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

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

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....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.... 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 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.... 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....

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

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

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....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 learnt about css flex, I really enjoyed it

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'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....

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 started a new job.

This week, I....

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

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.

This week, on Dev.to I made it to the Top 7 Posts of the week and got the nicest shout out from Malik and Dan for my post on SQL concepts. It's a great feeling to know that it's helped others out and that we have a growing community of database, analytics and SQL enthusiasts.

Dev.to Review #15: Top 7 Of The Week, Discussed

Daniel Golant

#bestofdev#career#discuss#webdev

At work, the database migration I've been working on is almost at an end. After over six months of workshopping with users, design, build and moving 50 data analysts and all their things to the new Aurora database we are ready to retire SQL Server.

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

Edison Yap

#ruby#computerscience#c

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Edison Yap

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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 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 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.

This week, I built a full dynamic web app inside a tool I've been working on for the past 4 months (divjoy.com) and it actually went really well. First time really dogfooding my own product. Whether it's ultimately successful or not I can now say that it's at least something I like and would use and that I'm not completely crazy 😁

This week, I fixed an issue where we had been using dpkg and it crashed when installing dependencies that are circular.

I learnt that apt manages dependency resolution and order of installation.

Yet to learn how apt does that though.

This week, I worked with TWO libraries I believed were complicated to use some time ago. Turns out they were easy to use(to me).

The libraries are rmagick and minimagick.

I needed to generate a signature of users in the project I'm working on and this signature needed to be an image. Both libraries are wrappers for ImageMagick and that used to scare me a bit because in my initial days in Ruby on Rails rmagick had a bad fame in the company 😆

I ended using both because it wasn't possible to install rmagick in Docker Alpine. Both libraries let me achieve the job. Both are awesome.

This week, I signed a contract with a company I've been wanting to work at since something like three years ago. This was the third try (third time's the charm!). They said I made quite a progress. :D

I am going to help fighting global food waste!

This week I published a pre-release of an R package I've been working on at work. I've mainly done work in Python, but it feels good to get my first "big" R package to a mostly completed point.

This.
dev.to/uyouthe/switching-class-nam...

This week, I got an offer for my first engineering role!

It's been a crazy 6 month shift (left my job August 17, 2018, received my offer February 13, 2019).

Feeling really grateful to everyone who's helped me along the way.

This week, I posted about one of my projects: Marcdown on dev.to

I received immense support and suggestions from my fellow devs on it (100+ reactions and 2000+ views). Thank you all for the support on here as well as on GitHub. Love you all ❤🧡💛💙💚💜

This week, I worked on a POC for migrating some SQL tables to MongoDB and forced myself to use Docker to do it, as I'm working on another project using Docker as well. Was super psyched to combine and use two technologies that are new to me in a single project.

This week, I....

had a couple of wins

• Turned over mobile project to QA
• Got pagination and custom page links working in GatsbyJS
• Continued my weekly release of a mini podcast

This week, I got my first open source react library react-3ducks into the awesome-react-components list

This week, I met my new team at my new company, and today, dealt with my first tickets and published my first three PRs. Yaaay 🎉

This week, I'm really happy with the progress of night theme with the awesome leadership of @link2twenty . Built in a way which will be extensible for future theme stuff.

This week, I attended the VueJS Amsterdam conference and got a lot of awesome inspiration how to get started / improve on those side projects!

No, I wish! The egghead stuff was about accessibility, though. The teaching gig was on introduction to HTML and CSS :)

Kinda because I moved to a snowy area, but that's because work took me there for a week.

Hello,can you please elaborate the error? I just checked in, and everything is fine.

This week, I started learning flutter by using it to build UIs I found on Dribbble (this was yesterday)

This week, I passed my Security+ exam! I've worked in tech for a few years now and this is the first industry certification I've sat for.

This week, I....published my first article on DEV

Learn Javascript: Introduction

This week, I stay coding

This week, I started learning flutter by using it to build UIs I found on Dribbble (this was yesterday)

This week, I, along with my team, launched our first production release! This is the first time my product team, which I joined in October 2018, has launched code to our production environment.

This week, after an 18-month sabbatical from the workforce, got a 6-mo contract-to-hire gig only 9 minutes from my house. Adult conversations, again! Yay, me!

This week, yep I make my 2019 resolutions finally 😁

This week, I manage to convince my boss to use Figma to design our clients theme, in the past we used to develop the theme with no design... Marketing Agency

This week, I managed to complete a task we thought would take at least 3 weeks, since it's a legacy codebase and was untouched for the past 2 years.