Michael Tharrington

for The DEV Team

Posted on Apr 5

What was your win this week?

#discuss #weeklyretro

Howdy! 🤠

With the first week of April under our belts, y'all got any wins to share?! 😎

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
Enjoying the nice weather 🌤

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Top comments (49)

Sukhpinder Singh • Apr 5

Added 3 new badges to my profile

#wecoded
#devchallenge
#2weekstreak

Nabil Alamin • Apr 5

great job 👍

Sukhpinder Singh • Apr 5

Thanks @arndom

Anita Olsen • Apr 5

I love your badges! Congratulations! ✨

Sukhpinder Singh • Apr 5

Thanks a lot

Thaísa Vieira • Apr 5

I have decided to join the #PublicSpeakingChallenge to overcome my fear of talking about what I most like in tech. I do believe this kind of project gonna help a lot!
It can sound really simple but I'll do it with all my might. I'd like to bring a brief introduction to what Linux is and what it isn't, what is Kernel, why the comparisons with Windows and Mac are strange and meaningless, the importance of open source, and how we end up using it daily without even being aware of it.

Anita Olsen • Apr 5

Congratulations on taking your first step! ✨
I believe the best thing for us anxious people is to just put ourselves out there. We will get stronger because of it 🙂
You can do it! ✨

Schalk Neethling • Apr 5

Well done! That deserves a round of applause.

Stefan Moore • Apr 5 • Edited

Another week in which my therapist didn't have to see their therapist.

I am winning and adulting

@michaeltharrington what's yours?

Michael Tharrington • Apr 8

Let's just say I'm happy to have made it through last week — my work week was very busy. 😅

Stefan Moore • Apr 9

I feel your pain. Let's get off the stool and dance again 😣😥☹🙁😢😭

Michael Tharrington • Apr 10

Haha, for real!

I think the clouds are beginning to part... 🌤

One thing I just completed is I finally got a loan to begin construction on my house. My dad and brother are our contractors and I'm siked for this ball to begin rolling. Hoping to be able to move in around December, so it's exciting times!

Anita Olsen • Apr 5

Well done! Keep it up! ✨

Stefan Moore • Apr 5

I'll try...my goal is to have their therapist see one. It's the small things in life that bring me joy

Ender Ahmet Yurt • Apr 5

the weather was very nice here (except today 🤭) We did some performance improvement in our product. I will start to give a new Ruby on Rails bootcamp. Me and bootcamp sponsor company talked about the details 🚀

Anita Olsen • Apr 5

The weather is still nice as the sun is just hiding behind the clouds for a little bit 😀

It sounds like you had some amazing productive days, congratulations! ✨

Bala Madhusoodhanan • Apr 5

I had a great time presenting a session on Ethical AI during a meetup group. 🌟

Anita Olsen • Apr 5

I find learning about Ethical AI is very important in this day and age, well done! ✨

Schalk Neethling • Apr 5

You should do a write-up here, I would love to read it.

Bala Madhusoodhanan • Apr 5

@schalkneethling similar content but different example..

Morals, Machines and Practical Mitigations

Bala Madhusoodhanan ・ Jun 19 '23

#ai #ethics #governance #strategy

Monty Harper • Apr 5

I hit 3,000 total post views here on Dev. Also crossed some frustrating hurdles in my current app project; nearing MVP on that!

Anita Olsen • Apr 5

Woo-hoo, well done! ✨

Shai Almog • Apr 5

Funny story and win... I was supposed to speak in a conference and wanted people to check out my books while I was there. So I put 4 of my books on a table and stepped a bit a way to give them some space. I wasn't looking for a minute and someone took one of my books.

Anyway I get up on stage. 600+ people, pretty nice. And while I mentioned my books I said that three of them are being passed around the crowd. It would have been four but someone had "sticky fingers" earlier... I end my talk (which went well) and I get back 4 books. One of my friends gives me the forth book. Apparently someone gave it to him. A cousin of that friend was in the audience and was sure he's the one who stole it which made the whole story even funnier.

I hadn't been in a conference for a while and this was so much fun.