365 Days of Building in Public, Perfectly Reflected By My Badges

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 Catch a Break, Ever Then I Finally Started to Feel Comfortable... I Absolutely Hated It Writing Debut Community Wellness Streak Top 7 I'm All In on AI, But We Need to Talk About Vibe Coding 20 Rules for Becoming THAT Manager (From a Principal Engineer's Perspective) Can AI Generate Binary Directly? Is It Feasible? Does It Make Sense? C# Eight Year Club GitHub Copilot CLI Challenge Winner DEV Weekend Challenge Completion Still Not Convinced?! Time to Play the Game Introduction I keep all