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What was your win this week??

Jess Lee on June 19, 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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Pascal CESCATO

I recently completed a full rebuild of my professional website using Astro.

The goal was to strip everything down to its essentials and keep things as lean as possible. After the refactor, the results are pretty striking: a clean sweep across all metrics.

  • Performance, Accessibility, Best Practices, SEO: 100
  • Agentic navigation: 2/2

It’s always satisfying to see how far a project can go when you aggressively cut down complexity and focus on the essentials. The result feels fast, clean, and much easier to maintain.

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Thomas Bnt • Edited

Oh that nice!
How do you use Agentic navigation?

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neitherGalax

Great reminder that simplicity often beats complexity. Thanks for sharing.

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Hadil Ben Abdallah • Edited

Celebrating 300K readers and 20K followers 🥳

Hadil Ben Abdallah's dev community stats

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Hemapriya Kanagala

Congratulations 🎉

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Hadil Ben Abdallah

Thank you so much, @hemapriya_kanagala 😍🙌🏻

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𝕋𝕙𝕖 𝕃𝕒𝕫𝕪 𝔾𝕚𝕣𝕝

Congratulations 🎉👏🏻

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Hadil Ben Abdallah

Thank you so much! 😍🙌🏻

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NaveenKumar Namachivayam ⚡
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Hemapriya Kanagala

Made it into DEV's Top 7 for the first time 🎉

Definitely a milestone I'm proud of. The best part was reading all the conversations and stories people shared in the comments.

Thank you to everyone who took the time to read, comment, share feedback, and tell their own story. 💛

It was for my article "The Most Valuable Thing I Found in Tech Wasn't an Opportunity"

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𝕋𝕙𝕖 𝕃𝕒𝕫𝕪 𝔾𝕚𝕣𝕝

Congratulations 🎊🎉

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Hemapriya Kanagala

Thank you so much, Divyanshi 🧡

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Kevin Alemán
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xulingfeng

Finally wrapped up the last article of my first series — AI, Ego & Regret (all 15 parts). 🙌Already sketching out the next one.🤣

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Amit Rai • Edited

This week I created a podcast using AI reasoning agents for research and counter-research with full evidence log, elevenlabs for text to speech, adobe audition and podcasts for mixing sound and creating effects. I am actually very new to all this - but i loved the whole experience :) . Posted it on Spotify and Youtube.

Topic: Your Pink Slip Is an Algorithm: The AI & Jobs Debate

youtube:

Spotify:

update: the new part is making the podcast, i have been creating agents and using them for research for some time now, but giving them a voice and creating a podcast is what thrilled me in this project.

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Michael B

I finished the first version of my seventh app and released it proudly. The process included alot of restles nights and i think i could have taken better care of myself, but hey... I did the dang thing 🙂

SyncMode

Whew!

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Suzy Chase

My win this week was finally shipping the first public version of the GLP-1 AI Method.
I've spent the last year using AI to help interpret patterns across weight, sleep, recovery, and workouts during GLP-1 maintenance. This week I stopped refining it and actually put it out into the world.

Now comes the fun part: seeing how many other people it helps.

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adriens

I had a new badge ;-p

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adriens

I started to experiment the OKF (Open Knowledge Format) on top of my resume's data :

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KC

I received my first Open Water diving license last week..... from PADI

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L. Cordero

It's alive... it's alive! 💛

agentislux.io is up and running after a genuinely challenging build.

The idea has been percolating for months. Its predecessor, a project I built for a GitLab hackathon, was basically a script. Agentis Lux is that idea realized.

The premise: the internet has a second audience now, agents. They read our websites to answer people's questions, and sometimes they find what they need and sometimes they don't.

I wanted a way to see what they see. So I built it. Stoked!

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neitherGalax

This week, I started to build an OSS Contribution Toolkit repo.

It began as something personal to help me level up in open source, but I am shaping it into something that can also help beginners get comfortable navigating the fast-changing OSS world.

Feels like a small step, but it's one I've wanted to take for a while.

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El Madani El mkhitar (madani004)

My win this week was taking my sovereign language, MadiLang v0.4.0, to absolute maturity—built entirely 100% on a smartphone via Termux! 📱🔥

Faced a massive infrastructure wall with Prisma 7 Wasm drivers breaking on mobile ARM environments, but I overcame it by engineering a Sovereign Hybrid Adapter with intelligent fallback mocks.

Even better? I finally closed the loop on a truly Zero-Config developer experience. Now, madi run automatically generates the package.json, detects missing folders, and triggers npm install in the background before spinning up the production-ready signed server safely on port 3000.

Seeing that 200 OK and the cryptographic intent signature embedded from a phone was the ultimate Friday victory! 🧠✨

I wrote the whole saga here if anyone wants to read about building compilers on the edge: dev.to/madanimkhitar22beep/madilan...

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Tom • Edited

This week I built something a bit unconventional: I turned Blogger into a JavaScript module host for a browser-based app. Each module lives on a page within the same Blogger blog (same-origin is required). The blog's homepage, or another page from the blog acts as the loader, loading each module page inside a hidden iframe, extracting JS from a "pre" tag with id as "js-code", converting it into a Blob script, and executing it in sequence. Modules coordinate via a shared window.ModuleRegistry, so later modules can depend on earlier ones being fully initialized. It’s basically a no-backend, static-blog-as-module-system experiment, and it actually works.

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Julien Avezou
  • Wrote my weekly post
  • Started the Dungeon Crawler Carl book series, and now i'm hooked ... (7 books left to go in the series)
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herki meryem

My win is that I had finished the prototype of my application MindLock , which is a concentration and well being application for students and professionals, it offers them a concentration and focus space with no having access to any of social media resources while working or studying, and also it gives some hydration and sketching breaks to maintain the body.

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Grant King

I published my first Node package called opfs-utilities

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Grant King
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VICTOR KIMUTAI

Took part in Gemma 4 challenge 🎉

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Binary Warrior365 • Edited

I made my website orianted Minecraft clone Multiplayer coming online in a month