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What was your win this week?

Jess Lee on July 12, 2019

👋👋👋👋 I'm back!! Sorry we missed last week, but hopefully this means we're reflecting on two weeks worth of wins! What's something you're proud of...

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Kyle Walsh • Jul 12 '19

My big win was writing my first post on dev.to!

dev.to/syntopikyle/my-system-for-r...

Nick Taylor • Jul 12 '19

Jess Lee • Jul 12 '19

Nice job!

Ben Halpern • Jul 12 '19

Nice!

Kara Luton • Jul 12 '19

I finally figured out a tricky bug that’s been frustrating me this entire week!

Juneau Lim • Jul 12 '19

Congratulations!!

Charles Landau • Jul 12 '19

That's the best feeling. Way to go!

Elliot • Jul 12 '19

Few things are more relieving / satisfying! Nice

Ben Halpern • Jul 12 '19

Woohoo!

Michael "lampe" Lazarski • Jul 12 '19

Easy!

Getting married 👰 🤵💒💏💞💃👑💍❤️

Jess Lee • Jul 12 '19

AYYYYYYYY congrats!! I did that just a few weeks ago too!

Alexander Sandberg • Jul 12 '19

Huge congrats to you both!! ✨

Jess Lee • Jul 12 '19

This isn't a personal win, more of a shout out..but I'm really proud of how DEV Listings is coming along, with lots of work from @mariocsee !

For example, we now have a liquid tag for listings:

This listing has expired.

Alexander Sandberg • Jul 12 '19

I can vouch for the amazing listings! I put one up yesterday night and already had a first response by the morning! 🙌

Since you mentioned there are liquid tags now, I have to try it out... #shamelessplug ☺️

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Victor Hazbun • Jul 12 '19

Getting so many invitations to jobs that I can't even handle!

Jess Lee • Jul 12 '19

sick!!

Pandita • Jul 12 '19

I know it sound dumb but this week I learned the power of vlookup in Excel and it helped me shorten the amount of work I had to do to translate our app from English to French. Instead of taking around 7-8 days to do, it took 5! :3

happy panda dance

Anwar • Jul 12 '19

Meme required for complete success 😂

Stephen Belovarich • Jul 12 '19

I released a thing I've been working on for months!

Readymade is a microlibrary for developing Web Components with TypeScript.

readymade-ui.github.io

Jer • Jul 12 '19

That's pretty cool! I've been going the other direction with WC's when I have time in the evenings — that is creating separate CSS, JS and HTML files and having RollUp do all the work behinds the scenes. I'm sort of enjoying not working with a framework.

Going to have to play with your lib for one of my experiments. Thanks for your work! I'm excited for another way to do them. :)

Stephen Belovarich • Jul 12 '19

I wanted the css to be inline with the component, so I made this to at least post process the css with postcss.

npmjs.com/package/rollup-plugin-in...

Jer • Jul 12 '19

Nice. tagged templates are pretty awesome, though I'd never seen them until I played with lit-element. More ways to produce WC's is a great thing.

I really like the css-tied-to-component idea (in WC's and other frameworks), just don't enjoy writing CSS or HTML in JS. Probably silly of me, but I got RollUp to inline the separate CSS & HTML files in a template literal inside the final JS bundle without much fuss. Never could make webpack do it.

Adam Crockett 🌀 • Jul 13 '19

Much Angular. When does a library stop being vanilla, this is a question that bothers me often. Good job though, sorry for the philosophy!

Stephen Belovarich • Jul 14 '19 • Edited

Is Readymade vanilla? I’d like to think it’s mint chocolate chip.

Adam Crockett 🌀 • Jul 14 '19

I'm down for chic chips but I rarely like mint in ice-cream. 🍨

Alexander Sandberg • Jul 12 '19

My biggest win this week was finally getting around to building PlaceKeanu.com, which I had in my list of ideas for some time. 😍

It had an overwhelming response, so thank you if you checked it out. ❤️

I also wrote two DEV articles! One published today, which I'm really happy about, and one related to the Keanu project.

Why we should default to Tabs instead of Spaces for an 'accessible first' environment

Alexander Sandberg ・ Jul 12 '19 ・ 3 min read

#webdev #a11y #frontend #programming

PlaceKeanu.com — A slightly more breathtaking placeholder service

Alexander Sandberg ・ Jul 10 '19 ・ 3 min read

#showdev #webdev #productivity #webapp

I hope everyone has a lovely weekend. 🤗

Sarah Dye • Jul 12 '19

I published my coding challenge on Github. Disney Codes Challenge is where participants build Disney inspired coding projects for 23 minutes each day for 57 days. It is now live on Github and I'm doing the challenge myself on Twitter at #DisneyCodesChallenge.

github.com/BritishPandaChick/disne...

Jer • Jul 12 '19

I got to start a new developer on building their first project. We pair programmed: Built the foundation of a grid system together from scratch (flexbox, "don't overthink it") then a site icon lib using icomoon.io, symbol-defs and <use>. fill:currentColor too.

It's pretty awesome to see that moment when a concept clicks and they realize a big, highly-stylized site is within their reach. I know next week will bring stumbles and some frustration but right now it's fun to see their joy.

Juneau Lim • Jul 12 '19 • Edited

Welcome back, Jess! ♥️
I actually have two wins.

I have submitted an application for my first hackathon!
I got my first business email since I changed my career, yesterday!

Alexander Sandberg • Jul 12 '19

I hope the hackathon goes well! And wow, a career change? So exciting!! 😍 Wish you the best of luck!

Juneau Lim • Jul 12 '19

Thank you! I'm nerve & excited for both of them. X-)

Elliot • Jul 12 '19

Awesome!! I participated in my first hackathon recently and it was really fun :)

Juneau Lim • Jul 12 '19

Even the pre-hackathon stage is already fun.✨
Glad to hear your first one sent out greatly!
excitement++;

Nadine M. Thêry • Jul 12 '19

I finished the Angela Yu's Web Developing Bootcamp at Udemy. I feel more comfy now to start my own app at last!

Priyanka Kore • Jul 12 '19 • Edited

My win was, I was able to maintain my discipline :) writing third post on dev.to in third consecutive week

Traveling Salesman Problem

Priyanka Kore ・ Jul 12 ・ 2 min read

#maths #algorithms #meta #todayilearned

Alexander Sandberg • Jul 12 '19

Consistency is key, Priyanka! Keep it up!

I will give it a read! 🙂

Also, a pro tip for you:
If you paste a link to your post like this, {% link https://dev.to/... %}, you'll get a nice embedded preview in your comment! 😃

Priyanka Kore • Jul 13 '19

That’s a great tip, Thanks 😁

David Dal Busco • Jul 12 '19

I published my website, a new app prototype for a client, a new blog post on Dev and today I implemented some improvements in our upcoming web open source editor for presentations following some feedback I gathered IRL with some first tester

I wish all weeks could be as productive and fun 😃

asafd1 • Jul 12 '19

My win for this week is that I did some coding :) . After a few years of managing a group of devs and not having any time to do any coding that actually goes to production, I took some tasks from our backlog. I coded in React, Java 8 and played with Docker. It was fun!

Jean-Michel Plourde • Jul 13 '19

We had a bug in production. And there was 3 other issues related to a task involving this bug. I submitted a fix that corrected all bugs in prod and it got accepted and that fixed the issue.

First time I submitted a patch in prod and it felt good.

Manuel Fernandez • Jul 12 '19

Managed to grasp and understand a huge spaghetti codebase that I inherited from a coworker... now instead of wanting to murder him I only feel the need to throw a book or two at his face.

Angie Jones • Jul 12 '19

Finished recording a video course! Small victory. Now for the editing 😫

Andy Zhao (he/him) • Jul 12 '19

I volunteered to help do a recount for a primary election in Queens!

Zephyr Prusinski • Jul 12 '19

I was out of the frontend game for a while, but this week was the beginning of my role shifting and I made a grid-based shopping cart with multiple reordered sections between desktop and mobile without duplicating content 😎

Jess Lee • Jul 12 '19

NICE.

Jaime González García • Jul 12 '19 • Edited

I created a nerdy intro for barbarianmeetscoding.com:

Also spent tons of quality time with the family. :D

Jorge González • Jul 13 '19

I've finished making optimisations to my next blog revision. Currently, it's making a Ajax request to get a paginated list of posts, and when rendering post preview, makes another request, and so makes another one when you enter to see the complete post. With the new optimisations, it'll only make the first request for the list of posts, then re-use the available data to display both post preview and full post, reducing client load times and server stress.

Akshay Dongare • Jul 13 '19

I successfully build android app from existing angular project created last weekend using Cordova .
Below is repo and url of apk build.
github.com/akshaydongaregit/InvIon...

mJordan • Jul 15 '19

Started a new project that I’ve been putting off for way too long. I’ve always been scared to start any of the 100-day challenges because I know my life and that I would never be able to do a thing 100 days in a row without missing a day. Especially now that I have two puppies. So I’m pretty proud of myself for deciding to start a 100 day challenge in a way that works for me. Where I don’t fail if I miss a day and where I can be okay with that. Aiming for getting to 100 days with Monday-Friday because i need to learn to take breaks and spend time with family / puppies.

Vijay Koushik, S. 👨🏽‍💻 • Jul 12 '19

My win is that I started writing for my blog here after a very long time.

ISOLOI • Jul 14 '19

Went to a training session for work that had an pre assessment taken before I attended. I was the only one that had a "truthseeker" habit. Apparently it's a rare result. I don't take any weight on the tests, but having the coach mention it in front of a bunch of co workers was pretty cool.

Dušan • Jul 12 '19

I decided to leave my current job and find something different and interesting. It's strange but positive feeling, because I finally got that energy I used to have when I started working, few years ago. Who knows where I will be in a few months, but it must be a good or better place. That counts as a win I guess :)

supriya • Jul 15 '19

I started learning JavaScript 2 weeks ago and I built this.
supriya-kotturu.gitlab.io/gradient...
am still trying to figure out how to copy the background gradient value to the clip board, but iam still happy with it

Charles Landau • Jul 12 '19

Place fifth in the NYC race for AWS's DeepRacer (and write my first dev.to post about how)

Design Principles for World Class Reinforcement Learning on AWS DeepRacer

Charles Landau ・ Jul 12 ・ 5 min read

#machinelearning #showdev #python #aws

Stacy Cashmore • Jul 14 '19

Well... I was going to go with my first blog post here:
dev.to/stacy_cash/insiderdev-tour-...
(something I am super proud of - and already have some more in the pipeline that are almost finished!)

But... After I published it my mental health took a serious turn for the worse and my actual win this week was getting myself off of the sofa not watching Netflix that was playing in the background and out of the house for a walk, and back on to the computer to solve some problems. Little steps, but so hard to acheive that they felt like absolute victories.

Nicole Peery 🌵 • Jul 12 '19

I got Google Analytics working on my Gatsby portfolio 😎

Shreyas Ragavan • Jul 14 '19

Mostly small wins:

Finally got active on dev.to
Ported an old blog post to dev.to

Why bother with Emacs and Workflows?

Shreyas Ragavan ・ Jul 11 ・ 4 min read

#emacs #productivity #workflows
Penned a new blog post about my email configuration on dev.to

'Archaic', text based email clients rock

Shreyas Ragavan ・ Jul 14 ・ 13 min read

#emacs #email #productivity #elisp
Streamlined my website (typos / tags / added pending posts etc)
Started a new project to look into learning + performing sentiment and text analysis comparing the lyrics of the rap artists Eminem and NF.

Jenny Chan • Jul 13 '19

Celebrated the 2 year anniversary of starting my Facebook group for female developers - Women in Web Development.
One of the acceptance tests I wrote months ago caught a bug. Also I got to write more of them this week! (I love writing tests).
Making videos + discussion questions for my new female dev membership - and my members are participating!

Tanguy Andreani • Jul 12 '19 • Edited

I started building a web app for users to manage their own personal page (something between linktree and aboutme)

So far it looks good but I still have to make more themes and to integrate more fields.

Paid users can upload their own CSS.

So it’s a win so far.

Boris Krstić • Jul 13 '19

• Got a 35% raise!
• Successfully understood code behind one Flutter app!

Have a nice weekend boys 😏

Raja Asyraf • Jul 13 '19

I managed to convince my manager to revamp the legacy system which is difficult to maintain. And this is going to be my new project. I'm so excited to get it done rather keep working fixing the never ending issues.

Opesanya Adebayo • Jul 17 '19

I got a promotion 🎉🎉🎉🎉

Anna Rankin • Jul 22 '19

Congratulations!!!

Opesanya Adebayo • Jul 22 '19

Thank you!

Shreyas Ragavan • Jul 12 '19

pleasure was all mine ! :D

ListNUX • Jul 13 '19

Right, I posted my first post here and discovered this great community! :) I should start checking those "not good enough" feelings I have for everything I do.

Shreyas Ragavan • Jul 12 '19 • Edited

This is indeed so cool! I just tried it out.

Vikas Raj • Jul 13 '19

Published my site. 🎉🎉

vikasraj.dev

Shreyas Ragavan • Jul 14 '19

Looks great!

Carlos Caballero • Jul 12 '19

I've been finished the version alpha-0.1.0 of a side project 😍

Next week, I'm going to coding my deployment script.💪💪

Aadi Bajpai • Jul 13 '19

Set up a blog framework made completely via linux utilities after tons of procrastinating and bug fixing I guess. aadibajpai.me/blog (still need to move over posts from Medium and stuff but hey!)

Kostas Sar • Jul 13 '19

I got my bachelor's degree in Computer Science! :D

ListNUX • Jul 12 '19

I feel like I haven't had a win in a long time... Cannot tell if it's my mood that doesn't let me register positive things as wins, or if I really haven't had anything happen to me in quite some time.

Jorge Gomez • Jul 13 '19

I finished my thesis project, and my tutor approve it, So I will be graduating from college by the end of august.🤓

johanna • Jul 12 '19

Wrote two blog posts and finished an online UX track. 😀

Shubham Naik • Jul 13 '19

Was working on cropping rounded corners of ImageView in Android and now finally figured out how to crop it with different corner radii to match client's designs.

Johnson Ogwuru • Jul 13 '19

My biggest win this week was finally getting around to build my first react npm package
npmjs.com/package/react-custom-errors

bretthancox • Jul 12 '19

Publishing my first dev.to article. Realizing I have something worth sharing was a nice confidence boost.

Matt Del Signore • Jul 13 '19

I worked on a refactor that really impressed my team! In the process I learned a lot of advanced typescript techniques.

Vicente G. Reyes • Jul 13 '19

According to Google Analytics, on the 11th of July, my side project had 33 direct users. A tiny win that sparked joy in me!😄

Harsh Shandilya • Jul 14 '19

Not sure if it's really a win but I finally quit my job after months of being unsatisfied with it, but that means I'm now funemployed and I'm not sure how I feel about that yet :)

Adam Crockett 🌀 • Jul 13 '19 • Edited

My dev.to Shirt arived! But it stank of vinigar... so I have to wait for it to be washed, hopefully I can wear it on Monday to show everyone at work what a 20x developer I am. 😂

Pedro Cruz • Jul 14 '19

Starting my new portfolio with gatsby and strapi :D

Shamima Hossain • Jul 13 '19

My one would be having my first interview and also writing about it on dev.to

dev.to/shamimahossai13/my-first-in...

David Mendez Guardado • Jul 12 '19

this week was plenty for me, i start my blog(the journey post at lest 2-3 time at week), i lear how to use docker, and optimize all my code in one project that generates an XML.!!!!