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Career milestones and peer support

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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
• Found a new song so good it fixed your whole mood 🎵

Happy Friday!

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FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ (っ◔◡◔)っ

📚 𝗙𝘂𝗹𝗹-𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗗𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗿 📚 🚀 𝗗𝗘𝗩 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿 🚀 ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ🍰🍔🍕 ₍₍⚞(˶>ᗜ<˶)⚟⁾⁾ “ᴀ ꜱᴍᴏᴏᴛʜ ꜱᴇᴀ ɴᴇᴠᴇʀ ᴍᴀᴅᴇ ᴀ ꜱᴋɪʟʟᴇᴅ ꜱᴀɪʟᴏʀ” – ꜰʀᴀɴᴋʟɪɴ ᴅ. ʀᴏᴏꜱᴇᴠᴇʟᴛ

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• Jun 26

It was quite a depressing week for me and I am really grateful seeing heartwarming comments when I expressed my feelings so far:

It made me feel inclusive and feel like I belong here. After years of searching for a community to be part of, I believe I have found my place here on DEV. I will respond each one slowly to have more time to think for each comment. Thanks DEV community for being with me 🙂

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Giorgi Kobaidze

🏆2x Hackathon Winner

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  Engineering Manager at Flutter CEE

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• Jun 26

Hey, that’s what the community is for – to support each other. You definitely belong here!

And thanks for inviting me to DEVengers. It’s an honor!🫡

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FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ (っ◔◡◔)っ

📚 𝗙𝘂𝗹𝗹-𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗗𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗿 📚 🚀 𝗗𝗘𝗩 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿 🚀 ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ🍰🍔🍕 ₍₍⚞(˶>ᗜ<˶)⚟⁾⁾ “ᴀ ꜱᴍᴏᴏᴛʜ ꜱᴇᴀ ɴᴇᴠᴇʀ ᴍᴀᴅᴇ ᴀ ꜱᴋɪʟʟᴇᴅ ꜱᴀɪʟᴏʀ” – ꜰʀᴀɴᴋʟɪɴ ᴅ. ʀᴏᴏꜱᴇᴠᴇʟᴛ

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• Jun 26

Yea for sure and no problem! If there is a post you like to have under the org, let me know beforehand! 😀

Giorgi Kobaidze

🏆2x Hackathon Winner

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• Jun 27

Sure thing. Do you guys have a chat or anything like that, like a Discord server or something? How can I reach out? Or maybe you can reach out with this username: georgekobaidze

FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ (っ◔◡◔)っ

📚 𝗙𝘂𝗹𝗹-𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗗𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗿 📚 🚀 𝗗𝗘𝗩 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿 🚀 ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ🍰🍔🍕 ₍₍⚞(˶>ᗜ<˶)⚟⁾⁾ “ᴀ ꜱᴍᴏᴏᴛʜ ꜱᴇᴀ ɴᴇᴠᴇʀ ᴍᴀᴅᴇ ᴀ ꜱᴋɪʟʟᴇᴅ ꜱᴀɪʟᴏʀ” – ꜰʀᴀɴᴋʟɪɴ ᴅ. ʀᴏᴏꜱᴇᴠᴇʟᴛ

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• Jun 29

I sent you a friend request. We can talk from there. Thanks Giorgi!

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UnitBuilds

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• Jun 28

How you do link so fancy? Teach please 🤯 I can build an OS in 5 days, but mind still blown at fancy link embedding (I’m serious though, how you do that?)

Please and Thank you, hope next week is a better for you. You really are a pillar in the community and you should never sell yourself short. You’re still studying if I remember correctly, well being a pillar in a prominent developer community while studying is already more than most do? That’s commitment to the art, which shows your dedication to the career and enthusiasm for being helpful.

A bit behind the curtain, I’ve been depressed lately too (must be mercury retrograde or something again), life got busy, I’m buying a house for my fiance and myself, I’m trying to find a new job (market is dead af in Namibia), I’ve been working 108h weeks for the past 6 months, because everything just gets more busy and I dont see it slowing down anytime soon and I just feel burnt out. But the depression is a result of doing alot and feeling like I’m getting nowhere… I wont say I know how you feel, but I hope it’s relatable in some way. I’ve been doing the whole V.E.L.O.C.I.T.Y. OS as a way to clear my mind and just relax a bit, get caught up in a project so I just forget how life is crumbling around me. It’s not easy and getting nowhere for it just makes it all worse… So heres to a better week ahead, may the sun shine and the weather be sweet.. Makes you wanna move.. Your dancing feet now 😄 (Bob Marley)

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FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ (っ◔◡◔)っ

📚 𝗙𝘂𝗹𝗹-𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗗𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗿 📚 🚀 𝗗𝗘𝗩 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿 🚀 ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ🍰🍔🍕 ₍₍⚞(˶>ᗜ<˶)⚟⁾⁾ “ᴀ ꜱᴍᴏᴏᴛʜ ꜱᴇᴀ ɴᴇᴠᴇʀ ᴍᴀᴅᴇ ᴀ ꜱᴋɪʟʟᴇᴅ ꜱᴀɪʟᴏʀ” – ꜰʀᴀɴᴋʟɪɴ ᴅ. ʀᴏᴏꜱᴇᴠᴇʟᴛ

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• Jun 29

UnitBuilds

Founder of UnitBuilds CC

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• Jun 29

Ahhh, I see, I see 😁 Thanks!

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𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑳𝒂𝒛𝒚 𝑮𝒊𝒓𝒍

𝐀 𝐃𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦🌃 𝐇𝐞𝐲! 𝐈 𝐚𝐦 𝐃𝐢𝐯𝐲𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐡𝐢 🦄🍭 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐒𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐭, 𝐖𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐩 🔮

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• Jun 27

Congratulations, Francis!! ❤️
You deserve this achievement!!

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Hemapriya Kanagala

Hey, I’m Hema 👋 Developer, writer, and creator of Dev Opportunity Radar, a weekly series published every Friday on DEV, helping people discover opportunities they might otherwise miss.

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• Jun 26 • Edited on Jun 26 • Edited

This week, one of my biggest wins was publishing an article that turned into one of my best-performing posts on DEV 😀

What I’ll remember most, though, is the conversations it started. I never expected so many people to share their own stories, experiences, and reflections in the comments. Reading them and replying to everyone has been incredibly special, and I’m really grateful for it.

If anyone would like to read it, here it is: I Wish I Had Started Documenting My Tech Journey Earlier

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𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑳𝒂𝒛𝒚 𝑮𝒊𝒓𝒍

𝐀 𝐃𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦🌃 𝐇𝐞𝐲! 𝐈 𝐚𝐦 𝐃𝐢𝐯𝐲𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐡𝐢 🦄🍭 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐒𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐭, 𝐖𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐩 🔮

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• Jun 26

Congratulations Hema!!❤️

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Hemapriya Kanagala

Hey, I’m Hema 👋 Developer, writer, and creator of Dev Opportunity Radar, a weekly series published every Friday on DEV, helping people discover opportunities they might otherwise miss.

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• Jun 27

Thank you so much, Divyanshi 🧡

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Anna Villarreal

🌌 I N F I N I T E 🌌 C U R I O S I T Y 🌌

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• Jun 29

I totally saw that in the top of my feed for like a week! Alot of the best articles are personal and relatable! It’s scary to share sometimes, and I think that exposing a little bit of discomfort, is actually classy in that sense. A real human with real experiences, classy!

Having a well performing post is a great feeling. I encourage you to keep sharing your experiences. Great job!

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Hemapriya Kanagala

Hey, I’m Hema 👋 Developer, writer, and creator of Dev Opportunity Radar, a weekly series published every Friday on DEV, helping people discover opportunities they might otherwise miss.

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• Jun 30

Thank you so much, Anna!

You’re right, it can be scary to share something personal. I still feel that way sometimes before I hit publish, but comments and conversations like this remind me why it’s worth doing.

Thank you for reading and for such kind words. They really mean a lot 😀

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Giorgi Kobaidze

🏆2x Hackathon Winner

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  Tbilisi, Georgia

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  Engineering Manager at Flutter CEE

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• Jun 26

The previous and current months have been extremely unproductive for me here on DEV and for a good reason. I got promoted to Engineering Manager, and there was so much to catch up on that I simply didn’t have the mental capacity to write.

Now that the dust is starting to settle and I’ve managed to establish the essentials, I’ve already published two articles in one week, which is something I don’t usually do.

And the best part? I already have 5-6 more articles waiting in the queue.

And they’re gonna be good ones. Much better than these two. Not even close.

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xulingfeng

AI testing storyteller. Writing the 36 Stratagems series — ancient Chinese military tactics meet modern AI system meltdowns. 15yr QA → building AI test framework.

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• Jun 26

Just put out the teaser and first post of the new series — #2’s on the way.🤣

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Pascal CESCATO

Full-stack dev sharing practical guides on WordPress, n8n automation, AI tools, Docker & self-hosting. Always experimenting with new tech to make life easier.

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• Jun 26 • Edited on Jun 26 • Edited

Published a benchmark comparing 8 AI coding agents on the same project. The results were interesting — but what I didn’t expect was the comment thread.
@unitbuilds showed up to mention Kimi K2.7. By the end of the week, that same thread had covered: a custom zero-allocation binary format (NDA), a model runtime with 4x KV-cache compression, a sandboxed IDE that starts in 200ms and uses 30MB RAM, BitNet distillation for mobile inference, and a theoretical path to 1M+ TPS on FPGA.
From “have you tried Kimi?” to a new programming language in one comment section. That’s the kind of conversation that makes writing worth it.

Comment on Too cheap to be good? Think again.

Out of curiosity, have you ever tried Agent Workers through Cloudflare? They have Kimi K2.7 on there and it’s quite affordable too (I mean it’s a 1T param behemoth, for $4 output per m tokens and 27c per input mil token). Would be interesting to see how it compares, given that it acts as a pretty decent competition, often beating all the other models, including pro SOTA models at coding?

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UnitBuilds

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• Jun 26

Nawww shucks, yeah gotta say it’s been my win of the week too. It’s been so much fun going down the rabbit hole, seeing how far it goes and now it’s weekend 🤩 so lets see what we can do about those flying saucers 😂

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Anna Villarreal

🌌 I N F I N I T E 🌌 C U R I O S I T Y 🌌

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• Jun 27

I got serious FOMO after watching over my boyfriend’s shoulder and have decided to embark on Network Chucks Summer of CCNA course about half way through the program. Time to high-tail it! 😂✨️

This is after deciding to take the summer ‘off’ of school to give myself a break. My brain did this by itself I cannot be held accountable for my own nonsense. LOL

🦄👾🙈🤷‍♀️🧚‍♀️🧜‍♀️

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Mykola Kondratiuk

Director of PM | Building AI-native PM tools | PMP | Speaker

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• Jun 28

shipped a write-up this week on 5 metrics i’d actually use to track AI’s impact on a team. first time the metrics framing made stakeholders ask follow-up questions instead of nodding. small win but i’ll take it.

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𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑳𝒂𝒛𝒚 𝑮𝒊𝒓𝒍

𝐀 𝐃𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦🌃 𝐇𝐞𝐲! 𝐈 𝐚𝐦 𝐃𝐢𝐯𝐲𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐡𝐢 🦄🍭 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐒𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐭, 𝐖𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐩 🔮

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  INDIA Rajasthan kota

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• Jun 26

I was invited to Samsung’s event in Delhi, the capital of India.

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Ronaldo Modesto

Um eterno estudante, sempre procurando algo novo para aprender e claro, gamer nas horas vagas.

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  Backend Developer at AvenueCode

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• Jun 26

I finally published my article about using llm to analyze API logs and detect running attacks 🙂
If you want, you can read it here and any feedback is much appreciated

Using llm to analyze API logs

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adriens

I love to create, teach, connect people & things.

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• Jun 26

Got a new badge for the Gemma4 DEV Challenge :

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