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April 21st, 2022: What did you learn this week?

It's that time of the week again. So wonderful devs, what did you learn this week? It could be programming tips, career advice etc.

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Feel free to comment with what you learnt and/or reference your TIL post to give it some more exposure.

#todayilearned

Summarize a concept that is new to you.

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Jeremy Friesen

This week I learned about how useful it can be to record a video of walking through a pull request. I provided diagrams, documentation, and ample explanation for a chunky pull request.

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Nick Taylor

That's awesome! 🔥

Yes, that's awesome!

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Aileen Rae

Totally non-dev related, but I learned that the web app for Instagram doesn’t yet have Reels.

As someone who has increasingly been doomscrolling these videos but not willing to give up on IG completely, this has been a game changer! I’ve uninstalled the app and replaced it with an iOS shortcut to the web app.

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Nick Taylor

BB-8 giving a thumbs up

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Jan David

I've been working on a programming video game for a few weeks now. This week I realized that I am not that passionate about the game dev side of things, but really enjoy working on the developer experience. Things like designing the API, writing documentation, creating examples, automating tasks, ...

On one hand I really appreciate the insight, but it does make me wonder how I should proceed with the project. 😅

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Nick Taylor

Thinking emojis floating around

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Ole Petersen

I learned that a problem I have been thinking about for the last six months can probably solved using Event Sourcing:
martinfowler.com/eaaDev/EventSourc...
The problem is to synchronize a global state in an IOT system with very unreliable connections.

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Nick Taylor

Jake Peralta from Brooklyn Nine Nine saying Hella Fresh!

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Marissa B

This is my second week at a new job and I've picked up some newbie Docker things! I haven't been assigned a proper project yet (and have a ways to go until that's a thing - the ecosystem is massive) but skilling up is rad.

I also learned how to play Gaslands, which isn't dev related but super fun.

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Nick Taylor

Nice!

A kangaroo playing an electric guitar

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Rebecca Key

I started working with Plotly.js: I really like this library!

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Nick Taylor

Actress Anna Kendrick in a film saluting as her character

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Yash Datir

I created my first ever Chrome extension, although a basic one but gave me a spark to keep up with something creative...

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Nick Taylor

Awesome!

Hackerman from Kung Fury putting on a Nintendo Power glove

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NatriumDev

I learned how a key-value pair is represented in json, and how to deserialize it to C# (spoiler: it's a Dictionary)

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Nick Taylor

Nice!

Nice

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Jeremy Rice

I learned that I’m definitely not ready to work at Amazon, but it was a good interview experience, anyway.

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Nick Taylor

Loki holding KFC

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Vaibhav Khulbe

I learned one of the trickiest topics to learn for beginners in Swift language in my opinion: closures.

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Nick Taylor

Puppet bird looking through binoculars

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Diego (Relatable Code)

Learned a lot about Rehype and remark, libraries used to handle markdown. Working on parsing some markdown and needed to make a custom table of contents. Cool stuff.

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Nick Taylor

Actor Zach Galifianakis giving a thumbs up in a convertible car

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Michael Ostrovsky

That react window should be used over react virtaulized 😬

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It's True - Dwight Shrute

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Michael Tharrington

I learned the lyrics to "Scar Tissue" by the Red Hot Chili Peppers. 🌶

Been singing it all week much to my wife's dismay, haha!

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Nick Taylor

Captain America saluting

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Jeremy Friesen

I definitely prefer smaller deliverable PRs that build towards something larger. In this case, there were two PRs

And 13 and 20 files respectively; not overly large but bigger than my preferred 3 to 7 files. My decision point for a more chunky PR was the speed at which I was looking to deliver paired with the end-deliverable was other folks being able to use this little configuration subsystem with minimal guidance.

While crafting those PRs, I had about 10 atomic commits, but chose to squash them.

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Meat Boy

Bridge can fall under vibrations

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Dog slipping ice and sliding on their belly