Gracie Gregory (she/her) for The DEV Team

Posted on Dec 4, 2020

What was your win this week?

#discuss #weeklyretro

Another week is coming to a close!

Looking back on your week — what was something you're proud of?

All wins count — big or small 🎉

Examples of 'wins' include:

Starting a new project
Landing a new job
Getting some exercise... or whatever else might spark joy ❤️

I hope you all have a great weekend!

Oldest comments (82)

Saloni Goyal • Dec 4 '20

Started a book I have been putting off for some time now -- The Intelligent Investor.

Maulik • Dec 4 '20

I donated blood :) It made me happier and satisfied

Michelle Tan • Dec 4 '20

Happy Friday! I got to know about Advent of Code this year and manage to solve 2 puzzles, moving on to the 3rd puzzle and more...

Saloni Goyal • Dec 4 '20

Yes its super cool. I also got to explore it after seeing Ben's post.

Michelle Tan • Dec 4 '20

Too cool, I wish I knew about this earlier. I love how the little puzzle story is unfolding as well!

Kimberlee Johnson • Dec 4 '20

Nice job, keep it up!

Deepak Vijay Agrawal • Dec 4 '20 • Edited

I learnt and implemented that how to fetch an self created API in JS using 'async await'
and was able to display content of API on UI using react component.
It felt great because First time I was able to connect frontend with backend 🚀🐧🤗

Gautham Vijayan • Dec 4 '20

Finally got my college email id from nitt.edu and applied for github student pack.
Once its approved I am gonna go balls deep into software development with react and testing with browserstack for absolutely free.

Browserstack is a superb product to use for testing our websites.

I am also going to get three domains for free with the pack.

Decided to create a gatsby blog also with the free domains.

Wanted to learn video editing so, I started to learn video editing this week with davinci pro and now I know a lot about the basics of video editing.

cupOfCode • Dec 4 '20

Hey that sounds awesome.
Might be worth looking into if your uni does student creative cloud licenses, I know premier pro is an amazing tool to have

Bobby Iliev • Dec 4 '20

My open source eBook on how to get started with Bash scripting got 1k stars on GirHub during the first week after its release 🙌

github.com/bobbyiliev/introduction...

Maulik • Dec 4 '20

Congratulations. It's a big achievement

Bobby Iliev • Dec 4 '20

Thank you! I appreciate that!

Jen Miller • Dec 4 '20

congrats, that's pretty cool!

Bobby Iliev • Dec 5 '20

Thank you Jen!

Nasratullah Talash • Dec 5 '20

Hey, nice work thanks.
Which software did you use for writing this ebook???
It is nice 😊

Bobby Iliev • Dec 5 '20

Thank you for the feedback! I used a PHP cli script called Ibis, it is opensource and you can use it to generate light and dark mode exports of your eBooks:

github.com/themsaid/ibis

Shivanthi Fernando • Dec 4 '20 • Edited

I got my hacktoberfest 2020 badge and I'm really excited about it. This is my first badge in Dev and wanna collect more badges in near future.

Senja Jarva • Dec 4 '20

Me too! (Althoug it's my second badge, but it still feels so amazing! 🤩) I want to collect more badges too! 🥳

Shivanthi Fernando • Dec 5 '20

Wow great 🤩

Adrian Bece • Dec 4 '20

Got my first "Buy me a coffee" donation for my open-source Gatsby font loading plugin, alongside a very kind and supportive message!

github.com/codeAdrian/gatsby-omni-...

Gestures like that really make the whole effort worth it!

Eduardo Cookie Lifter • Dec 4 '20 • Edited

Wow at the gif!! 😮 😖😃😎👍

My win of the week happened late last night when I was trying to implement a navbar with a dropup content box, so youd have “hidden links” for a category within. Had to use a toggle button. And for mobile, it had to be a “dropup” instead of a “dropdown”, mainly because my navbar would be located at the bottom 😀and for desktop view it had to be within a bar to the left on a vertical (column) fashion.

After copying and pasting code from the internet, I succeded, but it felt more like I created a hack or a “work-around”, and also felt like I had a bunch of unnecessary code.

So I started again, reviewed the CSS from W3School, and started the Javascript from scratch. Again I was able to do it completely (first time I didnt went for the sidebar) The story here is that I was able to understand the Javascript and didn’t copied and pasted functions from the wild, I managed to “somehow” understand the concepts I consulted from the internet and adopted it successfully to my needs! 🚀

Special thanks to: youtu.be/54ioUruxkOw & youtu.be/IvQI49DMKuk for keeping me sane and in the mood. 🤘👍💪

Ronan D'Souza • Dec 4 '20 • Edited

Developed my own open-source project after a hiatus (a long one 😁).

ronan696 / keypirinha-tldr

Keypirinha plugin for tldr pages.

This is keypirinha-tldr, a tldr pages plugin for the Keypirinha launcher. Now, experience the comfort of navigating console commands in tldr pages right from your favourite launcher.

Install

Managed

The easiest way is to use the Install Package command of PackageControl by @ueffel (must be installed manually)

Install Package "tldr"

Manual

Download tldr.keypirinha-package from the releases page.
Copy the file into Keypirinha\portable\Profile\InstalledPackages (Portable mode) OR%APPDATA%\Keypirinha\InstalledPackages (Installed mode)

Usage

This plugin adds the following items to the Catalog. These items can be accessed by entering any of the keywords in the item name.

tldr: Search

Select this item to search for a console command in tldr pages. Requires input arguments in the format:
[-p PLATFORM] [-L LANGUAGE] command
- The default platform is windows, but can be modified in the plugin configuration file. The default platform can be overridden at runtime by using the -p option followed by…

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Raman Sharma • Dec 4 '20

Got published here ciol.com/multiple-stops-cloud-comp...

Liviu Lupei • Dec 4 '20

Reaching 10.000 active customers for our intelligent test automation cloud platform. 🎉

Nitya Narasimhan, Ph.D • Dec 4 '20

I had two big wins this week if you look at it that way - both are labors of love and I learned (and will learn) a lot in the process which makes me happy!

First - we finally get to kick off a series of free online workshops on visual storytelling run by some creative community folks!! I am a long-time fan of sketchnoting and especially in 2020 I think it's key to have these outlets for self-care and introspection. In any case, I wrote about it here:
dev.to/azure/visualizeit-a-free-on...

Second - I launched a #100DaysOfCode effort to learn Kotlin and share my learning in public from basics to cloud integrations. And what really made me happy was discovering the mkdocs static site generator and its material-mkdocs theme and realizing that it was perfect for my needs. I just launched my kotlin.fyi site and hope to write about my mkdocs experience in a post very soon to share here.

It's a good day and I want to treasure this.

Peter Witham • Dec 4 '20

It's one of those 'Little things' weeks that made the difference.

Finally added podcast link to my site navigation, unforgivable that it took me this long.
Discovered how to add SwiftUI modifiers based on conditions.
Updated all software on all machines in the house.
Remembered to check Dev.to more often than I have been.
Fixed DNS resolution on some email problems.
Completed all 4 chapters in Diablo 3 season 22 :)

Now it's time to make some content over the weekend and share the love of knowledge with everyone.

Alvaro Montoro • Dec 4 '20

After 15 years in the technical side as a developer, I jumped into a management position.

It won't be the first time for me to lead a team, but it will be the first time I have direct reports in a "non-technical" position. Looking forward to the challenge and the new tasks.

Senja Jarva • Dec 4 '20

Well done Alvaro! Huge congrats on the new position! 🥂

Alvaro Montoro • Dec 4 '20

Thanks!

Gracie Gregory (she/her) • Dec 4 '20

Yay! Congrats to you!!

Alvaro Montoro • Dec 5 '20

Thank you! 😊

Elio Struyf • Dec 5 '20

Good luck! Did a similar move this year, but I still miss most of the code part. Think that is why I started doing a lot more projects on the side to keep me busy and connected.

Charanjit Chana • Dec 5 '20

I do the same. Giving up development was always the downside but over the course of the past 5 years it happened organically and lead me to where I am.