What was your win this week?

This week, I....managed to exercise every day! And got some awesome feedback from @peter :

You are almost always our “enough is enough, let’s just do this now” forcing function. In a great way.

This week, I manage not to overwhelm myself and stretch myself too thin by saying 'no' at work.

This week, I... learned how to set up SSL, disable TLS 1.0, and update our DNS settings without taking down production!!!

This week, I thought of a fun side project! Going to try to do it this weekend... stay tuned! ;)

I built a snowman for the first time.

This week, I.... made it through! Had a tough week with personal stuff on top of the stuff I normally do, and was stressed.

This week, I wrote an entire library with best practices and CI/CD in spite of high pressure from management and with a tight approaching deadline. Feels good at the end of the day to have done the right thing...

This week, I managed to re-engineer a SQL job that was running for more than 6 hours and make it run in 10 minutes!

This week, I replaced promise...then...catch with async/await in an app and took the time to throw relevant errors. It has made the code much easier to read. Next step is to add try/catch blocks to refine error handling.

I also ran 3 days this week (wish it would get warm! Hurry up Spring!)

This week, I managed to leave my job without turning into a big crying mess!

In all seriousness, it is more that I have progressed into fulltime work on my dream of running a Software Dev company.

This week, I finally finished my first post on dev.to. I still have to check it a few times and it will be ready to be published this weekend!

This week, I built out a workflow to patch a bunch of servers in parallel. Needs some brains still, but it's already going to save a couple days a month for whichever engineer has to roll out patches to our relatively large fleet.

This week, I.... updated my side project to be a PWA! It was a lot of fun looking into what was required and making the minor tweaks to get it going.

This week, I....managed to do 3 Days Water Fasting and lost about 2.5KG weight.

For those who keep working day at night by sitting on computer like me and cant go to gym should do Water fasting to lost weight.

This week, I.... had a paid teaching gig. Recorded and editing an egghead video. I also managed to figure out some tricky map stuff in d3.

This week, I figured out how to mass auto remove unused imports in an angular (or any typescript project). It saved me at least 8 hours worth of work!!!

This week, I went to the gym for the first time. My friend and I have a whole scheduled plan setup, so we're actually really sure that we'll be able to keep up with the gym. So in the 22 years of my life, I'll finally get fit, rather than have my only exersise be the danse floor at my favorite night club 👍🏻

This week, I Made a notepad and deployed it on boiling-plains-87481.herokuapp.com . It is a very basic notepad for now but I'll be adding functionalities as time goes along. I'm a beginner so any feedback would be appreciated.

This week, I refactored another major piece of untestable code using a solution to a problem I encountered that was provided via Dev.to!

This week, I....

• Got to experience an actual snowfall for the first time
• Got recognized for my skills as a developer by a senior dev!

Worked on my full stack clojure web framework (github.com/coast-framework/coast) again, feels good to pick it back up after a solid month off

This week, I shaved 25% off a hosting bill by caching a few template fragments that were generated on every page load and didn't really need to be.

This week, I started a new job.

This week, I....

Fixed my snowblower by replacing the carburetor for $20 instead of spending $800 on a whole new machine. It was really close though; earlier in the week, in full temper-tantrum, I went to the store to buy a new snow blower but they were out of the one I wanted, so I went home and ordered the part I needed. Just earlier this evening I put it on and it runs like a champ.

This'll be a huge learning experience for me. The company only just started. The founder has a background in geographical models, but relatively little IT experience. Together with another person I've known for quite a while, I'll help build (mostly web) applications around the models he makes. Apart from toying with PostGIS, I have very little GIS programming experience, so there's a lot to learn.

This week, I learnt about css flex, I really enjoyed it

This week, I....created a plugin for share whatsapp stickers with Cordova on Ionic and viabilized a project with this solution.

This week, I told my boss that I will quit my job in May to go to the next step in my career.
I love the company and people I'm working for and with, so it was challenging to tell my boss the intention to leave.
The next step is to complete a big project I'm currently working on, and then get a job in the US.

This week, I learn that the error:

ERROR in node_modules/rxjs/internal/types.d.ts(81,44): error TS1005: ';' expected
node_modules/rxjs/internal/types.d.ts(81,74): error TS1005: ';' expected.
node_modules/rxjs/internal/types.d.ts(81,77): error TS1109: Expression expected.

Is resolve by this patch:

index c91361e..77d0383 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -73,6 +73,6 @@
         "protractor": "~5.3.0",
         "ts-node": "~5.0.1",
         "tslint": "~5.9.1",
-        "typescript": "~2.7.0"
+        "typescript": "~2.8"
     }
 }

This week, I.... got access to the Dev server we are going to set up so that we can use Python, Node.js, and other modern tooling. Collaborating with the other Dev on my team, has been great, and we're able to do some experimenting now with some modern stacks. Previously working with AIX and some other older tech/ desperate systems where at best we are exporting text files to run some of our business processes. Other teams have moved forward but this is a small but powerful step for my team.

Stupid humblebrag: This week, I played Tetris 99 for the first time not knowing what the rules are or that it's actually an online game. It confused the heck out of me. Not understanding the gibberish that was going on on the screen I made it to the end. And I realized that I ranked number 4 against 98 other players. Yay me 😄

This week, I....

• learned how to skii
• finished my side project
• celebrated my loved ones bday

This week, I scheduled a script to run automatically at a specified time and date in order to send me a notification to my phone when is bin collection day.

This week, I finally released devtocli and planning to take it to producthunt

sarthology / devtocli

👩🏻‍💻 Browse and Search Dev.to Posts from Command Line

Dev.to CLI

Wanted to get Dev.to on your terminal? Ahoy! now you can.

Usage

1. Check the top posts

You can get top posts from the Dev.to feed in your terminal using:

devto

2. Check top posts by tag

Easy post search using the tag, you can use

devto tag javascript

if you don't know the keyword, you can use the search tag feature using

devto tag

3. Check recent posts by any author

You can check 5 most recent posts of any author using

devto author sarthology

4. Check top posts by timeline

You can check top posts on Dev.to for a specific timeframe using

devto top week

There are several options like week month year infinity. If you want to see the options just type

devto top

5. Search top posts by a keyword

Use the powerful search feature to find posts using keywords

devto search sarthology

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This week, I.... actually finished one of my i-only-do-this-to-learn projects.

This week, I.... setup Ruby environment for the first time and actually wrote some Ruby code 😄

I haven't seen any performance improvements in my code. It's just that the code is clearer and therefore more readable and maintainable. Without the then/catch blocks its much shorter as well. I haven't measured this, but in a large project there could even be measurable decrease in overall bundle size. However, at the end of the day async/await is still a promise under the covers.

It has been a dream of mine for the majority of my life. Always liked computers and always wanted to run a company. In my linked article, I explain it in a little more detail etc. 🙂

This week, I made my first comment here on DEV after two years of lurking. About darn time.

Also I rewrote a legacy SQL Reporting query so that it now runs in <5 seconds instead of nearly 2 minutes. It was a really, really poorly written query, felt good to put it out of its misery.

This week, my team and I finished a new app we are now ready to deploy it to prod next week 🎉

This week, I....was able to get get started with the Twitter API with the help of Raspberry Pi projects. I just now need to figure out how to direct the dadjokes CLI to twitter from my terminal to make it post new jokes to my Facebook every morning lol

This week, I pushed out two blog posts!

It's on my new year resolution to write more and I'm glad it's moving along (along with everything else!).

Check them out, would appreciate feedback so I could improve!

How arrays work the way arrays work

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This week, I had to deliver a few features on a pre-ES6 AngularJS 1.4 module which had not been touched for years. I was able to finish it as well as modernizing the codebase. Though I was 10 minutes late past the soft deadline.

This week, I defined the smallest product that I can sell without taking weeks to build it: a lean content marketing video course with automation tools & tricks for entrepreneurs who want to do content marketing for their product or services.

I'm starting out In Dutch to make it easier and will translate it into English once this works out 🙌🏻💪🏻

This week, I got laid off for the first time. I had a healthy conversation at the meeting where the message was delivered and helped the CEO/CTO to get all the formalities of termination done.
I feel weirdly refreshed, and will take the next steps.
My apologies if it's bit of a downer for the post - I do feel proud for how I handled it though

This week, I wrote an article from the Open Genius IQ website. It will not be published yet, but the editor loves it. So I think that I will be writing more articles from them soon.

This week, I fixed a bug that was haunting us for about 4 months. Due to the misuse of a library, our app had a deadlock. Funny point was that the misused code was there for years, but some other libraries' changes invoked the buggy behaviour. Post-mortem yet to come.

This week, I installed a dishwasher into our tiny kitchen with just slight prior experience with plumbing. Internet (and specifically YouTube) is a magical place. If you wanna have a laugh, see this video of us trying to find the main water valve: twitter.com/MichalBryxi/status/109...

Until this week, I never understood the need for <meta charaset="UTF-8"> in HTML.

Finally figured out why it was needed.

'twas all for the emojis! 🐥🎊