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What was your win this week?

Jess Lee on January 24, 2020

👋👋👋👋 Looking back on your week -- what was something you're proud of? All wins count -- big or small 🎉 Examples of 'wins' include: Getting a p...

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Keff • Jan 24 '20

It's not much, but I got my first post with more than 50 reactions : )

Reducing npm package size by 83%

Manolo Edge ・ Jan 23 ・ 1 min read

#npm #todayilearned

Ankit Beniwal • Jan 25 '20 • Edited

Mutual Feeling. Here's my first post with 1500+ views and almost 100 reactions.

Algorithms & Data Structures: Resource Pack

Ankit Beniwal 🙂 ・ Jan 16 ・ 1 min read

#beginners #computerscience #opensource #programming

Thanks to all the Developers around the world. ✌️

Nick Taylor • Jan 24 '20

Congrats on your first post!

Keff • Jan 24 '20 • Edited

Thanks! It's not the first one, just the first with over 50 reactions :P

Nick Taylor • Jan 24 '20

I had an amazing first week at my new job. 🤗

Nick Taylor (he/him)

@nickytonline

Finished my first week at @ThePracticalDev and I won’t lie. It was amazing! Super excited about all the cool stuff we’ll be doing in 2020 and beyond. iamdeveloper.com/blog/2020-01-2…

22:54 PM - 24 Jan 2020

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KJ • Jan 24 '20

Congrats on the new job and a successful first week! Any advice for someone close to an offer for handling the first week at a new place?

Nick Taylor • Jan 25 '20 • Edited

Do the onboarding if they have it. If they don't, or it's lacking take some initiative to improve it. In one place I didn't have an account for something, so I added it to the docs. In another, I documented something about some processes for devs. The next person that comes along will thank you for it. 😉

Get the code running, see if you can understand what's going on. Ask questions, generally just be hungry to learn. I wrote a bit about onboarding in this post.

What is your on-boarding process at your company?

Nick Taylor (he/him) ・ Apr 22 '18 ・ 1 min read

#discuss #onboarding

For the record though, the onboarding at DEV is top-notch. Even though it is top-notch, they still asked what could be improved. 👏🏻

KJ • Jan 25 '20

Awesome! I really like the part about improving it if you can. "Leave it better than you found it" and all that. Thanks for the advice!

🦄N B🛡 • May 2 '20 • Edited

In one place I didn't have an account for something, so I added it to the docs.

sniff You, sir, are an everyday hero.

What you're describing is basically the first activities of the heroine in The Unicorn Project, spanning multiple chapters. It's an underrated type of work.

Sara Given • Jan 25 '20

Had a great 1-on-1 with my team lead. Got some positive feedback, a few things to work on, set priorities, etc. And set some good back burner items to work on while waiting on deliverables from other teams. Was super productive and also enjoyable!

Jess Lee • Jan 24 '20

It was a busy week at work but I managed to check-off all my major to-dos. I'm also so excited that we've launched the CodeLand site and CFP!

Big shout out to @lisasy who worked super hard (and fast) on getting this project out the door!

CodeLand 2020 CFP is now open!

The community-first conference designed to level you up. Submit a proposal for a talk or workshop before the deadline on March 25 at 11:59 PM ET. codelandconf.com/

cfp ・ The DEV Team

Lisa Sy (she/her) • Jan 25 '20

Yay! 😀It was awesome.

Matt Eland • Jan 25 '20

Got my first pay as a writer, making me... a professional writer!

Started some discussions to do some paid written content for a company I love.

Almost crossed the 2k daily views marker on Medium. Likely crossed it long ago on dev.to but the stats aren't that granular here.

Matt Eland • Jan 25 '20

Oh yeah, and got accepted into the .NET Foundation and some code accepted, merged, and deployed at this company called Microsoft.

Helder Burato Berto • Jan 25 '20 • Edited

Moved some of my posts to dev.to and received great feedbacks from community.

It give me a lot of motivation to write another posts.

Boris Jamot ✊ / • Jan 25 '20

This week, I created my first PR : github.com/cozy/cozy-stack/pull/2340 and it was accepted and merged.
It's really cool !

Cozy-stack is a self-hostable french cloud aimed at privacy: cozy.io

Jérôme Laforge • Jan 25 '20

Well done and welcome in Go open source community.

Idris Rampurawala • Jan 25 '20

This week I completed 1 year being part of this awesome DEV community.

Ankit Beniwal • Jan 25 '20 • Edited

My Baby Steps:

Gabe Ragland • Jan 25 '20

I made some tweaks to my product homepage (divjoy.com) and saw 100% jump in sales. I talk about it a bit here: indiehackers.com/post/how-i-double...

Izzy Baer • Jan 24 '20

I had my first technical interview loop in over a year! It was rough but I got my feet wet and I'm so relieved it's over. NEXT!

KJ • Jan 24 '20

Same! It's been wild but there's only more to come. Congrats on the progress!

Izzy Baer • Jan 25 '20

thanks, one step at a time! congrats to you as well :)

Ania • Jan 25 '20

Got back to doing coding exercises! :D

David Taitingfong • Jan 25 '20

Started my first full-time job (excluding mil service) and got thru the 1st week 🎉

Paramanantham Harrison • Jan 25 '20

Prepared the content (Project folder structure and workshop lessons order) for my workshop. It was more work than I expected but loved it and learned a lot about how to make a sequence of topics while building something real

Next weak, need to create text content for the workshop 😅

eventbrite.com/e/api-design-for-be...

Practicing Developer • Jan 25 '20

For a while now I've been helping a client of mine build out an event registration system for game stores.

While we've had several events successfully run through that system over the last several months, this week we managed to hit a new milestone: Our first totally sold out event!

Because this is a bootstrapped project still in its very early days, every small win feels great.

Alex • Jan 25 '20

I published my first post on Dev.to :) part of a series, so more to come.

Building a site from scratch. Part 1 - Description and first design

Alex ・ Jan 21 ・ 2 min read

#beginners #react #webdev #tutorial

And I got my first interview for frontend developer :))

So two wins this week!

ogrotten • Jan 25 '20 • Edited

My latest Lambda School post

I'm in Lambda School. 2 weeks ago I 'graduated' to the Lambda Labs where you work in a team on an 8 week project. The design and planning phase ended today and we transitioned into principle coding.

Today was the 2nd of 2 presentations of our plan showing Release Canvases (milestones, basically). I led the presentation with a teammate.

It was off the chain.

We showed the paperwork they wanted filled out. It was OK paperwork, but seemed to be missing a component between the generalities that they wanted us to describe and File > New of starting the project.

In the past, my planning phase of personal projects was to create a Design Document, in outline form, where I go into detail on the parts of the app that need to be created. For example, I'll put "User Onboarding" as a top level item, and then underneath that break it out into Registration and Login. Then underneath that, detail say Login with "Email field". Then again underneath that put what field validation library I'll use . . . stuff like that. That's just a single tree example of how the entire outline in the Design Doc would be laid out. No code, but generally getting down into the middle details. Sometimes, if a detail sounds tricky I may get into pseudo code, but not often.

We did that kind of doc as a team. We called it "Scope of Engineering -
Technical Specifications and Design", and detailed the 3 progressive milestones/Release Canvases, with a 4th, super general, wishlist milestone.

The project heads loved the plan. They had zero questions (IMO the true mark of completion), advised on how to avoid feature creep, and sent us on our way.

It felt great, especially since I was about 12% unsure of what exactly they wanted in the presentation.

🦄N B🛡 • May 2 '20 • Edited

They had zero questions (IMO the true mark of completion)...

In my experience this is not the case with real customers, but I'm impressed. Design docs are handy tools for thinking.

Kiel • Jan 25 '20 • Edited

Submitted my first major PR to master and successfully merged! 124 files affected and 500+ lines of code into a product that folks pay thousands a month for... Yikes!

Started in November, so i’m excited to contribute something within 90 days;)

Thanks to Dev for getting me here!

Naveed Ahmed • Jan 25 '20 • Edited

Not much but i m breaking my achievements into chunks

implemented strategic time management workshop framework in daily routine
Planned the whole week last six days since monday
Executed everything smoothly with plans worked 95% successfuly
Decided to read min 5 dev( technical articles) min 30articles weekly and relate it to my proffesional life which worked like charm

And the list goes on

Thomas Bnt ☕ • Jan 25 '20 • Edited

I finished this website and my new website ! I'm really proud of me and happy for the design ! 😄🎉

I developed a new bot on Discord (weep, agaain). This name is Splash Everyday, It is used to display and search for Unsplash photos.

Preview Splash Everyday

C.S. Rhymes • Jan 25 '20

Refactoring a query to run in a second instead of 45 seconds. Result is 99% of the same, but worth sacrificing 1% for performance gain. I’ve still got lots to learn optimising database queries, but happy with the result.

alokz diptim! • Jan 27 '20

Can you share your experience? What you did

Angad Sharma • Jan 25 '20

DEV tweeted about my post. It also received more than 64 reactions, which is a first for my posts. Baby steps.. :)

8 things I learnt from a script for repository creation

Angad Sharma ・ Jan 23 ・ 7 min read

#git #linux #bash #docker

Michael Caveney • Jan 25 '20

I got paid for writing code for the first time this week, and I'm probably going to be able to say I have my first tech job in a few weeks if all goes well on this project!

Kenny Whyte • Jan 25 '20

I finally repaired my coffee machine. Now, my mornings are great!

Ashok Gelal • Jan 25 '20

I released my web framework that I've been working on for last few months: alpas.dev

I also started publishing a full tutorial on how to build a website from scratch to finish here on dev.to (two published this week, will publish about 3-4 next week): dev.to/ashokgelal/let-s-build-a-we...

Wayne Gakuo • Jan 25 '20

Did my first post on DEV! So excited to write more.

dev.to/wayne_gakuo/picky-picky-wit...

Ben Sinclair • Feb 17 '20

I phoned up my ISP and told them I wanted to leave because they were charging me more for my package than their listed price for the next package up.

They gave me 20% off and put me on the next package.

Jeremy Schuurmans • Jan 25 '20

My win this week was accepting a job offer from an amazing company! I'm relocating to a city I've never lived before and it's more than a little scary, but I'm doing it and couldn't be more thankful.