We all have that one moment in life that makes us smile whenever we think about it.
You know, the kind of moment where you randomly remember what happened and think, "Wait, did I actually do that?!"
Sometimes it's getting your first job. Sometimes it's publishing your first article, solving a problem that made you want to throw your laptop out the window, or finally achieving something you've been working towards for years.
And sometimes, it's a moment that changes how you see yourself forever.
For me, one of those moments was JEE Advanced.
Even today, when I think about it, I feel that same sense of pride. It's one of those memories that doesn't need a special occasion to make you smile. Just remembering it is enough.
And I think that's what makes these moments so special. They aren't just achievements we add to our resumes or tell people about. They're personal reminders of something we've accomplished that means a lot to us.
We often get so busy chasing the next goal that we forget to appreciate the things we've already achieved. We celebrate for a day, maybe a week, and then immediately start worrying about what's next. Our brains really don't know how to take a vacation, do they? XD
But sometimes, we should pause and give ourselves a little credit. Not because we're better than someone else, but because we know what that moment means to us.π
And now I'm curious about yours!
What's that one moment in your life that still makes you feel proud whenever you think about it?
It could be a huge achievement, a small personal victory, or something that nobody else understood but meant everything to you.
Maybe it happened years ago. Maybe it happened yesterday.
Let's take a little break from talking about what we want to achieve next and celebrate what we've already done. π
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Ohhhhhh either there is a lot or there is nothing π
Hahaha Come on, there must be at least one! Tell me that one π€£
This is a brilliant post honestly. It made me think for quite a while π Still can't come up with one. Maybe TSE? It's a small game that I built myself (no AI, only the documentation and some help from the Godot Discord server).
Thanks for sharing this ππ»:D
Can you rate it out of 10 please π₯Ή
@xulingfeng you liked it? Can you rate it out of 10? @akhourianmolkumar can you rate it out of 10? @koda2026 what about you?
rate what?
9.99/10
Whoa! There you go! THAT'S THE MOMENT THAT MAKES ME PROUD π THANKS bro π«
My English isnβt very good. Is there a multilingual version? Hahaha, I donβt dare to rate it poorly π
bro your english is not good and you are writing that in english
When you open it, you'll see 3 buttons. Just click on the first one ("Play"). That's it. The rest doesn't require English. Can you rate it? Please?
So you know how to read that what?!
π fight starts now... I will be playing UN role in fight
as we all know in books UN is β οΈπ₯π₯
in reality UN is π€£π€£π€£π€£π€£π€£π€£π€£π€£π©
Does it require keyboard controls? Iβm on mobile right now. Iβll try it tomorrow at work, it looks pretty good!
100% mobile support! You can even install it on Android. But you can play it on mobile browsers too. And Linux and Windows.
Iβll play it when I get home. I canβt play it here, so Iβll rate it after trying it. It looks good, though! It reminded me of Newton :D By the way, @xulingfeng , is your phone only at 8% battery? π€£
bro is conserving china's electricity so that china can use it to power Fujian (Type 003) its best aircraft carrier I guess π
Image invisible :(
Your comment....
Yeah it's Newton's law of gravitation. Proof:
It even handles the case when the distance is lower than the radius (we can go through gas planets like Jupiter & Saturn).
Your comment...
They are jealous so they don't want you to see it (this is the 3rd time lol). See the proof again:
Thanks! Why is it like that π DEV.to comments are TOO restrictive.
So please give me the rating π I am waiting...
Iβll give it an 8 for now. Two points deducted because thereβs no multi-language support. Everything else is great!
2 POINTS FOR NO MULTI-LANGUAGE SUPPORT What?!
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we live in gandhi's nation let's protest food hunger protect until dev.to curator give me badge of top 7 oh sorrry sorry I mean till they down there restrictions
We can do both! But I cannot do food hunger (I am still eating while typing this lol)
hmm, let me tag a dev.to curator but what if I get banned?
Yeah no NO don't do that roo risky...
yeah, but if they banned me, I will do comeback make akhouri systems so great that I would acquire DEV.TO with my sneeze
And we can use it for marketing (please include me too)
yeah, so when Akhouri Systems will be valued 1billion valuation to celebrate that milestone I will acquire Dev.to
@technogamerz If you fly the rocket correctly, you can make it circle in an elliptical orbit, just like in real life! Try it!
Everything was recorded, edited, and exported using my screen recorder and editor, GiffyPy. The recording is low res & FPS because I optimized it using GiffyPy itself, not bcz GiffyPy is bad π
SNIPPE
But SNIPPE isn't released yet π We'll market it when we release it π
ok.
Ok! Excited for tomorrow! π€Έπ€Έπ€Έ
what is tomorrow?
Tomorrow is one day of the 365 days in 2026! The rest is confidential (only @akhourianmolkumar and @effessdev should know)
Bro why is she not home yet? I am waiting for the rating :(((
bro she is IITian, pursuing MBA she will be not in home she will be in mansion
the aura she holds in india:
bro come discord for 3minutes and tell me what is tomorrow?
Bro how is that GIF related to this situation? π€£
Ok coming on Discord...
bro that gif represents anything related to aura...
bro you've to be more young mind broooooo you can't became old grandpa
and come discord.
bro that gif represents anything related to aura...
bro you've to be more young mind broooooo you can't became old grandpa
and come discord.
Ah π Wait bro Im improving π
My Rating 9.5 ππ»
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NINE POINT FIVE WOW!!! π€―
THANKSπ₯Ή
Hahaha, I am definitely rating it a solid 9/10! π―π₯
The ambition is off the charts, and the execution is getting sharper every single day. Keep cooking, brother! I can't wait to see the next update and how you tackle the video editing space. π
REALLY?! π My friends rated it tooo low because they were sooo dumb to even finish the first level so they rage quit. But I can complete all levels in one try. I can even complete levels by doing a backflip! Thanks bro! Appreciate it ππ€
they are your freinds.
I'm your bro
Yeah, and very smart too!
in @xulingfeng language -- sly guy.. βπ€β οΈπ₯
Whatever π You are smart that's undeniable (because you gave me a 9.99/10 rating!)
Because I use AI translation, itβs so convenient π
I mean TSE (link in the above comment) βοΈ
JEE Advanced is no joke πΉ Thatβs seriously impressive.
I can totally see why thatβs still one of your proudest moments π₯
It's my side, probably deciding to live in the Netherlands πΈ
It was a huge life decision, but looking back, Iβm still really glad I chose to build my life here.
Yeah, that was truly an amazing moment! Before the results came out, I was literally thinking that even passing would be difficult. I was like, βForget IIT Bombay, any college would be fine, just let me pass!β But then I actually got IIT Bombay. It took me almost 15 days to believe that it had really happened!
By the way, settling in the Netherlands is a pretty special moment too! Honestly, your name made me think you might have lived in Japan before, so I was a little confused about it. :D
Wow, IIT Bombay?! Thatβs seriously impressive πΉ
I didnβt realize how competitive JEE Advanced was until now. No wonder it took you 15 days to believe it haha. Huge respect π₯
And yes, Iβm Japanese πΈ
I used to live in Japan before moving to the Netherlands. πΈ
Hoi Hoi! Japanese π Doraemon πΌ
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I love this reminder, Divya. π We donβt always have to rush towards the next goal without appreciating how far weβve come. Sometimes, the moments we feel proudest of are the ones that remind us what weβre capable of, especially when we look back at how much effort it took to get there. We deserve to pause and give ourselves credit for those moments, too.
Aww, thank you! π₯°β€οΈ Your comment is such a lovely little moment, too! β€οΈ
I want to mention my first working program that I wrote (back in 2022 I guess).
Using simple string manipulation encrypting text so that we can use it to send messages to a friend in code language. At that time it felt really cool!
One of the things I'm most proud of is looking back at the code I've written the old-fashioned way, one line at a time.
Since I wrote every line myself, there's a special sense of accomplishment when everything finally works.
AI can generate code instantly, but that feeling of typing every line by hand, thinking through every piece of logic, and watching a program come to life from scratch is something AI-generated code just can't replace.
Shouldnβt you become One-Punch Man then? π
Late at night, listening to emo music while coding hits different. Nothing beats that feeling. ππ»π§
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Haha, maybe Iβll become the One-Punch Man of programming someday. ππ»
Got stronger, but also went bald ππ»
Once I reach that level, I won't even need to show off my skills anymore. π
Proud of you!!! ππ» ππ»ππ»
Just went through my memory. The most recent one: I actually got my book published on Amazon. Still canβt believe it, hahaha π
Congratulations πππ»πππ»π₯π₯π₯π₯°Lingfeng!!! πππ»πππ»πβ€οΈβ€οΈβ€οΈ
π€£π€£π€£hahahahaοΌvery very very thankyou
I really like these kind of dev.to posts!
So, what came to mind pretty quickly for me - I think that must be when I got pretty glowing reviews after one of my first assignments in my first job, which wasn't even coding, but more like business/organization analysis - that project turned out to be a pretty big success ...
So, maybe I missed my real "calling" as an 'analyst', rather than as a developer, because I've always loved interviewing users to gather requirements and find out "what they really want" ...
I still have more fondness for that kind of stuff than for the purely technical stuff (although in later assignments I did increasingly more of the latter and less of the former) - must be that I missed my true calling LOL - but never mind, things go as they go and that's life, it's all good!
P.S. really going completely off topic now, but when I think what I should REALLY have attempted though, instead of development - theoretical physics! It has always fascinated me immensely - but I have no idea if I'd been any good at it, because it's crazy difficult - so yeah maybe it's for the better ;-)
theoretical physics!!!!!!!!! Wooooooow....
Yeah like I said, I would probably suck at it LOL - I was moderately good at highschool physics, very likely not nearly good enough for university physics, so it's probably for the better that I chose development instead ;-)
That being said, it has nonetheless always fascinated me enormously!
Whatever happens, happens for the good!! :D
Yeah that's also how I tend to see things in life - go with the flow, glass is always half full, etc!
my proud moment: when I realised I'm founder & ceo of a company in 13 and at 13 my freinds are doing some random stuffs in school
Ohhhhh!! wow π€―
This is the 3rd time I am seeing you comment this GIF
bro bye from discord, hi from dev.to π€£π€£π€£
bro xulingfeng also uses same memes everytime so I also make this meme my signature meme.
Yeah this one?
yeah this and what? meme with a man face in stickman body and more..
After more than 20 years in IT, Iβve worked on countless systems, solved some pretty challenging problems, and built things Iβm genuinely proud of.
But strangely enough, the moment that still makes me smile isnβt my biggest project or most complicated architecture.
Itβs remembering the first time I made something work entirely on my own. No fancy tools, no AI assistants, just curiosity, patience, and a lot of trial and error. π
That little feeling of βWaitβ¦ I actually built this!β never really goes away.
Even today, when something Iβve been struggling with finally works, I still get that same excitement.
I guess thatβs what keeps us going. Technology changes, tools evolve, but the joy of creating something from nothing stays the same. β€οΈ
And honestly, I hope I never lose that feeling.
20years in IT
bro you and my father is in same field.
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Getting to setup Nix OS sucessfully after 10 months of frustration . Also configuring the nix via declarative programming :D
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