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What was your win this week? 🙌

Michael Tharrington on May 10, 2024

Hi peeps! We're officially rolling into the week. Looking back on this past week, what was something you were proud of accomplishing? All wins ...
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Louai Boumediene • Edited

I wrote and article about database design and it went viral with more than 35k+ views and tones of positive feedback, and it was featured by the platform: Relational Database Design: Comprehensive Guide
It was a huge push for me 🔥😊

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Christine Belzie

Congratulations @louaiboumediene! :)

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Michael Tharrington

Heck yeah, Louai! Really appreciate ya sharing that one. It was a good one!

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Thaísa Vieira

That's awesome, Louai! I'm going to check your article!

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Jorge

surviving another week

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Schalk Neethling

Sometimes, that is all we can hope for and be grateful for. I have been there a number of times over the last couple of weeks. Keep at it, you got this.

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Michael Tharrington

Haha, feel you on that!

A clip from Destiny's Child's "Survivor" music video. All three women are dancing and singing I'm a survivor.

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Thaísa Vieira

You're doing a great job, keep going! Sometimes everything we need is to keep persisting in survive

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Anita Olsen

I won a visual novel game in a giveaway on Steam! ✨

Fault Milestone One, the PC visual novel game

Fault Milestone One was featured in The Best Visual Novels for Beginners article in PC GAMER. I might learn something from it to improve my own visual novel!

 

💡 I learned HTML Responsive Web Design on W3Schools! ✨
This will come in handy for making my web page mobile friendly!

 

💻 I completed 4 singleplayer levels on CodeCombat! ✨
I also earned the following achievements:

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💻 I completed the free Learn HTML courses on Codecademy!✨
I also earned the following achievements:

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My follower count on DEV has exceeded 10000 followers! ✨

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Michael Tharrington

Congrats on winning the free game! That is dope that you're really digging visual novels and creating your own. That's such a cool niche.

Also, props on the follower growth! Always nice to see that. 🙌

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Anita Olsen

Thank you! 😄

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Thaísa Vieira

Wow, you're doing pretty great! Keep doing your best!

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Ndeye Fatou Diop

Thanks to this platform, so many amazing wins:

  • My post is number 2 this week
  • It was featured on dev.to

Post => dev.to/_ndeyefatoudiop/37-tips-fro...

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Thaísa Vieira

What a great article, I love it! It's so inspirational, also, your writing is pretty smooth and pleasant to read.

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Ndeye Fatou Diop

Super glad you like it 😌

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Michael Tharrington

Wooohooo! Good stuff, Ndeye. 💪

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Ndeye Fatou Diop

Thanks 🙏

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Paulo Henrique

It was a week with more losses than winnings, but at least I can make this joke

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Its Over 9000!!! [Original Video and Audio] - YouTube

The classic, its over 9000!!! video without anything extra.

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Michael Tharrington

Haha! Dig the reference. 😁

Sorry about the kinda overall bum week. I suppose they can't always be good ones, but there's always next week! 😀

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Thaísa Vieira

OMG! This is hilarious, I love it! Also, congrats to your followers!

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Shai Almog

Fixed a really tough problem in my local build environment and was able to debug a challenging customer issue. Got three interesting job offers.

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Michael Tharrington

Hot damn! 🔥 Three freaking job offers... you must doing something right, haha!

Also, congrats on figuring a solution for that tricky problem. 🙌

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Adhil Khan • Edited

Create a calculator using HTML, CSS, JavaScript.
here is the calculator

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Michael Tharrington

Nice! Good stuff, Adhil.

A cartoon calculator plugging buttons on itself

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Adhil Khan

Thanks Michael

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Carlarjenkins

Here are my wins this week:

  • AWS Community Builders approved of my renewal.
  • Completed AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner LinkedIn Learning path.
  • Completed BIT Foundation AZ-204 Azure Developer Associate Cloud Skills Challenge.
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Cezar Lamann

I have finally bought my personal domain and a domain for my personal company/brand (Basionix), and I wrote two Nuget packages that will serve as a base for my future projects in .NET Basionix.BaseEntities and Basionix.BaseEntities.EntityFramew...

The funny thing is that I have never published anything about those packages anywhere, and now they have just above 360 downloads together (the other one I made back in 2019, which is called BeanSpitter has over 1700 downloads). My plan is to continue building libraries that could be put together to not only help me with future customer projects but also mine.

About the domains, It is so important to me because I have always wanted to do it (now I need to build my own website), I have postponed this for sooo long, and now I am finally doing it :)

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Christophe Colombier

Two of my articles are very popular, via Google

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✌️

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Michael Tharrington

Boooyah! 🔥 That's awesome, Christophe.

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Christine Belzie

Win # 1: I got 10K+ followers here on Dev.to

Win #2: My recent @saucedopen article trended in the Open Source category

screenshot of trending open source categories

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Keith Solomon

Let’s see…it’s been a busy week…

  1. New dev started this week (my first hire as team lead). She hit the ground running at Mach 1. She took it upon herself to do a full WCAG AA audit of our starter framework, while learning the ins and outs of it…while building a site. Total baller.
  2. First live-fire test of new ticketing system for support tasks. There’s some minor issues to iron out, but overall a success.
  3. Started planning a new project to build a custom project management system for our dev team. The solution we’re currently using doesn’t really work for us as well as it does design. If anybody has a suggestion to save me from myself, I’m all ears 😂.

I’m sure there’s things I’m forgetting, but between 1:1’s, meetings, and general dev team shenanigans, the week flew by and crawled at the same time.

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Nikola Brežnjak

Got back in the writing rhythm by finishing a blog post: Getting started with React by building a Pokemon search application

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Schalk Neethling

I believe I landed a new role and it is going to be incredibly exciting. I will be sure to share more once the documents are signed on Monday. 🤞

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Michael Tharrington

That is awesome, Schalk. Onward and upward from here! I'm siked for ya. 🙌

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Ayu Adiati

I gave an internal talk at Codum community about non-technical aspects in contributing to open source projects! 😄

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Michael Tharrington

Oh heck yeah, Ayu! That's awesome. I bet that was a fun talk. 🙌

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Alex Lohr

My testing guide, a part of the new Solid.js documentation (currently in beta), was finally merged. That was one of the bigger tasks on my to-do list.

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Imam Ali Mustofa • Edited

My LibSQL client available in Turso Database official! docs.turso.tech/sdk/php/quickstart

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Michael Tharrington

Boooyaahh! Nice one, Imam. That's good stuff!

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Imam Ali Mustofa

Thank you Michael!

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Nelson Figueroa

I published a "cheatsheet" I wrote for myself when studying for interviews in Python:

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Michael Tharrington

This is dope! Good stuff, Nelson. 😀

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Pachi 🥑

I wrote 2 articles, and I am glad I am back to consistently writing

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Michael Tharrington

You're writing some good stuff, Pachi! Always enjoy reading your posts. 😀

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Cesar Aguirre

I consistently wrote short LinkedIn posts in the past month and schedule a couple more for the rest of the month

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Michael Tharrington

Right on, Cesar! Feels good to get that sorta stuff scheduled ahead. I had a similar sorta week and scheduled out most of my "ritual posts" for the next month (including a few of these What Was Your Win posts haha!)... anyway, nice to have all that done. Worth celebrating! 🍻

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Elly Okello

had one of those had conversations i have been avoiding ,with parent of course .proud that i was afraid to do it but feels great that i did it .

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Thaísa Vieira

My win this week was surviving a tight deadline at university and starting with CSSBattle

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Laba Subagia

Learn to write an interpreter by following this book Writing An Interpreter in Go. Although I still struggle to extend it.

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Mohammed

I watched Tenet.

I sort of understood it.

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Michael Tharrington

🤣

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adriens

I celebrated my 10K followers milestone... and almost finished my next storytelling about datascience, TV Series, Litterature and novels.

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Alan Hammond

These days it feels like if our website skillsportal.co.za survives the Google updates and changes to their algorithm then that is a win. It did!

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Dev on Remote

Finally found some time to make a homebrew formula for a CLI snippet I've written some time ago and made it public for other to use: Shortcut your way through the terminal 🌀🏃🏽 - homebrew tool

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Tássio

Learning and teaching unit test by writing the article Unit test: A Hands-On Guide with Real Examples - React + Vitest

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SDevr

deployed one of my side projects on a local Raspberry PI server.

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Tim Birkett

I picked up a new to me BMW R1250GS and will be touring France at the end of the month.

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Seth Phat

Finally integrated Stripe for subscription management - renderpdf.io/ 😎