Hey there!
I'm mixing up this week's win thread in honor of the upcoming new year (for those cultures that recognize the New Year as beginning this upcoming Saturday, that is).
Instead of looking back on our weeks, what would you say your biggest win was for this past YEAR? What are you proud of having accomplished?
All wins count — big or "small" 🎉
Examples of 2021 'wins' include:
- Starting a new job
- Learning to value your personal strengths
- Taking more time off to unplug with loved ones regularly ... or whatever else might have sparked joy and purpose ❤️
Congrats on your accomplishments in 2021! You're amazing 🌠
Top comments (54)
This year was truly the most transformative!
^ these were definitely some memorable ones!
EDIT: Adding more so I can look back next year to get an idea of the growth made.
AMAZING!
Nice!
Splendid
Great job!
2021 was a tough year:
But not writing this for a pity party 😅
Takes a lot for me to be negative about things. Big believer in "Out of the toughest times comes the biggest triumphs". I'm really looking forward to what happens in 2022 ✨
And 2021 wasn't all that bad 🚀
There's likely a lot I'm forgetting about too. It's so easy to remember the "negative" things but when you stand back and take a look, there's can be so much to be grateful for.
Well done everyone for making it through the year! And happy new year for 2022!
Stay Awesome! ＼ʕ •ᴥ•ʔ／
Sorry for your loss Jhey and the rough patches but like you said it wasn't all that bad. We're so lucky to have you in the community and I feel privileged that we got to hang twice together even if it was only virtual.
This deserves my rare Loki fried chicken GIF 😎
Thanks Nick! 🙏
Yeah, I'm all good. I'm in a good place and looking forward to the New Year. And as you say, it's been great to hang twice 😎 Get something in the calendar for this year coming?
Haha – I've got to steer clear of the fried chicken Nick, come on! 😅
Sorry for your loss, but also congrats to pushing through and still being here. Sometimes life knocks us down but you're kicking ass. Best of luck in 2022!
Thank you Lauren! 🙏 I'll take that.
Yeah, too right. The toughest times often lead to the strongest growth. I'm real happy with how 2021 ended.
Best of luck in 2022 to you too! Happy New Year! 🎉
Thank you for your vulnerability. So sorry to hear about the pain you experienced in 2022 but huge congrats on all of your amazing wins.
Glad to have you here, Jhey.
Hey Gracie!
No problem at all. I kinda learned to be a bit more open with all these things in 2021. If you don't speak up, who's going to know? 😅 It's good to talk. Not everything is a "Highlight reel". Saying that, 2021 will go down as a "highlight" in a strange sense in the fact that I learned a lot about myself and got through it.
Thank you! 🙏 It's easy to forget the things we get up to.
By the way. 2022 has been great so far, it was 2021 where I had some painful moments 😜 😅
Glad to be here! Keep up the awesome things you do with DEV && Happy New Year! 🎉
Awesome year, even the bad stuffs are part of our development. Congrats!
Very true! Thanks Ernesto. Happy New Year! 🎉
This year was the best year ever.
many more but can't remember them. :)
This year I contributed to 20+ open source projects and still few pr are awaited for review🚀.
Started writing articles on Devto and sharing my knowledge and experience.
Won my first ever hackathon as a runner up organized by Devto + GitHub 🎉.
And moreover learned lot many things this year.
That's awesome! 🔥
This year was good in my Programming journey and at the same time, it was worse.
and the worse part was that...
I lost my relatives and friends due to covid 😢
Congrats on starting freelancing! Those are some big wins. Sorry for your losses as well <3
This year, I got started with web development and open source.
I started blogging and made new connections.
Joining twitter was one of the best things I did.
It was a great year, wishing to grow more in 2022. 😄
Congrats!
let's take a look...
Take a look at the languages I learned since 2019:
languages.manuthecoder.repl.co
My record for staying up late this year:
My record for actually sleeping this year lol:
Other things I did:
This year I started believing in myself and started learning to code again.
I'm so pumped to keep learning and growing in 2022!
I wrote the summary in here. 😃
2021 was a splendid year!
And explored lot of new things and places ✨
My biggest win this year was getting interviewed by a product person at Scale AI and accepting the job as a QA(Lead).
Just today I tweeted it.
And to add on,
🎖️Learnt a couple of new tech
🎖️Being part of GitHub Actions Hackathon and learning about workflows!
🎖️Hit 30k views with 444 reactions across all my blog posts on Dev.To within less than a year.
🎖️Networked with a lot of like minded folks.
This was an amazing year!
I'm truly grateful for all this!
So many things! But if I had to choose one:
I've written a book to build a Mouseless Development Environment! I know it helped hundred of developers, I'm more than proud.
I want to write a book since I'm a kid, it's a dream coming true. I've already another one in the making, and many more ideas for new ones after that!