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Jess Lee
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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Waylon Walker

I survived one week of e-learning and working while kids are home full time! Hats off to my wonderful wife to did the bulk of e-learning. She has so much more patience for their emotions than anyone I know.

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Meat Boy • Edited

Congrats for you and your wife, learning is even harder than working (☞゚ヮ゚)☞ since you must be focused all the time. 🥳

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Ryan (he/him) • Edited

I published my first ever DEV.to post:


something I've been working on and meaning to do for a while now! 🎉

And I worked my first whole week from home (did the post in the saved commute time).

Happy Friday!!

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Corey McCarty

Liquid tags make for much nicer links

Use{% post https://dev.to/ryan_nanson/how-to-generate-harry-potter-spells-using-neural-networks-2bf6 %} and there are more if you tap the I below the comment box.

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Ryan (he/him)

Thank you! Never used those before! I have updated my comment :)

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Aashir Khan

Just read it, your writing style is amazing 🙂. Would love to see some star wars stuff 😁?

Just Kidding LoL, I highly recommend you to read this post not just because it's different because it'll take you to an interesting journey 😉.

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Ryan (he/him)

Thank you so much! I liked your post too :)

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Nick Taylor

Congrats on your first post!

1st place in Mariokart

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Ryan (he/him)

Thank you!! :)

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Aashir Khan • Edited

I crossed 250 followers on Twitter ⭐ and they all are amazing and I'm quite happy because of the engagement rate.

I also made a pet project to fresh up my skills - Rangeeni Color Picker 🎨:

Website: rangeeni.surge.sh
GitHub Repo: github.com/justaashir/rangeeni_col...
Please ⭐⭐⭐ the repo

I also wrote a post about my design approach here:

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Gift Egwuenu
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Nick Taylor

Awesome news Gift!

Tom Cruise lookalike sliding by saying "Aww Yeah!"

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Gift Egwuenu

Thanks Nick!

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Waylon Walker

Frictionless Data looks fascinating.

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Gift Egwuenu

Yeah it is :) I'll be sharing more content on here in coming weeks.

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Chris Achard
  • Managed to get at least some work done given the circumstances
  • Launched async.dev (async standups for remote teams) as a mini side project! Looking forward to doing work on that as a distraction from regular work :)
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Waylon Walker

Wicked good timing to release any sort of remote team application. 👏

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Chris Achard

I thought so :)

I've actually owned the domain (and had the idea) for about a year - but I figured it was time to get going and actually release the thing 😁

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Robert

It's the perfect time.

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Davide Santangelo

improved datorss.com with a lot of covid-19 data.

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Helder Burato Berto

The reason for winning this week is the fact of having a safe home and being able to remain in this moment of chaos that the world is experiencing. #StayHome

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Waylon Walker

Well Said

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Stephanie Morillo

I started an online course, I published my newsletter (first issue in a few weeks), and I used ProductPlan for the first time, which gave me so much joy cos I needed a way to visualize my release plans! ^_^

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Nick Taylor

Noice!

Noice!

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Stephan Nijman

Due to the crisis my workload has dropped dramatically and for now (This will probably change :p) my wife and i have the whole work from home with kids thing pretty well under control so that leaves me with a lot of free time and boredom. So I finally got around to submitting small contributions/patches to WordPress. Time will tell if they get accepted but it has been a fun exercise.

So if you find yourself with lots of free time as well i can really recommend checking out some open source projects. Especially if you never contributed to OS before, figuring out how that whole process goes is a fun little ride.

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Nick Taylor

Definitely feeling pretty good about the upgrade to webpacker 4 and Babel 7 for DEV.

Now I'm halfway through the Storybook upgrade. All kinds of goodness coming into the codebase.

Robert Redford in the woods nodding with approval

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Arpit Mohan

After 7 months of coding, finally released a product that I've wanted for so long! Frontend-as-a-Service for backend engineers like me!

So excited 🕺!

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Mayank Badola

I setup a Network Load Balancer and a VPC Endpoint (we use AWS) at work, to tear down a redundant stack of 100+ service instances.

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nkr275

sir why don't you write an article on it. it may usefull to many

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Mayank Badola

Good idea! I'll keep you in the loop if I do end up with some content.

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Matthew Daly

This week my entire team made the transition to working from home. It's not by choice, but the whole coronavirus situation means that if we can work from home, we have a responsibility to do so. So, from Wednesday I've been working from home until further notice.

Thursday was tough because I still hadn't sorted out a proper space and I got stressed out. Today was much better because the study was cleared out so I could work in there.

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Mayank Badola

I'm sure next week would be better. Keep strong!

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Dzhavat Ushev
  • Participated in a two-days online meeting with around 50+ people where we planned the work for the next three months. Given that this was the first time we such planning online, we were quite efficient.
  • Launched v2 of my CSS Flexbox Cheatsheet VS Code extension and got a lot of positive feedback ❤
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Ben Morris

Installed!

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Forest Hoffman

Unfortunately last week, my PC suffered some nasty damage to my motherboard, so I ordered a new board, and processor (cause why not). Managed to find a pretty solid upgrade for under $300. To my surprise, it got delivered a day early! It only took 2 hrs to setup, with no hiccups! 😄