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What was your win this week?

Jess Lee on March 13, 2020

👋👋👋👋 Looking back on your week -- what was something you're proud of? All wins count -- big or small 🎉 Examples of 'wins' include: Getting a p...

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Gwyneth Peña-Siguenza • Mar 13 '20

I started my Youtube channel, made a few posts on Dev.to and lost another pound of weight. I'm getting closer and closer to my goal weight and healthier life.

Ni-c0de-mus • Mar 14 '20

Hi Gwyneth, I just found your Happy Friday and eh I say that to peeps hoping that I haven't bummed them out as they might have to work the weekend. ;o)
I subbed your youtube channel and wanted to say if you include lots of search terms and hashtags like #condenewbie #womenwhocode #100daysofcode etc that will help you with the searches and though I like your header image I think you could do better (what guitar is that on the wall, looks nice but it's hard to tell with so many makes these days), not being critical just a few thoughts. Have fun!

Gwyneth Peña-Siguenza • Mar 14 '20

Thank you for the feedback!

Waylon Walker • Mar 13 '20

Share your channel name with us, we want to see 👀!

Gwyneth Peña-Siguenza • Mar 13 '20

I don't have a name yet, I think you need 100 subscribers in order to get a custom name and URL, but here is the link youtube.com/channel/UCbjgKwnWnGG7s... thanks for possibly watching :)

Waylon Walker • Mar 13 '20

Got you one step closer to that 100 mark. Looks like you have some great content there, I will definitely check it out later.

Joe Attardi • Mar 13 '20

My project Emoji Button passed 400 stars on GitHub!
I made more progress on my book! Hopefully there are folks out there that will find it useful.

Tyler V. • Mar 13 '20

👀 The emoji picker is awesome!

Joe Attardi • Mar 13 '20

thanks!

Dan Silcox • Mar 13 '20

Nice! 😺👍

Roelof Jan Elsinga • Mar 13 '20

This week I finally put an application using Elastic search in production! I've worked with it on another project but was never able to actually put it into production. I now have it running and it works really well. That's the second new technology I've put into production this year. Even after 4 years I'm still learning new things every day!

Carlos Magno • Mar 13 '20

I found a apartment to share near the college, so I'm planning to move again. I also have a chance to participate in a project of developing a software for the college (I'll have to wait for the the interview). I'm pretty excited with that.

Lenmor Ld • Mar 13 '20

I conducted a React Workshop (that I've been preparing for months) to university students and it went great!

I'll make a post about it at some point but here's the link for now if anyone is interested:
bit.ly/2IzK7go

Phantz • Mar 13 '20

I finally made a github repo that reached 1k stars! Super happy for it!

Binyamin Green • Mar 13 '20

Well done! I have about 5 stars. Total. Any tips?

Phantz • Mar 14 '20

I wish I knew a secret formula, but I think good promotion helps.

Make sure to have pictures/GIFs near top of your README demonstrating your project.
Let relevant subreddits know of your project, check out the subreddits I used for my repo on the repo page!
Post on producthunt, a large influx of traffic actually came from producthunt for me as my post got #4 product of the day.

Emma Goto 🍙 • Mar 13 '20

This week I felt like I was stuck in a rut with my writing, I couldn't think of any good or "fun" topics to write about and I didn't think my post on styled-components would do very well (because I'm sure lots of other people have written about it already) but it didn't do too badly so that's my win for the week!

Weston Wedding • Mar 13 '20

I ate bao for the first time and have a new lunch destination
I got my RPG night group to change venue from a crowded gaming store for a few weeks (social distancing) with zero push back.
I preordered Animal Crossing :)

Ami Scott (they/them) • Mar 13 '20

I wrote my first dev.to post for #TheyCoded.
I applied for three more developer jobs!
I cleaned and organized my work area so it was easier to sit down and focus on getting my work done.
I reached out to people I worked on group projects with and asked if they'd be interested in working on them more with me which was hard because I've got a lot of social anxiety. They agreed and we're going to clean up our project and make some improvements!

Heiker • Mar 13 '20

I wrote about partial application in javascript. In english and spanish.

Also, I did a refactor on a messy codepen, now is good.

erica (she/her) • Mar 13 '20

Tackled some tricky javascript! I haven't touched javascript in a while, so relearning its quirks is definitely giving me a good challenge.

Stanley Nguyen • Mar 14 '20

Finally published a post about action-dogs after lotsa procrastination

Vicente G. Reyes • Mar 13 '20

This week..Since I lost one of my biggest prospective clients on UpWork. I learned that I have to be more detailed in creating a project timeline/schedule for the client to understand non-technical things.

Frank Font • Mar 16 '20

Prediction and explanation are tough arts to master. Kudos to you for framing a disappointment constructively!

Jérémie Astor • Mar 14 '20

I worked a lot on Gwion !
I removed cryptic symbols (eg: no more #(0,0) but Complex(0,0) instead),
added some kind of constructors for these kind of structures (Unpack() for instance rebuilds the ast of its arguments).
I add a problem with vararg.start end vararg.end, but now varargs can be copied and there is a statement for its loop:

fun void test(...) {
  varloop vararg {

  }
}

And much more...

I'm currently implementing structs users side:

#! this is a comment
#! let's define a struct
struct S {
  int i;
  float f;
 #!  ...
}

such structs are like object (they can also have static variables and all kinds of functions) except they are stocked as is, whereas an object stores then in a data field.

Aneeqa Khan • Mar 14 '20

I wrote and shared 2 blogs here, one of the blog is for #shecoded and I got 50 new followers and 200+ views on my latest blog post 😍 😍

Here is my latest blog

Nevertheless, Aneeqa Coded

Aneeqa Khan ✨ ・ Mar 8 ・ 2 min read

#shecoded #eachforequal #womenintech

Sarah 🦄 • Mar 13 '20

I completed a cool proof of concept at work that involved SSR, Node and React. It was a fun challenge and overall really successful. After demoing it today it was accepted and will be scheduled for implementation 🙌🙌🙌

Frank Font • Mar 16 '20

Congrats!

Karl Castillo • Mar 13 '20

Getting better after being sick earlier this week, and got my personal website updated!

Pachi 🥑 • Mar 15 '20

I sent my 2 weeks notice on my hopefully last non-dev job.

Médéric Burlet • Mar 16 '20

Dev.to bringing me the most traffic for my new scan tool:

Discovering vulnerable endpoints on API / Websites

Médéric Burlet ・ Mar 9 ・ 2 min read

#security #api #devops #testing

Dan Silcox • Mar 13 '20

Survived a killer bootcamp session! (fitness bootcamp, not code bootcamp :D ) Feeling fitter and stronger than ever and actually missing the gym which, for me, is unheard of!

Ryan (he/him) • Mar 15 '20

I got offered a job as a Data Scientist (which is something I've been trying to get into for a while) and it sounds like they're going to train me up! 🙌🙌🙌

Travis • Mar 13 '20

i wrote my first Dev.to post! dev.to/traviskuhl/one-tweet-10-yea...

Krishna Gopinath • Mar 14 '20

I've been wanting to open source a small utility that I created for reducing boilerplate when you interface with APIs through VueX, and I finally did it! 🎉

github.com/krishnagopinath/vuex-ap...

Kamran Ayub • Mar 14 '20

My win this week... Well, I submitted an open source contribution to rollup.js and I wasn't familiar with the codebase. But they accepted my bugfix and it unblocked me at work! So that felt good!

Ian Jones • Mar 13 '20

I was a part of a coding live stream for the first time and it was a ton of fun! Shout out to Nick DeJesus and Kevin Cunningham for making is such a great experience.