What was your win this week? 🙌
Michael Tharrington

Michael Tharrington @michaeltharrington

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.

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What was your win this week? 🙌

Publish Date: May 17 '24
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Ayo! 🙌

Friday has arrived and for many of us that means the work week is over.

Looking back on this past week, what was something you were proud of accomplishing?

All wins count — big or small 🎉

Examples of 'wins' include:

  • Starting a new project
  • Fixing a tricky bug
  • Watching old cartoons 📺

Nigel Thornberry from The Wild Thornberrys cartoon show is dancing his arms in a goofy way and just being all-around silly.

Comments 68 total

  • Bobby
    BobbyMay 17, 2024

    Just crossed 13k followers and 5k post reactions on DEV 🎉

    Bobby Iliev, 13k Dev.to followers

    • Ndeye Fatou Diop
      Ndeye Fatou DiopMay 17, 2024

      Congrats 🙌

      • Bobby
        BobbyMay 17, 2024

        Thanks a lot 🙌

    • Qyrus
      QyrusMay 17, 2024

      Congrats on this!

      • Bobby
        BobbyMay 17, 2024

        Thanks 🙌

        • Qyrus
          QyrusMay 20, 2024

          Thank you!

    • byby.dev
      byby.devMay 17, 2024

      That's huge

      • Bobby
        BobbyMay 17, 2024

        Thank you 🙌

    • John
      JohnMay 17, 2024

      You are dev.to's ⭐.

    • Schalk Neethling
      Schalk NeethlingMay 17, 2024

      Well done!

      • Bobby
        BobbyMay 18, 2024

        Thank you 🙌

    • Steeve
      SteeveMay 18, 2024

      Congrats @bobbyiliev, I also reached 12000 followers! However, the Follow rate increased a lot during the past week, and I'm wondering if they are mostly bots because the ratio of views/engagement did not increase much.

      I'm not saying that to get more views/comments; my question is: Is there an increase of bots recently on Dev?

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      • Bobby
        BobbyMay 18, 2024

        Hey @steeve! Nice, congrats 🙌

        Not 100% if those are bots, I've just gone through your profile and it looks like you've been quite active the past few weeks. I've noticed the more good quality content you create, the more followers you get.

        For example, for me, the past few weeks, I've had very very few new followers as I've not published any new content.

        • Steeve
          SteeveMay 19, 2024

          Yes my regular posting is probably the main reason, thought, when I take a look at the new subscribers, most of them are fresh new accounts

    • Anita Olsen
      Anita OlsenMay 25, 2024

      Congratulations! 🎉

  • Ezpie
    EzpieMay 17, 2024

    spent 1 day without screen time.... yeah.

    • Bobby
      BobbyMay 17, 2024

      That is amazing! I should try this too!

      • Ezpie
        EzpieMay 18, 2024

        Yeah, you should give it a try. I mean I was touching grass and breathing air! How cool is that?

    • Prasad Saya
      Prasad SayaMay 20, 2024

      I have been doing that every Sunday for the past few years. Cheers!

      • Ezpie
        EzpieMay 20, 2024

        I should do this a lot more often. It sounds great. Now I am sure I will not get angry at another bug from now on.

  • Ndeye Fatou Diop
    Ndeye Fatou DiopMay 17, 2024

    Been featured as top dev for last week with this post 😌 => dev.to/_ndeyefatoudiop/37-tips-fro...

    • John
      JohnMay 17, 2024

      This is helpful article.
      Thank you and congrats!🎁

  • Qyrus
    QyrusMay 17, 2024

    Our dev team launched an API testing cloud! You can check it out here

    • Bobby
      BobbyMay 17, 2024

      Nice! Congrats!

    • John
      JohnMay 17, 2024

      congrats🎉

      • Qyrus
        QyrusMay 20, 2024

        Thank you!

    • Steeve
      SteeveMay 18, 2024

      The animated background of the login page is neat, congrats on the launch @qyrusai
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      • Qyrus
        QyrusMay 20, 2024

        Thank you so much! Yeah the team worked really hard to make sure it all looks very clean and crisp!

  • Oscar
    OscarMay 17, 2024

    Wrote a blog post (well, finished it -- it's been in the works for a few weeks) for the first time in 6 months. I also have a research paper focusing on the negative effects of ChatGPT that I plan to publish as a blog post soon, which is pretty neat.

    • Anita Olsen
      Anita OlsenMay 25, 2024

      Congratulations! 🎉 I read your article and I love it. Thank you for speaking up on such an important matter! ✨

      • Oscar
        OscarMay 25, 2024

        Thank you so much!

  • Neurabot
    NeurabotMay 17, 2024

    Master Github
    Work on Cloudflare.
    Discover OCR and biometric and Numpy.
    Master some codes in notifications.
    Write an commercial article on Linkedln
    Now I'm going to discover a new CDN, because Cloudflare doesn't satisfy expectations.

    • Steeve
      SteeveMay 18, 2024

      Congrats on all those goals and experience earned @heyeasley
      For the CDN, take a look at Bunny.net ;)

      • Neurabot
        NeurabotMay 18, 2024

        When I paste link, browser says that website isn't secured. That's bad.

        • Steeve
          SteeveMay 18, 2024

          Strange, I have no issue on my side, the SSL certificate is good:

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          • Neurabot
            NeurabotMay 18, 2024

            Ok. Thank you too much. I look for free plan for a basic website. Yours is free 14 days. Do you know lasting free plan ?

            • Anita Olsen
              Anita OlsenMay 25, 2024

              The s in the https// means "secure" which means that the site is secure (because it is encrypted).

  • SDevr
    SDevrMay 17, 2024

    started ML Course.
    created training docs. (which I hate to do on normal days... )
    prototyped a new module.

  • Paul Isaris
    Paul IsarisMay 17, 2024

    I managed to find the courage to get back to technical writing, and made a new post after over a year!

    • Schalk Neethling
      Schalk NeethlingMay 17, 2024

      Great! Well done on putting yourself out there. It is not easy, but we need more voices sharing their knowledge and voice.

    • Steeve
      SteeveMay 18, 2024

      Keep it up 💪 It's not easy to get started writing again after a long time, but the result is so satisfying in the end!!

  • logarithmicspirals
    logarithmicspiralsMay 17, 2024

    Finally fixed a very tricky bug. The project I've been working on uses a third-party library with not-so-good documentation. The descriptions for some parameters are not accurate and caused a lot of confusion. Feels like an accomplishment though because now there are better tests in place to prevent the same problems from resurfacing in the future.

  • Schalk Neethling
    Schalk NeethlingMay 17, 2024

    I can finally announce that I will be joining Factorial.io as a senior frontend engineer! Stoked and super grateful.

  • adriens
    adriensMay 17, 2024

    My country (New-Caledonia) faces hard times and is now under "emergency state".
    In this context, even with lack of food and sleep, I managed to produce something hopefully helful. Hopefully i'll can help my country with skils and data :

  • Carlarjenkins
    CarlarjenkinsMay 17, 2024

    My win this week is graduating with an associates degree in Applied Business. Even though I a BA and MBA, I've upskilled quite a bit learning more about social media, data science, Power BI and R programming.

  • Steeve
    SteeveMay 18, 2024
  • Nelson Figueroa
    Nelson FigueroaMay 19, 2024

    I'm a bit late to this but I published a new post. This is definitely a bit of a gray area ethically but I had fun :3

  • David
    DavidMay 19, 2024

    I'm proud for our Rio open source launch this weeks! So cool to see how many people already use it for their projects. Rio has been in the works for quite some time, and we would be happy if you give us feedback and give us a star on github.

    Rio is a brand new GUI framework designed to let you create modern web apps with just a few lines of Python.
    Github
    Webiste

    • Steeve
      SteeveMay 19, 2024

      Congrats on the Rio launch @p4nd4no ! That's a non usual method for making websites, but very interesting.

      • Steeve
        SteeveMay 19, 2024

        You should make a DEV post for introducing Rio, with:

        • the most basic usage to get started
        • an advance usage example
        • Include benchmarks to compare with similar existing frameworks
  • Josef Nobach
    Josef NobachMay 19, 2024

    I just joined DEV and created my first Post, where I try sharing a little tool extension I built. Happy to be here!

  • Christina Pacheco
    Christina PachecoMay 19, 2024

    I start my computer programming classes!

  • Alex Lohr
    Alex LohrMay 20, 2024

    My PR to solid-cli was merged. Now, Solid.js is the first framework (AFAIK) that allows you to add Tauri support to your web app after it is created instead of you having to create a new template and port over the code.

  • Tyrell Thomas
    Tyrell ThomasMay 22, 2024

    I was able to install Linux on my brother's old Dell Chromebook. It took me a few days to figure out since there wasn't much info on this exact model. Even some Reddit users weren't even sure it was possible. I guess I showed them!

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  • Udeh Udochukwu
    Udeh UdochukwuMay 23, 2024

    I just got my first gig
    to build a charity website, I begin tonight

  • Marina Kim
    Marina KimMay 23, 2024

    This week our discord server CatBytes I launched for women in tech reached first 200 member =)

    • Michael Tharrington
      Michael TharringtonMay 28, 2024

      Holy cow cat! That's awesome, Marina. Lovin' the name of the server, BTW.

  • Anita Olsen
    Anita OlsenMay 24, 2024

    📕 I finally received my new passport (with the new design)! ✨
    Norwegian passport
     
    🍓🫐 I bought a bunch of strawberries and blueberries on sale! ✨
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    🎯 I have reached my goal on W3Schools! ✨
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    🍰 I bought myself a cake because I deserve it! ✨
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    ☕ I have adopted afternoon tea and I have tea every day! ✨
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  • TECNO Security
    TECNO SecurityMay 28, 2024

    Last week, I completed a bug bounty activity, and I hope more moral hackers can join us!💫

  • Mariam Kaba
    Mariam KabaMay 28, 2024

    Empowering 6 people through the UUVCI program

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