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February 11th, 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.

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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Ryan Jentzsch
  • Played around with using Base instead of ReactBootstrap which I typically use and found Base a bit more lightweight and just as easy to use.
  • I've been using React 18RC and found it to be quite stable.
  • Finally figured out how to configure Nginx so that I could host two separate React apps off the same domain with the main app at mydomain.com and the other app at mydomain.com/secondapp
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Nick Taylor

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

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Arun K C

Brushed up HTML, CSS and JavaScript and built a small game use these. Check it out here. Would be great if you could give some feedbacks.
Learning by doing projects is so awesome!! ❤️

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Nick Taylor

Chow Yun-fat giving a thumbs up

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dillan teagle

I have been using swagger for quite awhile, using fastapi, or connecting the swagger UI to other api's. Although, I have never actually used swagger to generate neither the server or the client code.

I always heard about it, but never took the time to try it or even really consider it.
I work with the CEO and apparently he is well aware about using this and has a solid plan in place for how to quickly spin up the API's in this way.

So that is what I learned, instead of writing APIs from scratch, generate the code, and if anything, build a solution that quickly integrates the models.

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Nick Taylor

Kirk and Bones nodding to each other in Star Trek

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Mukund Raghav Sharma (Moko) • Edited
  • Started this playlist about Virtual Memory that I will write notes for here
  • Reading a white paper on Disruptor, a high performance bounded queue for concurrent exchanges and writing about it here.
  • Started reading Company of One - Paul Jarvis.
  • Started exploring gc.cpp by doing a code analysis via a jupyter notebook that can be found here.
  • Understood how the Counter abstraction works in python.
  • Working on diffing two ETW traces and analyzing scores based on the diffs in terms of garbage collection.
  • Started re-reading Sharon Lebell's Art of Living, an amazing take on Epictetus' work.
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Nick Taylor

Yeah!

A T-Rex saying Yeah!

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Jason F

I started looking in to BEM and am refactoring a personal project using the methodology. I plan on writing an article on my experience afterwards.

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Nick Taylor

Bobby Moynahan character from SNL saying awesome!

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Lucia Cerchie

I learned to squash and merge and use conventional-ish commit messages!

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Nick Taylor

Jack Nicholson nodding yes

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Cem coduroglu

I learned Bootstraps on CSS and want to do my first main page 😁 when im finishing some pages i wanna start with JavaScript. But first need to well learned in HTML and CSS

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Nick Taylor

Nice!

Nice

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Hamid Haghdoost • Edited

I learned to work with Nginx on Docker and config fastCGI for php-fpm :) Docker and Nginx official websites was good reference + @techworld_with_nana 's Youtube channel.

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Nick Taylor

Lego astronaut saying awesome!

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Matt Curcio

Hey Nick,
I started my own 100 Days of Data Science last week. And I realized that coming up with good ideas is tough. ;^)

Do you recommend placing something on Dev.to every day (even when it is small, like just reading...) or when I come up with a finished product, like an article?

P.S. I plan to write/add notes on the blog daily. ;))

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Nick Taylor

Ben Stiller in Starsky and Hutch saying "Do it"

I say start writing. Not a big deal if they're short posts. You can create a series too if you want. There's a cog icon near the save draft/publish post button where you can set the series.

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Angel Garrigues

This week I've started to learn NodeJS in order to build an API. It's confusing when implementing a MVC structure but, once it's been started, it seems easier to add new features while having all code separated into views and controllers.

Also I've learned the hard way the importance to build a minimum viable product and then add features by incremental improvements. I tried to do something ahead of my experience and I needed to stop and build again from scratch.

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🚩 Atul Prajapati 🇮🇳

You can do anything, keep it up

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Ashok

This week I tried building a React app in which we can generate wallpaper with random color and random font (google web font). It came out well, code available in Github github.com/ashobiz/text-paper.

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Ben Halpern

I learned a bunch about GitHub automations from the series by @blackgirlbytes so far. Really looking forward to more.

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Nick Taylor

Amy Poehler being cool

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Rizèl Scarlett

yay, I'm glad you were able to learn something. So exciting that you're finding it valuable

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🚩 Atul Prajapati 🇮🇳

Not completed, making a product landing page(funnel website) just for sharpening my responsive web development skills

Coding

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Nick Taylor

Stephen Colbert saying Awesome Sauce

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K

The Strapi caching libraries aren't really maintained D:

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Dog slipping ice and sliding on their belly

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Anton Guinto • Edited

This week I created my own NFT minting website. The project I built came from the knowledge I got from a udemy course + youtube tutorial.

I am new to Web development so I had to learn myself React and Nextjs (which I am learning till now). I badly want to learn web development because I want to join the web3 craze but I came from a mobile app environment.

I also learned more about Solidity in Crypto Zombies they teach you the basics and fundamentals of coding in Solidity etc.

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Nick Taylor

Nice!

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