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What was your win this week?

Hey folks 👋

Hope everybody enjoys their weekends!

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
  • Celebrating a birthday 🥳

a grumpy, push-face cat wearing a sombrero standing in front of a birthday cake looking unimpressed and flicking it's tail

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BekahHW • Edited

I started my new job as Developer Experience Lead at OpenSauced and I wrote my first blog post How to Create a Good Pull Request Template (and Why You Should Add Gifs)!

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Ben Halpern

🙌🙌🙌

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Thomas Hansen

I was able to quit my job and create a new and successful company in 3 days :D

Thank you (insert preferred deity here) for Open Source ^_^

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Medea

woah amazing!

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Thomas Hansen

Hehe, notice, I am not saying it wasn't a "rough week" ... ^_^

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Cesar Aguirre

I'd like to read that story...for inspiration :)

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Thomas Hansen

Thx man, I published it here actually - At least the parts I'm allowed to talk about ...

Here you go

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Jessica Alves

I got a job!!! 🎉

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Michael Tharrington

Awww heck yeah! Major congrats, Jessica.

I hope you dig your new gig! 🙌

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Jessica Alves

Thank you, Michael!! 😊

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Matt Eland

Had a fantastic discussion on leadership and teams with an organization in the community and pumped out at least one article on Mermaid.js every day this week. I'll see if I can take that conversation and distill it into a blog post because it was really an interesting exploration.

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Matt Eland

Oh, and I renewed my Azure Data Scientist certification via Microsoft Learn.

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Shai Almog

Finally submitted chapter 9 of my upcoming book, only one more to go!

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Ben Halpern

The weather

sunny

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Michael Tharrington

Haha, agreed!

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Jon Randy 🎖️

Being unexpectedly featured on JavaScript Weekly!

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Benjamin Fadina

My win was figuring out to implement MultiTenancy In Blazor Server Apps using database per tenant strategy. dev.to/benjaminsqlserver/how-to-im...

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Abishek Haththakage

Being a tag moderator.

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Michael Tharrington

Awwwww yayeah! Welcome to the tag mod crew, Abishek. It's great to have ya with us! 🙌

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Abishek Haththakage

yeeeeh !!!

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Dan Bailey

✅ two new freelance jobs
✅ started digging in to learning TailwindCSS
✅ scheduled my Azure AZ-900 certification exam for next week
✅ into my second week of regular exercise

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Kartikey Tanna • Edited

This week was crazy! Contributed to MRSK with two PRs and wrote 4 small blog posts here on the same.

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rutvikjani

I Learned Node, express, mongo and rest api with hands on activities with ongoing university end term examination.

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Michael Tharrington

Wow! That's a whole heckuva lot. I hope ya celebrated those wins with a nice chill weekend. 😌

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rutvikjani

yeah :D

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ThatComputerGuy

I founded the official outlet of my company, so that I can have more options, and just something to be proud of.

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naachoperez1

I've made my first web server!

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Raphael

3d printed a dice tower version of an axolotl Kirby where the dice come out of his wide open mouth
Also started on a print of a shoe sole in TPU

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Michael Tharrington

Super cool! The Kirby dice tower sounds like so much fun!