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.

#todayilearned

Summarize a concept that is new to you.

Comments

[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 (he/him)]

[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!

[Amelia Vieira Rosado]

A winner's mentality! 🙌🏻

[Nick Taylor (he/him)]

Yeah!

[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 (he/him)]

[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 (he/him)]

Nice!

[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 (he/him)]

[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 (he/him)]

That's awesome! 🔥

[pontakornth]

• 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.

[Kirk Shillingford]

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

[Nick Taylor (he/him)]

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

[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 (he/him)]

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 ☺️

[Maria Belan-Crawford]

This week I learned about adding login/authentication to an app with the help of Microsoft AzureAD!

[Nick Taylor (he/him)]

[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 (he/him)]

[Codely]

This week's learn will be

1. Learned more about piano
2. started to learn JS
3. Started a new side project

[Nick Taylor (he/him)]

Nice!

[Bobby Iliev]

I'm learning some Terraform now and it's supper cool, been postponing this for a while. 🙌

[Nick Taylor (he/him)]

Awesome!

[Mohammed Almustafa]

Next Js + Strapi

[Nick Taylor (he/him)]

[Cameron Young]

That I don’t have to hate my job. Now that I have work life balance I am learning to adjust to it. Oh and reflection I even wrote a post about it.

[Jon Randy]

I'm increasingly learning that DEV is unfortunately mostly poor quality content these days. More and more clickbait headings, listicle content, and thinly veiled attempts to drive content to other sites. It's a great shame

[Amelia Vieira Rosado]

Sounds like a bitter week. How would you solve this issue? Any ideas?

[Vaibhav Khulbe]

I agree. I have been on this platform for 3+ years now and I usually see:
"Top 10 VSCode extensions you must try", "100+ mega resources for devs" trending and showing up on their newsletters often.

Yes, other articles do get the limelight they deserve but the contrast is stark as compared to the above types of articles which are nothing but just a collection of links.

I would request @ben , @nickytonline , and other team members of @devteam to kindly address this situation.

The problem was stated by Ben himself in this article:

Improving the way DEV elevates the good stuff

Ben Halpern ・ Nov 20 '20 ・ 2 min read

#discuss #meta

But I'm unsure how many users are using this moderation feature.

Maybe DEV needs a maintained system to elevate original, quality content up (MORE) rather than promoting resources type articles(WE NEED LESS OF THESE ARTICLES I GUESS).

A good Google search is sufficient to find resources, but there needs to be a good article on DEV that explains a topic further.

[Shaquil Maria]

If I may ask, what type of content would you like to see? (So that I can have an idea of how to style my articles) And are you willing to create that type of content?