Michael Tharrington

for The DEV Team

Posted on Mar 15

What was your win this week?

#discuss #weeklyretro

Hey everybody! 👋

Another week down... hope it was a good one for ya.

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
Going to the movie theater 🎥

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Top comments (27)

Rachel Fazio • Mar 15

We launched DEV Challenges!

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I had such a fun time making this header, I am so happy with how it came out!

Keith Solomon • Mar 15

This was a busy week…

Started a new dev project (my first of the year)
Rescued 2 sites that were hacked (weak user passwords 🙄), one of which was for a marquee client, without major downtime
Handled my first solo interviews. Sadly, no winners. The one that we wanted decided not to accept our offer 🤷‍♂️
Made headway setting up a new project management system for dev projects (ActiveCollab just isn’t doing it for us)
Started a migration project moving all our hosted WordPress instances to WPEngine

I’m sure there’s more, but man…I’m whipped! 😮‍💨

Shai Almog • Mar 15

I updated the UI of the gdocweb website. I'm going to speak at a meetup and a conference. I will be writing the cover letter for the Dzone API trend report.

I didn't keep up with my followers here on dev. It passed 10k without me noticing and is around 13.7k followers which is pretty cool.

Stefan Moore • Mar 15

My wins...

Finally removing the nails/staples from my stairs so I can sand them and stain them.
Had my resume reviewed and need to make very few but complicated corrections.
Watched The Gentlemen on Netflix without any distractions
Did 30 pushups without stopping.

@michaeltharrington name your win(s)

Michael Tharrington • Mar 15

Oooo nice, Stefan! That's a really well-rounded mix of wins right there. 😀

I'm gonna join ya on the list here:

I did quite a bit of working out and body-moving... Ran twice this week (the weather is nice), did a bunch of yoga/stretching/calisthenics, I've been hanging on a pull-up bar at least 3 minutes a day + doing pull-ups (I'm still at about 8 in my first set and diminish after, but I'm getting better form).
I got a new guitar pedal for a great deal on Craiglist. It's a UAFX Ruby and sounds amazing — it perfectly models a range of Vox AC30 amplifiers! I've been reworking my pedalboard and am siked to play with my band tonight. 😀
I've been working on a new Mod Contest that will launch early next week and I'm pumped to see the effects!
My wife and I are oh-so-close to finalizing our construction loan with the bank so we can begin building our house! It's been a long long time coming folks!

Stefan Moore • Mar 15

Congrats on the wins this week. Yoga is on my list of things to try.

Michael Tharrington • Mar 15 • Edited

Thankya! And yoga really is good stuff — I highly recommend it.

My hips and lower back having been kinda bugging me, so I've been trying different stuff out. This YouTube channel has been a pretty good one for yoga. Side note: DDP has a yoga channel and there are some pretty amazing transformation stories — check out this mini-doc with Butterbean.

Not exactly yoga, but I like this channel for chiropractic advice and stretches that relieve pain.

Stefan Moore • Mar 15 • Edited

I get to learn the downward dog and a diamond cutter at the same time. I am moved

Mohammed • Mar 15

I've added hot-reloading to my game engine by watching projects files using the Java NIO API. It saves time but now I've got a new problem, I'm so used to using the engine without HCR that I just manually reopen the project sometimes.

Welp

Andrew Bone • Mar 15

I have written more post so far this year (even though it's only 4 so far) than I did for the entirety of 2023 and I'm hoping to keep the streak going 🥳

Michael Tharrington • Mar 15

Hot damn! 🔥

I've seen your posts too and they are high-calibre. I actually pointed somebody to some of your Rusty posts the other day — good stuff! It's no easy feat to continuously write posts like that. Just to say, I see you and you're rockin it! 🙌

Matt Eland • Mar 15

I renewed my Azure AI Engineer and Azure Data Scientist associate certifications. I also hit a point in my master's class where if I don't even do a final project I still pass the class (I'll still do the project) and worked through a blocking issue preventing me from making progress on my next book.

Ryan Brown • Mar 15

I excised IFTTT from my personal devops situation.
Refactored a project with multiple similar endpoints, into a single endpoint with a selection parameter (this is appropriate as the schema result is the same, but the selection kind is different) and reduced duplicated code.
Disabled MS's co-pilot on all our home windows machines, recovering a ton of CPU and Memory resources. Our family Minecraft sessions are much more enjoyable!

Thomas Bnt • Mar 15

Oooh yaaay Minecraft <3

Oscar • Mar 15

Finally learned a little bit of UI design! The design I made is not impressive by any means, but considering most of the things that I make look like a dumpster fire (no offense to myself, it's just true), I'm pretty proud of this one.