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Looking back on your week -- what was something you're proud of?
All wins count -- big or small 🎉
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Is recovering after burnout counted as a win? (o′┏▽┓｀o)
Nothing dev related this week but I sure did get multi-domain knowledge from business, marketing and sales. Felt like another training arc tbh, and I LOVE training arcs.
OH OFC almost forgot I crossed 3000 followers on DEV recently! Once again really grateful for that to the entire community here!
I say that's a win
That could potentially be one of the biggest wins of your career. Burnout is something that gets you stuck. Now, you can unleash your whole potential.🔥
That is true! Thanks for reminding me of this Giorgi!
That DOES sound like a lot!
Congratulations on crossing 3K followers!
Thank you Shloka! (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*.✧
imo a huge win
Haha lol thanks! o(*≧▽≦)ツ┏━┓
Fixed some occasional performance issues that should reduce random DEV slowdowns (Hopefully!)
YAY!!!!!!!!!!
Decided to start writing on dev.to again. After a 3 year absence
Welcome back!
thank you, good to be back
great to have you back!
Welcome backkk!!!
Us! Welcome back!
Great decision! Looking forward to seeing your posts!
mee to ^_^
and welcome back...
A small win on DEV this week 🙂 My CSS article just earned two badges. Accessibility (a11y) is something I really care about, so that means a lot to me. I also have the feeling the article traveled a bit beyond DEV and occasionally gets referenced elsewhere online, which is pretty amazing. I’m really happy that this platform helps my thoughts reach further 🙂
Your article—and you too, for that matter—deserve these badges! And you know, quality content travels, it gets indexed, it passes through groups that share it… on dev.to, elsewhere…
You said I had a LOT of wins??? ಠ_ಠ
I read your post, really interesting. I understand what is ReAct, finally. Thanks!
Thank you so much!
And I thought I had a successful week. Looks like there’s levels to it. 😄
That’s awesome. Including the last one, Trader Joe’s has a really great selection of beautiful plants and I’m not even a plant guy.
Regain motivation, discover Dev.to !! , and enjoy time with family :))
Woohoo
Ben! Hope you have an awesome weekend !
that sounds sweet!
the perfect combo😃
Deployed my new personal project. [whispering]For one of the dev challenges on this platform, don’t tell anyone.
All I’m left with right now is to create a post about it and maybe a video explaining what I did. 🔥
👀
[whispering] can't wait to check it out ☞￣ᴥ￣☞
That's awesome, Giorgi. Congrats!
Thank you!🤘
Nothing special, just the release of 0.2.0 of my SDF Model Editor. ¯\(ツ)/¯
Showed off my first project on Dev.to on I Vibe Coded a Multiplayer ASL Game using MQTT! 🌐 . Resulted in receiving my first Top Author Badge on MQTT!
Recently made a post on Dunning-Kruger Effect and Imposter Syndrome: Developer's Hidden Caveat that is Rarely Spoken Off. that talked about my thoughts.
Gained another Welcome Badge (Goal is trying to reach 10 in a row).
Overall, great experience so far on Dev.to! Can't wait for more content next week :D
Great wins Francis!! Congratulations on the badge as well, looking forward to more great articles from you!
Starting to learn PyTorch!
I developed an agentic AI avatar to support the real estate operations, along with a dashboard that visualizes key client metrics.
what model are using?
I was building a basic agent with OpenAI, this week
I had to change my code three times so far, because of the fast pace.
As soon as I was done with building the ReAct loop from scratch, I checked that openAI has the tools that I can add to messages, and when I was done working with that they added utomatic function calls to their readme! :')
I’ve been using Gemini 2.5 Flash, and honestly, I find it more stable than OpenAI’s models. I tried OpenAI once last year, but the experience wasn’t great—especially on Google Colab, where it didn’t run very well.
For my stack, Gemini handled the core reasoning, while I combined it with LangChain, LangGraph, LangSmith, an MCP server (FastMCP), and HeyGen AI for avatar generation. HeyGen offers a free tier, but the free account has limitations when it comes to creating avatars.
Interesting. Yeah. I haven't tried Gemini yet. Gott drain my token money on OpenAI first. But yeah, the documentation of OpenAI seems not updated
oh wow! that sucks! I hear mix stories about OpenAI.
wath kind of stories? justcuriosity
Built a new iteration of my portfolio, tried out Next.js for the first time, learned Tailwind CSS, and deployed my portfolio to cloudflare!
nice!
Busy week
busy busy and successful week.
bonus: I saw the sunrise on the other day. (due to an early morning release and it burned my eyes out, but it was a beauty nonetheless
Great wins Gábor! Very busy and productive indeed!
The sunrise is something I haven't seen in a while, I only am able to see them when I pull an all nighter lol.
Implemented
imdone push,imdone pullandimdone addgithub issues sync in imdone-cli. Also added a claude rule file for imdone-cli users to help refine user stories into vertical slices.I finished my robotics starter course this week which I enjoyed a lot! I am planning to share my first learnings on how learning basic robotics can help become a better software engineer.
I also wrote a post this week about prototyping an app for ChatGPT marketplace.
Great wins Julien!! Looking forward to that post!
Will checkout the post about prototyping an app for chatGPT marketplace, there's so much to learn for here!!!
thanks Aryan!!
freeCodeCamp is a gem!
True
My win this week was consistency.
I didn’t ship anything huge, but I showed up every day — fixed a few bugs, cleaned up some code, and finally understood a concept that was confusing me last week.
Small progress, but it feels good to keep moving forward.
Hey Harsh, each progress, even the smallest one, is a progress…
Thank you, that really means a lot. I’ll keep moving forward, one step at a time.
I just released a new CLI tool called git-ship.
It uses AI to apply the "Revert vs. Review" test—ensuring your commits are safe to undo but focused enough to review in seconds.
I was using Claude skills, but then I realised that my team uses different tools so I wanted to standardise their flow and the commits on the platform
Run gs to start shipping better code.
Repository: github.com/thisismayank/git-ship
Nice tool!
I released CuteMagick.com for self-hosters. It's a website platform. 🌸
Got my first like on a post. It's not much compared to most others but made me very happy!
My win is building a multilingual Github App: Yaplate
Great tool hey
Thankyou, it means a lot
Discuss badge for Has anyone actually shipped a free offline mobile LLM?
彡໒(⊙ᴗ⊙)७彡 I publish my first app:
4 tabs File Manager for Windows 10/11+ (prototype)
Nice Richard! I have been enjoying reading your posts these past weeks!
RepoChat. I’ve been building this for the past few days as part of a dev challenge using the GitHub Copilot CLI, and I just submitted it! If you’re interested, you can check it out here: dev.to/mahupreti/repochat-chat-wit...
It might not be the ultimate win, but it feels like a win in its own way, because I completed it while many others haven’t even started yet.
open sourced voiden - github.com/VoidenHQ/voiden
ran a 10k (and both my legs are still there)
nice!!
Thank you! I really appreciate the encouragement — staying consistent.
Made my company cloud online with Clouflare tunnel and self hosted, ERPNext v16, WordPress, nextCloud, n8n, jaeger, saleor, and webSSH terminal access of the servers,
I'm happy that the Google AI team is on standby to answer questions from DEV members in their new livestream. To me, it's a win that they value DEV so much. I hope everyone takes advantage of this:
Got Gemini CLI questions? The Google team will answer DEV's questions in their new livestream series!
Jess Lee for The DEV Team ・ Feb 5
On a personal note, I am officially a member of Toastmasters and have my first talk scheduled soon :)
Oooh, would love to discuss Toastmasters!!
welcome to the club! I am a member of Toastmaster International since 2019. I am current member of McGill Toastmaster. I know the feeling regarding my first speech when I joined Toastmaster. Good luck with your first icebreaker speech with your club:)
Ahhh cool! Do you attend regularly still? Have you done any contests?! I am always so inspired coming out of the meeting.
I wish sometimes.hehehe.... I don't attend all the meeting of my club because they have meeting every Tuesday of the month. I am busy in the evening on Tuesday. I enjoy the meetings when I attended the meetings specially the topics of the members :). No! I have done any contests at the moment. It is on my to do list. Nice! You will have fun :). Good luck again!
hello
my win is, I just finish my site, its call dwrite.me blog platform with one rule
you have to create your article by typing manual not try to copy and paste from AI generator.
its simple, write for human from human
Published my project Kuizzi
kuizzi.com/en
Looks amazing Remon!!
Checking it
I realised some of my posts here were indexed by Perplexity AI! This meams my articles are AI friendly 😀
You're right, it means your articles are AI friendly - and that they have consistency. Your articles are interesting, and Perplexity indexing a validation.
Thanks! Very kind of you.
I’m always happy to help other developers when they encountered the same issues I had!
Great wins Richard! It has been great following your journey through your blogs! Looking forward to more from you!
And congratulations on the badge!!! ヾ(≧▽≦*)o
I released my third program under my company's banner
I just released StreetPack, a small open-source project built around a simple idea:
make powerful CLI tools safer to use without hiding what they do.
StreetPack is a lightweight, local-only docked launcher for command-line utilities. It doesn’t replace Bash or scripts — it wraps them with just enough structure to reduce foot-guns when you’re tired, moving fast, or working in sensitive directories.
Key characteristics:
Runs local CLI tools only
No cloud services, no background agents, no telemetry
Explicit targets and arguments
Optional receipts and outputs written to predictable paths
Designed to be inspectable, boring, and easy to reason about
The motivation came from years of copy-pasting commands, double-checking flags, and still feeling uneasy before hitting Enter. StreetPack aims to slow that moment down just enough to make intent and impact clear.
It’s Linux-focused, MIT licensed, and intentionally minimal. The goal isn’t to add features — it’s to reduce accidental mistakes while keeping full operator control.
Source and release:
github.com/TrishulaSoftware/Street...
Feedback from people who live in terminals and scripts all day is very welcome.
My win for the week was I finished building v2 of my project using Golang, it is about concurrent background job workers, scheduler and queues, and made the code public on my GitHub. I am really proud of it and this project means a lot to me, because I have been trying to build something different compared to general CRUD APIs and static websites, and I finally did, which is a big win for me right now
well don't keep us in suspense drop the link
github.com/blueberry-adii/tickr.git
Here you go, btw you can checkout my article on it as well
Hey nice project — I'm not a Go dev but the architecture makes a lot of sense. Clean README too, the diagram and feature checklist made it really easy to follow... you are very talented
Thanks a lot, really appreciate you taking the time to check it out
I got some features completed in my side project.
I wish it could be more, but anyway, small wins are better than none.
Also, a bigger one, sent a big merge request in my project, which was accepted.
Thank you very much Richard! ヾ(≧▽≦*)o
I finally got the redesign of my personal project across the line, so it's something I'm proud of rather than something I appologise for!
And that spurred me on to sign up here so I could start writing about the interesting (hopefully!) problems that come along with it. Here's my first post, but I'm planning more in the future -- Building Clusterflick: A London Cinema Aggregator 🍿
Two wins for me this week:
SpecWeave hit 18,500+ monthly npm downloads and passed 480 published versions. It's an open source spec-driven development framework that lets AI coding agents (Claude, Cursor, Copilot) work autonomously with permanent documentation. Seeing adoption grow steadily week over week feels great.
Shipped a major update to SkillUp Football -- our soccer training app now has 48 coaches creating content, live stats API, and a complete SEO overhaul. Went from just an iOS app to a full web platform.
Small steps, but momentum is everything.
Thanks Richard! Good thing the weekend is coming up, so I'll have more time to invest in it.
Launched my new app, built in less than a day with Opus 4.6 :)
still early, but already useful i think: github.com/OlaProeis/ironPad
A local-first project management tool that stores everything as plain Markdown files with automatic Git versioning.
very good, congratz
Your posts and activity are outstanding. Keep doing the great work!
As I still have a one-month trial of GitHub Copilot, I took the opportunity to build a Hugo/Jamstack WordPress plugin. I can now write directly in WordPress and publish elsewhere (on GitHub Pages for now). I started Wednesday evening and submitted it to the WordPress repository on Friday. Still fixing a few non-blocking bugs — work in progress 🙂
My win was finding some really good books on programming languages that I need to know. I love learning through videos but sometimes books are slighty better for information. I can say though that this programming journey is new to me but it has been really interesting to learn and be a part of. love it!
Excellent. Books are amazing in this field and underrated
Managed to stay consistent all week and didn’t give up when things got annoying. Quiet win, but I’ll take it.
Gartner wants to see what im building ...
Ok, interesting - what are you building?
Finished up a 100% perfectly working open source "story" for Magic Cloud ^_^
Managed to get my Frontend to work for my new personal app and the cognito service works like a charm. Next is actually setting it up to function with the backend API Gateway
Finished a 20 hour gig. Focused on UX improvements and Core Web Vitals. Client loved what I did!
Created a lossless protocol for transfering state(basically anything worthwhile) between chats. Finally got it to a state I can release to the wild. All open source under CC-BY-SA 4.0. works on any model, even between different models and with 60x compression. You can keep one continous long chat on models as small as 4k context windows.
github.com/RobIW-dev/aist-protocol
Shipped a big benchmark this week — tested how well AI coding tools handle security-sensitive functions. The results were... humbling for the AI side of things. Sometimes the best win is just having data that confirms your suspicions.
This week’s win for me was staying consistent: I showed up every day, kept learning, and made small bits of progress even when I didn’t feel especially productive. It wasn’t a “big launch” kind of week, but it did feel like one of those quiet, foundational weeks that future wins will be built on. Hopefully could comeback one day
My win this week was finally "cracking the code" on Bayesian Theory for an upcoming test! It’s a small win, but it makes the bigger concepts in AI and system reliability feel a lot more approachable.
I published the video I did for the Copilot Challenge :
Now I have to work on the article ;-p
Finished my first internship, my mentor was happy with all the work I did. 😁
I'll be focusing on learning Go, finishing some projects and leetcode!
Its funny how "What was your win this week?" always gets released on Saturday or Friday. i live in Iran and are weekends are Thursday and Friday, So in reality this is more of a start of the week for me than the end of it. For me its actually What will be your win this week?? lol
I finally shipped an SDK to build event-driven, distributed agents on Kafka! I've been sitting on this idea (and putting it off) for a while.
For anybody curious to check it out, it's called Calfkit and it's open source on github!
nice project... may I use it
Awesome! I just started on the DEV community so I'm hoping to be more part of things eventually. Everyone seems so nice and supportive.
Welcome to the community my friend. We are happy to have you
I got a follower on dev.to! Exciting :)
Beyond that, finalizing some pipeline architecture for my application to bring it out of beta!
I've deployed a project on gitlab without my devops
Thanks
Finally writing a dev.to article on the recent feature on forgetful.. a whole month after I released it. I am the worst
Published my first posts on Dev.to!
Small win this week finally solved something I’d been stuck on for a while. Nothing huge, but it feels good when things finally click. Learning something new in the process was the real win
I updated old project from laravel 7 to laravel 12, pretty huge win in terms of performance and readability, worth the time.
Migrate all my projects from pip to uv
Joined a hackathon, learned something crucial when time is limited:
Just got 4 claps on my medium article :P
I wrote a Dev post about Spring JPA and Hibernate, as it is one of the most frequently asked interview questions. I was also asked to explain the difference between them.
Post
Pretty good this week, I launched a project Clariseque, an early AI-powered vulnerability assistant that helps developers figure out if a CVE even affects their tech stack, and how to remediate it. I shared it on Peerlist to get early feedback and would love to hear what you think.
I'm 69 and most of my friends died from AIDS. This week I finally wrote about it, about forty-three years building systems for other people and why I don't trust anyone else's software anymore. It's called 'Still Skidding Broadside' and I've been putting it off for years.
js lexer by rust speed 77000 ms -> 61ms on 11LOC.
I bypassed the mdm lock on my macbook air, installed Asahi Fedora Linux Remix and have a fully functional m2 macbook after three years of waiting and watching and wishing. And then I wrote a tutorial to teach others how to do the same thing with theirs. I think both of those are wins!
My Mom turned 80 - the party she threw was epic!
Business related win: We landed our first national client.
A bit scared as this is the first time we will be deploying our devices (and fw) across the nation, but excited for what is to come :)
sadly no win, got big loose in salary pay cut