Happy New Year! What was your win this week?!

Wrote a new blog post hahah, been sometime

dev.to/shubhambattoo/side-projects...

I kicked off — and nearly finished — building my app for the “New Year, New You” challenge, and I’ve already written about 90% of the accompanying article.

In parallel, I updated and validated my three WordPress plugins against the latest 6.9 release — it’s always reassuring to ship code that’s tested on what people actually run, not on legacy versions.

And I managed to do all of that without cutting into the time I spend with my daughter during the Christmas holidays, which might be the real win here.

Technically last year, but, after trying dozens of ideas, finally decided on what I want my personal site to be. Minimal, authentic, me.

Tech: Next for static rendering, pagefind with mdx-based posts.

Also refreshed LLM ideas with Viktor Schlegel at an AI school and fixed a tricky styling bug with two flex-wrap classes.

for the first time, parsing in compiler design is making sense in actual implementation!

Finally submitted the first challenge of the year, which is the achievement of many months of development on github.com/opt-nc/geol :

⏳ Managing EOLs w. geol: the impossible 1' Mux demo

adriens ・ Jan 2

#devchallenge #muxchallenge #showandtell #video

... and announced it :

Happy New Year!

My win this week... I made resolving Jira tickets easier for me, my team and imdone-cli users.

I joined this Dev.to community. That is my achievement

Deleted my Go Gateway and rewrote it in C.
600 lines, one less language to worry about.
Small win, but feels good to simplify.

I'm excited by all the submissions we're seeing for our Show & Tell Challenge, and am also proud to have launched our "New Year, New You" Portfolio Challenge!

DEV's Worldwide Show and Tell Challenge Presented by Mux: Pitch Your Projects! $3,000 in Prizes. 🎥

Jess Lee for The DEV Team ・ Dec 3 '25

#showdev #devchallenge #muxchallenge #webdev

Join the New Year, New You Portfolio Challenge: $3,000 in Prizes + Feedback from Google AI Team (For Winners and Runner Ups!)

Jess Lee for The DEV Team ・ Jan 1

#devchallenge #googleaichallenge #career #gemini

Since I worked on New Years Day, I'm taking today off 😄

My win this week was shipping.
I stopped polishing, deployed my portfolio, and put real work out there instead of keeping it private.
Anxiety makes sharing hard, but I pushed through. That’s my mission this year: stepping out of my comfort zone.