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Looking back on your week -- what was something you're proud of?
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First, a couple of DEV-related "wins" - receiving the Discuss badge for The Internetβs Addiction to Being Contrary, which was followed by the Beloved Comment badge for my post in the current Meme Monday thread!
I've remained one-hundred percent consistent over at freeCodeCamp, as I've come to realise learning to grow is really important to me.
Back to the community here at DEV - feeling very much part of things now, thanks to the continued support and encouragement. Thanks to everyone who takes the time to upvote my content and, of course, interact with myself.
freeCodeCamp is a gem!
It is indeed, Shloka. Really enjoying the latest version of the curriculum!
Nice Richard! I have been enjoying reading your posts these past weeks!
Good to know, Julien. Thanks for the lovely comment! My journey here at DEV started as a means to keep my learning consistent but it turned out to be so much more - proud to be part of this community!
Your posts and activity are outstanding. Keep doing the great work!
You're too kind! Thanks for the support - it's appreciated!
Great wins Richard! It has been great following your journey through your blogs! Looking forward to more from you!
And congratulations on the badge!!! γΎ(β§β½β¦*)o
Thank you Aryan, from the bottom of my heart! I truly appreciate the positive interactions and great content you bring to the community.
Is recovering after burnout counted as a win? (oβ²ββ½βο½o)
Nothing dev related this week but I sure did get multi-domain knowledge from business, marketing and sales. Felt like another training arc tbh, and I LOVE training arcs.
OH OFC almost forgot I crossed 3000 followers on DEV recently! Once again really grateful for that to the entire community here!
imo a huge win
Haha lol thanks! o(*β§β½β¦)γβββ
Very much a win, Aryan and congratulations with the followers - well deserved!
Thank you very much Richard! γΎ(β§β½β¦*)o
That DOES sound like a lot!
Congratulations on crossing 3K followers!
Fixed some occasional performance issues that should reduce random DEV slowdowns (Hopefully!)
YAY!!!!!!!!!!
Deployed my new personal project. [whispering]For one of the dev challenges on this platform, donβt tell anyone.
All Iβm left with right now is to create a post about it and maybe a video explaining what I did. π₯
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Sounds very interesting indeed, Giorgi. Can't want to see the forthcoming post!
Thanks Richard! Good thing the weekend is coming up, so I'll have more time to invest in it.
I hear you! Best of luck with it, Giorgi!
Implemented
imdone push,imdone pullandimdone addgithub issues sync in imdone-cli. Also added a claude rule file for imdone-cli users to help refine user stories into vertical slices.Nothing special, just the release of 0.2.0 of my SDF Model Editor. Β―\(γ)/Β―
Don't sell yourself short, Ember - checked out the project and I think it's really starting to take shape. I love that the readme.md details a roadmap and the story behind the project. Keep it up!
Thanks
Starting to learn PyTorch!
Nice one, Scott! Do post your progress here on DEV!
Busy week
busy busy and successful week.
bonus: I saw the sunrise on the other day. (due to an early morning release and it burned my eyes out, but it was a beauty nonetheless
Great job, GΓ‘bor. Finding that rhythm can be the most important step!
I developed an agentic AI avatar to support the real estate operations, along with a dashboard that visualizes key client metrics.
what model are using?
I was building a basic agent with OpenAI, this week
I had to change my code three times so far, because of the fast pace.
As soon as I was done with building the ReAct loop from scratch, I checked that openAI has the tools that I can add to messages, and when I was done working with that they added utomatic function calls to their readme! :')
Iβve been using Gemini 2.5 Flash, and honestly, I find it more stable than OpenAIβs models. I tried OpenAI once last year, but the experience wasnβt greatβespecially on Google Colab, where it didnβt run very well.
For my stack, Gemini handled the core reasoning, while I combined it with LangChain, LangGraph, LangSmith, an MCP server (FastMCP), and HeyGen AI for avatar generation. HeyGen offers a free tier, but the free account has limitations when it comes to creating avatars.
Interesting. Yeah. I haven't tried Gemini yet. Gott drain my token money on OpenAI first. But yeah, the documentation of OpenAI seems not updated
oh wow! that sucks! I hear mix stories about OpenAI.
Showed off my first project on Dev.to on I Vibe Coded a Multiplayer ASL Game using MQTT! π . Resulted in receiving my first Top Author Badge on MQTT!
Recently made a post on Dunning-Kruger Effect and Imposter Syndrome: Developer's Hidden Caveat that is Rarely Spoken Off. that talked about my thoughts.
Gained another Welcome Badge (Goal is trying to reach 10 in a row).
Overall, great experience so far on Dev.to! Can't wait for more content next week :D
Decided to start writing on dev.to again. After a 3 year absence
Welcome back!
thank you, good to be back
Us! Welcome back!
great to have you back!
I finished my robotics starter course this week which I enjoyed a lot! I am planning to share my first learnings on how learning basic robotics can help become a better software engineer.
I also wrote a post this week about prototyping an app for ChatGPT marketplace.
Sounds great, Julien. Will keep a look out for those robotic-related posts!
Built a new iteration of my portfolio, tried out Next.js for the first time, learned Tailwind CSS, and deployed my portfolio to cloudflare!
nice!
I'm happy that the Google AI team is on standby to answer questions from DEV members in their new livestream. To me, it's a win that they value DEV so much. I hope everyone takes advantage of this:
Got Gemini CLI questions? The Google team will answer DEV's questions in their new livestream series!
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On a personal note, I am officially a member of Toastmasters and have my first talk scheduled soon :)
Oooh, would love to discuss Toastmasters!!
welcome to the club! I am a member of Toastmaster International since 2019. I am current member of McGill Toastmaster. I know the feeling regarding my first speech when I joined Toastmaster. Good luck with your first icebreaker speech with your club:)
Ahhh cool! Do you attend regularly still? Have you done any contests?! I am always so inspired coming out of the meeting.
I wish sometimes.hehehe.... I don't attend all the meeting of my club because they have meeting every Tuesday of the month. I am busy in the evening on Tuesday. I enjoy the meetings when I attended the meetings specially the topics of the members :). No! I have done any contests at the moment. It is on my to do list. Nice! You will have fun :). Good luck again!
Published my project Kuizzi
kuizzi.com/en