What was your win this week?!

Diverse personal and career highlights shared

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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:

• Getting a promotion!
• Starting a new project
• Fixing a tricky bug
• Made coffee at home instead of spending too much at the coffee shop (twice) ☕

Happy Friday!

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Vicente G. Reyes

Web Developer | Technical Writer | OSS Contributor | Musician | Gamer | Cyclist

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  Web Developer @ Rev6: A Revolution In Motion®

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  Jan 6, 2019

• Aug 22

Main win was to celebrate my birthday with my Mom, Younger brother, Aunt and Grandma

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Dhruv Jani

Full-stack developer and system architect. Building and deploying real-time applications and AI-orchestrated platforms using React, Python, and scalable backends.

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  Vadodara, Gujarat, India

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  B.Tech in Computer Engineering @ Dharmsinh Desai University

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  Computer Engineering Student | Full-Stack Developer

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• Aug 21

My weekly win: branching out from my usual technical articles to write something a bit more personal. ✍️

​Since sharing the news of my job offer, I wanted to document the actual “how.” I put together a piece on landing a role right now without the standard LeetCode routine, and how being active on DEV gave me the edge I needed.

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Earl Grey

Civic technologist building AI tools that help systems explain themselves. Clew Suite builder, NACM 2026 speaker. I write about hackathons, product judgment, agent readiness, and learning in public.

• Aug 23

This was a great read. Thanks for sharing!

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Dhruv Jani

Full-stack developer and system architect. Building and deploying real-time applications and AI-orchestrated platforms using React, Python, and scalable backends.

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  Vadodara, Gujarat, India

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  B.Tech in Computer Engineering @ Dharmsinh Desai University

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  Computer Engineering Student | Full-Stack Developer

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  Jan 31, 2026

• Aug 23

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meow.hair

Goodnight.mom nordic.mom Baltic.lol Mom.lat Doors.mom https://www.meow.hair/p.html

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• Aug 23

My happiest achievement this week
is finishing the development
of meow.hair for Polish cats
I made it very fast and secure
one hundred percent and completely free
from any ads or tracking
with very special attention
to screen reader users experience
and people with disabilities
Seeing the code work with such
efficiency and elegance is itself
a great win for me
Thank you everyone!
And what about your wins? 😁

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Cathy Lai

React Native developer with a background in large-scale e-commerce and SaaS systems. Learning AI Tooling in public Self intro in a few secs: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/oFG3cTC9Ppk

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• Aug 23

Produced this video on implementing infinite scrolling in React. It touched many key React mental models. Very proud to be able to now talk on the camera, in a calm, precise and clear manner without much editing. 🙂

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Sarvar Nadaf

Cloud Architect | AWS (7x) • Azure (2x) • GCP (1x) | GenAI & Agentic AI | Cloud & DevOps Strategist | Technical Writer & Moderator | 24K+ Followers • 265K+ Reads | Open for Collaborations

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  Pune, India

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  Design & implement cloud solutions that help businesses scale and innovate.

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• Aug 21

𝗠𝘆 𝘄𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸: Shipped terminal charts for my open-source Dev.to CLI 📊

I built color-gradient bar charts, sparklines, and trend arrows directly into the terminal.

One command:

devpub stats –graph

And you get 30 days of analytics without opening a browser.

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘁 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘄𝘀:

📈 Bar charts that fade blue → cyan → green → 𝗴𝗼𝗹𝗱 based on value
⚡ Sparkline: ▃▄▃▃▂▃▄▃▃▃▃▂▃▃▃▄▆█▄▆▆▇▆▄▆▄▃▇▆▅▄
↗️ Trend arrows: +9% (last 7 days) vs -18% (last 30 days)
📏 Average line: ← avg (451)
🏆 Peak marker: 871 ▲ Aug 07
🔀 Multi-period: 7d / 14d / 21d / 30d side by side

𝗭𝗲𝗿𝗼 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗱𝗲𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗲𝘀. ~200 lines. Pure Python + Rich.

Built it, recorded a demo, wrote an article, and published everything in one week. 🚀

🎥 Demo video: youtu.be/ZjexRNOdO4Y
📝 Full article: dev.to/sarvar_04/i-added-terminal-…
⭐ GitHub repo: github.com/simplynadaf/devpub
📦 Install: pip install devpub==0.2.1

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Earl Grey

Civic technologist building AI tools that help systems explain themselves. Clew Suite builder, NACM 2026 speaker. I write about hackathons, product judgment, agent readiness, and learning in public.

• Aug 23

Can’t wait to try this!

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Sarvar Nadaf

Cloud Architect | AWS (7x) • Azure (2x) • GCP (1x) | GenAI & Agentic AI | Cloud & DevOps Strategist | Technical Writer & Moderator | 24K+ Followers • 265K+ Reads | Open for Collaborations

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• Aug 23

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My win – doing a little investigation, and confirming that there is either:

• Something wrong with the dev.to search function
• Some mechanism in dev.to for deliberately hiding things from search

I confirmed this by searching for the headings of each of my posts. The most recent two do not show up ANYWHERE on search results (and never appeared anywhere except to my followers, it seems).

Is there a bug in search @jess ?

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Fenix

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• Aug 21

si yo he visto ese mismo problem

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Asmaa Almadhoun

Senior Frontend Developer with experience building scalable, high-performance web applications using React.js and modern JavaScript. Passionate about clean architecture, AI-powered workflows

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  Malaysia

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  Senior Frontend Developer

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  Feb 14, 2026

• Aug 21

• Strengthened my frontend development workflow by applying consistent LIMS standards and best practices, making my code more maintainable, reusable, and scalable.🏋🏻‍♀️

• Developed better meal planning and home cooking habits throughout the week.🥣

Learned and reinforced feature-based React architecture, React Query patterns, reusable form design standards, and how to properly set up and work with Claude Code on Windows.😀

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Abhishek Pawar

AI and Data Science Student | Proficient in Python, C, C++, Java | Cyber Security Enthusiast | Android Development Enthusiast | Aspiring Machine Learning Expert |

• Aug 21

My Weekly win : releasing the v1 of the browser note’s taking application I’ve been building and using myself, its open source you can contribute to it

here’s the repo github.com/Abhishek-03113/Velocity

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Mahmoud Harmouch

Stay humble like a bumblebee 🐝. Only available on weekends. Thanks for your patience <3

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• Aug 21 • Edited on Aug 21 • Edited

Love these good ol’ dev discussions. Recently, i have been thinking about creating a new genre of discussions: “What were your failures this week?” or something along this line. tbh, success and failure is a man made up construct. It is 100% subjective and varies from person to another. I don’t like talk about it sometimes.

I think this new genre will allow us devs to reflect on our own failure in an open collective inclusive way and understand what went wrong and of course help each other to achieve a goal etc.

My win for this week was welding for a new client in the hood! My welding biz has been buzzin’ lately. I will share photos about my welding later on once i get my hands on my phone. fyi, I learned welding during college days, but didn’t know why we were learning it back then while studying engineering. Now in the age of AI, I 100% understand. I will share my thoughts on the matter in a separate post.

Edit: For my own safety, privacy reasons and cz of the war here in lebanon, i decided to remove the pic. My humble mossad agents are trying to know my exact location. bye!

Have a nice weekend, everyone!

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Jessica Doering

Developer, maker, and perpetual project starter. I build web apps and dev tools mostly, things that I think are really useful and should exist and be simple to use. I also like to experiment with AI.

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• Aug 23 • Edited on Aug 23 • Edited

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