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Jess Lee Subscriber for The DEV Team

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What was your win this week?

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Looking back on your week -- what was something you're proud of?

All wins count -- big or small 🎉

Examples of 'wins' include:

  • Getting a promotion!
  • Starting a new project
  • Fixing a tricky bug
  • Cleaning your house...or whatever else that may spark joy 😄

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Rémi BRUGUIER

I spent a few hours after work with one of my co-workers who was struggling with a serious case of Impostor syndrome to help him realize how much value he had and it seems like it worked.
He looks way better now and I'm glad I could help him !

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Ross Holloway

Aww, that's really nice! Well done you!

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Cristina Ruth • Edited
  • Our 11-yr old cat doesn't have cancer! 🙌
  • Completed my 2019 self evaluation and accomplishments at work. Woohoo!
  • Was easily able to get consensus among 4 devs about a design decision. No friction whatsoever - total win!
  • Taught some other devs ReactJs 🙌
  • Oh, and got my first 2k+ views post here on dev.to ☺️
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Saurabh Daware 🌻
  • Finished building my portfolio! saurabhdaware.in
  • Wrote an article explaining how I optimized the portfolio and the article got 27k views! also, It became my first article to get 300+, 400+ and 500+ reactions 🦄.
  • I started working on a new project, It will be a web game and is one of the things that I always had in mind and I'm extremely happy to finally start working on it (I am aiming to release v1 by February)
  • I am in the middle of my university exams so I'm just proud that I could handle all the above things while studying for my exam 🌻
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Fabian

Such a nice portfolio site!

I would suggest making a larger area clickable for the hamburger button, right now if you press slightly above or left of the hamburger it doesn't register (I'm on mobile)

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Saurabh Daware 🌻

Hi, the problem is, when you scroll down I have some projects listed so if I make that target large and if user tries to click on project somewhere close to the menu he will end up opening the menu rather than going to a project.

I will see if I can make it a little larger that it is not large enough to come in between the other site content.

Thank you for your suggestion 🌻🌻

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Antonio Savage

Site looks great! Couple of suggestions if they're welcome or not :P

Put an arrow in the middle of the page so it's obvious to scroll down for more content. At first glance I thought sweet, his name and links to his profiles on other sites. Then I scrolled.

Second, make the overflow menu in the lower right moon more obvious somehow. I didn't even realize it was there until a second look.

fr though, the site is great. Just don't want to miss any potential employers because HR is too lazy to attempt to scroll.

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Saurabh Daware 🌻

Put an arrow in the middle of the page so it's obvious to scroll down for more content.

This makes so much sense I will have it for sure! Thank you so much 🦄🦄

Second, make the overflow menu in the lower right moon more obvious somehow. I didn't even realize it was there until a second look.

Not really sure how I can do that. I think the problem is it's color, the color kind of makes it look like it is part of browser so you don't strongy notice it. I tbh ran out of colors when I went to that part. I'll see if I can do something

Thank you so much for your suggestions they are super helpful 🌻🌻

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Aadi Bajpai

I agree as well haha. That scroll bar isn't very a11y friendly imho, didn't even notice it initially

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Saurabh Daware 🌻

Yeah I just realized. I will increase its width for desktops🌻 Thank you!

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Bernhard Wittmann

I finished my 52nd book this week and therefore reached my reading goal of reading a book every week early 📖💪🏻

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Aravind Putrevu

Could you please provide a list of books you read? If you don't mind. I like factfulness too.

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Bernhard Wittmann

Here are some books I'd like to recommend:

Thriller:

  • Stephen King: The Institute
  • Dov Alfon: Unit 8200
  • Marc Elsberg: Especially Blackout, but the others are also good
  • Frank Schätzing: Der Schwarm, but I also recommend his other books if you like his writing style
  • Stieg Larsson: Millenium
  • Gyllian Flynn: Gone Girl
  • Remigiusz Mroz: Die kalten Sekunden / Nieodnaleziona (I was not able to find an english translation)

Science - Fiction

  • Liu Cixin: The three body problem (you probably have to read the other books from this series afterwards too ;) )
  • Andy Weir: The Martian
  • James Corey: Leviathan Awakes
  • Isaac Asimov: Foundation
  • Frank Herbert: Dune

Fantasy

  • JRR Tolkien: Lord of the Rings (my favorite books)
  • Andrzej Sapkowski: The Witcher
  • GRR Martin: Game of Thrones

Non - Fiction

  • Hans Rosling: Factfulness
  • Stephen Hawking: Any of his books
  • Greta Thunberg: Scenes from the heart (really worth reading especially in the current discussion about climate change)
  • Cal Newport: Digital Minimalism (currently reading that, therefore cant be definite, but looks promising)
  • Walter Isaacson: Steve Jobs
  • I can also recommend to check out Bill Gates reading tips
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Ben Fox

Ya same here, I'd love to get some recommendations :)

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Florin Pop

Congrats! What books were you reading?

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Bernhard Wittmann

I mostly do reading as a recreational activity, therefore I read a lot of Thrillers and Science Fiction.

But I also love to read something about Science, Physics, Astronomy, or just general stuff that I find hard to categorize (like Factfulness by Hans Rosling, which I recommend to everyone)

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Mish

Got promoted 🚀🚀

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Jess Lee

Nice!!

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Nick Shattuck

Wins include:

  • My almost 2-year old can say 5 colors now. Red, blue, pink, black, and white. The list grows by the day.

  • Successfully connected my school project to a prebuilt database.

  • My Java is improving little by little.

  • Helped my niece count to 100 in Spanish, despite not having spoken any Spanish since my college years.

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Juneau Lim • Edited

Java was getting started to really fun and getting better fast, once it was ”click”ed, for me.
So you are a good language teacher/learner. No wonder you will be good at programming language as well. Can’t remember whom she was, but once saw a linguist that nailed at coding. What giant wins. Hope you would have a bit of time to enjoy your weekends.

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Sdu

Finally! My backpack arrived. From the states (I think) to South Africa

macro shot of the dev.to backpack

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jun • Edited

I just got a front-end internship for a SAAS company on Friday! Still can't believe this is happening! Started from zero till landed a job in a year :D

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Kojo Acquah

Congratulations!

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Christine Schorn (she/her)

Yay! So cool! So happy for you!!

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Saeed Ahmad • Edited

Hey @jess
I hope you are doing well.
So, my win this week was that one my articles got 8000+ views here on Dev.to.

In case you want to give it a read, link is here :
dev.to/saeeddev/master-these-11-co...

Another one was that I mentored some people online and offline about career. So that's from my side for this week. Tomorrow I am going to GDG DevFest for mentoring a Google Assistant Action Development Lab. That would be another addition to my achievements.

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Noman Gul

I'll be there 😃

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Saeed Ahmad • Edited

See ya there @nomangul

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Nick Taylor

Nice work Saeed!

Good job

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Juneau Lim • Edited

I finally admit the fact that it’s OK to fail.
I just took my midterm test, that had been delayed 3 weeks.
(it’s almost final period LOL) I tried my best, but still, I might pass the course, maybe not. I will admit whatever the result would be even though it might be still hurtful.

tl;dr. My win of this week is, I’ve gotten ready to be defeated.

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Nick Shattuck

Failure is a natural part of progress. Whenever I fail a quiz, test, and the eventual interview, I bake myself some cupcakes. The only condition is that you can't give up.

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Juneau Lim • Edited

I’ve already failed tons of interviews, not only from dev jobs, but also places like Starbucks. Failing coursed was harder, maybe since it is purely from my own effort without additional excuse.
Thanks for kind words, and good luck with your challenges, fellow student/career-changer.

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Nick Shattuck

Anytime. I miss Tim Horton's. Sometimes I order a big tub of their coffee whenever I am feeling nostalgic. Take care.

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