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Gracie Gregory (she/her) for The DEV Team

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What was your win this week?

Hey there!

Looking back on this past week, what was something you were proud of accomplishing?

All wins count — big or small 🎉

Examples of 'wins' include:

  • Starting a new project
  • Fixing a tricky bug
  • Trying out a new recipe ... or whatever else might spark joy ❤️

Congrats on all you've accomplished this past week!

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Muhammad Ahmad
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Parker Waiters

Congrats!

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Ali

I really loved your site. Great work.

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Waylon Walker

Looking good!

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yactouat

man this is a terrific site, I really like the "tick" sound when putting dark mode on ;)

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zaeem99

congrats

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Ben Halpern

I changed the way I plan out my week and it made for a very productive and sustainable week for me.

It's just one week, if my system really keeps working well I'll definitely make a #productivity post about it.

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Tony DeFusco

I think sharing your #productivity post is a good idea. It could be very enlightening and inspiring to others.

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Michael Maitoza

I actually opened up my laptop this week several times. Sounds dumb but I've been in a slump.

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Let's Code

reached 500+ video subscribers at youtube after a year of work. Slow but very happy with it. here is my channel if interested - youtube.com/channel/UCFIwa5Eqf4kN1...

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Soroosh Mirzasarvari

Just subscribed! keep up the good work!

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Let's Code

thank you so much! you just made my day

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Soroosh Mirzasarvari

I'd love to connect with you on linkedin or other social media platforms

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Let's Code

here is my linkedin - linkedin.com/in/angelo-miranda-000

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Soroosh Mirzasarvari

I learned about the importance of network in my career. As a junior developer, people at my age might overlook the importance of personal branding and network in their career. This past week was a really deep journey for me to understand the importance of these factors and that's actually the reason I joined this community looking for mentorship and interaction with brilliant people

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Tony DeFusco • Edited

Looking back on this past week, what was something you were proud of accomplishing?

Recently I came to realize that Jotto 2020, a game which I created 14 months ago for a software hackathon contest, had the potential to become a world-wide pop culture phenomenon.
A 5-letter game of Jotto 2020

As a contest submission, the game finished poorly in the standings. As a form of leisure, the game was received well by "word-nerds" like myself, but it never really captured the imagination of anyone. Pride was not something I was feeling then.

Today in 2022, I can look back to that time with a semblance of pride. Perhaps my creation was not merely a quaint, esoteric little puzzle game. Perhaps it was actually something special after all.

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AK Adapa

@tonedef71 you should definitely feel proud. You were very creative and followed through with many aspects of this game. It sure was not merely a quaint, esoteric little puzzle game. With the latest (Jan 31, 2022) NYTimes story of them acquiring Wordle, you should continue with your creative efforts. Good luck!

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Farshan Ahamed

I posted a small article (Lost in comfort zone) on LinkedIn this week. It is about how I faced the struggle of comfort zone. I'm happy I wrote this.

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Tony DeFusco

Every time I was assigned to do new things, I had this fear inside me. The fear of getting thrown out of my comfort zone and underestimating my capabilities.

Good article. I could relate.

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Farshan Ahamed

Thank you. I hope things go well for you. One good thing was, at the end I felt happy because the things I have acheived were more than I expected.

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Arya Narayan Tiwari

I built a whatsapp chatbot with python for sending my friends the link to join online classes based on what day it is.

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MiguelMJ

My win this week is that I returned!
I got hired last october and I've been far from my usual dev communities (github, dev.to, stackoverflow) because I didn't have much time... But now I'm slowly picking them up again. I think it will pass some time until I write a post again, but at least I answered some issues and PRs in Candle, started answering again in SO and commenting here.
I don't want my job to take all my dev energy, so this makes me happy :)

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Tyler Smith

I got Phoenix, Nuxt.js, Postgres and Caddy all running in containers and talking to each other. I applied for a job that built their apps on Phoenix and Nuxt, so I wanted to try playing with them. I didn't get the job, but I had never used Elixir, Phoenix or Nuxt before, so I consider that a win!

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Carlarjenkins

Completing my first session of CISSP exam prep.

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Gracie Gregory (she/her)

Awesome stuff!

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Carlarjenkins

Thank you!

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Raunak Ramakrishnan

Built a P2P multi-party video chat application from first principles using websockets and vanilla Javascript (approx 300 lines of node + 500 lines of JS in frontend )

Was able to convince a few people at work to use it as a replacement for Google Meet. Still needs a lot of work to be usable across all browsers and mobile devices.

 
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Ben Halpern

Absolutely. For me this week had some similar wins because I really made it clear to myself what I needed to get done, and then when I got it done ahead of schedule, I was able to take a breather. Without making it clear what I was even really trying to do, it's hard to feel like you can take a breather.

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Phil Suggars

Found out how to pass env variables to react (spent a long time trying to resolve this and guess what you just have to prefix them with REACT_APP_ to show up). Plus worked out how to host stuff on Okteto via a docker-compose.yml

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Gourav Singh Rawat

Not the best portfolio out there but yes I tried to make some vital commits this week.
seek4samurai.vercel.app/

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kimdontdoit • Edited

Cheers on the updates ! It's quite animated but I can see the direction you're going for. Your blog article on shit coding gave me a good laugh 😂

My 2 cents is that you should look into connecting a domain name and submitting it on Google ! Get that SEO juice 🧃

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Kingsley Odibendi

Nice...you haven’t learnt JavaScript yet I guess?

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Gourav Singh Rawat

No I've learnt it, how would I work on react without JS. By the way, Why would you think that though, did I made a mistake.