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The Coding Mermaid 🧜‍♀️
The Coding Mermaid 🧜‍♀️

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✨️✨️✨️Tell me something that you achieved this year, that wasn't initially part of your goals? ✨️✨️✨️🦄🦄

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Thomas Hansen

I was fired in June 2021 from my current job. It gave me the motivation I needed to start my own company. Today we released version 1.0 of our product, which is a low-code software development automation tool and there are 4 of us in the company :)

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The Coding Mermaid 🧜‍♀️

Wow amazing accomplishment @polterguy you took something less good into a great opportunity to develop something yours! 🚀

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Thomas Hansen

It was the blessing of my life ^_^

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Shai Almog

I'm halfway through writing my 3rd book and in negotiations for writing my 4th. Both weren't on the horizon in January and my last book is from 2017 or 18.

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The Coding Mermaid 🧜‍♀️

That's awesome @codenameone !! Was there a trigger to do it? Or have you just felt inspired?

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Shai Almog

Publishers contacted me and asked me to write both. The first is something I really wanted to write for a while (a book about debugging). Publisher noticed tweets I wrote about it. Saw a couple of my talks on debugging Kubernetes and asked me for a pitch.

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Chuck Fischer

I went viral on twitter for roasting Ben Shapiro

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Michael Tharrington • Edited

Oh wow! 🙌 Good on ya and I'd seriously LOVE to see that! Would you mind linking us to the tweet?

You can embed it here using the following syntax:

{% embed https://... %}

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Brian Ng

Managed to effectively use more of aws-cdk (with serverless-stack) in personal and commercial projects - and managed to successfully deploy 'monorepo style' projects, with npm or yarn workspaces.

This learning journey & achievement even helped catapulted my personal projects in the AWS ecosystem - was initially planning to just accept 'manual AWS resource management' via the AWS Management Console.