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Looking back, what was something you're proud of?
All wins count -- big or small!
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- Getting to all your meetings on time
- Starting a new project
- Fixing a tricky bug
- Cleaning your house...or whatever else that may spark joy 😄 🎉
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Congratulations!!!
That is awesome !
Congrats!
congratulations! Please write a blog here about your journey!
This week, I....managed to exercise every day! And got some awesome feedback from @peter :
Awesome! Don't you love how exercise clears the mind and holistically benefits? I think I am now addicted to walks a couple times a day.
This week, I manage not to overwhelm myself and stretch myself too thin by saying 'no' at work.
Nice! This is one of the skills that I wish I was a bit better at.
That is so important!
This week, I thought of a fun side project! Going to try to do it this weekend... stay tuned! ;)
I hope you wrote it down before you forget 😈😉
This week, I... learned how to set up SSL, disable TLS 1.0, and update our DNS settings without taking down production!!!
Gratz!! I am browsing basically the same waters (mostly SSL now), so any resources / links could be of a great help :) Once again - sincere congratulations :)
I should note that I've essentially done this with training wheels since we're on Heroku 😂 Here are the resources I used to set this up:
traceroute
to make sure my new DNS settings were in placeopenssl
for confirming that we don't support TLS 1.0 was very useful.openssl s_client -connect google.com:443 -tls1 -servername google.com
in particularGeneral docs that have helped me as I voyage into networking:
Can you please run down the steps you've followed to achieve this.
Sure! I'm using Heroku for this though, so a lot of the "hard stuff" was abstracted away. My basic process was like so:
traceroute
to check that domain resolves to the new SSL endpointheroku certs:remove
command from the CLIopenssl
or SSL Labs (takes much longer but is interesting)Hi Anna
I'm struggling with the same issue,
I meant to ask, what certificate providers did you use?
and does setting ssl-endpoint means that you have to renew it manually when the certificate expires?
and does this means that if our websites forces browser to use a secure connection that would be a down time if the certificate expires
I am new to this and I've read tons of articles which made me more confused
I built a snowman for the first time.

love it!
A+
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...
Congrats!
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!
We need a POST about it
Sure I would do that.
Nice! That's some serious time saved!! 🔥
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!
And now I've actually posted my first post on dev.to 🎉🎉🎉
Run your Node.js application on a headless Raspberry Pi
Bogdan Covrig ・ Feb 17 ・ 9 min read
Felicitări!
Să fie!
Woohoo, congrats!
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.
Sweet!
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.
That's great progress! but also a bit risky, that's a drastic weight loss.
When we talk about weight loss we're supposed to lose the extra pounds lying around in form of fat. Often when water fasting we lose water, carbs and muscle mass. Im putting extra emphasis on muscle mass as it's very important. Hope you're taking these things in consideration :)
Yes, you are right. We need to keep electrolytes and other things inside body while doing water fasting. I tried to use sea salt and other methods to keep them inside.
Real magic happens when body fully transformed into ketosis mode.
Wow! How did you feel doing it?
First two days were tough, like very tough. Alot of headache, low energy.
Couldn't sleep the second night.
Third day was great, felt fresh like usual days and was ready to make it 5 days.
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.
Nice!
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.
That's awesome! I feel like the D3 stuff I do is cobbled together in a "just works" fashion and would love to actually get it working on purpose.
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 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....
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.
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
I've been watching coast from afar for a little while. Definitely fills an important niche in the Clojure community!
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 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....created a plugin for share whatsapp stickers with Cordova on Ionic and viabilized a project with this solution.
Hi, I'm struggling with creating an ionic whatsapp sticker app. Can you help me?
Of course, see the repository with the plugin and create a issue if you have any questions.
This week, I learnt about css flex, I really enjoyed it
I remember the first time I learned about flexbox and it blew my mind. Same when I first found out about grid!
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.
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.
I've been GIS & Developer for more than 15 years.
My experience with this field is not that good.
I always see either GIS experts who are not very strong programmers, and who know very little about best practices in programming and building large enterprise level applications.
Or I hang out with developers who follow all good practices and all new tech, but know nothing about GIS.
In my careers, I only see very few who combine both.
At my current job, lots of developers, and we want GIS, but they know very little about GIS.
Well, I hope that with StraTopo, we can combine our skills to bridge that gap.
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....
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 week, I....
This week, I started a new job.
This week, I learn that the error:
Is resolve by this patch:
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
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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!
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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! 🐥🎊
Actually I'm doing Masters and Job , both as full-time. Really hard to find time to do walking and exercises. That was the main reason i selected water fasting.
I will try intensive walking and other methods once my study gets complete.