January 13th, 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.


Feel free to comment with what you learnt and/or reference your TIL post to give it some more exposure.

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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.👇👇🏻👇🏼👇🏽👇🏾👇🏿

What was your win this week?

Gracie Gregory (she/her) for The DEV Team ・ Jan 14 '22

#discuss #weeklyretro


Comments

[Harrison Ekpobimi]

Testing with React

[Nick Taylor]

[James Gabriel Abaja]

Learning how to set up my mailing system using my custom domain and Google Workspace!

[Nick Taylor]

[Nick Taylor]

Nice!

You may also want to check out this discussion post I wrote recently.

What's your go to Rust resources?

Nick Taylor ・ Dec 27 '21 ・ 1 min read

#rust #discuss

[PUSHAN VERMA]

I am learning JavaScript and will be finishing in this week and moving on to react and will do some amazing projects very fast and with optimum learning . Cheers if you like this 🔥

[Nick Taylor]

Nice! You should join the DEV Twitch stream tomorrow. Dan Abramov and Maggie Appleton are joining me to discuss JavaScript and their JS course!

DEV Community 👩‍💻👨‍💻

@thepracticaldev

Don't miss this week's Walkthrough Wednesday with @nickytonline, @dan_abramov, and @mappletons! They'll be talking about JavaScript, the Just JavaScript course, and who knows what else?!

Join them on the DEV Twitch stream at 12 pm ET / 5 pm UTC.

dev.to/listings/event…

21:36 PM - 17 Jan 2022

[PUSHAN VERMA]

thats cool , will join that surely ,

[Mukund Raghav Sharma (Moko)]

• Created a console app creating a Garbage Collection report in C# diving into GLAD.
• Learnt that while doing online demos, your client might crash unrelated to anything you could have done. Accept it, move on.
• Refreshed my C knowledge:
  • Double pointers
  • Malloc / Free
  • Pointer arithmetic
• Learnt about the new C#9 feature

  {get; init;}

  from here.

• What is Pinning in .NET from here.
• You can get the Number of Heaps from the Microsoft-Windows-DotNETRuntime/GC/GlobalHeapHistory event under NumHeaps.

[Anneta Wamono]

I started reading about Cloudinary and it's API. I'm considering it for a project I'm starting.

[Nick Taylor]

Nice! You should give Colby Fayock a follow. They’re super helpful and work at Cloudinary!

Colby Fayock

@colbyfayock

If youre building image management into your app, whether for yourself or for your visitors, you need to be able to programmatically fetch them

When using @cloudinary we can make authed requests to the Admin API to easily grab all resources

Heres how 👇

spacejelly.dev/posts/how-to-l…

13:15 PM - 17 Dec 2021

[Colby Fayock]

thanks so much for the shoutout Nick!

[Stefano Novelli]

Polymorph relationships in Laravel. My mind was on fire.

[Nick Taylor]

[🚩 Atul Prajapati 🇮🇳]

I have learned to "forgive" from the book "think like a book" chapter 2 written by Jay Shetty

[Nick Taylor]

[🚩 Atul Prajapati 🇮🇳]

😂

[Shivam]

This week I learned about TDD using Golang, I learned how to write test files in Golang using packages like Testify, GoSqlMock and GoMock.

[Nick Taylor]

[Drew Ronsman]

Learning more about the firebase ecosystem and the products they have to offer for my application

[Nick Taylor]

[🚩 Atul Prajapati 🇮🇳]

That's great