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What was your win this week?!

Jess Lee on August 22, 2025

πŸ‘‹πŸ‘‹πŸ‘‹πŸ‘‹ Looking back on your week -- what was something you're proud of? All wins count -- big or small πŸŽ‰ Examples of 'wins' include: Getting a p...
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Anna Villarreal

Self hosted and configured n8n on my vps! (No fancy premium bundled auto configuration) tiny proud moments. Haha.

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Thomas Bnt

oh cool and what is your workflows?

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Anna Villarreal

Im in the middle of working on it right now, learning as I go! Ill be sharing a post when im done. :)

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Jess Lee The DEV Team

@annavi11arrea1 will you be joining the n8n challenge we have going on?!

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Anna Villarreal

Yes - I should be signed up. Wait til you hear the epic story of drama, pain, and enlightenment. The noob is on the loose. πŸ˜‚

Cant wait to share the unrelenting comedy.

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Jess Lee The DEV Team

Haha can't wait!!

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Stephan LΓΌddemann

I did the same couple of weeks ago and it felt magic πŸͺ„ ;)

I build two workflows for custom newsletters. One is for text based blogs which I get via Http request or rss filter them by the current week and let gpt summarize the content of it and write a 300chsr long summary for my custom mail newsletter to myself.
And the second one is for YouTube channels so that I do not need to look at them daily πŸ˜‰. I do the same for the Videos with the Channel rss feed and get than the transcription for the video. Again gpt summarize it and sends it via mail to me. Everything once peer week 😎

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Charanjit Chana

I launched my app Team Sheets earlier in the month and the first update went out this past week. It went from being a spreadsheet to a fully fledged app in just a matter of weeks. I’d love feedback from anyone that gives it a try! apps.cchana.dev/teamsheets

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Ava Nichols

This week I finally untangled a tricky bug and reduced our build time by about 40%. Capped it off with a midweek movie night. Happy Friday!

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Muhammed Sabith

None of the above ! I found out how to contribute to open source

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AspXone

None of above 😎

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Thomas Bnt

Working a lot and managing some associations πŸ¦„

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Oscar

Started college. Orientation has been the most tiring part lol.

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Tim Hawkins

1) I fixed my 3D printer that had been busted for over a year.
2) I got my spare ThinkPad X13 configured for ChromeOS Flex, to give me a small, high-powered authoring and Linux experimenting machine, got VSC, Rust, and Copilot all set up.
3) got back onto my Kubernetes visualizer project, after too much procrastination.
4) Started writing again, again a victim of procrastination.

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Jess Lee The DEV Team

Awesome!

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Amjad Abujamous

I survived being sick and I am back on track 😎

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Yalda Khoshpey

I tried to make steady progress every day.

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Aman Saxena

Deployed a backend service for a freelance project

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Manu Shaurya

Started a new project, I felt would've improved my personal workflow.

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Eslam M. Tammam

Got a big project off my plate at work that’s been dragging for weeks, felt like a huge weight lifted. Treated myself to a nice dinner after, so I’ll call that my win.

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Extra Lance

Major breakthrough on a project im working on now. I probably save a few weeks of work into just a few days.

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Jess Lee The DEV Team

I moved into a little office, and feel my sanity restoring exponentially :)

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Yan Leong

looking nice!

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Muhammed Sabith

yoo the dev logo ??

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Thomas Bnt

Oh that nice!

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Fayaz

Love those keyboards πŸ”₯

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Stephen SIMON

uploaded a shorts on youtube :) youtube.com/@JimmyDevDesk/shorts

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Nataly Stepanova

My win last week: after a lot of late nights, we finally shipped the first interactive stories for InMind Lab: a simulator where developers practice product thinking through comics. Super excited to see the first reactions!
inmindlab.hyperskill.org/stories

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Ognjen Rodic

I am still alive.

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MichaelZ

Ban on subreddit. Why it is a win? It made me think Reddit is too hard for understanding

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Jess Lee The DEV Team

heh, been there.

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Extra Lance

Been there quite a few times, never again lol. Can you believe that I got banned because the community didn't allow new account to post anything (post/comment) in the subreddit?? Thank god its only a throwaway account for me.

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MichaelZ

Yep, I understand ! :) But did you find some alternative or wayarounds? Did you post some self-promotion or just asked for help?

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Aniket Gupta

Real money gaming industry banned in India...so exploring other viable options. Its fun that I have more time now.