365 Days of Building in Public, Perfectly...

This is a submission for the 2026 WeCoded Challenge: Echoes of Experience Table of Contents Introduction 365 Your DEV Badges Are Trying to Tell Your Story. Listen to Them One Year Club "Hey Mom, Your Son Is a Software Engineer" And That's When I Discovered DEV Community Two & Three Year Club Fast forward to 2020 Boom: The Pandemic Hits. And It Hits Real Bad I Had to Carve Time Out of Thin Air If You're Expecting a Happy Ending, You Won't Find It Here Four, Five, Six & Seven Year Club I Refuse to