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What was your win this week?

Hey y'all 👋

Hope you all have wonderful weekends!

Looking back on this past week, what was something you were proud of accomplishing?

All wins count — big or small 🎉

Examples of 'wins' include:

  • Starting a new project
  • Fixing a tricky bug
  • Shopping for new clothes 👗

A clip from Avatar: The Last Airbender... Sokka, Toph, Katara, and Aang are all standing in an open doorway dressed in Fire Nation clothes. Sokka is looking very excited, smiling and clapping, the word "Shopping!" is above his head. The rest of the crew are looking mildly excited.

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Ervin Szilagyi • Edited

Managed to upgrade my PC🥰

PC

Ryzen 7700X + Radeon 7900XT
TeamRed♥️

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overFlow

All you need now is a motherboard lol and a cpu to go with it...That is a big ass power supply looks like a jet engine ...its beautiful....So terminator.

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Ervin Szilagyi

I think you are talking about the CPU cooler, the power supply is not visible in the photo. But yeah, you need a huge cooler for the current gen CPUs, because they are running hot.

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overFlow

That is pc porn!!
Clean and pristine!!!
Please send more pc nudes!!!
Its a beaut!!!

The motherboard is tiny then...I can see the cardslots there!!!
Well done bro!!

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Ervin Szilagyi • Edited

Yeah, the motherboard is a tiny one, it is a Gigabyte B650M Gaming X AX in a MicroATX format.

Here we can see the full build. The case is an old NZXT.

Full case

Also, this pic was taken before routing a secondary cable from the PSU to the GPU.

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overFlow

YUM!!! whats her name ???

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Michael Tharrington

Let's just keep it clean here, overFlow. This isn't exactly crossing the line and I know you're just joking around, but it's getting just a little weird, haha. 😅

That said, agreed! This PC looks incredible. The red is 🔥

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overFlow

alright I agreee...lol defintely fire though!!

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Chantal

I've a lot to celebrate for this week but l'll just mention the best of all. Folks, l was awarded the Icebreaker Badge.

Please, don't judge me. Small achievements just means a lot to me. I know one day l will be great hahahahahaha.

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Michael Tharrington

Oh heck yeah, Chantal! 🧊🔨

Thank you so much for helping to break the ice on so many different DEV posts. This really means a lot to us here... when someone leaves a comment on a post, it makes it so much more likely that others will. These can turn into conversations that are just as interesting as the posts.

I really think this is one of the main things that makes us a community and not just a publication. So, just gotta say that we really appreciate ya helping us out in this way!

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Chantal

Hey there! 🌟

You're absolutely welcome! It's fantastic to hear that my comments have helped spark conversations and contribute to the sense of community on DEV. Creating engaging discussions is what makes platforms like this truly special, and I'm thrilled to be a part of it. Let's keep the momentum going and continue exchanging ideas and insights – that's what makes us a strong and vibrant community. Looking forward to more exciting interactions ahead! 🚀💬

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Khairunnisaas

That's cool! congrats for the badge!

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Chantal

Thank you @khairunnisaas

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Dan Bailey

Went back to college after 25 years away! Have one class to finish in my minor and then my original degree is done. And I've decided to start another degree immediately thereafter -- getting a Bachelor's of Applied Science in Software Application Development with a minor in Philosophy.

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Michael Tharrington

Oh wow, that's seriously awesome Dan! So cool that you're headed back to finish off that previous degree, but also gonna add another under your belt. The combo you're gonna have sounds like a strong one.

I really wish I had taken some Philosophy courses... but hey, it's never too late to go back.

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Thomas Hansen

Significantly improved our website - Not really developer related though, since most improvements were marketing related - But still a win ^_^

Ohh yeah, and then I converted 19,500 lines of VB.NET code with option strict off for .Net Framework 4.72 to C# 😎

Resulting in a binary compatible, in place replacement of the original project 😂

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Michael Tharrington

Nice!! Marketing improvements are indeed a win. Sounds like a pretty successful week to me.

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Thomas Hansen

It was OK, and sales are finally beginning to pick up 🥳

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GrahamTheDev

Have an accessibility presentation.

I got stuck in traffic and lost so I was 15 minutes late.

My presentation broke so I had to improvise and just do a live audit and explain things instead.

And I still got great feedback and loads of people came up to thank me after so…I consider that a win! 💗

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overFlow

I just realised that it helps to know XML to know about API. So its almost like Im getting there after starting the whole week and getting stuck. Im jus about getting unstuck. The week is not over though at least.So by sunday I will be somewhere atleast. I feel like I am getting somewhere.

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Michael Tharrington

Dang, overFlow! That sounds like one of those "one step forward, two steps back" kinda situations. But hey, you're definitely getting closer. Hang in there and hope ya get it by Sunday!

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overFlow

yes Sir !!! Im pushing !!!

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Bobby Iliev

I've crossed $200 in sales for my Terraform eBook :🎉

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Michael Tharrington

Oh awesome, Bobby! Major congrats. Make that paper! 💸

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Bobby Iliev

Thank you Michael 🙏 appreciate the nice words 🙌

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Medea

launched my solo virtual escape room!
i've decided to make a virtual amusement park now...

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Michael Tharrington

Oooo a virtual amusement park is a seriously awesome idea, Medea. Also, your escape room game looks amazing!

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Medea

yea it's like the first project idea i've had that prolly doesn't exist right now.
thanks, it was my first project in game dev so i learnt a lot!

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Ben Halpern

I had a really productive week making improvements on Pro Tools

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Chris Jarvis

On the new wave of CSS Battles I broke the top 100 leader board. I got to rank #66.

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Benedikt Schächner

I've learned a lot about Docker; especially how to make containers reachable from the internet with Cloudflare Tunnel.

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Michael Tharrington

Oh that's awesome, Benedikt. I bet that'll be super useful!

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Khairunnisaas

being active in this community!
also i wrote an article about my first jouney contributing to OS project. and some people find it usefull. so happy being able to help other people 😁

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Michael Tharrington

It's so nice to have ya here with us, Khairunnisaas. Really appreciate you sharing that post about your first OSS contribution and just cool to see ya commenting across different DEV posts. Hope ya continue to enjoy DEV! 😀

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Oscar

Started really getting into Typescript/JavaScript, and I have to say, compared to Python or C, Typescript pretty much writes itself.

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Michael Tharrington

Oh nice! Sounds like Python/C have prepared you well. 🙌

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Carlarjenkins
  • Completed my Scrum Agile Master Certified workforce exam prep training. Getting closer towards being an agile coach.
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Afroza Nowshin

Writing this and working on the series

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