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February 19th, 2021: What did you learn this week?

Nick Taylor on February 19, 2021

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. ![Yoda woopi...
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Dan Silcox

I used GitHub Actions for the first time - sooo easy and good! Why have I not used this before?!

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Nick Taylor

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

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ayoubelmhamdi

not easy , it's powerfull but not easy

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Dan Silcox

I guess what I meant is I was able to get 2 GH actions up and running successfully in far less time than if I were to have set up Jenkins from scratch with auto scaling nodes etc etc - certainly I’m sure it gets complicated the deeper you go!

In any case you are right as it’s a poor choice of words - what I found easy, others might not (and vice versa). We are all at different stages in this life long journey called software development :)

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Igor Lukanin • Edited

I’ve played with ClickHouse — it’s a fast open-source analytical column-based database, and by fast I mean BLAZINGLY FAST. It’s also very developer-friendly: for example, It has something like REPL on its website that you can instantly try and use. And I actually wrote a guide about building an analytical dashboard with ClickHouse! Here it is:

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Nick Taylor

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Igor Lukanin

My Twitter thread about ClickHouse quirks and features: twitter.com/igorlukanin/status/136...

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Heiker

I've been playing around with repl.it since I found out you can use it to deploy web servers. This means that is basically like a "full stack codepen".

I learned how to setup a tiny web server with 6 lines of code*.

(*) not counting the dependencies.

// index.js

const router = require('find-my-way')();
const static = require('serve-handler');

const assets = (req, res) => static(req, res, {'public': './public'});

router.on('GET', '/hello', () => 'Hello!');
router.on('GET', '/*', assets);

module.exports = (req, res) => router.lookup(req, res);
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And 1 command.

node_modules/.bin/micro -l tcp://0.0.0.0:3000 index.js
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Ok, technically you need to install things first. That'll be 2 commands.

npm install micro@9.3.4 serve-handler@6.1.3 find-my-way@4.0.0
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There you have it a (useless) web server with a fully functional router and capable of handling static assets. Here's a more exciting example in repl.it: micro-quote-machine.

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Nick Taylor

Actor Zach Galifianakis giving a thumbs up in a convertible car

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Andrew Bone

I'm slowly but surely getting my head around WebGL. I've been using 2d context for a while but needed to do some equirectangular projection maths, which was painful on the cpu, and foolishly thought, 'how hard can it be?'.

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ayoubelmhamdi

use cloud for simulation as virtuzl mation or whatever
something cloud subscription is free

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Nick Taylor

Nice!

A kangaroo playing an electric guitar

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Amr Elmoogy

I had used location service in my own Android app using Java.
And I had completed 100 Problem solved in LeetCode and I'm really happy for that :)

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Nick Taylor

Prince Harry Saying Boom! while beside his grandmother, the queen

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Ludovic Taffin

I did my first Dockerfile 👌💪

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Nick Taylor

Actor Leonardo DiCaprio as Gatsby doing a cheers

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Ficky Irwanto

I've converted existing VueJS SPA into Android apps with CapacitorJS. The guides was easy to follow and the application is working good. Just need to change the icons and enable camera for file upload.

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Nick Taylor

Lego astronaut saying awesome!

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Tim Jones

How to create buffers and splits in Vim. I made some notes on my findings in my TIL repository here.

#vim

This is for posts relating to vim, as well as vim plugins, integrations and workflows!
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Nick Taylor

Noice!

Noice!

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Conner Ow

I learned how to do manage files with Flask and also how to use some JS APIs.

My two completed projects are:
code-crystals.tk
irisor.cf

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Nick Taylor

Bobby Moynahan character from SNL saying awesome!

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Conner Ow

Heh, thanks. You're so good at picking the perfect GIFs LOL.

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Ferdian Atmadiputra

Learning vuex and socket.io #todayilearn

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Nick Taylor

TV personality saying Frickin' awesome!

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saurabhnigam

Learnt Pandas dataframes. Am still curious how dynamically typed languages let their caller know about its functions.

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Nick Taylor

Awesome!

Hackerman from Kung Fury putting on a Nintendo Power glove

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michelledev

Heatmap Analysis to see how my website is performing

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Nick Taylor

Gym teacher from Glee saying amazing!

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michelledev

Thanks Nick!

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Eduardo Cookie Lifter

Wouldnt say “learnt” but i deployed my blog on Heroku that was special :-)

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Nick Taylor

It's True - Dwight Shrute

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Brian Wisti

I learned I really need to clean up my site's RSS feed if I want to forward posts here.

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Nick Taylor

Kirk and Bones nodding to each other in Star Trek

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Ben Halpern

I recorded a podcast on accessibility and learned a lot!

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Nick Taylor

BB-8 giving a thumbs up

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🚩 Atul Prajapati 🇮🇳

I'm leaving learning CSS animation and sharing with our community check out my dev account 🔴

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Nick Taylor

That's awesome! 🔥

Yes, that's awesome!

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Thomas Bnt

Nothing special.. One more week of my job and I leave them for work at my projects and upgrade skills on NuxtJs and Co, MySQL and NodeJs.

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Nick Taylor

Captain America saluting

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Allan Camilo

Write elegant e2e tests for .NET Core web API.
Be kind!

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Nick Taylor

Nice!

Nice

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Meg Hannon

I am (belatedly) working on the #100DaysOfGatsby challenge, and learned how to use StaticQuery!

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Nick Taylor

Nice!

Actor from Game of Thrones saying Nice!

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Vaibhav Khulbe

Learned a bit about Twilio and its Conversation API. Will be using it in the next freelance project.

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Nick Taylor

Chow Yun-fat giving a thumbs up