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August 21st, 2020: 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.

And remember, if something you learnt was a big win for you, then you know where to drop it as well.👇👇🏻👇🏼👇🏽👇🏾👇🏿

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Kimberlee

Thanks for asking! Batch Normalization techniques for optimizing neural networks made on Keras/TF, in Python.

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Benito van der Zander

Hashmaps are slower than one would think.

I tried to make the map/dictionary in my interpreter faster

So far it was either an unsorted array or linked list of key/value pairs. Basically the worst way to implement a dictionary.

Now I have changed it to using hashmaps. But with the hashmap it is 30 % slower in practice.

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Celiz Matias

I designed a workflow to deploy a react native application using github actions and write my first post in dev.to :D

And change App Center to github actions because the limitations to run e2e tests and manage the distribution of the binary have many problems for a product that plains publish 2 release by week.

Also I study a lot about metrics, logs and performance monitor to know the health of our application on production.

I hope finish my post about how to deploy a React Native application using github actions this weekend.

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Nick Taylor

Actor Leonardo DiCaprio as Gatsby doing a cheers

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Tanvesh sarve • Edited

Building this: hidden-taiga-78457.herokuapp.com/
and: tanvesh.vercel.app

And learning some native android development from udemy.

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Nick Taylor

Kirk and Bones nodding to each other in Star Trek

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Mir Bhatia

I created and merged my first ever PRs on github!

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Nick Taylor

Yeah!

A T-Rex saying Yeah!

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Himujjal Upadhyaya

I learnt kind of-Object Oriented Programming in Rust. That was something. In fact I learnt a few more things about the Rust and its patterns while building an interpreter. Damn! That was tough.

September 30th, I am going to release ekscript.com. So working quite hard towards it!

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Nick Taylor

Lego astronaut saying awesome!

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5AbhishekSaxena

Recently, I decided to devote my attention to multiple things at the same time. So, I started off with learning Nodejs and little bit of express. In the midway, worked with a startup on their upcoming android app and lastly ended with a freelancing job as a ui developer. I'd say a pretty productive week.

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Nick Taylor

Nice!

A kangaroo playing an electric guitar

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scroung720

-Basic use of Inkscape, I am learning it because I want to be specialized in image processing and computer vision and I want to play with open source graphic design programs, to implement newer versions using web technologies especially web assembly.
-Advance selectors on CSS
-Tricks to overwrite !important in CSS

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Nick Taylor

Jean-Luc Picard from Star Trek TNG saying Well done!

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Vivian T.

it might sound silly but it was a huge win for me: I finally managed to start my first docker container and connected it to DBeaver and my Laravel project! :D after sooooooo many tries and conflicts and outdated guides hahahaha
all this pain in a single line:
docker run --name mysql-container -p 3306:3306 -e MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=password -e MYSQL_ROOT_HOST=% -d mysql/mysql-server:latest

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Nick Taylor

Chow Yun-fat giving a thumbs up

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MohAnghabo

My first React frontend project is done. I'm gonna connect it to my first GraphQL back end project, which I'll start working on today ISA

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Nick Taylor

A puppet Yeti clapping their hands saying congratulations