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What was your win this week?!

Jess Lee on September 18, 2026

👋👋👋👋 Looking back on your week -- what was something you're proud of? All wins count -- big or small 🎉 Examples of 'wins' include: Getting a pro...
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Giorgi Kobaidze •

This, off top of my mind.

Picked as gem
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FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ •

Good work @georgekobaidze! Either way, it's a win :D

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Giorgi Kobaidze •

Thanks! Oh by the way… just received another one😄

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FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ •

Yay (gave you a Gem) :)

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Giorgi Kobaidze •

You did.

I didn’t really deserve it, but thanks!😄

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bingkahu (Matteo) •

Gave you another 😊 congrats

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Dhruv Jani •

Well this is it. Thanks! And I didn't even open DEV for a couple of days. Also, I'm not well right now.

But thanks for this one.

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𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐚𝐳𝐲 𝐆𝐢𝐫𝐥 •

Congratulations 🎉

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Yug Vasava •

Get well soon bro!

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Hadil Ben Abdallah •

I have 2 achievements this week.
Got the Kubernetes badge 😍

Kubernetes badge

And the best part... Reached 25K followers 🥳

25K followers

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Aida Said •

Congratulations! 🎉
Well deserved.

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Hadil Ben Abdallah •

Thank you! 😍

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Hemapriya Kanagala •

Congratulations Hadil 🎉

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Hadil Ben Abdallah •

Thank you so much, Hemapriya 😍

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xulingfeng •

Smooth start at the new role. I’m learning the business, and a project has been released with my QA testing.😆

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Gábor Mészáros •

Reached 10k followers today with the Progressive Disclosure series start
feels nice🎉

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adriens •

Posted a 5' short video that shows how to submit a prototype to the HackAVP, a local Hackathon I'm organizing here in New-Caledonia :

More about this Hackathon below :

@jess , articles will be sumbitted on DEV.to : do you think it would be possible to get some DEV.to stickers to make some buzz around DEV.to ?

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Cathy Lai • • Edited

I’ve passed a coding interview using my methods with an international company 😀😊 There’s nothing like being told that I’ve done very well at the end of an interview!

Waiting for the final interview now!

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Yash Kumar Saini •

I completed a big major change in shipping the webrtc into the libray I was contributing in from the February. I also cracked a short freelance work based on what I did and have been sharing on the Dev.to community as well

Another good read for the week I published.

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Theodore Rogers • • Edited

For me, that would be publishing an article I have been holding back for the past two months on AI and higher education in low and medium-income countries. The article is about why I think the answer to AI in universities isn't bans or surrendering as most higher ed institutions in the west have been going about it and why i think low and medium income countries might have a shot at getting AI in higher ed right and why they should. Link here.

Plus, I came across a paper from Professor Jason Potts that really influenced and enlightened me on university as a platform, its history, the business they are in and how technology augments it. So, that was informative and very insightful as well. Link here.

Also, I later found out MIT's Ad Hoc committee wrote a report on AI use in teaching, Learning and Research training, and that validated I wasn't thinking about AI in university the wrong way necessarily.

I call these wins cause they expanded my thinking about AI, universities and EdTech in my side quest of bringing my offline study app to life.

For context, I have been thinking about AI and Education alot lately. Especially following my experiment with Gemma 4 and building an AI study companion off of it that works without both an internet connection and AI subscription for low and medium income countries, I wrote about my experience on that for the Gemma 4 challenge. App build still ongoing though.

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Ali-Funk •

My latest article on agentic economy IAM failures hit position five on the main page this week.
I coudn´t be happier! Thanks boys and girls
I appreciate the rigorous community discussion.

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Vignaesh Ram A •

Published a VS Code extension named Airport that helps to manage multiple AI Coding Agent Terminals - marketplace.visualstudio.com/items...

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Sarvar Nadaf •

From 0 to 45 Subscribers

My youtube channel is growing 💗

youtube.com/@sarvar-nadaf

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adriens •

Published a demo that shows how to submit to the hackathon I'm organizing :

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adriens •

Updated my security report to celebrate latest OpenBao's releases :

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Rajeev R. Sharma •

Released my first iOS app and submitted the second one for review (already rejected for want of a demo video, shot and done that too now) 😀

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Enrique Bruzual •

I personally added something really meaningful to one of my projects by integrating a judgement layer, using TypeSafe's Jev, into a RAG pipeline with very promising results.

RAG ranking is not the same as judging with Jev

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Eusebiu Balan •

Mine is a writing win rather than a shipping one. I stopped waiting on a publication to review a post and published it to my own profile instead, and a few days later somebody with a much bigger audience reposted it.

I had assumed the publication was the distribution. One reader who liked it enough to repost did more than the queue was ever going to.

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Fayaz •
  • took enough rest this week 🫠
  • found and secured a really good domain name for a pet project (yeah, I'm one of those developers who keep collecting cool domain names) 🤩
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Roshan Jung Kunwar •

Finally started writing blogs and sharing insights on my personal site.

if you are interested here

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Daniel Nwaneri •

ngl, "asked an agent to find where my space went and the agent was the problem" is the most 2026 sentence I've read this week.

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Mustafa ERBAY •

A pretty wild week on my side 😄

I pushed two projects past milestones I’d been chasing for a while:

🔐 My self-hosted SIEM/security platform moved further into evidence-driven releases — signed provenance, independent verification, fail-closed gates, and reproducible evidence instead of “the CI says green, trust me.”

🛠️ And the programming language I’ve been building stopped feeling like an experiment and started feeling like an actual language. Compiler work, tooling, tests, and the long road toward self-hosting are becoming very real.

But my favorite win wasn’t a feature.

It was deleting a few assumptions and replacing them with things that can actually be verified.

Turns out “prove it” is a surprisingly productive engineering philosophy. 😄

Happy Friday everyone! 🎉

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nourdude •

my emulator project is going smooth and that's already a win
oh, and i made a funny post 🤣

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Sanjay Singh •

I built the enterprise level Customer support Agent 😀 Now a days you have seen in every apps.

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Shahadah Studios Elite •

Litterally; I made a new site during the week and updated my site https://bloxdworldcode.vercel.app
Still the new site is beta............

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Silver •

I'm starting my term at a community college

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BlackJosh007 •

Congrats..

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Alex Georgiev • • Edited

I had a good week. Slept well, trained like a beast (running, cycling, crossfit, motocross), managed to post everyday through the whole week, completed all tasks that I worked on!

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Rimsha •

I was a part of Global Hack Week: Data by MLH which was well structured to learn great things!

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Menula De Silva •

I Won 1 Year Club Badge Today

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Sumama-Jameel •

Nothing. Always a loser

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UnitBuilds •

A lil late, but friday, I had a tech interview at Wasmer, which went well... I made a complete idiot of myself, but still got through 🥳 Now on to 2 take home assignments!

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Hyrax AI •

Good work! Thanks!