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What was your win this week?

Jess Lee on August 23, 2019

👋👋👋👋 Looking back on your week -- what was something you're proud of? All wins count -- big or small 🎉 Examples of 'wins' include: Getting a p...

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Mikhail Korolev • Aug 23 '19 • Edited

I got a job offer I was waiting for almost a month. And now I have to pack my stuff, sell my car, apartment, things, throw old junk away and then travel ~6.5k kilometres away from my place. A whole new life in less than 2 weeks from now! Yeehaw!

Juneau Lim • Aug 23 '19

It's a huuuuuuge win. Congrats!!! You will figure it out. no worries. Hope all the best!

Ben Halpern • Aug 23 '19

We added a protocol in standup-style team meetings that everyone says "thank u, next" when they are done talking, to cut down on awkward silences and keep things moving.

Big success so far.

Valentin Baca • Aug 23 '19

That's what happens when Ariana Grande is your scrum master lol

Gayan Hewa • Aug 23 '19

Sweet, we have a scrum masterish person who comes up with random orders to do the stand up, by age, by name, by the time you started work, and a few really crazy criterion too.

Valentin Baca • Aug 23 '19

Our team just goes in a circle for those in person. For those that dial-in, we just use alphabetical order by last name. This is the order that people show up in Chime, so it's just going "down the list" for them.

Martin Huter • Aug 24 '19

I will suggest this in my team. Really like it.

Ana Liza Pandac • Aug 23 '19

This week, I finally published my first open source npm package 🔥
github.com/analizapandac/share-tex...

It's a small JS utility library for sharing text content via WhatsApp or via the native sharing widget of your device.

Ben Halpern • Aug 23 '19

Nice!

Cristiana Man • Aug 30 '19

Impressive :)

Jess Lee • Aug 23 '19

This week, I...finally fixed a bug that I'd been putting off for a few weeks!

(i don't know what these scary puppets are but I love them)

Juneau Lim • Aug 23 '19

You need a better one!

Akashdeep Singh • Aug 23 '19

I completed my MSc 🎉🎊. Last week, I submitted my dissertation, the code of which I will make open-source once it's graded. That was a hectic last year, but Iearned a lot and look forward to getting back in the product development game.

Juneau Lim • Aug 23 '19

So now only your paper and project has been shipped, but also you are onboard to the job market now.
Congratulation, and Good luck with the big game!🌟

Jacob Herrington (he/him) • Aug 23 '19

I was on a podcast -- as a guest instead of an interviewer 🤠

It was the Remote Ruby podcast with Jason Charnes and Chris Oliver!

Juneau Lim • Aug 23 '19

Wow, congrats! may I get an autograph from you, before you got more fame?
(and selling it on eBay...🤔)

R Post • Aug 23 '19

Wrote my first blog post!

Ben Halpern • Aug 23 '19

Congrats!

Muhammad • Aug 23 '19

GOT A BADGE

Delivered Front end Prototype
Got 3 New Exciting Job Offers from Saint Louis, MO
Guidelines Compiled for Open Sourcing Two of My Projects
Understood that One should fall in love with the process not the result, for only then can the result be obtained.
Made an Exciting MEME

Ben Halpern • Aug 23 '19

Big week!

Muhammad • Aug 23 '19

I guess some credit goes to you too... :)

Liyas Thomas • Aug 23 '19

I created Postwoman 👽 - An online, open source API request builder which helps you create your requests faster, saving you precious time on your development.

I wrote about it on dev.to here and getting lot of support from my fellow devs. Best week ever!!

Katie • Aug 23 '19 • Edited

I just delivered the last of my 3 back-to-back talks this Wednesday ... which were my first "serious" talks. Nothing more on deck -- phew!

I'm a year into conference/webinar speaking with no serious background in rhetoric, acting, or teaching (although, luckily, also without too much stage fright).

It was a lot of work. Like, part-time job levels of work.

But I gave 3 talks (1 conference and 2 "guest" webinars on YouTube series) that I'm proud of.

In 5 years, perhaps I'll look back on them and see how far I've come.
But I'm certain that I won't look back on them and cringe. They're solid enough to be in public for the rest of my career. I did it.

I hope to write a retrospective post with proper thank-yous to people who got me here.

Now off to a well-earned break of just doing my "real job!"

P.S. I presented about:

XML and JSON
An obscure new feature of Salesforce
Python as an alternative to Excel for editing spreadsheets

Jean-Michel 🕵🏻‍♂️ Fayard • Aug 23 '19

My first dev.to contribution and my first time with Ruby on rails (went smoothly thanks to God documentation from the team!)

github.com/thepracticaldev/dev.to/...

Jean-Michel 🕵🏻‍♂️ Fayard • Aug 23 '19

God documentation was a typo... but maybe not :)

Dor Shinar • Aug 23 '19

I've deployed a really big feature I've worked on for almost three months!🥳🥳

Gayan Hewa • Aug 23 '19

Pairing up with a mobile dev to smash a bug with Android push notification icons not showing up right on random phone models. Not being a mobile developer I was able to be a rubber duck / junior developer and ask all the dump questions to rethink the existing implementation and we managed fix the issue finally.

Juneau Lim • Aug 23 '19

My name has been listed on two sorta biggie local organization's website.
My crazy volunteer is getting unexpected paying me back, by making me recognised.

As a result, when I google my name, I am on top, ahead of the other one who has the same name(, and funnily, similar background with my previous study).🤘

Result two: I have three (non-paid) job title now.

Cary Miller • Aug 24 '19

This week I interviewed at YouTube—and no matter the outcome, I’m beyond thrilled with how well I performed. 😃 I decidedly DID NOT FLOP. If I can get through an interview at YouTube without breaking a sweat, I can do it anywhere. 🥳

Connor Tangney • Aug 23 '19

Two wins for me this week. One of them is definitely a little more visible than the other, but...

Update jQuery dependencies for three of our apps. The most recent version we had in production was 1.11!!!!! The better part of my week was spent just looking for and updating deprecated call sites... R.I.P.
Second, I was also able to set up a prototype dashboard for a new application feature without the use of Kendo. Folks around these parts have an aversion to just writing the HTML / CSS / JS they need, but when I showed them how easy it was to set the tabs up (instead of using Kendo's MVC API) everyone loved it.

Here's hoping I can keep pushing simplicity on my coworkers as opposed to more, obtuse frameworks to create really, simple things 😅

Ben Halpern • Aug 23 '19

Update jQuery dependencies for three of our apps. The most recent version we had in production was 1.11!!!!! The better part of my week was spent just looking for and updating deprecated call sites... R.I.P.

Wowwww

Connor Tangney • Aug 23 '19 • Edited

Yea...

Did I mention we're still using jQuery UI in production as well?

😭

Ben Halpern • Aug 23 '19

Edmund 🚀 • Aug 23 '19

Started building my blog 😁

David Mendoza (He/Him) • Aug 23 '19

I fixed a bug that took a week to solve, yeah actually it was easy it was my fault hahahaha :'v

David Brewer • Aug 23 '19

Made it 80% through my first frontend epic at work 👏

Vaibhav Arora • Aug 23 '19

Achieved my first Angular library component, now road further in my project will get a little smoother.
Got understanding of why I should go with stateless/stateful UI shared components.
And built my first npm package as well for shared UI styling

Bobby Iliev • Aug 23 '19

I've posted 5 blog posts on getting started with Docker on my website: bobbyiliev.com and I made 50 contributions to the DigitalOcean community forum!

Daniel Coturel • Aug 24 '19

I finally implemented a Kanban board-like feature in my requirements management software. This is an inhouse development, made to support the work we execute with customers.

It's simple, but underneath I have every need mapped to my contracts and time control, billing software, and compliance with an old ISO 9001 implementation. I want to make this tool the core of the workflow management.

Bartmr • Aug 23 '19

-- Got a new job in an "enterprisy" level where they trust my anarchist side
-- Will offboard current psychotherapy company by leaving a new UI kit with dynamic color themes, fully typed without the any keyword from typescript, and a Typescript serverless API.

Ryan Rousseau • Aug 23 '19

This week I,

(Work) Hosted a new webinar!
(Personal) Performed my first sketch and improv shows at the newly re-opened Dallas Comedy House!

Dzhavat Ushev • Aug 23 '19 • Edited

These posts are getting nicer and nicer! It's so exciting to see all the different things everyone has been working on. :)

This week I released another VS Code plugin. I believe it to be essential for everyone working with CSS! If you do, please give it a try :)
The second win is something I look forward to because it hasn't happened yet. I've signed up for a half marathon on Sunday. Let's see how that goes :)

Edit: Just completed the half marathon. It was really though! I'm glad it's over. Now I need to get some rest :)

Franco Sirena • Aug 23 '19

Migrated redux saga from 0.16 to 1.0.x
Migrated react redux from 5 to 7
Both in an extremely large application. Tough but worths the effort

Sarah Katz • Aug 23 '19

Finally finished the MVP for the personal project I've been working on for a few weeks, called "Share Wins".
More on that here - dev.to/sarahscode/share-wins-share...

Sumit • Aug 24 '19

This week I have fixed a small but very tricky bug caused by maintaining 2 types of the session in our application one is maintained by Memcache and one is maintained by redis. It took me 12 days to identify and 30 min to fix the bug 😌

Daniel Cunha (he/him) • Aug 23 '19 • Edited

I built my first project using React Native! :) I usually work with Ionic Framework and now I will surely change my stack!

github.com/zyzmoz/TopicWhiz

Christina Gorton • Aug 23 '19

Finished teaching my first cohort of 150+ students at Lambda School🙌 Start with new cohort in 2 weeks.

Samnan Rahee • Aug 24 '19

I was searching for a progress-bar badge to use in my projects' docs and didn't find any. So I just made one and made it opensource! 😎

You guys are welcome to use/hack it: bit.ly/yas-progdown

Happy coding! 💙

Maegan Wilson • Aug 25 '19

I made my first contribution on GitHub to a project that wasn't mine.

Raphael Okeibunor 🚀 • Aug 25 '19

Just created a simple calculator app with vue.js 😁

Max Ong Zong Bao • Aug 24 '19

I and the other organising team of the Junior Developer Singapore chapter started our mentoring programme for junior developers!!!

Last Wednesday, we conducted our first session of the mentorship for the first batch of junior developers.

I will be providing a session update on our learning and reflections on Dev and my blog to help people.

Who are looking to start their own mentoring programme for junior developers.

Launch of JuniorDev SG's Mentoring Programme

Max Ong Zong Bao ・ Aug 22 ・ 3 min read

#mentoring #career #discuss #beginners

Erik • Aug 23 '19

I figured out some socket programming concepts I was struggling with (C). also learned about meta programming in Ruby, it's crazy!

Thomas H Jones II • Aug 23 '19

Finally decided to bite the bullet and start messing around with Lambda. Previously, I hadn't had a specific problem I wanted to solve with Lambda (or boto, for that matter).

Worse, the customer's IA folks had been sitting on approval of using Lambda in production accounts for a couple years. That changed, this week.

So, I took the opportunity to do some "applied learning": wrote a quick suite of bulk backup (an backup-expiry) Lambda functions. I figure we can "safety" some of our newer-to-AWS customer-teams'accounts by configuring their accounts to do daily snaps of everything. That way, when customer's team-members open up AWS support cases to ask "how do I recover data from a deleted instance" (as one had earlier in the week), instead of AWS replying back, "you can't: the instance's disk is gone and you have no snapshots", AWS can tell them how to try to recover from snapshots.

Cara Margot • Aug 23 '19

I went to my first meetup in...at least a year...possibly more...and not only was it Not Terrifying, I had fun and met cool people!! s/o to JAMstack Philly for getting me out of my house!!!!

David Taitingfong • Aug 23 '19

On my windows machine I wrote a batch script to hide all of my dotfiles. Adding it to the Task Scheduler and learning what commands to type took way longer than I thought it would, but it works!

Now I'm looking for more trivial tasks to automate!

Idris Rampurawala • Aug 24 '19 • Edited

I joined dev early this year with an intention to learn more about technologies. But today I have started writing posts. Started sharing my knowledge and experience to the community. Also, have seen this community grow exponentially.

Besides, the greatest win for me this week is that I crossed 1300+ followers 😍🙃

Thanks you to the dev community! ❤️

Lewis kori • Aug 23 '19

I reached 1500 followers on dev.to. I am Really humbled.

Jean-Michel Plourde • Aug 24 '19

Finished my summer internship with praisings from my boss and colleagues then was offered a part-time job during my uni semesters. Couldn't be more happy with that!