Wow! First week of the August!
It's that time of the week again for the first time this year. 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.
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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I learned how to run integration testing for my personal website inside of github actions with python and testproject.io.
Integration testing with Python, TestProject.io, and GitHub Actions
Waylon Walker ・ Aug 3 ・ 9 min read
@nickytonline crushing it with killer gifs
It was one of the job requirements when I was considering working at DEV. "Must be able to crush it with killer gifs" 😂
I learned about dev-ops on AWS. How to do rolling and Blue-Green deployment.
I learned how to send myself weekly emails for my fantasy football league using the Send Grid Java API, JSoup, and cron jobs. Code available here: github.com/SDiamante13/fantasy-foo...
Awesome!
This week was an adventure in figuring out how to spin separate non-blocking processes in a Rails app.
During our semi-regular company time to build fun stuff, I wanted to build a Facebook chatbot that generated banners with random color palettes and the text provided. Sounded easy enough, but the utility I wanted to build with, Ruby2D, opens up a new console window to make the image, which was crashing Rails every time.
Eventually, figured out how to integrate with Sidekiq to make it a separate asynchronous job, and that did the trick! Had never really done that before, so it was a fun learning adventure!
github.com/nexmo-community/faceboo...
That's awesome! 🔥
I passed the Zend PHP Certification Exam :).
Nice!
I actually learn how to use
MutationObserverandIntersectionObserver, quite useful.Yeah!
learn how git works and made my first pull request
Congrats on your first PR!
I learned how to be more energetic and emphatic while talking with other :p and from technical skills I learned a little bit more about react native :)
Nice!
Not something technical, but I learned, after spending almost a week blocked in a problem, that talking to someone more senior in the project could save a lot of time! And I also learned to documenting how things work, so future me, and people who find similar problems won't be stuck as well
I learned how to interact with spreadsheets programatically via the Google Sheets API, and now my GatsbyJS site has a simple, functional database in the cloud ☁️.
Dunno what I’ll use it for yet, but hey, I’ve got a database 😄
Here's an idea I'm working on myself: Let a user connect theirs and use it to keep your "real" cloud database (e.g. Firebase Cloud Firestore, DynamoDB, FaunaDB) within free tier for as long as possible (or just more affordable in general) by offloading their old sales data (e.g. older than this month, per transaction, whatever) to their own Google Drive account.
I once built a simple jobs board with google sheet as the database and google forms as a way to collect data.
That's actually how I set up comments on my now-ancient personal site (static and built a long time ago with Foundation v5 and an old version of Assemble still based on grunt). I added an "approved" column to the Sheet not available in the form (a Handlebars partial which appended the page URL and submitted to Google Forms via AJAX), so I could moderate the comments in Google Sheets after getting an email of a new Google Forms submission.
It's so old that I don't think I ever got around to updating it after Google changed their CORS policy. Bloop.