Jess Lee

for The DEV Team

Posted on Mar 27

What was your win this week!?

#discuss #weeklyretro

👋👋👋👋

Looking back on your week -- what was something you're proud of?

All wins count -- big or small 🎉

Examples of 'wins' include:

Getting a promotion!
Starting a new project
Fixing a tricky bug
Taking a well deserved day off! 💤💤💤

Happy Friday!

Top comments (26)

EmberNoGlow • Mar 27

No significant wins for a month now, but I think I've finally mastered Blender and I hope I'm past the beginner level. 👌

FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ (っ◔◡◔)っ • Mar 27

Looks great! How long did it took you to get this far?

EmberNoGlow • Mar 27 • Edited

This question stumps me! I don't know. I've lost control of my time. Judging by my posts on Blue Sky, the first was at 8:53 PM on Mar 25, 2026, then at 1:58 PM on Mar 26, 2026, and finally at 5:47 PM.

In short, 21 hours, or just one day. That's without breaks, of course, Since during this time I slept 10 hours, so no more than 10 hours. I think it took a total of 3-6 hours, spread over two days, breaks are no less important than the time spent working. Not that long, although it seemed to me that I did this for three days! 🥴

If anything, I'm confused myself

Julien Avezou • Mar 27

very cool!

EmberNoGlow • Mar 27

Thanks!

Julien Avezou • Mar 27

Wrote my weekly post here as part of the WeCoded challenge. This is a reflection I have wanted to write about for a while and I am glad my piece resonated with the community as it is an important topic to discuss in today's work environment.
dev.to/javz/why-hiring-junior-deve...

Have a great end of week everyone!

Peter Vivo • Mar 27

A great badge:

Debajyati Dey • Mar 27

A lovely badge

FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ (っ◔◡◔)っ • Mar 27

Quite a productive week!

I got my 8th Warm Welcome badge. I did mention I will stop at 10, but I want to see how far I can go. Also got 25 likes on the Meme Monday. Great to have these :)

Got a lot of engagement on my guide to Dev.to! Though I didn't receive a badge for the #howtodevto yet. Either way, great achievement :D

FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ (っ◔◡◔)っ

Mar 20

Get Started on Dev.to! A Beginner's Guide to Engage with the Community! 💡

#discuss #community #beginners #howtodevto

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Got 2 PR's merged into Forem this week!

The Quickie Post is fixed because there were cases where the characters were counted incorrectly and now the post only counts characters and not white spaces.

Ignore White Spaces when publishing a Quickie Post #23015

FrancisTRAlt posted on Mar 23, 2026

What type of PR is this? (check all applicable)

[ ] Refactor
[ ] Feature
[x] Bug Fix
[ ] Optimization
[ ] Documentation Update

Description

This PR addresses the issue where the condition is not checked properly when publishing a Quick Post. Added an additional thing in the condition where it removes the white spaces and only should count the characters and not the spaces.

elsif title.gsub(/\p{Space}+/u, '').length > max_length

Related Tickets & Documents

Related Issue #23009
Closes #23009

QA Instructions, Screenshots, Recordings

Make sure you are signed in

On the main page, click on "What's on your mind?"/ Quickie Post Section
Paste this text given by the issuer:

While setting up a Next.js project today, 

I noticed AGENTS & CLAUDE markdown files pointing to node_modules/next/dist/docs/.

Fascinating how the ecosystem evolving from monolithic to micro frontends.
and toward more integrated developer experiences.

Click on Post

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The "Report Abuse" button, located on the left side where the three dots are, is invisible if you were to look at your own post.

Hide "Report Abuse" button when User viewing their own Article #22958

FrancisTRAlt posted on Mar 13, 2026

What type of PR is this? (check all applicable)

[ ] Refactor
[x] Feature
[x] Bug Fix
[ ] Optimization
[ ] Documentation Update

Description

This PR address where if the User is viewing their own article, the option to "Report Abuse" will not show to the user.

However, if the user looks at other people's post (that the user do not own), it will show the option:

Note that if they are not sign in, the "Report Abuse" button will be visible by default.

This will prevent unnecessary self-report in my opinion because I believe there will be cases where a user will self-report himself either accidentally or intentionally. This will make it harder for the user to self-report.

Additionally, to the issue #14658, it was requested that the footer should remain:

Related Tickets & Documents

Related Issue #14658
Closes #14658

QA Instructions, Screenshots, Recordings

When you are signed in:

View your own post
Click the "..." button on the side.
You will see that the "Report Abuse" button is not visible.
Now, view any article and click the "..." and you will see the option.

When you are not signed in:

View any article, click the "..." dropdown and you will see the "Report Abuse" button.

Added/updated tests?

[ ] Yes
[ ] No, and this is why: please replace this line with details on why tests have not been included
[x] I need help with writing tests

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Awesome week I had! Can't wait for next week :D

Ben Halpern The DEV Team • Mar 27

Sort of fixed... Underlying issue edge case still likely present.

FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ (っ◔◡◔)っ • Mar 27

Ahh you beat me to it. Sounds good!

adriens • Mar 27

Added some features to my duckdb brew extension as well as some maintenance ... and hitted > 800 downloads/week :

Oleg Dubovoi • Mar 29

Yesterday I finally published an article called “Will AI Replace Software Developers?” that I had been working on in my free time over the past month. A lot of sections were cut or rewritten, but I hope the final version turned out well. I’d really appreciate it if you could read it or share your thoughts. 😊

Gábor Mészáros • Mar 27

Making medium my canonical source as devto algo never picked up any of my articles 😅

Jon Gottfried The DEV Team • Mar 27

There's definitely some art (as well as science) to getting picked up by the algorithm 🤔 that being said - @ben and the team are working on some improvements/changes to how posts get surfaced and how the feed works in general on DEV - would love to hear any feedback you have.