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What was your win this week?

Hey folks! 😀

It's Friday again. Hope y'all have had a good week! 🙌

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
  • Eating a delicious cupcake 🧁

Harry Potter flys forward on a broom into the air and towards a big cupcake that he gobbles up. The video is doctored and is a scene from one of the Harry Potter movies... there was no cupcake but it was superimposed into the frame to make it look like a screaming Harry on a broom flys up to it and eats it.


Did you know we feature wins in our "Wins of the Week" email every Friday? Subscribe to our weekly newsletter emails to get wins delivered right to your inbox! 💌

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Michelle Mello

My win this week was my birthday. I had an amazing day with friends. Also, I updated my LinkedIn account and planned my studies on Notion. This week solidified my vision for my future. I aim to become a full-stack developer this year and secure a job in the field. I'm confident it will happen.

Additionally, I want to express my gratitude to the community. Everyone here is so kind and supportive. You all make me feel welcome and enthusiastic about what the future holds. Thank you so much!

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Imam Ali Mustofa

Happy b-day!! @_michellemello hope you got a wonderful future! Jah Bless

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Michelle Mello

Thank you so much!!!

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Imam Ali Mustofa

Your welcome sista!

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Angela Caldas

Happy b-day!

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Michelle Mello

Thank youuu!!!

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Mohammed

DEV is a one of a kind place. Happy late B-day lol, I'm rooting for you :)

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Michelle Mello

Yes, it's an amazing place. Thank you so much!

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Michael Tharrington

Woohoo!! Happy bday, Michelle. 🎂

And as for becoming a full-stack dev, you totally got this! Excited to see ya make it happen. 🙌 😀

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Michelle Mello

Thank you so much! It's so amazing to have all this support!

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Ben Halpern

Happy birthday!

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Michelle Mello

Thank youu!

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Thomas Bnt ☕

Happy birthday! 🥳🎈

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Michelle Mello

Thank youuu!!

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Steeve

Happy Birthday Michelle, I'm glad to hear you found your way! Cheers 🍻

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Michelle Mello

Thank you so much!!

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Best Codes

Happy birthday! (I'm a bit late, sorry).

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Steeve

Hi there 👋 I started writing articles for 30 days on RiotJS and creating a production application. I consider Riot the simplest and most performant JS front-end we can create, but it is poorly documented on the Internet.

✅ Fourth day done: dev.to/steeve/riot-component-unit-...

English is not my native language. Hopefully, my writing methodology will improve and get faster.

Thanks and have a good Friday!

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Michael Tharrington

Awesome stuff, Steeve! I checked out your post and your writing is great. And, like you said, the more you write in English, the more comfortable you'll become with it and the better you'll get.

On that note, we have loads of folks in our community who are from different parts of the world and English is not their first language. I think there are many people like you on DEV who are practicing writing in English here and improving with every article. So, please keep on writing, you're doing good work and in friendly company here.

And BTW, if you'd like to write in Frenc too, please feel free to go for it! You can always post 2 copies of your articles (one in each language) if you want. I've seen many folks do that, for instance @jmfayard, and sometimes people will add language tags like #french. Anyway, don't feel like you have to do any of that, but just to let you know that you can if you wanna!

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Steeve • Edited

Thanks for your kind message and amazing support @michaeltharrington !

I will definitely continue my writing practice, my end goal in a couple of weeks is to write scripts for tutorial videos in English (speaking in front of a camera is a big step).

I noted your tips about writing in french too, I'll translate my Riot articles when I'm done :)

Thanks again and have a great day!

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Jean-Michel 🕵🏻‍♂️ Fayard

Super, bon courage !

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Steeve

Merci Jean-Michel!

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Imam Ali Mustofa

Do your best bro! Me too... just do it!

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Steeve

Ahah thanks! keep it up writing bro 💪

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Imam Ali Mustofa

That's a good energy!!! Your welcome bro 🤟

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Thomas Bnt ☕

30 days? That a challenge! 😎🚀

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Sukhpinder Singh • Edited

If cupcakes aren't your jam, I've cooked up a burger that'll make your taste buds throw a party! Juicy beef, melty cheese, and crispy veggies all in one glorious bite. It's like a flavor explosion that'll leave you craving more!

Designed using CSS & HTML as a part of DEV challenge.
Link: dev.to/ssukhpinder/this-challenge-...
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Michael Tharrington

Gahhh, here you go showing me that delicious looking CSS burger and making me hungry again, haha. What can I say? You know us Americans love our burgers, hahaha! 🍔

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Sukhpinder Singh

Haha, my apologies for the burger temptation! Maybe we should start a new coding rule: for every line of CSS, you earn a burger bite. Imagine how deliciously efficient our code would become! 🍔💻

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Michael Tharrington • Edited

Hahaha! You might be on to something there. Maybe call it Burger Bytes or Byte to Eat and you could have other snacks too! 🍔🍟🍦🌮🥙

We should create a little CSS restaurant to house all the different CSS snack creations folks have been submitting. Maybe that could be Byte to Eat haha!

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Sukhpinder Singh

LOlz :D :D Nice business idea

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Ben Halpern

Frontend Challenge launch has been really great. We also started experimenting with some partner live streams here and there, and they also have gone over well. Good stuff to add to community vibes 😊

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Thomas Bnt ☕

Only good things! 🥳🕺

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Angela Caldas

After my career transition, I've been working for almost a year on my first job as a front-end developer. Yesterday I have received official feedback from the Performance Management and it was very positive and I'll receive a bonus for my performance in 2023. I am really really glad with everything that happened to me this past year ♥

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Michael Tharrington

Oh heck yeah! Major congrats, Angela. What a nice surprise and I'm sure it was well deserved. 🙌

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Angela Caldas

Thanks, Michael! <3

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Thomas Bnt ☕

Awesome! 🥳

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Angela Caldas

😁

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Imam Ali Mustofa

Sound cool @sucodelarangela and you will got more bonus!

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Angela Caldas

Yeah, very happy news

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Imam Ali Mustofa

I just build a TursoSyncd

GitHub logo darkterminal / turso-syncd

Turso Database Background Sync in the Background

~ TursoSyncd ~

Turso Dabatabase Background Sync in the Background

Installation

Globally Install

composer global require darkterminal/turso-syncd
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or you can install locally within your porject:

composer require darkterminal/turso-syncd
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Usage

turso-syncd --database=<database_name> --organization=<organization_name> --token=<token> [--file_recorder=<file>] [--action_log_file=<file>] [--errors_log_file=<file>]
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Options

  • --database=<database_name> or -d: The name of the database.
  • --organization=<organization_name> or -o: The name of the organization.
  • --token=<token> or -t: The token for authentication.
  • --file_recorder=<file>: Specify file recorder.
  • --action_log_file=<file>: Specify action log file.
  • --errors_log_file=<file>: Specify errors log file.
  • --help: Display this help message.



And creating my own selfish HTMX DataTable

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Michael Tharrington

Wow! I must admit that this goes a bit above my head as a mostly nontechnical person, but this looks dope. Good stuff, Imam!

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Imam Ali Mustofa

Your welcome!! 🐣

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Thomas Bnt ☕

Nice!

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Imam Ali Mustofa

Thank you broo...

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Akash Pattnaik

My win this week was to finally start a new project that is kind of a code-completion AI but everything from scratch including the models but this will be used to build full scale apps not just small code snippets.

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Michael Tharrington

Oh wow! That sounds comprehensive. Awesome stuff, Akash. 🙌

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Vesa Piittinen

The past month or so I've worked on a big release of company internal component library. Got it out on Thursday right before company demo session. People seemed to like it.

I split the thing into three packages from being one monolithic package. That solved a lot of issues. No more Styled Components in the main package. Tree shaking works as it should again. Can provide CSS imports from the library instead of making people use boilerplate code to get the components going. And went through almost all of the documentation to match the new reality. Made everything look more like company design. Also so much easier to explain things when everything is neatly their own thing!

So a pretty good week even though I've been way too tired throughout.

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adriens

I re-contextualized the following datastorytelling for the enterprise I'm working fo. My goal was to show peoplewhat could be achieved with a global datacentric approach around :

  • strategic corporate goals
  • People
  • Applications
  • Datasets

Essentially, I've used UN SDGs as a metaphore.

And the benefits that may come out of this, like answering complex questions with chatBots:

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Nabil Alamin

I finally finished my first astro project:

dmha.vercel.app/

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Thomas Bnt ☕ • Edited

Ooow Astro ❤️
I like the theme!

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Michael Tharrington

Booyahh! 👻

And wow, this is a beautiful site. Loving the VHS kinda look for a horror site. You rocked it, Nabil!

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ProgramCrafter

I have challenged myself to create a ML project, and I think it will have a great impact!

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Michael Tharrington

Oh wow! This sounds so freaking cool. So you're gonna try and build something that predicts Olympians' score? What an awesome concept! Nice and timely too. I'd love to read about that.

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ProgramCrafter

Not international Olympic games in sports, to be precise, rather olympiads in mathematics, informatics and other science fields.

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ProgramCrafter

For sports, athletes rarely participate in that many kinds of games that it would be worth cross-checking their performance and using one sport to predict another.

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Michael Tharrington

Ooooo, my bad! That totally makes sense. That's still super cool.

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Carlarjenkins

Here are my wins for this week:

  • Just finished my first-round Azure Cloud Security Architect panel interview
  • Scheduled a in-person testing appointment at my workforce development center
  • Completed a Microsoft 365 Cloud Skills Challenge
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Michael Tharrington

Congrats on a good week, Carla! 🙌

Hope that the next stage of that interview goes well for ya. Same for the in-person testing appointment. You got this!

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Thomas Bnt ☕

Better skills with Nuxt. I've also got out of my hellish loop, and what's more, the weather outside is too nice and sunny ☀️. It's great for morale! 🙌🕺

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Michael Tharrington

Wooohoo! Sounds like a nice, successful week. Taking it to the Nuxt level, I see! Totaly dad joke... 🤪

Since you're not gonna say it yourself, I also wanna just call out all the uplifting, positive comments you've been sharing to folks across DEV. The sunny weather ain't the only thing that's great for morale... you've brightened so many folks days with your friendly attitude and kind comments. You really rock, Thomas!

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Thomas Bnt ☕ • Edited

Your message means a lot for me Michael, sincerely. 💜

Not the best week, but I must admit that I've taken more time over certain things and I'm starting to enjoy reading again while being in a calm environment! 📚

And as long as I can share positive messages around me, I will! 💜🙌

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Ajithkumar P S

Deployed a new feature to production with full of teams effort. Also a wake-up call to plan properly before making anything.

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Thomas Bnt ☕

🥳🙌

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Matt Eland

Last night I turned in my final project for my next-to-last class in my master's program. The final class will just be a massive project I conduct on my own and I'm not worried about it, so I now feel like I'm on the happy side of getting my master's in data analytics. This class had a dark souls difficulty level associated with it. I need a 26% or higher on this project to keep my 4.0 intact.