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Looking back on your week -- what was something you're proud of?
All wins count -- big or small 🎉
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A lot has been happening lately! 😄
First of all, I became a speaker at JSNation, so… wow!!!
And on top of that, my article was featured in the This Week in React newsletter, which is even funnier considering I’m an enterprise Angular developer on a daily basis 😄
Oh wow, I’m on bytes.dev too!!! 😄 Now I don’t regret a single 4am work session 😂
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It still feels amazing!
Congrats
Thanks!
Congrats! 👏🏻
Thank you!
Congrats Giorgi😃
After hundreds of thousands of experimenting I finally was able to finalize the diagnostics 28k projects coding agent instruction setup: 28,721 repos analyzed - The State of AI Instruction Quality
I got a #discuss badge for my profile!
Congrats 👏🏻
My golf game is in great shape 🏌️
This week I picked up an app I originally built five years ago. I gave it a proper refresh—updated the stack, tightened up security, and gave the UI a much-needed facelift. Now I’m deep into a far more ambitious v2, working alongside my junior dev (a.k.a. GitHub Copilot).
It’s been a lot of work, no shortcuts—but there’s real satisfaction in doing things right. And honestly, that drive to take on new challenges? Still very much intact.
Posted my weekly article here.
Made progress on my app prototype. Will demo it at a local event soon for feedback.
Got a couple new badges for participating in challenges + Warm Welcome badge :)
Was a good week! Have a nice weekend all.
I reached 229th place in gamejam and wrote one of my top 3 best articles.
Buy a working horse:
$2222
Wow, that's a win 😀
Congrats 👏🏻
Thanks
I got nr 1 trending on Indiehackers this week 🥳
Congrats 👏🏻
Finally Released my app go-initializer!
Appreciate any feedback - github.com/neo7337/go-initializer
this is such a great project, my team's been involved in alot of Go projects, this could be a huge help!
Appreciate the feedback!
Actually, I just lanuched my product on ProductHunt platform and also i create a post for that product related things to engage people.
Finally automated my DB backup verification. I'm using the Docker SDK for Python to test every dump in an isolated environment immediately after it's created.
Finally scheduled the dentist appointment I've been putting off! 🦷
Oh no, I also should go 😬 Thanks for the reminder!
I drank water and got this:
😃 I think this is a simptoma of too many best practice!
I knew i forgot something this week. I feel like a raisin
lol
Still new to the community, but trying to be active. There is so much valuable content here! 😍 And the community is super supportive! So I'm happy to be here 2nd week:
I wanted a tool that would allow me to fully utilize the cameras of my smartphones as mirrors. By utilizing Wifi direct as the underlying technology, I built Two Mirrors on Android. The way it works is, one smart phone acts as the host and the other connects to it. Once the pairing succeeds, the camera feed is reflected on both phones.
As a bonus, one can also use the Webcam feature. For that, tailscale can be used to put the PC and the smart phone on the same network and a Python script available on Github can be run to connect to the target smartphone's tailscale IP.
App Link Two Mirrors
Python script for webcam Two Mirrors
I created a dev to account! After reading some posts occasionally I finally decided to join! Big win
My win this week - I finally came back to dev.to after 6 months of silence .!
While I was away, I transitioned into an AI Software Engineer role and made a controversial architecture decision - while everyone was splitting monoliths into microservices, I went the opposite direction and built a shared packages layer across 5 of my products.
Wrote about the whole journey here 👇🏻
Maintenance fatigue from five separate stacks
I went against the trend - everyone split their monolith, I built one
Would love to hear if anyone else has gone against the grain with their architecture choices .!
Submitted my OpenClaw challenge entry this week — built a spec-writer skill that forces structured specs before any agent session starts. The whole thing came from burning hours on a confident wrong assumption mid-build. Wrote up the story here if you're curious about the approach.
dev.to/dannwaneri/openclaw-burned-...
I got selected for an interview at TCS for the prime role. It was my first in person offline interview experience. It happened yesterday!
I have created a project called CarbonSnap which allowed me to learn more and dive deeper into image classification and analysis. The project was created for the Earth Day Challenge and it actually became one of the most great project in my portfolio
I built my own Jarvis experimenting with the Claude brains. Was pretty fun!
My win this week: I finally built a Minecraft bot!
ClawCraft-bot is a Mineflayer-based bot controlled via a local REST API, so an LLM agent can tell it to mine logs, craft tools and weapons, protect players, or build houses! Fun stuff.
dev.to/prema_ananda/giving-opencla...
I was able to create my first reel and that too within 30 mins!
It's big coz I have been camera shy whole life and then I started building my own product on a very tight budget which meant I had no other option but to promote it myself, with my face🥲
The last attempt I had done at recording myself was in dec last year...took 2 days to record a 2 mins video.
I finally got results from an experiment that show that I may have overcome the problem of catastrophic forgetting, meaning that I now have a LLM capable of continuous learning: dev.to/jballanc/what-would-you-do-...
i was braver to confront with many things not like past days that i am so cowardly.
I will improve myself of many aspects like changing many habits that is not good or improve the states to make the days richer to let myself happier or optimize my image to have the confidence to pursue that beautiful and excellent girl,haha . I think these are more import than win some money or complete some projects that do not have much worth. Beacuse the life is all, be happier! yes
I wrote jigs - a functional Rust framework that generates interactive architectural diagrams from the code. It is also the first project where I felt confident publishing something in Rust, turns out the language is much friendlier than I thought!
It’s available on crates and you can check the code on GitHub
I received an internship and I'm really excited about that. I think I'll gain a lot of knowledge and experience here. Though I'm really nervous and don't understand a lot of things, I still try to work hard. I even made it into the dance team in my college.
Shipped a milestone I’ve been building toward for a while: a deterministic diff system inside Dennis that turns changes into something you can actually verify, not just inspect. It now produces canonical, hashable diffs with a built-in conformance check (dennis test-diff), so the same input always leads to the same result—no surprises. Small on the surface, but it fundamentally shifts Dennis from “showing changes” to helping prove them.
fixed a bug my manager wasn't able to fix for days, published another blog, got calls from 3 good companies and nailed two assessments
I learned more about the terminal and PostgreSQL and that got me motivated.
Understanding the importance of patience.
We can get lessons on programming from internet and books.
Even can get tips on problem solving from pros
But, real problem solving, building something end-to-end needs a lot of patience.
Although in practice, implementing it in my daily life will take some years to master.But, at least recognized it!
My win this week: released Dennis 0.8.3.
Been working on a deterministic diff + transformation system where changes aren’t just applied, but described, inspectable, and reproducible.
Feels like moving from “just run the script” to “prove what changed”.
Still early, but finally something I’d trust on real projects. And most important, it compiles with no errors!
Biggest win this week was realizing that a lot of messaging issues aren’t about sending at all.
They happen after the API returns success.
Been writing about that layer (routing, timing, downstream behavior) and the response has been interesting, a lot of people have run into the same thing without really seeing it clearly.
Feels like we’re starting to define something more concrete there.
My win this week was making progress, learning something new, and staying consistent — small wins often become big ones.
3,000 followers on Dev.to this week. Didn't expect that — genuinely grateful.
Spent most of the week on UI overhauls for two of my tools and finally shipped a proper drafts system for DotShare so I stop losing articles to WebView resets. That one was personal. 😅
What's next? Still figuring it out. Building in public means sometimes you don't have a roadmap, just a direction.
Thanks for being here.
Identified an issue on the backend of one of my passion projects. After explaining the issue to Claude and telling it my ideas on why I believe it is happening and how I believe it can be fixed. Claude confirmed my reasoning and built me the fix.. Not a coder, not programmer, just an imaginer(cough...vibe coder)!
I got an interview for MLH fellowship! Super pleased since I had 0 hopes of getting one. If anybody participated in the internship earlier here, would love some tips for the interview. If anybody targeting it maybe we could conduct mock interviews?
Published my first dev.to post, decided to build, then built my own version of the popular shields.io site, with more modern styling. shameless plug
Also, finishing up my last 3 assignments of Uni.
Took and passed CompTIA SecAI+ on Saturday morning.
One of my recent project demos received strong appreciation from the architect, who repeatedly highlighted how impressed they were with the approach and execution.
While the feedback was encouraging, the experience also reminded me that true impact is measured not just by appreciation, but by tangible outcomes and execution at scale.
🐞 The debugging win that made my week!
I actually enjoy debugging (weird, I know). This week I spent 3 hours tracking down a pandas merge bug that was duplicating my customer churn data by thousands of rows.
When I finally found it? A single line of code with the wrong merge parameter.
Changed
how='outer'tohow='inner'and everything worked perfectly.Other wins:
Lesson learned: The smallest changes often make the biggest difference. Don't give up!
What's a small win you're celebrating this week? Let's hear it! 👇
This :)
A lot of exciting things happened this week. After a long time, I finally got two interviews, and my thesis proposal for my final project was accepted (even though it’s still quite ambiguous, I’ll take it as a win). I’ve also just started a new project, which is pretty exciting 😀
I started a blog and learned how to have my domain have a subdomain that links to it!
For context, I recently finished publishing a "Learn to Program in C" course at CSystemsLab.com but I wanted to have a blog component to post my longform thoughts. Yeah, Bluesky threads are a thing but only so much can be said.
Figured I can configure Cloudflare to use the subdomain blog.CSystemsLab.com and it just works! Has a sitemap, RSS feed, the works! I am proud of finally having something self published where I can share my thoughts.
Finally, anyone thinking I just want self promotion out of this: I am not expecting to have clicks on those links. Just the concept of multipurposing a domain I bought, and having a cool expansion for my initial project, those are wins for me, and I just wanted to share that.
We delivered the GH Action for github.com/opt-nc/geol so now it' s easier to monitor software end of life easier :
Managed to get my first shoutout on a podcast: typescript.fm/64#t=20m45s
Not sure how they found it but its very motivating even just that
Shipped my first dev.to post! Built AgentShield — an open-source prompt injection classifier for LLM agents — and finally wrote up a proper tutorial on how to integrate it into Python/LangChain projects. Also got the project indexed on Google Search Console and crossed 40+ Lanczos iterations on a nuclear shell model calculation that's been running for days. Mixed week.
My win: got my first warm response from a DeFi protocol team about TxDesk, the AI support agent I've been building. After months of cold outreach (80+ DMs, zero replies), switched strategy to being helpful in crypto communities and engaging on Twitter. One reply to an exploit analysis thread got 1,764 views from a 13-follower account. Also signed up for my first in-person crypto meetup in London tomorrow. Small steps but it feels like the distribution is finally starting to move after months of just shipping code.
Preparing for the French civic exams within my own perfect CLI.
There's so much website and app for revision but none of it are really for free, so... 😅
shipped:
npx fix-hairballone command to convert a hairball into.... something better.
Went open source this week. Built an AI-native L1
blockchain from scratch in Rust over the past few
months and finally flipped the repo public.
Also shipped 5 developer docs in one push: a quick
start tutorial, TypeScript and Rust SDK examples, a
full RPC reference, and an architecture deep dive.
Plus a block explorer and three demo bots.
65,000+ lines of Rust, 1,100+ tests, 16 crates.
Solo founder, no funding.
The distribution side is the new challenge now.
Building the thing was the easy part.
github.com/0x-devc/NOVAI-node
I was not replaced by AI or a small group of squirrels :)
Groundhogs are catching me up fast though.
Big win this week 🙌
I wrapped up work on a new version of my app and just got the green light from App Store review 🎉
Feels great to see all the effort come together and actually make it through the finish line.
made github.com/tylim88/Kotori
revamped github.com/tylim88/ts-hajime
I did a presentation at work about Lightwhale which I released recently. I don't do presentations like this very often, so I was quite nervous. I had my talk ready, I had my slide of the pseudo-demo ready, but when I tested the grand finale live demo again, I realized that not only did it not work, but it had in fact never worked as intended! So within an hour I quickly debugged, fixed, rebuilt, tested and had everything ready just as people were joining the room. I was intense but felt really great! =) And the talk went very well.
deep into the weeds of development, i am transitioning into the marketing phase of my first tech product, an agentic tool that acts as a reasoning harness that improves llm agents on complex tasks, github.com/ejentum check it out and i will help u try it, i need builders that will provide me feedback on my tool
New here but this post pulled me in. 😄
This week I finally did it. Prepared everything for my first indie product launch and shipped my personal hub for all future projects.
Hoping this is just the beginning.🤞
I wrote an Apple II emulation in my own jdBasic language 😆
Apple II
Went open source this week. Built an AI-native L1 blockchain from scratch in Rust - 65,000+ lines, 16 crates, HotStuff BFT consensus. Also wrote up the hardest bug I found: dev.to/0xdevc/the-bug-that-silentl...
Nice one!
I worked on my brand (I hate it 😅) with a blogpost dev.to/yvem/brighten-your-day-in-3...
Started interacting more with other devs and engineers on meetups and such.
Felt too isolation prior
I had to build a local AI dev setup from scratch using limited tools and no access to western models in Russia overnight:
dev.to/rosspeili/my-ai-experience-...
i wrote the code without any issues on the first compile 🤭
Packed most things and ready to move countries - back to Taiwan where I was born. For a few months while I figure out future directions in my career 😀
The library where I worked, github.com/Tlaloc-Es/KillPy
, was listed on github.com/vinta/awesome-python.
A project that has been sitting in my code editor for more than a year, made it public. It is a protocol to improve agentic system outcome. I have been dogfooding it for more than a year by now.
I don't know why, but my reach is almost dead after someone reported my story:
dev.to/web_dev-usman/unfortunately...
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A great win - ces-ltd.github.io/titanclip.ai/
Posted an article after some time of being away. It's on writing testable code.