What was your win this week?

📢 I received a shout-out in the DEV Community Newsletter!✨
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🎮 I completed 5 singleplayer levels on CodeCombat! ✨
I also earned the following achievements:
 

💟 I received two new badges on Codecademy! ✨

The first article I posted in a really long time got featured in this week's DEV Top 7 post 🤗. Really brought back the spark for my writing.

Top 7 Featured DEV Posts of the Week

Erin A Olinick for The DEV Team ・ Apr 8

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Worked on my hackathon submission all through yesterday and it turned out great

dev.to/arndom/ending-maker-ai-5aeo

One of my new colleagues at @crabnebuladev was using one of my solid-primitives and inspired me to add support for the tauri-store as an alternative storage. Writing the code down went really smooth.

It's like cross-pollination between work and hobby coding.

I finally announced the book I am writing on HTML and got some great feedback from people which I am going to use to improve the chapters that are published and use as guidance to improve the chapters that I am working on at the moment.

dev.to/schalkneethling/html-a-comp...

I didn't have the best week, but it wasn't the worst either. However, at the end, I received the sad news that our project's budget was going to hit a dead end. Several weeks ago, our management team tried hard, and I don't doubt their skills, but these things happen. There is a story behind it, but the conclusion was that a bunch of folks lost their jobs, which is really sad. It's time to clean up my CV, exercise, live through this moment of frustration, and reconnect with old pals on LinkedIn, as well as some other platforms I discovered recently.
Finally, last Thursday, I got in contact with an interesting company that focuses on telemetry and optimization of public transport and heavy machinery. We went through some initial screener interviews, technical interviews, and psychological tests. These steps might or might not be the same in almost any interview process. I'm close to reaching a deal with them and feeling really happy in general for the feedback and support I've received from some people in my network. If you find yourself in a similar situation, connect with people, ask for advice, and always be humble.

Good opportunities are always around the corner.

i finally got the motivation to start coding again!

so i'm continuing to build chordscape: a place to explore chords and chord progressions

I managed to release a positive data storytelling :

... and just today celebrated HF Cohere R by upgrading my restaurant assistant :

Both cool and positive vibes... and all for free <3

I have started working on a very exciting project that I hope will see the light of day soon.

My first ever online course just launched today on LinkedIn Learning, covering Computer Vision on Azure as part of the Azure AI Engineer Associate AI-102 certification exam prep materials.

I created a library to streamling handling of FHIR Dosage complex object : github.com/jy95/fhir-dosage-utils . Hopefully it will be useful for many healthcare projects ;)

after several cancellations of my applications, i received at least one invitation to a coding test via TestDome this week ... i don't quite know what to make of agreeing to keep your webcam on during the test and allowing snapshots of your screen. Have any of you had any experience with TestDome? Have a good weekend everyone :)

I kind-of reduced by 70% my newsletter delivering time thx to a tool I written with Tauri and Rust that's allowing me to optimize all the boring repetitive tasks and leave me more time to focus on content! And by building this tool really useful to me I'm learning rust at the same time.
Maybe it's not big deal, but for me it's some great win!

• Got a post in the Top 7 - it's a small thing but it warms my heart after a burnout and years of self-doubt 🥷🏽;
• Wrote two new apps from scratch for the CloudFlare Challenge;
• Got a small but cool freelancer job to do;
• Learned a new recipe;
• Organized my desk setup and my cat has a better spot, so the second monitor isn't blocked by his tail;