Gracie Gregory (she/her) for The DEV Team

Posted on Jul 31, 2020

What was your win this week?

#weeklyretro #discuss

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Looking back on your week — what was something you're proud of?

All wins count — big or small 🎉

Examples of "wins" include:

Learning something new
Starting a new project
Fixing a tricky bug
Cleaning your house...or whatever else that may spark joy 😄

Top comments (70)

AxelleDRouge • Jul 31 '20

I've obtained a new job :) I will be able to code with React and NodeJS full time with a developer senior as a mentor 😊 while moving in a beautiful city

Guin White • Aug 1 '20

Lucky duck 🦆! Wishing you all the best in your new role. Kudos❤️

AxelleDRouge • Aug 2 '20

Thank you !

Gracie Gregory (she/her) • Jul 31 '20

AxelleDRouge • Aug 1 '20

That pig gif is just great and sooo weird!!! I can't stop watching it XD XD XD
Thanks a lot

skaytech • Jul 31 '20 • Edited

Wow! The week is already over 😃 This was a quiet week with most of my time spent taking care of my son.
But still I was able to find time to pen down two articles with 1K+ views :-)
Plus gained like 100+ new followers on Dev platform. Looks like I'm doing something right, but, more importantly I'm enjoying at the moment.
Hope yours went alright and have a nice weekend!!!

Gracie Gregory (she/her) • Jul 31 '20

Yay!!! Glad you are enjoying your experience here. That's the whole idea! Have a great weekend @skaytech

Vijaykumar • Aug 1 '20

100++

Ryota Murakami • Aug 1 '20

Congress man!
Two articles with 1K+ views are awesome!
I like code and making something in github repo, but I'm not good at writing article 😅

skaytech • Aug 1 '20

Thank you! For each their own... Some people enjoy writing, some folks enjoying vlogging. I think it's important to enjoy the journey. The numbers will take care of themselves.

Ryota Murakami • Aug 1 '20

I see, thank you tell me your thought!

Vitor Paladini • Jul 31 '20

Programming-wise my week has been pretty uneventful but I've made a fantastic tomato sauce last Wednesday.

Lots of garlic, onion, canned tomatoes lightly blended with a hand mixer. Easily my best one so far. I ate it with spaghetti 😄

Gracie Gregory (she/her) • Jul 31 '20

Oooh nice. Have you checked out this super simple (and kinda famous) tomato sauce recipe from NYT? I can attest to how good it is, which makes no sense given how few ingredients there are. cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/101517...

Vitor Paladini • Jul 31 '20

Never seen it before, looks surprisingly minimalistic.

I'll definitely give it a try next time, thanks!

Ben Sinclair • Aug 1 '20

Here's one I do:

Put the pasta water on to boil, with salt
roughly chop and a handful of cherry tomatoes
mince (think 1-2mm chunks) 2 cloves of garlic, 1 or 2 mushrooms, same amount of shallot (or onion)
heat a 28-30cm frying pan and add a good gulp of oil
put the pasta in the water (to get the right amount, fill a bowl with dried pasta and then put about 20% of it back in the cupboard)
put the tomatoes in the frying pan and saute for 3-4 minutes
add the mushroom, garlic and shallots and keep going for 1 minute
add enough passata to easily cover the bottom of your pan to a little more than "omelette" depth
add a couple of drops of worcester sauce
keep stirring it and add a good pinch of dried parsley, basil, salt and black pepper
add about half a handful of grated cheddar, and mix it in until it gets nice and thick

That makes enough for one person. It's delish.

Vitor Paladini • Aug 1 '20

Damn, it's early morning around here and you got me craving for cheesy-mushroomy pasta.

Maxim Chechenev • Jul 31 '20

I visited the office for the very first time since mid-March (my team decided to do it on the same day) and that was a bit weird experience - almost empty silent office. I felt like I either arrived too early or too late :)

But anyway, it was great to meet colleagues in real life after 4 months of remote work, that was very cool.

Gracie Gregory (she/her) • Jul 31 '20

Awesome. I'm jealous! I am definitely missing those opportunities to meet up for coffee with my network, or meet up with colleagues IRL (even if just occasionally)

Mike Bybee • Jul 31 '20 • Edited

Meeting some awesome junior devs here and on LinkedIn (I really wish I'd taken advantage of DEV Community sooner), and connecting with some great individuals who share my ambition for educating them (and one who not only wants to do it for free, but get laptops to those who can't afford them).

And fleshing out some SaaS product ideas.

Gracie Gregory (she/her) • Jul 31 '20

Oh, wow! That's awesome, especially about the laptops. Such an important access gap to fill.

Mike Bybee • Jul 31 '20

Speaking of which, anyone who knows Raspberry Pi clustering and would be interested in such a project, please reach out to me.

Ryota Murakami • Aug 1 '20

That's fortunate!
You hiring on DEV for your start up?

Mike Bybee • Aug 1 '20

Unfortunately not at the moment. If the SaaS stuff takes off, then hopefully so.

Ryota Murakami • Aug 1 '20

Sure, Good Luck Bro!

Andrew Baisden • Aug 1 '20

Consistently posting articles every day to dev.to for a whole week.

Rohini Murugesan • Aug 1 '20

As I am completely new to web development, fixing a CORS was my win of the week!!! :) :)

And I'm new to this platform as well. Probably, my first comment.

Glad to be here!! Looking forward for great learning!!! :) :)

Divyesh Parmar • Aug 1 '20

To implement Mobx for our product-team/admin panel for a big analytics table for all the video conferencing events, which integrates data coming from MySQL as well as Firebase connections.

Now that I have firebase connections being made per each row, I have run into another problem to provide all that updated data to a Download CSV button (which is an array of event details plus the firebase data for those events). The big win is I was able to optimize but next big worry is if I update this same array ( even in mobx store) how to avoid additional re-render!!!

Vaibhav Khulbe • Aug 1 '20

Getting goodies from daily.dev as I provided them with feedback:

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Thank you @dailydotdev for this! So much love from Israel 😍

Gotta eat those munchies quick! 😋

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