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Jess Lee
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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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Happy Friday!

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Zubair Mohsin • Edited

It has been an amazing week for me related to writing articles on DEV.

  • More than 700 followers overall 🙏
  • more than 3000 views 👀
  • Approximately 200 reactions 😍
  • My latest article was shared on LaravelDaily Twitter account 😱

It's been so overwhelming.

Couldn't be more thankful to DEV community 🙏🙏

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Waylon Walker

congrats on the great success! It feels good when you get featured in specialized accounts like that.

The DEV Community is ✨Amazing

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Zubair Mohsin

Yaas! 🥳😍

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Casey Brooks • Edited

My wife and I bought our first house!!! 🏠

Also, I released a new major version of Orchid: 0.19.0

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Waylon Walker

👪 Life-changing week in the Brooks house!

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Ben Halpern

Cool!!

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Suzanne Aitchison

I gave my first meet up talk!

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Saurabh Daware 🌻

yay congratulations🎉 What was the talk about? how did it go? how was the overall experience? This is huge🐨🌻

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Suzanne Aitchison

Aw thank you! It was titled "Becoming an accessibility-focused developer". And it went so well! I was nervous in the run up but people were really nice and asked lots of good questions after 😁

The video will be released soon but I have the slides up on bit.ly/a11y-focused-developer in case you're interested

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Saurabh Daware 🌻

This is amazing! Thank you for sharing the slides I will check them out. I gave my first talk 2 weeks back and I had a similar experience, people were super nice!

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Suzanne Aitchison

Oh awesome! What did you speak about? Do you think you'll do more?

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Saurabh Daware 🌻

It was titled "Web Performance Hacks 😎" I talked about HTML Parsing and Rendering in the beginning and then I talked about how we can get the first paint as quickly as possible.

And yes I loved the overall experience so I'm totally looking to do more!

Here are my slides for web performance hacks talk

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Suzanne Aitchison

That sounds so interesting! I'll definitely check out the slides 😁

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Waylon Walker

Woot Woot 🎉

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Syed Faraaz Ahmad

Launched the beta of my startup debugg.me and had 3 users sign up on the first day! It's not much but it's honest work :)

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Dan Silcox

Nice job! Nice meme reference too ;)
Honest work meme

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Waylon Walker

That is an awesome looking landing page

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Syed Faraaz Ahmad

Thanks! It means a lot. The landing page is one of the things I'm most proud of

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Victor Hazbun

NICE! 🎉

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Marko Shiva

I made my first Android app, at least something that I can actually call a functional app. Its a game.

Also I done full backend of one of my projects in flask so it stayed to finish when I have time the part that is frontend related. It will be Vue.js.
Also I worked on one more of my projects and done quite a lot on the level on improving my organisation and notes talking and prioritisation.

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Maxim Chechenev

Wrote my first article here and it’s quite nice feeling, it makes me want to write and share more :)

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Waylon Walker

The DEV community seems to have that effect on many of us! Please share a link. This is a place you are welcome to plug your work shamelessly.

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Maxim Chechenev
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Waylon Walker

I learned about publishto.dev/ and queued up a number of articles.

I kicked off a new series with my article what-is-kedro. The next one will be out on Monday.

what-is-kedro

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John Dinh

My wins this week were...

  • Taking the initiative of turning web development as a hobby to web development as a career.

  • Taught myself Docker so I could transition deploying my apps from Heroku to DigitalOcean (Saving a bunch of money each month)

  • Attended a coding meetup where I actually engage with other members

  • Created my portfolio design from scratch and deployed a pixel-perfect copy that was mobile responsive.

  • Sent out my first resume

Thank you so much for this post to help me reflect on this hectic week. I wasn't confident if making the decision to turn my hobby into a career was the right choice in my life, but I definitely feel like I am moving towards... well, something :)

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Gagan Deep

I fixed a bug on a Django web application. The development server used to crash while converting HTML to PDF using WeasyPrint with Segmentation Fault. I found the reason to be wrong external URL which was making it to fail. It took a whole week to find this out. I wish I was a better developer.