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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 ๐ŸŽ‰

Examples of 'wins' include:

  • Getting a promotion!
  • Starting a new project
  • Fixing a tricky bug
  • Cleaning your house...or whatever else that may spark joy ๐Ÿ˜„

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Happy Friday!

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Zubair Mohsin โ€ข โ€ข Edited

It has been an amazing week for me related to writing articles on DEV.

  • More than 700 followers overall ๐Ÿ™
  • more than 3000 views ๐Ÿ‘€
  • Approximately 200 reactions ๐Ÿ˜
  • My latest article was shared on LaravelDaily Twitter account ๐Ÿ˜ฑ

It's been so overwhelming.

Couldn't be more thankful to DEV community ๐Ÿ™๐Ÿ™

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Waylon Walker โ€ข

congrats on the great success! It feels good when you get featured in specialized accounts like that.

The DEV Community is โœจAmazing

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Zubair Mohsin โ€ข

Yaas! ๐Ÿฅณ๐Ÿ˜

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Casey Brooks โ€ข โ€ข Edited

My wife and I bought our first house!!! ๐Ÿ 

Also, I released a new major version of Orchid: 0.19.0

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Waylon Walker โ€ข

๐Ÿ‘ช Life-changing week in the Brooks house!

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Ben Halpern โ€ข

Cool!!

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Suzanne Aitchison โ€ข

I gave my first meet up talk!

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Saurabh Daware ๐ŸŒป โ€ข

yay congratulations๐ŸŽ‰ What was the talk about? how did it go? how was the overall experience? This is huge๐Ÿจ๐ŸŒป

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Suzanne Aitchison โ€ข

Aw thank you! It was titled "Becoming an accessibility-focused developer". And it went so well! I was nervous in the run up but people were really nice and asked lots of good questions after ๐Ÿ˜

The video will be released soon but I have the slides up on bit.ly/a11y-focused-developer in case you're interested

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Saurabh Daware ๐ŸŒป โ€ข

This is amazing! Thank you for sharing the slides I will check them out. I gave my first talk 2 weeks back and I had a similar experience, people were super nice!

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Suzanne Aitchison โ€ข

Oh awesome! What did you speak about? Do you think you'll do more?

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Saurabh Daware ๐ŸŒป โ€ข

It was titled "Web Performance Hacks ๐Ÿ˜Ž" I talked about HTML Parsing and Rendering in the beginning and then I talked about how we can get the first paint as quickly as possible.

And yes I loved the overall experience so I'm totally looking to do more!

Here are my slides for web performance hacks talk

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Suzanne Aitchison โ€ข

That sounds so interesting! I'll definitely check out the slides ๐Ÿ˜

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Waylon Walker โ€ข

Woot Woot ๐ŸŽ‰

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Syed Faraaz Ahmad โ€ข

Launched the beta of my startup debugg.me and had 3 users sign up on the first day! It's not much but it's honest work :)

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Dan Silcox โ€ข

Nice job! Nice meme reference too ;)
Honest work meme

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Waylon Walker โ€ข

That is an awesome looking landing page

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Syed Faraaz Ahmad โ€ข

Thanks! It means a lot. The landing page is one of the things I'm most proud of

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Victor Hazbun โ€ข

NICE! ๐ŸŽ‰

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Marko Shiva โ€ข

I made my first Android app, at least something that I can actually call a functional app. Its a game.

Also I done full backend of one of my projects in flask so it stayed to finish when I have time the part that is frontend related. It will be Vue.js.
Also I worked on one more of my projects and done quite a lot on the level on improving my organisation and notes talking and prioritisation.

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Alvaro Montoro โ€ข

After writing a couple of web-relared arricles, I got the CSS badge on DEV.

At work, the whole team had a great sprint, we had a release of our component library, and got closer to our end of March deadline ๐Ÿ™‚

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Maxim Chechenev โ€ข

Wrote my first article here and itโ€™s quite nice feeling, it makes me want to write and share more :)

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Waylon Walker โ€ข

The DEV community seems to have that effect on many of us! Please share a link. This is a place you are welcome to plug your work shamelessly.

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Waylon Walker โ€ข

I learned about publishto.dev/ and queued up a number of articles.

I kicked off a new series with my article what-is-kedro. The next one will be out on Monday.

what-is-kedro

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John Dinh โ€ข

My wins this week were...

  • Taking the initiative of turning web development as a hobby to web development as a career.

  • Taught myself Docker so I could transition deploying my apps from Heroku to DigitalOcean (Saving a bunch of money each month)

  • Attended a coding meetup where I actually engage with other members

  • Created my portfolio design from scratch and deployed a pixel-perfect copy that was mobile responsive.

  • Sent out my first resume

Thank you so much for this post to help me reflect on this hectic week. I wasn't confident if making the decision to turn my hobby into a career was the right choice in my life, but I definitely feel like I am moving towards... well, something :)