About: I'm a friendly, non-dev, cisgender guy from NC who enjoys playing music/making noise, hiking, eating veggies, and hanging out with my best friend/wife + our 3 kitties + 1 greyhound.
Hi peeps!
We're officially rolling into the week.
Looking back on this past week, what was something you were proud of accomplishing?
All wins count — big or small 🎉
Examples of 'wins' include:
Sometimes, that is all we can hope for and be grateful for. I have been there a number of times over the last couple of weeks. Keep at it, you got this.
You're doing a great job, keep going! Sometimes everything we need is to keep persisting in survive
I wrote and article about database design and it went viral with more than 35k+ views and tones of positive feedback, and it was featured by the platform: Relational Database Design: Comprehensive Guide
It was a huge push for me 🔥😊
Heck yeah, Louai! Really appreciate ya sharing that one. It was a good one!
Thanks to this platform, so many amazing wins:
What a great article, I love it! It's so inspirational, also, your writing is pretty smooth and pleasant to read.
Fixed a really tough problem in my local build environment and was able to debug a challenging customer issue. Got three interesting job offers.
Hot damn! 🔥 Three freaking job offers... you must doing something right, haha!
Also, congrats on figuring a solution for that tricky problem. 🙌
It was a week with more losses than winnings, but at least I can make this joke
The classic, its over 9000!!! video without anything extra.
youtube.com
Haha! Dig the reference. 😁
Sorry about the kinda overall bum week. I suppose they can't always be good ones, but there's always next week! 😀
I won a visual novel game in a giveaway on Steam! ✨
Fault Milestone One was featured in The Best Visual Novels for Beginners article in PC GAMER. I might learn something from it to improve my own visual novel!
💡 I learned HTML Responsive Web Design on W3Schools! ✨
This will come in handy for making my web page mobile friendly!
💻 I completed 4 singleplayer levels on CodeCombat! ✨
I also earned the following achievements:
💻 I completed the free Learn HTML courses on Codecademy!✨
I also earned the following achievements:
My follower count on DEV has exceeded 10000 followers! ✨
Congrats on winning the free game! That is dope that you're really digging visual novels and creating your own. That's such a cool niche.
Also, props on the follower growth! Always nice to see that. 🙌
You're writing some good stuff, Pachi! Always enjoy reading your posts. 😀
I published a "cheatsheet" I wrote for myself when studying for interviews in Python:
My LibSQL client available in Turso Database official! docs.turso.tech/sdk/php/quickstart
Learn to write an interpreter by following this book Writing An Interpreter in Go. Although I still struggle to extend it.
I gave an internal talk at Codum community about non-technical aspects in contributing to open source projects! 😄
I consistently wrote short LinkedIn posts in the past month and schedule a couple more for the rest of the month
Right on, Cesar! Feels good to get that sorta stuff scheduled ahead. I had a similar sorta week and scheduled out most of my "ritual posts" for the next month (including a few of these What Was Your Win posts haha!)... anyway, nice to have all that done. Worth celebrating! 🍻
I believe I landed a new role and it is going to be incredibly exciting. I will be sure to share more once the documents are signed on Monday. 🤞
That is awesome, Schalk. Onward and upward from here! I'm siked for ya. 🙌
Here are my wins this week:
My win this week was surviving a tight deadline at university and starting with CSSBattle
Win # 1: I got 10K+ followers here on Dev.to
Win #2: My recent @saucedopen article trended in the Open Source category
Let’s see…it’s been a busy week…
I’m sure there’s things I’m forgetting, but between 1:1’s, meetings, and general dev team shenanigans, the week flew by and crawled at the same time.
had one of those had conversations i have been avoiding ,with parent of course .proud that i was afraid to do it but feels great that i did it .
Finally found some time to make a homebrew formula for a CLI snippet I've written some time ago and made it public for other to use: Shortcut your way through the terminal 🌀🏃🏽 - homebrew tool
I celebrated my 10K followers milestone... and almost finished my next storytelling about datascience, TV Series, Litterature and novels.
My testing guide, a part of the new Solid.js documentation (currently in beta), was finally merged. That was one of the bigger tasks on my to-do list.
Got back in the writing rhythm by finishing a blog post: Getting started with React by building a Pokemon search application
Learning and teaching unit test by writing the article Unit test: A Hands-On Guide with Real Examples - React + Vitest
I picked up a new to me BMW R1250GS and will be touring France at the end of the month.
I have finally bought my personal domain and a domain for my personal company/brand (Basionix), and I wrote two Nuget packages that will serve as a base for my future projects in .NET Basionix.BaseEntities and Basionix.BaseEntities.EntityFramew...
The funny thing is that I have never published anything about those packages anywhere, and now they have just above 360 downloads together (the other one I made back in 2019, which is called BeanSpitter has over 1700 downloads). My plan is to continue building libraries that could be put together to not only help me with future customer projects but also mine.
About the domains, It is so important to me because I have always wanted to do it (now I need to build my own website), I have postponed this for sooo long, and now I am finally doing it :)
These days it feels like if our website skillsportal.co.za survives the Google updates and changes to their algorithm then that is a win. It did!
surviving another week