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What was your win this week!?

Jess Lee on May 09, 2025

👋👋👋👋 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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Olga Braginskaya

Just published a new post When Small Parquet Files Become a Big Problem (and How I Ended Up Writing a Compactor in PyArrow) about small data engineering problem

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Ben Halpern

Great post

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Mahmoud Harmouch

Got some new badges this week, wasn't expecting that, tbh 😊 Thanks! I really appreciate it. The vibes here are amazing, and the humbleness in the community is something special 🙏.

As a lil token of appreciation, I'll be rewriting Dev in Rust! More on that in an upcoming post!

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Matt Eland
  • Got my "report card" from my talk a week ago and did VERY well
  • Released a new article that got 1k views / 450 reads on a different platform, here not so well, but these things are spikey / platform-dependent
  • Did the code for Chapter 7 in my next book and did a lot of the content for that chapter as well
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Wassim Soltani

My big win this week was a trifecta of firsts! 🎉
I brainstormed, developed, and got my very first CLI tool, npm package, and fully open-source project out the door – all while juggling a full-time job, some internal company projects, and other side hustles. It was a serious sprint, but incredibly rewarding!

The project is called qmims, and it's a CLI tool designed to help developers create and maintain their README.md files and project documentation.

I actually just submitted it to the Amazon Q "Quack The Code" Challenge here on DEV. Check out my submission post and the project itself. Any feedback or thoughts would be amazing!

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Thalles Augusto(ThesllaDev)

I took part in the Amazon Q Developer "Quack the Code" challenge!
It was a super fun vibe coding journey where I explored how AI can enhance the development experience. Along the way, I learned (and reinforced) some valuable practices: project structure, unit testing, and the importance of clear and concise documentation.
If you'd like to check out my submission, feedback is more than welcome!

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Anita Olsen • Edited

📰 I published a new post on DEV! ✨

 

💡 I can now make a button in Markdown! ✨

🎮 Visit my web page
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Reid Burton

Cool!

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Anita Olsen

Thanks! 🙂

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Matt Ellen-Tsivintzeli

I learned the difference between [StructLayout(LayoutKind.Sequential, Pack = 0)] and [StructLayout(LayoutKind.Sequential, Pack = 1)] in .NET which enabled me to adjust an unpacking format string in python to correctly unpack our arcane data structure.

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Nevo David

lol i finally remembered to bring my lunch this week, feels like a win tbh

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Anita Olsen

Well done! ☺️

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Reid Burton

I fixed the dumbest bug in the history of the flipper zero fw, someone put an ! where they wer'nt supposed to during a cli refactor, and it toke me SIX STRIGHT HOURS OF WORK TO FIND THAT OUT!

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Reid Burton

I made this post last month, but no one seems to have seen it for some reason?

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Guy Carmeli

Have no idea what a Mii or a Flipper Zero is - but wanted to say that I've seen your post :D

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Reid Burton

Flipper Zero: A bunch of sensors wrapped around an arm processor
Mii: Nintendo's excuse for making you buy more junk to progress in video games.

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Anita Olsen

@iamguyca It is a character you create on a Nintendo device and which you can play with or against in some Nintendo games and meet along with a bunch of others at Mii Plaza. I know because I got a Nintendo 3DS.

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Thalles Augusto(ThesllaDev)

Hahaha, a classic from the devverse! Sometimes a single character turns into a 'big bug boss' and takes hours to defeat. Congrats on the effort and thanks for contributing to open source!

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Nathan Tarbert

Feels good thinking about the little wins - sometimes those tiny things just make my whole week better.

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Anita Olsen

That is absolutely true!

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Nevo David

honestly getting through the week feels like a win tbh, sometimes thats all i need

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Abhinav

Published a new blog after sometime.

dev.to/abhinav-writes/building-roc...

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Guy Carmeli

Published my first blog post about a VSCode extension I wrote!

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MilesWK

I officially (yesterday) became a CraftingTable.com beta tester for a product they are working. This is really exiting for me and I am really loving it.

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Anita Olsen

Congratulations! The site looks fun, electronics! I have tinkered a little with circuits myself ✨

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theHarrisCode

I learned about routing in next.js which helped me to continue building my project

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Mohammad Matin Komijani

I used to dislike writing test files, but last week I learned it well(Jest, RTL, and postman for testing APIs), and now it's one of my favorite parts of my job.

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Raziel Rodrigues

Studied a loooot about AI I am veeeery happy uhuuuul

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Jay P

I finished an MVP for generating professional invoices: invoiceden.com/

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sami ourrak

Just a new post

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Michael Liang

Nice post

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Narsagna

built a quick and dirty prompt debugger that lets you 'inspect element' prompts like frontend code: inspectmyprompt.com