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What you learning about this weekend? 🧠

Michael Tharrington on December 09, 2023

Hey hey 👋 What are you learning on this weekend? Whether you're sharpening your JS skills, making PRs to your OSS repo of choice 😉, sprucing up y...
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Medea

I'm learning about how to play some notes in JavaScript
i'm using this knowledge to make a website to train your ear

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Michael Tharrington

This sounds so cool. Hope ya write on this one — I'd love to read about it!

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Medea

i definitely will, soon!

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Oscar

Figuring out how to take what could potentially be 25+ API calls and 25+ database queries down to only 4 API calls (maybe even fewer!) and 10 database queries. I think I can get the queries down to 4 or less though.

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Michael Tharrington

Wow! That sounds like a challenge, but one worth pursuing. Hope it goes well for ya, Oscar. 🙌

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Oscar

It did, thank you! I haven't "finished" it yet... but I figured out how to do it at least.

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Phil Ashby

I'll mostly be bodging my way through some more #AdventOfCode puzzles in a new language (for me, one of the oldest in real time): Scheme..

With luck I'll slowly gain a good understanding of Scheme and know when it could be used effectively elsewhere!

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Michael Tharrington

It sounds to me like you're scheming. 😈

From The Simpsons, Mister Burns is twiddling his fingers together as if he is "scheming"

Haha, hope it went well for ya, Phil! 🙌

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Toby Parent

Trying to work on local/remote sync, using RxDB/Dexie and Supabase. First, trying to understand it in a vanilla js context, then working up to using that RxDB reactive dataset as a Svelte store.

My little button-head is woozy...

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Michael Tharrington

Hahaha! I can imagine, that sounds like quite the challenge.

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Troy Harris

Learning about Computer Networking via CCNA, and diving straight into a project.

I think I'll add on to my documentation project on things I discover with JavaScript, CSS, HTML, etc...

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Anita Olsen

I am learning to build games with my Electronic Games Advent Calendar and also working on my website so learning/brushing up on my HTML and CSS while at it.

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Michael Tharrington

Very nice, Anita! 🙌

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Paweł Ciosek

All about react server components 🤓

Great post: timtech.blog/posts/react-server-co...

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Bala Madhusoodhanan

Regex brushing and excel VBA macro Reg