Gracie Gregory (she/her) for The DEV Team

Posted on Nov 5, 2021

What was your win this week?

#discuss #weeklyretro

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
Cleaning off your desk... or whatever else might spark joy ❤️

Congrats on your wins! I hope you all have a great day!

Top comments (14)

Rammina • Nov 5 '21

Getting through this week while still committing to my 100 days of code challenge.

finished reading Scrum and XP from the Trenches.
I finished the official Next.js tutorial.
created a temporary, prototype company banner.
almost blogged daily for a month now.
keeping my personal life intact.

Okay, looking back, it's pretty great!

Siddharth • Nov 6 '21

The past 2 weeks have made my year!

Yesterday i completed the freeCodeCamp DSA course in 2 hours!🎉
One of my blog posts spread literally everywhere 🔥
All this news spread like wildfire through my friends and family and next thing you know my dad's getting calls of congratulations! (Yeah i know these aren't that big things, but my parents felt it was ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)

Chris Gustin • Mar 4 '22

Funny story, I read your JSON post while I was having my morning coffee (and it blew my mind), and then I ended up working on a project that afternoon where I had to use a custom replacer function with JSON stringify. Your post really helped make that go quicker, since I already had some background on how it worked.

So huge thanks for posting that :)

Chris Gustin • Mar 4 '22

Also realizing all these comments were from 4 months ago and you were probably referring to a different post at the time…

Mukund Raghav Sharma (Moko) • Nov 6 '21

Deployed my first Javascript REST API on Heroku and wrote a blog about it here
Deployed my first React.js app on Firebase and wrote a blog about it here
Finished 38/45 books for the year. Progress tracker mentioned here
Learnt flex box and getting better at CSS.
Learnt about Tailwindcss.

Bobby Iliev • Nov 5 '21

Exciting life update! 🎉

I'm super happy to announce that I've joined Materialize as a Developer Advocate 🥑

Visakh Vijayan • Nov 6 '21

The best thing that happened to me during this week would have to be that I was able to finish off a long pending project and the second thing would be that I was able to learn strapi. Omg it makes it so easy to setup a project. Loved it.

GrahamTheDev • Nov 6 '21

wrote 5 articles on DEV this week (25k+ views which is great)
wrote my first Twitter thread - an interesting writing experience nice to say the least.
nearly finished my full marketing plan so I can properly up my content game!

Matthieu Cneude • Nov 6 '21

I'm working hard on my book: themouseless.dev/vim

It's far from being finished, but I get better managing the formatting, using LaTeX and pandoc. I try to create lua filters too, it's insanely powerful.

Jeremy Friesen • Nov 6 '21

My win this week was getting potential feed improvements into a pull request on forem/forem. I learned quite a bit about the forem code-base, and hope that this change can help bring about better insight into why an article shows up in a person's feed. But this change is just one of many steps in wrangling with that feed.

Maddy • Nov 6 '21

This week:

I presented a 60-minute masterclass about "Careers in Technology", dedicated to people aged 13-18.
I got to know more about Amazon Web Services (still need to dive deeper into this though).
I had a chat on the phone with an ex-colleague of mine.
I had a chat with a software engineer based in Ghana via Zoom.

The next thing would be to publish a small article post on my blog. 😊💗

Renato • Nov 6 '21

I have built my first serverless Rest API 🧑‍💻

ItsASine (Kayla) • Nov 7 '21

Advocated for a job change within my company, so now I get to be the DevOps person :)

I haven't really been told the plan other than HR and the relevant managers approved it, but it sounds like I'll be 50/50 QA and DevOps this year and then roughly 34/33/33 dev/performance/Azure next year.

Our current 66/33 dev/devops guy is leaving to go be 100 devops, so I pretty much told the dev manager "yo, I could do that." It helped no devs actually wanted to do it.

Now to cram devops books until I sound like I know what I'm doing