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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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Finally finished my finals for the Semester and now I can work on projects and be more active on DEV.to! :D
awesome!
Good! "More active" - much more, you are already very active and we appreciate it.
thanks
Indeed! I was wondering if you want to join my DEVenger org since I am planning to focus that more this Summer!
DEVengers
Good suggestion, maybe, idk, I think I'll go crazy in the summer if I'm programming at +40, so I'll probably be sitting on dev.to (in the basement) too (& bsky), lol. We'll see.
It was a super productive week for me! 🎉
I wrote my first post on dev.to:
Relatable memes on collaboration styles
5 types of engineers I met as a Technical Writer
I created my first static site using Docusaurus. It's still on localhost for now, but I'm pretty satisfied with the outcome:
Great job @klaudiagrz 👏🏻
Thank you! ☺️
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Wrote my weekly post here and making steady progress on my side project!
launched Kilo Code on Product Hunt this week. ranked #1 Product of the Day, currently #1 Product of the Week. oss ftw!
That’s a real achievement. I have given up on product hunt lately, but congrats to you on getting the top spot
thanks! we keep it simple and just launch constantly. it pays off!
That's awesome, congrats. upvoted!
Thank you! ❤️
That's awesome 😍 Huge congrats @fmerian 🎉
Published neat blog that got pinned here by @jess ❤️
Great job Sean! Welcome to the community resource list family :D
Just finished my submission for the Gemma 4 Challenge this week 😃
I’ve also been trying to become more active in the DEV community and spend more time engaging, rather than just reading posts quietly in the background. Small step, but a meaningful one for me 😄
I know exactly how it feels 🙈 It was a big step for me too to start commenting on posts here, especially since I'm rather introverted and struggle with anxiety disorder. But the community is super supportive, and hey – it's always very pleasant to read someone commenting on your post 🤗 Good job and keep going!
Aww, thank you, Klaudia 😀
I can already see how supportive the community is 😄
Thanks for taking the time to reply, it made me smile 💛
This week I finally proved out end-to-end infrastructure provisioning with GrapeVine, my provider-agnostic IaC library — spun up real DigitalOcean resources programmatically as part of CitrusWorx, the platform ecosystem I've been building alongside my CS degree.
The big unlock: GrapeVine abstracts the provider layer cleanly enough that the same provisioning logic will work across providers without rewriting your infrastructure contracts. It's been a long time coming and seeing it actually work in production felt like crossing a real threshold.
Also making progress on Nectarine (YAML-driven backend with parameterized SQL generation) and Juice (token-based design system with an attribute-selector API). Slow build, but the pieces are starting to talk to each other.
What was your win this week? 👇
My win this week: I published my first article on DEV.
It is a long and somewhat heavy essay, but I finally wrote down an idea I have been exploring: AI-assisted development may change not only how fast we write code, but also how software architecture evolves over time.
The article is about Attractor Engineering: seeing codebases as fields, PRs as forces, and ArchSig as an observer for architectural trajectories.
dev.to/iroha1203/attractor-enginee...
I maded a LLM RPG 2026 test
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I joined the last Weekend Challenge, and honestly, my biggest win wasn’t winning the challenge itself (because I didn’t 😅).
What made me genuinely happy was the number of kind messages and emails I received afterward, mostly from people I’d never talked to before, telling me how much they loved my submission and the website I created where I made Earth tell its story 🌍
Seeing people connect emotionally with something I built meant way more to me than any ranking could. That was the real achievement for me 💙
DEV Weekend Challenge: Earth Day
I Had No Weekend Plans… So I Let Earth Tell Its Story 🌍
An interactive Earth Day landing page built with React, TypeScript, and Tailwind CSS — blending storytelling, environmental awareness, and modern UI to inspire users to protect our planet.
🌍 There Is No Planet B — Earth Day Landing Page
An interactive, storytelling-driven landing page designed to raise awareness about our planet and inspire action. Built for the DEV Weekend Challenge 2026, this project combines modern frontend technologies with a creative narrative where Earth speaks directly to humanity.
🚀 Live Preview
🔗 View Live Page
✨ Features
🛠️ Tech Stack
💡 Inspiration
Built around the idea that:
Got my "I Fixed 5 Chained AI Bugs in My Sales Chatbot" article featured in Dor Moshe's JavaScript Trends Newsletter 🎉
What made it land for me: his newsletter picks for technical depth over hype, so it felt like the kind of validation that actually means something.
Now back to debugging bug #6 👀
Big win for me this week, I submitted my first entry to the Gemma 4 Challenge on DEV. Been building a local computer vision project that runs on a Raspberry Pi and finally got the whole pipeline working end to end. Also hit a 2 week community wellness streak which felt nice. Small wins add up 🎉
I enjoyed reading your post. Well done!
Thanks for reading. :)
I've created a data pipeline around job offers and since a few days I can play with the resulting data, and am really happy with the resulting usecases, especially due to the fact it's all open source, open data and for gpu poor.
I could create some nice looking infographics thanks to the data that is now available. Next step is the Gemma 4 challenge
Finished my small word game for devs this week and wrote about it here. It was nice to do something aside from work for a change.
Made it to Code w/ Claude Extended and had an absolute blast. Built my first managed agent and entered my first bot battle. Oh my!
Passed my AWS Cloud Practitioner exam!
Congratulations!
My win this week, I published my most fun post ever on dev.to .!
Wrote about how every developer's git log is a crime scene - a 7-stage investigation going from perfect conventional commits all the way down to just . and asdfgh 😄
Every Developer's Git Log is a Crime Scene - A 7-Stage Investigation
What's your worst commit message? Drop it here, too
I had a genius idea for the Gemma 4 build contest yesterday! I’m going to build it over the weekend and win that competition 😂
Also I went outside for a few hours yesterday, really enjoyed touching the grass instead of my keyboard for once
That I'm more confident in PostgreSQL and my web portfolio project now has momentum. I'm looking forward to finishing freeCodeCamp's relational database course and finally get my 4th certificate!
Finally posted a pre-print of the early experimental results from RVW, my variation on the traditional transformer that is capable of online continuous learning: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20064617
Fixing a tricky bug is always a great win. There's nothing like finally having your code run without weird errors. It's like a mini level-up moment. I've been using PracHub for their DSA patterns, which helps me understand the root cause of certain bugs faster. Their company-tagged coding banks are pretty on point too. It beats scrolling through random blog posts that don't quite hit. Keep pushing those small victories, they add up over time.
Answered a real user's support question during a live DeFi exploit. Someone in the Ekubo Discord lost $10K in USDC to the lock/pay accounting vulnerability. I decoded their three transactions, confirmed exactly how much was drained (7,405 + 2,671 USDC), and explained which contract pulled their funds and why. First time the tool I've been building for months answered a real person's real problem in real time. Still $0 MRR but the product works.
Starting new things without thinking about whether i will succeed!
Making my first public repo, and I got two stars and 1080 installs in 3 days! Now I’m taking the project seriously. I’m adding all the logical next steps to it, too. I hope it becomes a program that everyone who uses an LLM to code, write books, or whatever they do will install. I really think context management is a cool idea, and I seem to be the only one doing it?
I just wish I could afford more than that 100 max plan. I run out of usage in like two hours, and that’s at high efficiency. No matter how lean I get my guys running on tokens, having six going together eats it up. Anyway, check it out:
github.com/mekickdemons-creator/mn...
pip install mnemara
Big win this week was finally seeing a system I’ve been building start behaving like actual infrastructure instead of just a collection of blockchain scripts.
Been working on an on-chain monitoring/intelligence engine and this week a lot of the deeper runtime stuff finally started clicking together:
proxy resolution, liquidity lifecycle tracking, LP ownership reconstruction, runtime capability analysis, state diff monitoring, alertable liquidity events, etc.
One moment that felt especially surreal was watching the monitor detect a near-total liquidity collapse on a Uniswap pair in real time and correctly classify it as a structural liquidity event instead of just “token price moved.”
Another fun part was seeing the proxy/runtime analysis finally work properly on live contracts. Seeing the engine reconstruct upgradeability signals and runtime behavior directly from chain state felt pretty wild after weeks of debugging edge cases and weird RPC behavior 😭
Still a massive amount left to harden and scale, but this week was one of the first times where the whole architecture actually started feeling coherent end-to-end.
Handling three projects at once. working on 3 websites that are helping many business owners and small businesses.
These are not just for show, they are performing very well. And frankly, it is a little bit hectic but manageable.
Shipped three protocol features for NOVAI (AI-native
L1 blockchain in Rust) this week:
On-chain AI reputation system. Oracle entities
submit reputation updates, scores clamped 0-100,
capability-gated.
Signal marketplace. Entities price their signals,
consumers pay natively, 2% protocol fee to treasury.
Entity staking and slashing. Stake collateral,
lock period, oracle-triggered slashing with funds
to slash treasury.
Tests went from 1,110 to 1,170+. Zero clippy warnings.
Still 10 tx types.
github.com/0x-devc/NOVAI-node
A few days after the latest deployment, a client-side contact said one of the new features was already making life easier for them.
This is what I go to work for.
Well, that and the cookie vouchers 🙃
My win this week: I finally launched my first open-source devtool, Tautest.
It’s a CLI/GitHub Action that uses mutation testing to check whether AI-written tests actually protect behavior, not just pass.
The most satisfying part was seeing the full loop work:
regular tests pass → Tautest finds a surviving mutant → it generates a fix prompt → missing boundary test is added → mutation score goes to 100%.
I also published the npm packages and wrote my first DEV article about the idea.
Still early, but shipping the project publicly was a big win for me this week.
GitHub: github.com/canblmz1/tautest
Technically happened last Friday, but we shipped our product! Wrote about it today on Dev
Mr. Lee, it is really such a inspiring question indeed. We intellwrist.com also provide delicated design watches for the people who inspires the community and people around them like you, a big change may starts with a single person like a ripple created by a strong drop of water in a sea
My win this week: published my first article on Dev.to.
Wrote about what bug bounty is and how beginners' mindset sets them up to fail before they start. Covers the severity ladder, how to think about recon, and what separates people who find things from people who don't.
Check it out: dev.to/tagzauthor/most-beginners-a...
I got my first paid user for my chrome extension.
Finally Product of the Week. oss ftw! my finals for the Semester and
I've started learning Elixir and very excited, because I didn't try new languages for the long time.
Almost finished my new portfolio => ysrbolles.com/
Got accepted as a speaker to Pass the SALT 2026
I create a new actor on apify, very difficult to build !
My win this week is actually a small one — forcing myself to stay consistent here and post more regularly.
One more win: I launched the live demo of my project late last night 🚀
Pushed my first iteration of rainwater quality measurer project, was pretty difficult to get the basic parameters right, but i did it anyway
Got 4 from Python beginner programming course. 5 was max
I Shipped this:
coolours.perpetualsummer.ltd/
The Free version of AEO God Mode just went live in the Wordpress plugin directory! The first step in helping 1000s of Wordpress users get found in ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude & Gemini AI search!
Visited a large dev conf (Devworld Conference in Amsterdam) for the first time. Learned a lot of new things, met so many cool devs
Wrote my first article on here. Go check it out:
dev.to/damiabitikare/my-first-fron...
I wrote about my experience attending my first cybersecurity conference this week.
i got selected into GSoC in CircuitVerse
Just joined DEV today and currently exploring the platform. Excited to learn new things, connect with developers, and improve my coding skills.