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What was your win this week?!

Jess Lee on December 26, 2025

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

🚀 Published a technical article and it went way better than expected!

"I Built a Production RAG System for $5/month" hit 800+ readers in 48 hours,
got picked up by dev aggregators (hackertab, daily.dev, buzzing.cc), and
received reactions from DEV.to's founder @bendhalpern

Best part: The article led directly to my first ChatGPT App Store client
project. Currently building Milestone 1 and ahead of schedule.

Turns out publishing your work really does create opportunities! 💪

Article: dev.to/dannwaneri/i-built-a-produc...

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Let's Automate 🛡️

I started my open-source project and article-
medium.com/gopenai/ai-powered-cypr...

The project focuses on building intelligent end-to-end test automation using OpenAI GPT-4, LangChain, LangGraph, and a continuous integration pipeline.

GitHub - github.com/aiqualitylab/cypress-na...

I’m actively working on adding more features and enhancements to this 😊

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Web Developer Hyper

I created a never-ending fun 3D animation using 🎢RollerCoaster.js, and wrote a post about it on DEV Community.🤩 ↓
dev.to/webdeveloperhyper/how-to-cr...

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dkonti

I’m a web developer specializing in Python and Django, with experience in both frontend and backend development. I’m currently looking for job opportunities and would appreciate any support or leads. Thanks!

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Evan Lausier • Edited

Quality family time!

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Martin Wachira

Currently going deep on systems development, was currently studying how a code editor, language server(gopls) and Language Server Protocol(LSP) work together under-the-hood. Wrote an article about it. Kindly read it and share feedback

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bassg0navy

Deploying HAProxy Kubernetes ingress controller in my observability cluster.

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Rishabh

Finalist at a National level Hackathon:)
Couldn't win though but it's a win for me

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Jess Lee The DEV Team

Definitely a win.

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Auli Takala

My L1 and L2 nodes running ❤

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Tahir yamin

Just started my GitHub account and deployed full AL Stack TODO app with Gemini Antigravity + Claude CLI , successfully deployed on docker to Kubernetes. I am non IT person and love IT/AI/ML to grow myself and curious to know more about that. Github.com/tahir-yamin

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Warren Jitsing

I started my last infrastructure deployment article for my CI/CD series. The series shows how to deploy gitlab, jenkins, artifactory, sonarqube, mattermost, elk, prometheus and grafana from scratch in an automated fashion with Infrastructure as Code and Configuration as code. Total word count is somewhere by 90000+. Series can be viewed on my profile. Will make juniors or those interested in skilling up quite strong

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Jess Lee The DEV Team

Wow, that is thorough. Just an FYI there's a series feature on DEV if you want to put them all together. Here's how to do it:

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Warren Jitsing

Thank you so much! I originally just had them on GitHub and started posting here. Will group them once the last articles in the series are finished. Thanks again!

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Bharathkumar

Shipping git-scope v1.3.1 with pagination and UX polish, merging multiple external PRs, and getting thoughtful feedback from real users who integrated it into their tmux + Neovim workflows.

Seeing people rely on something I built — and contribute back — has been the most rewarding part.

github.com/Bharath-code/git-scope

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Jess Lee The DEV Team

Seeing people rely on something I built — and contribute back — has been the most rewarding part.

❤️ ❤️

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Maame Afua A. P. Fordjour

A big win for me this week: getting enough rest. It’s amazing how much clearer things feel when you aren't running on empty!

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Shahbaz Ahmed Alvi

Almost finished a presentation for a webinar on forecasting wildfires with machine learning methods.

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Yahya

In This week i master the Python Programming and i build ML model from scratch (Ah)

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Karl Castillo • Edited

I cooked a nice Christmas dinner for my family of 7 people!

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Jess Lee The DEV Team

Time well spent!

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Jess Lee The DEV Team

Created a nice little automation that helps me keep track of granular DEV Challenge tasks more easily. It's the little things! 😄

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Let's Automate 🛡️

Nothing is little in automation 😊 congrats 🥂

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Aryan Choudhary

Well I'll tick the sleep one for sure lol
I also wrote some blogs reflecting on my year, both in tech and personal growth.
The toughest part of last week was handling the uncertainty between interviews, the silence from recruiters... it's probably due to the new year's timing, I like to stay optimistic and not conclude I got ghosted.
The second toughest was solving DSA on pen n paper for an interview I thought would be about React and my resume.
Aaand I finally started working on the v2 of a personal project, when it's done it will have much cooler animations.

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Jonathan Neufeld

Managed to get GLM-4.7 running on my machine, although I decided to go back to Codestral because, at 120+ GB the thing doesn't fit entirely into my tiny little 128GB of RAM + 24GB VRAM, so it constantly suffered cache invalidations (think of it like fixing something in the kitchen, but there's so little room to work you have to constantly shuttle tools back and forth from the garage). I consider this a win because this is the first time I've pushed this rig to the absolute limit, and I did get it working, despite the AI agent responding to my prompts like a sloth.

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adriens

I started a big long term project about skills in IT. The first step is to put cigref.fr/english data together, I got some first results and could not resist to play a bit with it :

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Zayan Mohamed

As a Data Science undergrad, my win was diving deep into Go and releasing SecScan v2.0! 🛡️

I wanted to build a security tool that was actually developer-friendly. This week I implemented a new rule engine and added support for .gitignore files so it plays nice with existing projects.

It’s open-source and I’m looking for feedback if anyone has a moment to check it out: github.com/Zayan-Mohamed/secscan