What was your win this week??

This week is the most accomplish week I have made so far in anything. I am so proud I made this much progress this week. Here is the list:

• Received the TOP 7 Badge for this article on I Vibe Coded a Multiplayer ASL Game using MQTT! 🌐
• Got feedback on my portfolio based on this post on Implemented a Feature where the Theme on my Portfolio changes based on the Holiday (Because it's fun) 💫
• Submitted my GitHub Copilot CLI Challenge on Built a Vibe Coded App where you can Style any Image you like! :D
• Join The Foundation. Thanks to @richardpascoe and @dannwaneri!
• Initiated The DEVengers. See our First Post!
• Granted Trusted Member on Dev.to!!!!
• Got Next.js TOP Author Badge
• Got another Welcome Badge (6 more to go)!

Thank you all for this wonderful week!

A week of quiet wins and lively conversations.

The PHP/Symfony community kept things interesting, with @jeandevbr publishing a thoughtful piece that builds nicely on recent discussions. Watching ideas circulate, evolve, and occasionally come back smarter than they left is one of the best parts of writing here.

I also finalized my personal dev.to publishing tool. The built-in editor is genuinely great and a pleasure to use, but I still enjoy tinkering with my own setup — equal parts practicality and harmless stubbornness. Let’s call it “artisan workflow engineering.” And you know how it goes: some habits age like fine wine, others like friendly dinosaurs 😁

The reading queue was once again full of gems. Choosing a weekly Top 7 is never straightforward when so many strong articles compete for attention. A difficult selection usually means a healthy community.

I released the 3rd beta version of my dream project SDF Editor! It was challenging, and I learned a lot along the way, but the most important thing I realized was that Tkinter shouldn't be used with Imgui, at least not the way I did it! (I ran Tkinter in a separate thread.).

And wrote a new post about it!

I released another post! Writing them by hand is quite some work :)

Also, I worked on my pet projects and half-implemented a new little game. It is going to be fun I hope but it still has a bunch of issues. Maybe some success story for next week!

Managed to get the linkace up and running!
Spent some time reading a gentleman in Moscov.
setup opencode for document analysis.

Hardcore backend dev here. I know my way around APIs and databases, have some React experience… but CSS? Almost zero 😅
The last couple of months have been me fighting with shadcn, Tailwind, shadow DOMs, and constant “why is this div doing that?” moments. Plenty of brain explosions along the way.
Got a dev.to CSS badge for this blog , and honestly it feels unreal. I don’t usually get emotional about code, but yeah… there were a few happy tears and a quiet little smirk. Small win, big personal victory.

This week was about a big win for me:

• I'm now fully dedicated to Reporails (Codex and Copilot adapters are being added very soon)

I also wrote some guidance to reduce exploration tax to coding agents that we all pay

Fun times ^^

ps.: I'm forever grateful for the "What was your win this week" series, I read so many wins and it gives such uplifting energies

This week was a win for me:

• Vibe coded my first MCP! and it was a quite nice one, published 1st beta version of it and wrote my first post about it since years! Writing it by hand is quite some work :)
• Built my portfolio
• Started my first certification of the year: Terraform associate (despite it is one of my daily tools)
• Start writing My second Post
• Along that I managed to finish the sprint in my company 😁

Lots of clean up and initializing new efforts.

• got mentioned in the dev.to weekly newsletter for my humble win for the week 💖
• Hit a nice pace with maintaining WordPress plugin updates on a suite of sites. It has been quiet a mountain to climb figuring out the stack quirks and making the workflow work for me.
• Resolved my first blocker deploying to Cloudflare. I had mixed the pages and workers configs in my project so my deployment build was going into an infinite loop.
• Started a side project aiming to incorporate an mcp server with a full stack app that helps me review what I learn.
• Created an associated private repo that I will use as a study tool as I get thru my portfolio projects.
• Procured a few things to cozy up my desk setup 💻

Obvi, my repos are kinda empty right now but I thought I'd share anyway! Slowly and steady 🐢 🐇

Placed 4th out of 250 projects in the AI Vibe Coding Hackathon on Devpost and won two category prizes!!

Built Memoria Clew - a local-first research memory tool with transparent scoring. The idea isn't new (similar tools exist), but I focused on making the recall logic explainable rather than a black box. One judge called it the best documentation they'd seen, another pointed out it's not groundbreaking (vibe.yaps.gg/). Both are fair.

This is my third hackathon win in seven months. Started learning to code in July and have no formal CS training. Still figuring things out, but the pattern of shipping under time constraints seems to be working.

Thanks to the organizers at Devpost and ANORA Labs for running a solid hackathon.

Project: github.com/earlgreyhot1701D/memori...
Hackathon: vibe.devpost.com/