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Looking back on your week -- what was something you're proud of?
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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:
Thank you all for this wonderful week!
haha devengers
i see what you did there
hehe lol thanks
@francistrdev this is an INCREDIBLE week congrats on all the wins.
especially excited to have you join The Foundation š
Thanks Daniel! Appreciate the invite and can't wait to see the project comes to fruition!
A truly wonderful week, Francis. Well done, Sir!
Thanks Richard! Well done to you as well!
Thank you, my friend - appreciate it!
Awesome to have been part of the top 7 ! I wish I get it one day ;-p
Hey Adriens! Thanks! We all wish you the best for you on Top 7!!
Awesomeeeee winssss Francis!!! Well deserved!!
Keep building and sharing, your posts and projects are always interesting, looking forward to more!
Thanks Aryan! Looking forward to your posts/projects as well! :D
Wow, what an incredible week! You have been absolutely on fire. It is so inspiring to see how much you have achieved in such a short time. Congratulations!! :)
Thanks Maame! I appreciate your comment! Can't wait to see your posts! :D
Youāre welcome!
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 ā equal parts practicality and harmless stubbornness. Letās call it āartisan workflow engineering.ā And you know how it goes: some habits age like fine wine, others like friendly dinosaurs š
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.
Congratulations Pascal!! Always doing cool things šÆ
Thanks Maame! I love your work too! It's really a source of inspiration!
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!
Huge congrats on hitting Beta 3! Building something as complex as an SDF editor solo is a massive feat, and the progress between versions is really clear.
Thanks!
welcome :)
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!
That's so cool, would be looking forward to try the game :)
Well... :) Thanks for asking, here we go: pausengames.com/en/bubble-pop
played it for about 2 mins and it reminds me so much of Zuma (the frog throwing those balls) Would be looking forward to see the final game. All the best
Great achievement - will look into this :D Thanks for testing!
No p!
Managed to get the linkace up and running!
Spent some time reading a gentleman in Moscov.
setup opencode for document analysis.
nice
Hardcore backend dev here. I know my way around APIs and databases, have some React experienceā¦ but CSS? Almost zero š
The last couple of months have been me fighting with shadcn, Tailwind, shadow DOMs, and constant āwhy is this div doing that?ā moments. Plenty of brain explosions along the way.
Got a dev.to CSS badge for this blog , and honestly it feels unreal. I donāt usually get emotional about code, but yeahā¦ 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 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
Congratulations! And that's so true, I always read it and get so motivated as well. Always looking forward to it too
This week was a win for me:
Lots of clean up and initializing new efforts.
Obvi, my repos are kinda empty right now but I thought I'd share anyway! Slowly and steady š¢ š
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/
Wow congrats!
Thank you!
Placing 4th is a huge win. Congratulations and many more wins to come!
Thank you so much!
Welcome :)
Learned that my blog comes up if you write "Find a good deep dive on python dictionaries" in almost all major LLMs search like chatgpt, grok, etc. (Read it here!)
It felt really incredible! Apart from that I've been focusing on getting better at Data Structures :)
It was a wonderful and productive week in which I managed to work on several of my projects.
One has already been completed and entered into the challenge: cfix: Architecting a seamless diagnostic bridge between Linux runtime errors and GitHub Copilotās LLM-powered intelligence
github.com/dbc2201/chromium-mcp-se...
Built my first open-source MCP server this week ā chromium-mcp-server! It's a universal browser automation server that gives AI agents (Claude, Cursor, etc.) full control over a Chromium browser via the Model Context Protocol.
Some highlights:
25+ browser tools out of the box ā navigate, click, fill forms, screenshot, extract content, execute JS, accessibility tree inspection, multi-tab support
App adapter architecture ā built a plugin system so you can add high-level semantic tools for specific web apps. Ships with a GitHub adapter that includes interactive tutorials for teaching users GitHub workflows
Persistent sessions ā optionally keeps cookies/login state across restarts, so agents don't have to re-authenticate every time
Built it with Playwright + TypeScript + the MCP SDK, zero config needed ā just npx chromium-mcp-server and you're running
The part I'm most proud of is the adapter pattern. Instead of just raw browser primitives, adapters let you wrap any web app into meaningful, domain-specific tools. Think github_create_issue instead of "click this selector, fill that field." Already planning adapters for more apps.
MIT licensed, and the test suite passes all 14 integration tests. Feels good to ship something end-to-end in a week!
This week I dove deep into researching local LLMs and ended up writing a benchmarking comparison of the best open-source models in 2026 (dev.to/likhit/which-local-llm-is-b...).
While researching, I got a lightbulb moment for how I can enhance on of my shelved project.
Also, built a Chrome extension that auto-syncs LeetCode solutions to GitHub (dev.to/likhit/automating-leetcode-...).
I released three new blog themes and a nifty converter tool for people using Medium.com :D
I found this place and posted publicly for the first time. I usually hide behind screen names, and writing dev articles was never something I thought much about. But I like writing and I'm a dev, so thought "why not?".
Great community ya'll got here.
Oh I also merged my project into a monorepo with shared packages, a common DB, and typesafe environment variables. Never did that before and DX improvement is nuts! I've worked in monorepos but never set one up from scratch before. It was both more and less painful than I thought it was gonna be.
Finally got RSS feed ingestion working properly on a newsletters + podcasts platform I've been building. The tricky part was handling all the weird edge cases in podcast RSS feeds ā some publishers really love to get creative with their XML.
Also shipped a feature that auto-generates show notes from podcast episodes, which has been a surprisingly fun problem to solve. If anyone here runs a newsletter or podcast, I'd love early feedback on giv1.com ā still very much in the building phase.
Small win but satisfying: fixed a gnarly timezone bug in the email scheduling system. Three days of "why does this only break for Australian subscribers" finally resolved š
Happy Friday everyone!
Scheduled my first Product Hunt launch! š
I've been building WaitlistKit (waitlistkit.dev) ā a tool that lets you create viral waitlists with built-in referrals and analytics. Built with Go + React.
This week I finished the PH submission, created gallery images, wrote 2 Dev.to articles about it, and got everything ready for launch day (Feb 19).
The feeling of hitting "Schedule Launch" after weeks of building solo is unreal. Now comes the scary part ā actually putting it out there. š
Git bindings, and (secure) terminal bindings in Magic ^_^
In addition to ensuring the backend runs in a protected process, making it impossible to "hack" the underlying operating system ...
After a long time participating in the dev challenge, here's the cool thing I've built:
dev.to/rohan_sharma/my-docs-are-sa...
I'm still in trauma that I missed the challenges for a long time.
Apart from this, I've worked with some super cool founders. That should count as a win for me.
Finally created the project that make me productivity with a single site itself by doing a lot of R&D for GitHub cli challenge submission
dev.to/itslokeshx/i-built-a-second...
But it haven't reached the way i thoughtš¶
Been a productive week here.
Polished and submitted my Copilot CLI Challenge submission: dev.to/olaproeis/dotfiles-coach-up...
Tried out Suno for my music production hobby, Using it for vocals only, struggling to find vocalists that want to come in the studio, so this is a gamechanger for me :) it has gotten really good: on.soundcloud.com/yCEsxPHCMKip63GIte
Released IronPad 0.2.0 today, with dated comments, apptray icon: github.com/OlaProeis/ironPad
Hit 1000 stars on my Ferrite project on GitHub!
This week Iāve starting learn new programming language (Swift)
Finally decided to launch my blog. Nothing groundbreaking, just a place where Iāll write about software, systems and growth ā and share the projects I build.
Been overthinking it for months. Glad I finally shipped it.
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I've been wanting to do the same for a while. Did you use a specific framework or cms?
To restart doing DSA.
You know, I finally finished the 4th Harry Potter book and started the 5th one! :D
Another week another set of wins ā( ļ¼¾ēæļ¼¾)ć£ hehehe
Love this pace and the warmth this community has brought for the devs with genuine interactions and support. Thank you everyone!
Way to go, Aryan. Lovely looking egg too - sunny-side up, just the way I like them!
I need to get back into reading. I joined BookWyrm years ago with a view to recording how many books I had read in a year. Life got in the way of that though - must try again someday soon!
You're right about the community here - it rocks, thanks to people like yourself!
Thank you very much Richard(ā /ā ^ā -ā ^ā (ā ^ā Ā ā ^ā )ā /
Hope you can get back into reading soon!!!
I am honoured to be a part of this awesome community and be able to interact with kind and humble people like yourself, Richard. Thank you for all the continued support! Hope we can connect sometime and talk about other things as well!!
Of course, Aryan. Look forward to connecting further when I have a few socials in place or something similar!
Those are alot of wins Aryan, and the most impressive part is reading 200 pages in a day! (i want to be like you, that would take me like a couple of days). Big win!
Well I was just making the most of my unemployment era (Ėā½Ėļ¼)... It had been on shelf for a long time, it was only fair to finish it that day
This was a great week for me!
In terms of writing, I got my first Discuss badge from my post this week Why Learning Basic Robotics Made Me a Better Software Engineer in the Age of AI. I am happy that my post sparked such discussions and that it inspired some of you here.
I have another post in the works that I am eager to share with you all next week.
I am also well on track with my reading challenge this year, which is to read 30 books.
Have a fabulous weekend everyone.
Amazing wins Julien!! Way to gooo!
And 30 books??!? That's a bar set high my man, all the best I am sure you'll do it.
Have that one bookmarked to read through again over the weend. Fantastic work, Julien!
I've got quite a few wins actually.
I think this has easily been my best week of the year yet.
Cool for GitHub Copilot CLI challenge <3
Thank you!š
THAT'S A LOT OF WINS RICHARD!!! Going big I see (ā§ļø¶ā¦))(ļæ£ā½ļæ£ )ć
Keep writing and building fun things, always looking forward to your awesome posts and warm comments!!!
Submitted my project for the Github Copilot Challenge šŖ
I, as a Filipino(who always eats rice in their meal), did not have rice this whole week! That's a win because I weighed 85.5kg last week.
I have been trying to cut my carbs by quitting rice and i could only survive 2 days. You are brave for thisš
haha! Cold turkey is real!!
I am finishing up the pre-deployment phase for CountIQ. The app should be ready to deploy by Monday.
š Feeling really happy to finally publish a blog after a busy 10 months full of work. I wrote about connecting independent portals securely in a multi-tenant system, and Iām happy about how it turned out. Hereās the link: dev.to/vishw-patel/how-we-built-se...
Published my first open source library this week - telegrambot4j, lightweight Telegram Bot API wrapper for Java. Spent more time on Maven packaging and docs than actual code š
Also discovered and joined Dev.to, still figuring out how everything works here
Not sure if this brings me closer to beating impostor syndrome or deeper into it š
I also just joined Dev.to, and I'm also still figuring things out, but it all looks like a nice community
I've made a lot of progress on my own chatting platform called Wokki Chat and my JavaScript library JSPT this week!
That was mostly my week :)
I celebrated PostgreSQL 18.2 release with a new version of my DevSecOPS analysis. I gave a try to some ideas, KPIs and dataviz :
Surviving the week!
Honestly this is the most relatable comment I have read on this series š
I took the opportunity of the
openbaolatest release to produce a small devsecops analysis :Been hard at work with thesoloquest.com
Finally putting it out in public this week! We will see if I can get some feedback on what to build next!
I took the initiative to introduce myself to all the project stakeholders and the respective Dev folk I am involved with. After a week of jumping into each Projects daily stand up I realised I'm good when it comes to barging into calls introducing myself and found out they were just as intimidated by my Infra knowledge as much as I was intimidated by their coding skills. After a laugh about it I found out they all are either comic book & manga fans or they are gamers who have played every console since the Atari 2600. I will also be helping them out creating documentation for projects going forward.
Just goes to show sometimes put the tech to the side and just take a chance because we are all trying to just cross the finish line together.
Be brave peeps!!!
shipped the first version of a waitlist management tool i've been building. go backend + react frontend, referral tracking, embeddable widget ā the whole thing.
also somehow grew my reddit karma from 1 to 40+ in a single day just by being genuinely helpful in dev subreddits. turns out people appreciate actual answers instead of "just google it" lol
small wins but feels good to have momentum going into next week š
Submission (vibe code - or even - vibe consultant) my vector draw application called:
rustroke
to GitHub Copilot CLI Challenge.
dev.to/pengeszikra/rustroke-wasm-m...
tech stack: RUST -> WASM engine -> HTML view
time frame: February 7, 2026 ā February 14, 2026 rustroke/pulse
It is was my long forgotten (2014) dream project, now realised with this new AI based workflow.
This week I finished the novel of an IP im working on. Now im starting the game design for that IP. I also joined dev.to so that I can journal my journey with this IP.
I've published my first video tutorial! Not yet polished, but proud of it nonetheless!
Well done! Itās really good, especially for a first video.
I had a similar win last week myself, I published my very first YouTube video, where I walk through the system design of my new project. Itās such a great feeling hitting that āpublishā button for the first time.
Love hearing about someone else celebrating the same kind of milestone. Itās pretty rewarding, isnāt it?
Keep it coming, youāre doing just fine!š¤
Thanks for your encouragements! I really appreciate it.
How amazing is it to celebrate the wins with another in the far ends of the world?!
I watched your video too, itās really quite slick! Thanks for sharing!
Iām still learning, but making progresses everyday is what matters ! š
Absolutely! Thank you!
Thank you very much Richard(ā /ā ^ā -ā ^ā (ā ^ā Ā ā ^ā )ā /
Hope you can get back into reading soon!!!
I am honoured to be a part of this awesome community and be able to interact with kind and humble people like yourself, Richard. Thank you for all the continued support! Hope we can connect sometime and talk about other things as well!!
shipped the first working version of a waitlist management tool i've been building ā Go backend, React frontend, referral tracking built in. not pretty yet but it works and that feels like a massive win after weeks of late night coding sessions. also got my first DEV post out there which felt good!
Shipped the first public version of an anonymous incident reporting map I've been working on ā icemap.app. No signup, no tracking, just drop a pin and describe what's happening. The map updates in real-time so anyone nearby can see it.
The interesting technical challenge was balancing anonymity with abuse prevention. Ended up using a combination of rate limiting, geographic clustering, and community flagging instead of requiring accounts. Still iterating on it but the core flow feels solid.
Also finally killed a WebSocket reconnection bug that was causing phantom pins to stick around after incidents were resolved. Small fix, big relief š
Happy Valentine's Day weekend everyone! šš¤
An old project of mine is finally becoming real : I published the first two articles in a series about Beautiful Perl features: an introduction and an article about blocks and lexical scoping. The goal is to attract the interest of developers from other communities and show them facts, not opinions, with comparisons between various languages. Hopefully this will show that Perl is not the dreadful language that some people imagine, and that the combination of design features can be very effective for some programming tasks.
Congrats Richard on making the Top 7! Always an inspiration, and getting that badge really validates all the hard work you put into your writing. Moltbook sounds like a fascinating project, so it is great to see the community giving it the attention it deserves.
Also, well done on finishing the HTML certification! Even though you are stepping back from daily posts, it is awesome that you are already planning a Python series. Whether you go with 30 days or 100 days, I think people will really appreciate seeing a fresh perspective on it. Sometimes a 30-day sprint is easier for people to commit to, but a 100-day journey really shows the deep dive. Whatever you choose, Iām looking forward to seeing it!
That is a big win already. I completely understand why you aren't documenting every bit of the CSS module. It is huge and sometimes you just need to put your head down and get through it. Your HTML posts are definitely going to be a great resource for a long time.
I think the 30 days of Python sounds like a great idea. It feels a bit more doable for most people to follow along with, and since you already recommended that resource, it feels like a natural next step. Flexibility is usually better anyway so you do not feel burnt out.
I am looking forward to seeing which one you pick. Good luck with the CSS Richard!
Weekly win: Finally shipped sharding logic for LLM recovery points after 3 weeks debugging. p95 latency dropped from 180ms ā 45ms (4x win).
Also got 15 solid Dev.to comments that sparked real conversations with other architects.
Small win: Actually took Friday off completely :)
A bug had been lurking in the system for years, and neither me nor my client could consistently reproduce it to figure out the cause.
It happened again on this week while I was working on a completely separate problem, and I saw something which made me realise the root cause of that elusive bug. Ten minutes and one new line of code later, I have a fix in the develop environment.
The endorphine rush was huge. It took a few hours for the chemical high to subside.
A couple of years ago, my client reported an intermittent bug. I have seen it since, so I know it exists, but none of us could consistently reproduce it so we had no idea what was causing it or how to fix it.
I saw it again this week, while working on something else, and suddenly saw the pattern. Ten minutes and one new line of code later, and I have a fix. The chemical high caused by the endorphine rush took a few hours to subside.
I get so excited when i solve a bug after weeks. I can't imagine the sense of relief you got after finding the bug over years. Damn
Shipped a fun project (handy CLI tool) for creating agent skills.
Started go script a typescript like for go to abstracts go complexity for beginners
Trying to be positive in life.
As you should Gaurav
My win this week was finally finishing a project I have been working on for a while. It took a lot of effort, but it feels amazing to see the final result!
This weekās wins: finally squashing a stubborn bug that blocked a feature for days, huge relief to see it working! Also shared my recent open-source projects on social platforms, cracked a lead via LinkedIn, and successfully delivered two client projects.
Started diving into Spring Boot Security: authentication, JWT, role-based access control. Also learned Agile Scrum methodology through a Lego simulation workshop, which made the concepts really tangible. Productive week!
I didn't do
sudo rm -rf /to myself.Released the project without any bugs!
Great work francis
I was able to complete two projects on my cloud computing course this previous week. I post all my projects here on Dev.to
do well to check them out and show some reaction to them. Thank you.
This weekās win: weāre on the verge of launching our backend infrastructure.
You can take a look here:
PlayServ: Multiplayer in Hours, Not Months
Focus on gameplay, not infrastructure. PlayServ is the fastest path from idea to live multiplayer.
Thanks Richard! Well done to you as well!
I install Linux in a cpu with Windows, I had issues with the BIOS and the hard disk, but i solve it, so i AM really happy.
This week, my win was shipping a real Android app that runs an AI model fully on-device š
I spent the past week vibe-coding LifeLens, an Android app built with the Nexa SDK that can run a vision-language model directly on a phone ā no cloud inference required.
Instead of just experimenting in notebooks, I actually:
Integrated the Nexa Android SDK
Loaded and initialized a local VLM model on-device
Handled camera permissions + image capture
Debugged model loading issues and packaging errors
Generated a working APK and tested it end-to-end
Itās still early-stage, but seeing the model respond locally on a physical device felt like a huge milestone.
Hereās the repo if anyoneās curious:
š github.com/michellemashutian/LifeLens
Small win in terms of product polish.
Big win in terms of learning + shipping. š
I am trying to make a game using godot for android. I managed to get the setup done + export. Now I can start working on the game.
We just launched PiecesHub platform for developers to form teams and work together with hobby projects. It is built over github app so your code still lives in the github. This week we have been meeting new people and discussed about the project!
My win this week was finally setting up my technical blog profile here! I've also been deep-diving into mobile UI performance and managed to optimize some asset loading issues for a gaming project Iām working on. Feels great to see those frame rates stabilize!
Successfully performing a major upgrade on multiple Umbraco websites with way too much custom code, from version 13 to 17, while still keeping headless sites running regardless of the upgrade.
Just finished my AWS EKS project.
Complete pita, but i feel really accomplished.
I wrote my first blog on dev.to this week, a small first step