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Madza
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What's the dev skill you mastered in a day?

First ones that come to my mind would be Markdown and Emmet.
Increases my productivity and I use them every day.

What are some of your skills that were easy to pick up and then became a main part of your dev routine?

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Jason Gabler

From reading these replies, I sense that the general understanding of the gravitas inherent to the verb "to master" has been severely watered down in recent decades.

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Ross Henderson • Edited

The concept of Kaizen. In everything I do I ask myself "what's the smallest improvement I can make to this process to make it better", and I often find something small.

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Madza

yeah, and JSON 😉👍

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Amir Hameed

Mermaid? I shall check

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Paul (hxii) Glushak

Madza, this may be offtopic, but do you actually post any content on dev.to besides posting in #discuss all the time?

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Madza • Edited

I usually post expanded articles on tools and resources (see my pinned articles). Tbh, working on one right now 😉 I'm also into motivational stuff and it's always my pleasure to inspire people. 🧙‍♂️✨
I always thought the discussion format is the best way to learn. The creators of DEV has dedicated a unique #discuss tag for that reason here on DEV, with 10K+ posts already. The discuss tag is moderated by 5 experienced developers, if they will find the content to be inappropriate, they will change the tags or remove the post. 👮‍♂️
I always try to give my knowledge on the top of discussion topics, so others can get some info from the initial post too. Furthermore, browsing through comments there are lots of valuable sources on new tools, tips and suggestions, as many users have noted that they have learned a lot from my discussions. I see it as a two way communication and it's awesome to exchange the knowledge, meaning it's a win-win for all of us participating ❤💯

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Karan Gandhi

Blaming other developers for your misfortune.

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Jason Gabler

Like, at birth.

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Madza

lol, this made my day 😂😂

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Karan Gandhi

Among Us is just a game about standup meeting. :D

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Francisco Quintero 🇨🇴

ajajajajajajajaaj

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devcoder

SASS

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scroung720

quantum physics

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Amir Hameed

waaow

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yaythomas

print('DID THAT WORK')

doesn't matter which language, use this to this day for debugging.

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prateek goyal

Same for me. The day I realized the power of this, I never looked back. Honestly it is so powerful, I never used another debugger.

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aliona matveeva

agree! I wouln't say I never used another debugger since then, but it is indeed a great start before you go and dig down with any debugger, just to determine an area of the error.

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Brian Barbour

Existential dread.

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Jason Gabler

You must work in higher ed :D