What was your win this week?

This week, I...

Spoke at my first Meetup!

It was at Flatiron for a group of friends.

The talk was based on this post:

The Three Skills (Plus One) You Should Be Learning As A Developer

Yechiel Kalmenson

#beginners#codenewbie#coding#learning

This week, I made an open source contribution to the sidekiq-throttled gem that will improve it's performance dramatically for certain use cases. It is not merged yet, but the maintainers like it so far!

This week, I merged my first commit into Elixir core!

PR in question was this: github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/pull...

Jose gave me pointers of where to start, but it was amazing to be able to dive into Elixir source code and understand how the language work, and I love it!

Hoping to contribute more to Elixir/Ruby related projects and just OSS in general :D

This week, I...updated the labeling system on the DEV repo! I didn't go through and relabel our backlog but it feels like the right direction moving forward.

This week, I... hit 5000 followers on Dev.to!

This week, I destroyed my release branch by merging the wrong branch into it and then paired with a coworker to fix it and merge the release branch into develop! Git is rough sometimes 😵

This week, I solved a bug that broke one of the most important features in a legacy application after updating it's libraries and build versions to add support for something else (fortunately the version wasn't released yet).
After 1.5 days of debugging, building and testing I finally found the solution 1 hour before my weekend starts.

This week, I shipped the third Glitch Challenge: Make a Web Map with Leaflet! The hope is for these challenges to make getting started on Glitch a little bit easier -- if you have a chance to give it a try and make a web map, would love to hear how it goes! glitch.com/culture/make-a-web-map-...

(also I made a fun version while developing the real one; see gif below 🍑)

This week, I... made it through the week

My win of the week was to recovering from a burnout, I realized my personal project was not as good as I thought, also I discovered some local projects in production better than the mine, I got demotivated, the passion about it slow down, but after taking couple days resting and speaking with other devs, I am on the road again and working in the project.
 
My grain of sand:

1) Do not compare your project with others if you are not sure that is for making your own better.

2) If you are in a burnout moment, rest, rest, rest, let your mind to take a break.

3) Speak with colleagues, they could have the answers you are looking for, in my case we all talk about our experiences about a burnout, what they do before and after, when and why to leave a project etc... The humans, we are a social species we need to communicate to release tension, if you not is like drinking a poison meanwhile watching netflix.

This week, I hit 1000 subscribers on YouTube!!! :)

One of my students and I finished an assignment they had on writing a minimum-heap in Python 3 ( dev.to/therealdarkmage/writing-a-m.... )

I made some progress on a primitive game development setup in Python 3 for quick prototyping, Proof-of-concepts, and GameDev Jams. The direction of the game has also been decided, which is very exciting because I have something that I actually WANT to work on now!

Also, I just have to say..."Spark joy" is a phrase I've heard on "Tidying Up with Marie Kondo...I love to see a fellow dev using it ^_^

This week, I built my first portfolio/blog 🎉💲

This week, I set up set up reverse proxies on a few sub-domains! Now nginx doesn't doesn't so intimidating. :)

I also made my first technical post and I got two teeth pulled (one of which being a wisdom tooth)! So that alone is a major personal win lol.

Strangely enough..

This week, I drank a lot less caffeine