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What was your win this week?

Howdy 🤠

Hope you all are enjoying your 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 🎂

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Jake Lundberg

One of my posts got more than 20k views in it's first week! This is the first time anything I've written has had such an impact, so it was really exciting! 🥳

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Michael Tharrington

Good stuff, Jake! Was just looking through your posts and you've been steadily sharing some great stuff. It's about time you had one that blew up.

Don't get me wrong, I like this week's post, but I also really dug your one before that here:

Keep on truckin' and thanks for sharing such great posts with the community!

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Jake Lundberg

Thanks @michaeltharrington !!!

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Paweł Świątkowski

Nice! Congrats.

(and here I am happy that mine got almost 100 views 😅)

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Jake Lundberg

Thanks!

Nothing wrong with this! This is literally how most of my other posts are as well. Before this past week, I was thrilled that I had hit 500 views. And I'm sure that's how more of my posts will be in the future. The important thing is to just keep sharing your knowledge. Whether you're helping 1 person or 1,000,000...all that matters is that you're helping others and sharing your knowledge! Keep it up!

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Nick Taylor

Captain America saluting

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Oscar Ortiz

That's a massive amount of traffic! That's amazing!

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Griff Polk • Edited

T… t… ttttwwwenty… ttttthhhhousand? Woah. I have 756 total post views, over 262 days… dang. That was one week.

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Griff Polk

Um idea. As a congrats gimme a logo idea u might want, because I want to design you one :) think of it as a prize (and its good publicity but we dont talk about that)

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Jake Lundberg

sounds like an interesting idea, thank you for the offer!

wraith has been my tag/online id/username/etc for years now. The little guy you see in my avatar is my "mascot", his name if D. Bugz (Bugz for short). So maybe something along those lines.

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Griff Polk

Oh, 100%. That was my idea anyway, do you have like a theme you want, like a background or something? I could also “realistic-ify” it a little bit, but not too much so that it looks fun still. I will share ideas in a post.

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Jake Lundberg

nope, no particular theme in mind! excited to see what you come up with 😃

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V Sai Harsha

Congrats! man.

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Anita Olsen*°•.¸☆

Congratulations! This is big! 😃

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Jake Lundberg

Thanks @anitaolsen !!!

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Fernando

Gave a talk at a conference for the first time based on the series I wrote a few months ago. I hope to give one in person next time around 😄

Stressful and awkward to watch myself, but also fun and worth celebrating I guess lol

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OpenSource

Uow. How do you make these cool embeddings?

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Michael Tharrington

Good question!

The syntax is like this {% embed https://... %}

Here's the announcement post that talks about them a bit (gonna use an embed for it):

There are a couple exceptions to the rule I believe with CodePen and CodeSandbox... those work like this:

  • {% codepen https://... %}
  • {% codesandbox https://... %}

Anywho, hope this info helps ya and lemme know if you have any questions!

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OpenSource

Uow, thanks! This is of public interest!!

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Michael Tharrington

You rock! Appreciate you writing this up and sharing it with everybody. 🙌

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Michael Tharrington

Awwww yeaaah! That's awesome Fernando. I'm sure your talk rocked.

Just to note that a "Battlesnake on Crystal" sounds pretty terrifying. 😂

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Fernando

Just to note that a "Battlesnake on Crystal" sounds pretty terrifying. 😂

If only intimidation played a part in the game that would work in my favor 🤣

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Michael Tharrington

Haha! 😆 You need someone to draw ya up a graphic of a snake on meth going into battle. If it doesn't help your intimidation factor, it'll at least get their attention.

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Anita Olsen*°•.¸☆

Awesome! Well done! ✨

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Nick Taylor

Two of my talks were accepted to Confoo 2024!

Nick Taylor on LinkedIn: End to End Testing for Browser Extensions

Looks like two of my talks were accepted for #confoo 2024! - End to End Testing for Browser Extensions - Fresh: A Full Stack Web Framework for Deno Looking…

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You did it!

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Jake Lundberg

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Michael Tharrington

Woot woot! Nice Nick. 🙌

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Anita Olsen*°•.¸☆

Congratulations, OMG! 🎉✨

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Nick Taylor

Thanks Anita!

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Oscar Ortiz

I'm adding a few features to view images from our rovers on MARs from Nasa's API.

Check it out if you have any free time! I'd appreciate the traffic.

Nasa Portal

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Michael Tharrington

Wow, Oscar! Loving this... especially the photo of the day. It's a beautiful world! 🌍

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Oscar Ortiz

Thank you!! I appreciate the kind words!

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Anita Olsen*°•.¸☆ • Edited

• I joined the code challenge on Sololearn!✨
• I completed my 30-Day Challenge on Codecademy!✨
• I started coding on my own website on my own domain completely from scratch which I have never done before!✨
• I got my first spam bots on my X profile which must mean that my profile is gaining popularity and I also found a way to deal with them as well!✨
• I got a free 1.5 litre of Coca Cola!✨

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Adeola Ajiboso

Finally, I have completed my first-time participation in Hacktoberfest by successfully finishing four merges🥳.

I received a wonderful digital reward kit from Holopin,and it was truly amazing. I thoroughly enjoyed contributing to open source, thanks to Hacktoberfest

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Matt Eland

I got to see the final cover of "Refactoring with C#" and had a new book for the new year accepted by a publisher. The contract is uniformly worse than the one for the book I just completed so I'll either negotiate it or wait for something better, but it's still a win. Oh! Also, I got to emcee Scott Hansleman and Mark Downie last night at the Central Ohio .NET Developer Group, which is still surreal to me.

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Matt Eland

Update on this one: my attempt to get better terms with the new publisher resulted in no changes so I'll be rejecting that offer outright once I'm less upset at their terms ($0 advance, 10% royalties starting out, the right to simply not pay if you're owed less than $100 at any point, and no compensation for bundled or heavily discounted books). The search goes on.

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Thomas Bnt ☕
  • Finished a work for a client 🚀
  • Have streamed with awesome friends on Minecraft 🕹
  • Started developing a new feature on one of my projects 🚂🚃
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Afroza Nowshin
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Nick Taylor

Nice!

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Michael Tharrington

Awww yeah! Checked it out and looks like a good how-to. Nice work!

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Afroza Nowshin

Thank you!

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Mike Stemle

I finished my notes for my presentation, so it’s all just rehearsals from here!

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Nick Taylor

Pam from The Office saying Nice!

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Michael Tharrington

Woot! Congrats on getting things prepped... You got this, Mike. 🙌

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Slobi

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OpenSource

We've launched webcrumbs.org/ with the support from 20 amazing people!

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Netsai

Starting a new project

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Max F. Findel
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Jo

Some Hacktober-putzing and finding this place. So both are a pretty solid W!

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Michael Tharrington

Aww yeah! Glad to hear you're enjoying Hacktoberfest and really great to have ya with us, Jo. 🙌