April 22nd, 2021: 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.


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

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Summarize a concept that is new to you.

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[Xiao Ling]

I learned how to create a Flutter barcode SDK plugin this week. I've published the plugin to pub.dev and implemented a simple Android app for scanning barcodes.

[🚩 Atul Prajapati 🇮🇳]

Nice 👍

[Nick Taylor]

[Kasper Mróz]

I learned that if you feel like you have something to tell or show to the world - just do it instead of finding more and more excuses!

[Nick Taylor]

Yeah!

[nshimiye_emmy]

This week i spent my time customizing my vscode to look like a pro

[🚩 Atul Prajapati 🇮🇳]

Use your most valuable time on valuable things 😐

[Nick Taylor]

[Pandita]

This year, with my new job, I was able to afford a virtual art class and I'm currently learning about the skeleton and human anatomy! :3

it's not really dev related but for a while now I've felt like half my brain is heavier than the other and returning to drawing is a way to level that out! 🎉

[Nick Taylor]

Nice!

[Monika Roy]

Hey, I learned that just going through some good content every morning makes you feel so fortunate. You feel exhilarated while performing any task of the day. ❤

Sharing link of one such video below 🧠💯

youtu.be/l1rV4kmUJko

I hope you guys will enjoy 🧡

[Nick Taylor]

[Kirk Shillingford]

I learned Dev has a pretty solid API which I can use for integration with eleventy :)

[Nick Taylor]

For folks interested in the DEV API, check out our API documentation.

Also, @coffeecraftcode and I did a stream on the DEV Twitch Stream this week with @jlengstorf for anyone interested.

We talked about Jamstack, serverless, and had some fun pairing on a project using the DEV API and Netlify’s serverless functions. Check it out and if you aren’t already, give us a follow at twitch.tv/thepracticaldev!

Nick Taylor (he/him)

@nickytonline

Here's the repository for the project we worked on with the @ThePracticalDev API and Netlify serverless functions on the stream today, github.com/nickytonline/f…

Fork it and have some fun! #DEVCommunity twitter.com/coffeecraftcod…

23:29 PM - 21 Apr 2021

Christina Gorton @coffeecraftcode

If you missed the Twitch stream with @jlengstorf , check it out on @thepracticaldev Youtube. We talked Jamstack, serverless, and @nickytonline and Jason used serverless functions on Netlify to quickly set up an API to grab DEV posts with the DEV API. 🥳 https://t.co/pMnlitQt7N

[Priyadarshini Chettiar]

This week I started getting my JS and CSS basics strong. I learned about rendering engine, prototypal inheritance. I'm listening to various podcast related to web development and basics.

[Nick Taylor]

That's awesome! 🔥

[Pontakorn Paesaeng]

• Do some CSS art. It is not complex but I like to create it.
• Create Discord bot using Ruby. I love this language and I cannot find its practical uses other than Rails or Hanami. Ruby is suitable for Discord bot.

[🚩 Atul Prajapati 🇮🇳]

I found an alternative for postman and shared with our community

Postman alternative

Atul Prajapati ・ Apr 22 ・ 1 min read

#opensource #discuss #firebase #vscode

[Nick Taylor]

Cool stuff. You can link it right here if you want. Just use the link liquid tag, e.g. {% link link_to_your_post %}

[🚩 Atul Prajapati 🇮🇳]

That's a new thing for me thanks ☺️

[Deepak Raj]

This week

• Modern Pythonic API using async/await syntax
• Learned where to use aiohttp instead of requests module and its advantages.

[Nick Taylor]