after a career change, even though I am still a student.
At a meetup, another guy was asking my email address, but there was no paper. He took another person's business card and let me write down my own email address in someone else's business card.
It was super awkward and I decided to make one.

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Jack Harner 🚀

Turns out an Email Automation I had set up has brought an additional 300 users to our site over the last 2 months. It's just a simple "New Products from Shoolu" that uses an RSS feed to track when new products get added. Mailchimp then pulls in that feed and if there are new products since the last email, send out a new email.

Uses Python and the BigCommerce API to generate the feed.

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Desi

I got a diagnosis I've been fighting for for years! 🙌🏻

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Cubicle Buddha

Wow. As someone who spent 5 years waiting to be told that my pain was due to a strange sounding disorder (Thoracic Outlet Syndrome), I can totally empathize with how amazing it is to finally have a name for the enemy. There’s a real power in knowing what it is you’re facing. Congrats.

Here’s my journey story if you’re interested. I’d love to read yours.

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Desi

TOS was one of the things I got ruled out! It feels amazing to get answers. Maybe I’ll write about it sometime!

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Bhavani Ravi

I gave a talk to motivate CS students in a remote college in South India and during the talk I asked them to write an idea for their first project and something amazing happened.

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Also this is my first time talking to such a huge crowd.

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Fulton Browne

i fixed a bug i had been working on for 2 weeks!

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Jonas Grøndahl

Keeping my 1 YouTuve video a week steak going 😁

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Clay Murray • Edited

Finished up a big refactor/rewrite of the frontend of my project DropConfig from all react to mostly stimulus and turbolinks. The savings in js and CSS bundle size has been amazing.

From something over 500Kb compressed, for just the initial bundle, to under 100Kb compressed, for almost the entire bundle.