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Looking back on your week -- what was something you're proud of?
All wins count -- big or small π
Examples of 'wins' include:
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I just signed with a new company this week that essentially acts as a promotion with a bigger pay, and better benefits and perks.
This all happened because I was recommended for the position. Personally, being recommended is a great feeling since you know the person who recommended you believes and trusts your skill.
Big congrats to you!
Thank you thank you!
Wrote my first post on dev.to
Worked on my 2026 portfolio. Haven't launched it yet but you can see it at 2026.vicentereyes.org π
Beautiful site, Vincente. I love this typographic style. I would read a post about how you built this.
Here it is! blog.vicentereyes.org/brutal-effic...
Thanks! I appreciate it! I'll write an article about it for you
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Your site looks amazing!
Thank you!
I wrote my first blog on Agents; AWS DevOps Agent introduced in re:Invent 2025
dev.to/aws-builders/aws-devops-age...
Blog talks
tf codeGive it a try and let me know what you think
Wow, that sounds impressive. I din't see an event. Is this AI-powered agent?
This was update given in Aws re:Invent 2025. Yes this AI powered uses AWS FM models behind the scenes
Fixed a bug that was bothering me for two weeks ;D
The BEST
I became a judge at Webby awards!
whoa!
I hope I am not late to reply. :)
A minor success with sandboxing Python code.. securely, ultra low execution time.
nice!
After 5 years, I started competitive coding.
Somehow, I have a feeling in my bones that we all may need to go back to the core Data structure and algorithm days in this era of AI.
Writing a post about the recent 0.3 release of my project GoREST. A powerful and open source library to easily and quickly create production grade REST APIs dev.to/nicolasbonnici/say-hello-to...
Made my first post π
It was a great post! Here for anyone that wants to check it out:
Behind the Screens: The Quiet Work That Shapes the Code
MeL γ» Dec 5
Thanks very much! ππΏππΏ I really appreciate the support.
i just finished up a personal project right at month 6 of my sabbatical. didn't spend the whole time on it, mostly traveled, but it feels good to get back into some work. shared a few thoughts on dev.to but might read a bit self-promo. will get back to a more interesting post about ai-coding prod-ready extensions without spaghetti code.
Awesome! Where did you travel to?
bikepacked france, austria and a bit of romania. can't wait for spring to get back in the saddle. planning to cycle s korea next.
That sounds pretty epic! I have a pipe dream of cycling the full island of Taiwan sometime.
Spun up and tested various ingress NGINX replacements (HAProxy, Oracle native ingress) ahead of the controller being retired in a few months.
I was installed a gemini and copilot CLI to help my modrenization process further. In this week I was burn down my tokens day by day, and I watch how the AI is fight of this process. Run a hours, and fall a loop many times. After I found a better way if I make a more precise prompt to avoide the tokens waste working methos. For example:
pnpm lint once, then solve problem one bye one at the end make a final pnpm lint to test all problem are solved.which is did in one pass instead a previos day problem loop.
I launched my open-source embedded ChatGPT App & MCP App SDK, sunpeak!
Congrats on all the shipping and promotions, everyone!
Congrats to you too!
I finished a small demo today that I want to include in my next post π
Published a post after more than 2 years and got my pet project moving.
I created a new framework called 'Soft Skills Engineering,' and to promote it, I started writing for DEV. As planned, I was able to write 40 articles within three weeks! I've also updated my resume to reflect this and pitched it to several companies.
My project earned 100 stars on github :0
Nice! You should show it off here:
DEV's Worldwide Show and Tell Challenge Presented by Mux: Pitch Your Projects! $3,000 in Prizes. π₯
Jess Lee for The DEV Team γ» Dec 3
Wrote my first 2025 post after having a writer's block and many drafts of unpublished posts .
I published my first ever pure LaTeX cheatsheet :
... also I made a little gift as a TUI storytelling for a new opendata geolocation API :
Recorded the Demo videos for my application. Painful to hear my own voice but its done. planhq.tech/
Added mindmap and concept map features to my learning tool
I love that other people are doing this, I'm building a learning tool that is focused on what helps/supports me.
What are you building?
I study a lot in the anki/flashcard style, but the official app is outdated. So I'm just "vibe coding" a personal version of it, I doubt I'll ever release it but I love studying through it and adding the features I need to it.
600 registered users on my platform, PingMyNetwork
I'm trying to read 1000 books to my kids before they turn 5yo. The app I was using really sucked so I vibe coded a much better one via Google AI yesterday. Going to keep testing it out through the weekend and see if it stands up for my use case. π
What was the pain point?
I needed to click a million buttons to scan and add a book to the 'library' and apply it to my kid's profile. Now it's 1-2 buttons max, and my 4 year old can scan it herself! And it's speedy :)
I built Git-Scope, a blazing fast TUI (Terminal User Interface) written in Go. It acts as a "God Mode" dashboard for your local git universe. It recursively scans your projects folder, gives you a real-time status of 50+ repositories at once, and lets you fuzzy-search and jump into them instantly.
Available in macos(brew), windows, binary
π» Project: github.com/Bharath-code/git-scope
π Site: bharath-code.github.io/git-scope/
Blog: dev.to/iam_pbk/how-to-tame-your-mu...
Awesome, you did a great job on this one. I looked at your website and noticed that the demo project animation is too fast; users will not have enough time to see how the program works.
I have already starred the GitHub repository
Fixed it. thanks for your feedback.
v1.0.1 Release Contents
β¨ Animated spinner during scanning
π Improved error messages with config path
β‘ Smart ignore patterns for faster scans
π§ Performance fix for home directory scanning
Kindly share feedback.
Thanks, will fix it.
Notched another week where in I did not once purposefully use a modern AI (LLM slop machine) for any purpose.
I began learning a new programming language (go)
I referred a family member to the book "AI Application Programming" - M. Tim Jones 2003 to help them understand what AI actually is.
My win this week was making it to Friday!
Sometimes it's the simple wins that have the most impact.
Attended my first wealth literacy course today. The mindset shift is real: trading in day-to-day planning for decades of financial strategy.
I made a few web layouts using CSS and floats for my 100Devs homework, and the last one ended up looking good enough for me to feel comfortable making it public. I've seen improvements in my web UI design skills over the past week or so from the practice.
My first two posts became a little more visible.
Here
And here
These are great posts!
Started my personal website and post articles there. It's written with react + vite of course with the help of AI, but supporting it became easy even without AI.
Truly said I don't like creating frontend apps, but just wanted it to be owned and design by me.
For now I wrote about application security development lifecycle with CI/CD.
I'm a backed guy π
Interesting what do you thing, about it matevosian.tech ?
It looks great! You should add DEV to your social links (SVGs here) π
Good idea π thanks π
Submitted two dev.to challenge entries! It would honor me if you give them a look/like!
Uno - dev.to/datadr1ven/gbc-scorecard-fi...
Xano - dev.to/datadr1ven/f1-driver-strate...
Worked on my cybersecurity skills, learned some new concepts, stayed consistent, got a new phone after having to deal with a really slow one and probably a lot more that Im forgetting, but yeah, it's been pretty cool so far!
I launched DB Toolkit β a free and open database management application Iβm building as an alternative to the usual paid tools.
DB Toolkit makes it easier for developers to explore, manage, and interact with different databases without subscriptions or outdated interfaces.
Check it out here
I wrapped up a project that I had been delaying for a while. The workflow finally clicked and the results came together better than I expected. I also learned a new trick in my design stack that saved me a lot of time. Small win, but it felt good. Happy Friday!
fixed a critical bug, which helped half of my office related to self-hosted gitlab.
I realized that my first pull request to Elasticsearch Go Client was accepted and merged.
Made my first post, and launched my first product. :)
Finishing every pair session (context window) with the AI with "is there anything we've discussed or coded that we need to document?"
Saw my devtool is being actively used by developers :)
I build an App for turning a Markdown Language File into a Word Document
This week I solved a surprisingly real-world problem for a customer.
The problem
I added a brand-new project to my companyβs GitHub repository and wrote a proper
README.mdwith full documentation.Clean Markdown, well-structured, easy to maintain β perfect for developers.
Butβ¦ the actual users of the documentation didnβt have access to the Git repo π¬
What they did want was a Word document they could open, comment on, and pass around.
Copy/paste into Word?
Broken formatting.
Headings, lists, tables, code blocks β all messed up.
The win
Instead of manually converting docs every time, I wrote a jdBasic app that converts Markdown directly into a formatted Word document via COM automation.
β Headings β Word styles
β Lists & blockquotes
β Inline formatting (bold, italics, code)
β Tables
β Unicode & emojis (yes, even π)
β Fully automated β no manual cleanup
The result:
.docxWhy this felt like a big win
Bonus
I open-sourced the converter so others can learn from it or adapt it:
π Markdown β Word converter in jdBasic
github.com/AtomiJD/jdBasic/blob/ma...
Sometimes the biggest wins arenβt flashy new frameworks β theyβre the small tools that quietly remove friction for everyone involved.
This one definitely felt like a win. π
Wow, that is cool, congrats
Starred it
My win this week: I was promoted to Trust Member π, Iβm now part of the trusted core. Looking forward to contributing more to DEV and the community.