What was your win this week?

This week, I had some passionate and inspiring discussions with seasoned developers, and I picked up a few badges along the way. They’re not the goal, but they’re pleasant little milestones — a kind of participative acknowledgment.

What truly motivates me is writing and sharing what I learn. The feedback I receive is energizing and makes me look forward to contributing even more.

Hey Richard — there’s a good reason your article resonates so much: it’s engaging, thoughtful, and centered on human interaction — something we all hope stays positive and empathetic, especially in communities like dev.to.

Of course, humans being humans, it’s not always perfect… and I’m definitely part of that equation too.

I'm glad you made that post! Felt like I wasn't alone on this platform and was in tears seeing the comments I have read so far. Great accomplishments you made btw!

HUGE WINS THIS WEEK

• Received 2 more job offers this week (that makes it 3 within one month - that's thrice the growth from the last month (o′┏▽┓｀o) )
• Both of them required my tech skills + Japanese
• One of them is at Accenture, the other is another edu. startup where I learned Japanese from.
• Both of them came in time because this first job was getting unsustainable. (Might write a blog about that whole experience once things settle down)
• CLEARED JLPT N3 (within a year of studying formally and skipping a level)
• I'm happy 'cause all of them happened back to back in the last 3 days woohoo ヾ(≧▽≦*)o

As part of GitHub Copilot CLI Challenge, I got my duckdb brew extension accepted and merged in community extensions :

It makes it very easy to report installed brew packages, opening endless and easy reporting opportunities (including Rmarkdown) :

... also it connects open communities :

• `duckdb`
• brew / homebrew

Now, I have to work on the video and the article 🚀

Started making a cli markdown editor written in rust. Use basic vim motions and perform a minimal syntax highlight already. Compiled under 2s.
So I think that is a good start. Whole stuff already vibe coded.

Just a moments ago I finished a small open-source project about project organization so startup incubator programs can use it to help all the participants instead of only the winners.

I joined 3 weeks ago to a startup incubator program and in order to showcase what projects the people were applying to the program they used a basic forum. The forum became chaotic pretty fast. It was impossible to know what were the projects presented. It was chaos. It was shameful because it wasn't an small organization but an important online university with 25 years of experience. They have been doing that for years and I'm afraid they will keep doing that for more time. So out of frustration I did a project organizer that help the participants to polish their ideas and establish connections with similar projects.

I don't expect that university to use the solution, but I hope anyone out there can do a better job that this university than using a basic forum that would haven't even been seriously considered by any professional 20 years ago, let alone now.

My this week win is transforming from purely Mechanical Engineering to Tech, which was always my dream to become a better version of myself.

You can find my work at Github.com/tahir-yamin

This week, I built a basic travel planning app using Google Antigravity (3.6 Pro) and setup a custom domain (Just launched it an hour ago) - travelplot.app

I love to plan trips and use a bunch of tools but really wanted something to show 'travel time' vs 'total trip time' so I could balance out the journey. It's basic, but I had fun playing around and working with Antigravity.

Started learning coding seriously