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Ben Halpern
Ben Halpern

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What's your favorite new thing?

Any new tools, libraries, services, etc. you're playing around with?

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Ankit Beniwal

I really like Dev.to community. Thanks everyone for making it so wonderful.

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Yaser Al-Najjar

This comment is most likely getting to the top as it describes what most people are coming here to say 😁

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Konstantin Meiklyar

+1

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fsavalam

me too... I just had to post the same thing

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Jacob Herrington (he/him)

Came here to say this

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negue

github.com/voidcosmos/npkill

running npx npkill listed like 34 GB of node_modules on older projects I'm no longer working on

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Sherri Booher

Oooooo, I need this in my life! Thank you, thank you, thank you!

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Shubham Battoo

This is all we need with small SSD. Thanks

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Evaldas Buinauskas

Functional programming, which I discovered by using Elm.

Would love to try F# to develop backend in a functional way as well.

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Aniruddha Bhattacharjee • Edited

I am learning Functional Programming too, but I went with Haskell. Still finding the whole paradigm a little confusing and counter-intuitive though.

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Evaldas Buinauskas

I found Elm at first confusing too because I was taught to write code imperatively. Haskell is the most functional language you can think of and it takes time.

Even if you won't use it, everything you've learnt will benefit when you write code in different languages.

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Antonio Savage

Hit up solidity and smart contracts if you are enjoying functional programming. Huge demand for sol devs currently and its some interesting stuff.

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Dana Ottaviani

Working remotely. 😁

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Chloe

Vue, its cli and learning more about the whole vue ecosystem I really really like it and looking forward to learning a lot more about it.

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Jacob Herrington (he/him)

Svelte is really cool! I understand why some people are weary of it, but I'm a fan!

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Saurabh Sharma

Svelte is ❀

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Anwar • Edited

I felt in love with split-require. Finally I can use the dynamic import syntax

components: {
  MaterializeNavbar: () => import("component/MaterializeNavbar.vue")
}

My index.js went from 1.9Mb to 954Kb, where were you when I needed you the most 😭

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Fulton Browne

I am loving the new android studio canary build with jetpack compose, I am also loving the Kotlin programming language.

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Jared

Just started with Kotlin. Reminds me so much of JS, which could be a good or bad thing lol

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Varun Barad

I am also going through the Compose Tutorial right now. Just need to download the canary Android studio first though.

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Sdu

I want to try out the MotionEditor first. It didn't load my project for some reason though, I'll have to do some debugging

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Muhammad Arslan Aslam

the ten x hacker theme

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Chris Finnigan • Edited

JAMStack!

Gridsome site, using Tailwind CSS, Forestry.io CMS and hosted on Netlify.

These were all completely new to me. It's turned out to be a great setup for my portfolio site.

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Chloe

How have you found tailwind? I know some bootstrap as we use it at work quite a bit. I had a quick go with it this afternoon but I'm generally not keen on adding all that markdown to my HTML.

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Chris Finnigan • Edited

Grids took a little bit of getting used to for me, but I like it alot. Previously I have always used Bootstrap.

The messier html syntax is a thing but in reality if you identify common components you can use @apply to collate groups of utilities into a single class.

It's a trade off between more classes in the html and less CSS to write. I find it quite easy to read. The classes are very descriptive so it does give you a good rundown of what you should be seeing.

The abillity to setup custom config to match a style guide/design system would really help keep a site's UI consistent.

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jeikabu

I actually just started using Fork as well. I rather like it.

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Brett Stevenson

How do you think Fork compares to Github Desktop and GitKraken?

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jeikabu

Only used GitHub Desktop briefly but it seemed like it was positioned as β€œgit for everyone”. Polished, but if you’re used to git CLI and expecting most features it felt a bit lacking.

Used SourceTree for quite a while, but it was sometimes a bit clunky and occasionally had issues with multiple auth configs.

Never tried git kraken. I forget why exactly and haven’t looked in a while, but I think it was because it was payed vs free and non-open source.

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Balaji K • Edited

Playing around with react and redux using projects listed by

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Then try to host those projects like in Heroku.

Finally playing around with Dev.to editor guide which will be handy while posting a comment/post like this.

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Ynoa Pedro

kubernetes fun and scary

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Fulton Browne

I am still trying to figure out what the heck it is.

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Antonio Savage

It's a thing. It does stuff! Don't feel alone in not knowing what it is/does. I work with it and I ask myself this question daily. Check out some of the Rancher guides or go and play with a Kubernetes environment on katacoda. Also start on containers with dockers own online learning lab. Advance from there... training.play-with-docker.com/ops-...

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Saurabh Sharma

Making everything in less libraries and frameworks

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Jeremy Schuurmans

I've been getting into Vim the past few weeks and adding more keyboard shortcuts to my workflow and I've been feeling super awesome and powerful because of it.