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Jess Lee Subscriber for The DEV Team

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What was your win this week?

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Looking back on your week -- what was something you're proud of?

All wins count -- big or small 🎉

Examples of 'wins' include:

  • Getting a promotion!
  • Starting a new project
  • Fixing a tricky bug
  • Keeping a plant alive for another week 🪴

A plant sproupts out of an empty pot and flowers.

Happy Friday!

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Andrew Bone
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Richard Pascoe

Well done, Andrew! Those language-specific badges are pretty coveted!

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Sylwia Laskowska

Some of you might remember my “New Year’s resolution” about speaking at a conference.
This might still be a bit unofficial, but hmm… early spring in Bologna sounds AWESOME 😄

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Jess Lee The DEV Team

!!! So happy for you!

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Aryan Choudhary

Congratulations Sylwia! Wishing you best of luck! You will surely give an amazing talk!

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Richard Pascoe • Edited

Incredible news, Sylwia! May I wish you the very best of luck - though I'm sure you won't need it!

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Paras 🧙‍♂️

I worked on one side project of mine. Improved its UI and added some features that I need.
In turn it helped me improve my starter template that I built to get quickly up and running on new projects.

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Richard Pascoe

Sound great, Paras! If the side project hosted anywhere at the moment?

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Paras 🧙‍♂️ • Edited

Yes, it is hosted on netlify for now.
It is currently very much catered towards my requirements :p
but would love to share here as well.
steadyox.netlify.app/

It's a small UI I built to track my investments, set targets, and see the total net worth in one place.
It's completely offline as it stores data in your browser and has no backend.
There are apps that do it but they require access to several stuff which I don't want to give due to privacy reasons.

Let me know your thoughts if you try it. Thank you :)

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Richard Pascoe

Ah, that is great! I have become more and more privacy-focused over the years myself. In fact, the majority of the applications and services I now used are focused that way.

Thanks for sharing the link!

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Paras 🧙‍♂️

Coool. Good to hear that.

I will add more settings and customizations once I am done with the important stuff.
I will add settings like, currency change, using millions instead of lakhs, some more helpful widgets and functionalities. Let's see how it goes.

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Richard Pascoe

Indeed! Nice work so far!

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Paras 🧙‍♂️

Also, I checked your dev.to profile, really liked that you built so many things. That's awesome!
It’s great to see how you are learning and sharing the journey openly. 🔥🔥🔥

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Richard Pascoe

Thank you, Paras - means alot! The main reason I joined DEV this year was to stay consistent and - for want of a better word - honest with my learning. I'm really enjoying the latest version of the freeCodeCamp curriculum too!

Appreciate the follow as well!

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OscarMarulanda

hey. that logging in is nice, just a pin, I guess paired to the user's IP?
What do you call that log in method?
I think I might implement something like that in future projects.

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Paras 🧙‍♂️

Hey! It's a very simple login I added for some simple security while I still refine the web app. So it stores info in browser storage (index db)

It simply checks two things on page visit: pin exists, and is locked.

Based on that I either show set pin page or enter pin page. It's not fancy right now. But gets the job done 😝

BTW, should I make this project's repo public?

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Pascal CESCATO

I've got the Python badge on DEV.to for my post about DEV.to stats.
It’s a personal win — more of a quiet joy than a reward. And the fact that I earned it with an article about understanding the “life” of a post on DEV.to just feels right. It resonates with why I wrote it in the first place.

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Richard Pascoe

Congratulations, Pascal. Well done - it was a truly excellent post! Of all the language-specific badges that's the one I hope to earn one day!

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Shloka

I was able to wrap my head around the fact that "Not everything is an agent... sometimes it's just an AI workflow"

And I wrote an ELI5 blog that explains the difference between AI workflows and Agents with the help of LEGOs. <3
Fun!

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Gábor Mészáros

you can make an agent out of this :D

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Shloka

Bahaha! That's a nice idea, ngl!

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evolu skate

Nice work mate!

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Peter Vivo • Edited

Our job is fixing two quite same legacy world scale webapp system - including inhouse version handling system. Each of these codbase was old, do so many mistace in architectual decision to a CVD ( CV Driven ) coding method ( Initialy package.json was 300 + lines ). The AWS cloud infrastructure also have a bad decision, so a real challenging is put that program to DEV - then we realize DEV is not exsist. After few weeks fight with devops team, we get a new DEV environment. -> version handling tool is so complex to fail to start and this is resonate AWS bad practices.

So on a previous week I was vibe code a POC version of tool. My goals is:

  • check copilot CLI vibe capability : OK
  • proof my minimal JS FW is worth : OK
  • make a fast Docerfile tester : OK
  • check the DynamoDB connection on AWS : OK
  • proof the overcomplicated react will be replaced something fare easier : OK
  • proof the jsDock is the cheapest way for type safe : OK

So I am very happy with this resul, everything is working as we expect.
POC code is working perfectly.

Compare old building size: 900kb a POC is 16kb ( withot zip )

My FW is found this article - which is a game for a hackaton but the real useful part contain in a fencer.js + vite.config.js is the important (repo link in article). But actually this FW don't communicated is a usefull one, technicaly this is the second program which is show it is working, maybe in the future I will reach the early pre beta state.

FW concept is burrowing instead of npm install to avoide dependency hell, coder maintanance latency.

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Lewis kori • Edited

I managed to rewrite my personal portfolio in astro from Gridsome which no longer receives updates. I'm also happy to say I have open sourced the project for others to learn from and use

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Mohamed Nabous

Successfully maintained work life balance for 2 weeks straight

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Richard Pascoe

That is most certainly a win, Mohamed - well done indeed!

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Timex Peachtree

Attempting the StackOverflow challenge for alphabet decoder.

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Ola Prøis

Got a lot of work done on my hobby/learning project, not always so easy to find time :D

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