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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:
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I received the node badge on Dev.to for my post on express!
Express Setup: Simple & Scalable
Andrew Bone ・ Jan 17
Well done, Andrew! Those language-specific badges are pretty coveted!
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 😄
!!! So happy for you!
Congratulations Sylwia! Wishing you best of luck! You will surely give an amazing talk!
Incredible news, Sylwia! May I wish you the very best of luck - though I'm sure you won't need it!
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.
Sound great, Paras! If the side project hosted anywhere at the moment?
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 :)
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!
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.
Indeed! Nice work so far!
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. 🔥🔥🔥
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!
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.
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?
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.
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!
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!
you can make an agent out of this :D
Bahaha! That's a nice idea, ngl!
Nice work mate!
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:
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.
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
From Gridsome to Astro: Rebuilding My Personal Site for the Next Phase
Lewis kori ・ Jan 23
Successfully maintained work life balance for 2 weeks straight
That is most certainly a win, Mohamed - well done indeed!
Attempting the StackOverflow challenge for alphabet decoder.
Got a lot of work done on my hobby/learning project, not always so easy to find time :D
Been chugging along in my full stack dev course. Previously the blank page, where do I start-itis, was a real thing I struggled with.
Had a final big project for a section and was given an image of a site to recreate from scratch and everything just flowed into the IDE. Not perfect by any means but I at least knew the direction I wanted to head and remembered enough to adjust when things didn't go right.
Got done and even thought "Nah, doing it this other way would be better" so I'll be reworking it, which is its own big win.
Big win is all the pieces coming together into a process and understanding what I needed to do overall without having to refer back to stuff.
I have made my first browser extension. Here is the post link
Small wins for me - found the time to polish a few annoying things on my game portal. Still to do: Write another article about my journey :)
Peerlist staff-picked my project 😄
I had two wins this week!
PR merged for a skill and wrote about it here
And delivered a Gen AI POC for an enterprise client built in less than 24 hours with tons of custom guardrails!
Another reason why I love the DEV Community - great bunch of supportive people. The heartwarming comments were well deserved as well, Aryan. Great job!
Thank you very much Richard! Cheers to the dev community 🥂
I figured out how to make comments work on my static site!
brennan.day/building-an-indieauth-...
My article about AI replacing Stack Overflow got way more engagement
than I expected (2000+ views, 40+ comments).
But the real win is the comment section - senior devs like Ben Santora,
Amir Rajan, and others are extending the thinking in ways I couldn't
have alone.
This is what good platforms enable: collaborative knowledge creation,
not just content broadcasting.
dev.to/dannwaneri/my-chrome-tabs-t...
Grateful to be here. 🙏.
And it fully deservered each and every view, Daniel - truly well thought out and presented!
continued working on my tui project. while hunting for a job. sucks but cool too
Scored a job test task for a 10 hour a week gig!
I publish my first post in dev.to about my first open source project 🤓 "I built an open source markdown note-taking web app and am sharing it with you".
I'm an avid reader but a novice writer... so this a win for me! 😎
I figured out how to run my Elm web applications from any machine that has Nix installed.
For e.g. If you have Nix installed try:
nix run github:dwayne/elm-todos.I wrote about it here.
I dedicated this week to self-discovery, not programming.
I took two days off to reflect on what's happening in my life, where it's heading, and what I want from it.
I reorganized my goals, created a clear two-month plan, and set goals.
I reread Benjamin Franklin's "Time Is Money" to understand its key points about reputation, time management, and system in life.
After that, I set a 13-week to-do list to become a "better person" and work on the weaknesses that hinder my productivity.
I discovered a integration with Claude and VS Code, I know it is not new , but for me yes. And was awesome , I can complete 3 take that could take me 2 hours in one prompt and the integration tested the result , the code with database data failed and Claude run the integration again and was successful.
Got a client to admit the feature they insisted was on scope, is actually out of scope and requires a paid Change Request ᕙ( •̀ ᗜ •́ )ᕗ
I finally could complete my writing on a technical guide (or book, very confused on the term) on Deep Learning from First Principles in Rust.
Each bit in this repo was done from scratch using pure Rust, HTML, CSS and JS. No library, no framework, no third-party.
I learnt a lot in the last 3 weeks. Worked day in day out on this 14+ hours a day for last 3 weeks.
Finally it came to an end which I can publish (still not sure, if I should). There are plenty of from scratch tutorials on Deep Learning floating on internet, I don't know if mine would do any good to anyone.
Hopefully my next win is that I can share that I got a job offer for an AI role! Wish me luck!
While being o nholidays, on focus on being outside, rest, read books, and (a bit) think about the ideas and work I will push in 2026, yet I got this cool badge for my latest DEV's Worldwide Show and Tell Challenge Presented by Mux Challenge :
Managed to release the second blogpost in my series and implemented my first ever CLI.
Fun times ^^
My win was finally launching a small side project I’ve been building on and off an online Multiplayer Ludo game that runs in the browser.
It’s simple, but shipping it felt great: play-ludo.com
Finally able to push and merge my PR for a open source project (although it's been delayed for almost a year since last April). With the PR merged, the website is finally able to paginate it's result listings
Also, got my 2 year badge
Experimenting with awsome COI : dev.to/artydev/series/35024
My win this week was finally deploying the core calculator logic for my side project!
I've been building a tool to estimate home generator installation costs using Next.js 14. It was a challenge to handle all the edge cases (like trenching distance and labor factors), but seeing the dynamic pricing update in real-time feels amazing.
It's still a work in progress, but the MVP is live: home-generator-installation.com
I shipped a macOS app that updates your desktop wallpaper as you close github issues.
And I am currently building out a Reflection Skills MCP for devs.
Big snow storm coming to Toronto, so will be doing a lot of coding the next few days...
I built a CLI tool in Zig! It reads files, uses a cache, and uses different solutions for reading files and creates a report.md to give AI better context!
My win was sharing what I’m learning and getting thoughtful responses.
Quiet progress but it reminded me why I enjoy writing and engaging here.
I’m also intentionally putting myself in uncomfortable situations lately: communicating more openly and even recording videos, which used to scare me the most.
Small steps, but meaningful ones.
These steps, as scary as they are, are so important. We're lucky to have such a supportive platform here to share our journey. Proud of you, Naved - keep it up!
Thank you so much 🙏 That really means a lot.
My win this week was sticking to my to do “productivity” list for balancing school & my social life
Probably the most important balance of all, Maame - well done!
By sharing my progress on the freeCodeCamp curriculum here on DEV, I’ve been hitting goals in the Responsive Web Design certification every single day!
Thanks to the warmth and support of this community, I posted my first #discuss post - AI Productivity Gains? - which gave me the confidence to turn some orphaned posts into full-fledged series. One of these is my journey away from Big Tech, which I’ve called De-Big-Tech-ifying My Stack. I hope this series keeps me motivated as I work toward that goal.
Two challenge submissions!
New Year, New You dev.to/datadr1ven/from-boring-port...
Algolia dev.to/datadr1ven/web3-verifier-ag...
Published my first Mod for Project Zomboid in the Workshop!
Never thougt about getting so much Views and Subscribers !
Pretty impressive stuff, Dominik - well done!
Thank you — I really appreciate that!
Received top7 badge from dev.to for my article on AI written tech docs. made my week tbh
I restarted my Substack publication and published three articles on talkoverflow.substack.com/.
I also started something new — posting simple JavaScript questions on LinkedIn and post the solution on dev.to
Finally, I’ve started a new tech series that goes through concepts alphabetically — perfect for beginners, students, or professionals looking to revise fundamentals.
I’ll post a new letter every Tuesday, and each post will include a canonical link to the full article.
I hope this series becomes a useful resource for everyone in this community!
I developed a product that would get all our PR stats from the GitHub repository with detailed information like time to review the PR and created a great looking dashboard for the team
Hey, that was really fun!
Gartner taking interested in my project cordum.io 🥳🥳
Integrating GPT-5.2 into my AI-based coding platform, allowing my thing to generate beautiful full stack apps automagically :)
congrates
This week’s win: I finally tackled a tricky problem I’d been stuck on for days and got it working! 🥳 Also managed to keep my houseplant alive—so feeling like a coding-and-plant-parenting champion. 🪴💻
Thank you for your sharing.
I got a full mark in my HTML and CSS exam, and I consider this a great success because it was my first programming exam in my life.
Like this App!
Refined all my profiles, joined the DEV Community
I started building my portfolio on React
MindsEye: Building a Full Ledger-First AI System From Ingestion to Insight
done at last