🗓️ Monthly Dev Report: April 2026
Post Cover is "Soda Pop" from Kpop Demon Hunters featuring @javz, @embernoglow, @konark_13, @nickytonline and @meg_gutshall!
Hey everyone! I bring you my development journey on what I have discovered, accomplishments for this month, and the goals for next month!
Additionally, I will share some posts highlights on what post I am proud of sharing to Dev.to and my top 3 posts that stood out to me this month!
Winners of the WPM Challenge 🖥️
Before we get into that, thank you everyone who participated in the "What's your WPM" challenge! Here are the winners for the month!
Winner of the 1-minute Challenge! 🏅
@j471n With a 121 WPM with 98% accuracy!
Winner of the 5-minute Challenge! 🏆
@jonmarkgo With a 114 WPM with 98% accuracy!
Congratulations! Stay tuned for the next WPM Challenge next week! Now on to the program :)
✨ Dev.to Posts Highlights! ✨
Here is one of the posts I am proud of for this month!
Made a post under the Virtual Coffee Organization for the first time! This post talks about things to look for if you are still learning as a developer!
Here is the top 3 posts that I have discovered that stood out to me!
@georgekobaidze A guide on making your project stand out by having these essentials for your README!
@embernoglow Talked about his first game jam experience and things he has learned about Game Development!
@konark_13 A kind of broke boi created a Real Estate application, for the April Fools challenge, where you can buy planets (Great job if anything regardless).
Monthly Discovery 🔍
- 🔍 Claude Mythos = Ultron?
- 🔍 Pewdiepie's AI beats ChatGPT.
- 🔍 A fun one! Destroying a Pay-to-Win Minecraft Server with HTML code.
Accomplishments 🏆
- ✅ One PR got merged onto Forem!
- ✅ Created the "Open Sourcerer" series!
- ✅ Made Dev Logs on my Full Stack Application!
- ✅ Got the "#howtodevto Hero" Exclusive Badge for this post!
- ✅ Got Tag Moderator for the #Discuss Tag! I am now a Complete Moderator!
- ✅ Now a Full Member of Virtual Coffee!
- ✅ Continued interacting with the Dev.to community.
Still working on... 🔨
- 🔨 The last Dev Log for the EasyPollVote App for now. Should be release this week!
Goals for Next Month 🎯
- 📝 Continue Forem Contribution.
Note: Due to the surges of Pull Request recently, I might have to hold it off due to the unusual amount of Pull Requests on Forem. I heard something about AI Agents causing this, but that is just a theory.
- 📝 Clean up Resume.
- 📝 Clean up my portfolio and publishing it on Dev.to for Review.
- 📝 Continue interacting with the Dev.to community.
Feedback 💬
- What else should I do for May?
- Any questions/comments/advice or tips for the Monthly Report? Leave a comment below! I would love to hear from you!