July 17th, 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.


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 ・ Jul 17 '20

#discuss #weeklyretro


Comments

[Harsh Shandilya]

I believe I learned that Bluetooth on Linux can be a pain in the arse to get working. But hey, gonna get a blog post out of it so time well spent :D

[Vaibhav Khulbe]

All about Vue! Templating, components etc from Vue School.

[G33kNoob]

Dont forget to learning nuxt, its more simple

[Vaibhav Khulbe]

It's in my wishlist!

[Arthur Denner]

I learned how to create animations with GreenSock, which is very simple to get started and very powerful too!

[Nick Taylor]

Nice! Check out Sarah Edo's live stream with Jason Lengstorf this week, Make Animations Feel Pro (with Sarah Drasner) — Learn With Jason. Really interesting!

[Adam Crockett 🌀]

I learned a nice trick.
I often store my scripts in package.json but when I need to add dynamism to my script such as.
package.json - old

"publish": "yarn publish --newVersion 1.0.2"

You can use a node script to get the version and console log to get the output.

package.json - new

"publish": "yarn publish --newVersion $(node ./getNewVersion.js)"

getNewVersion.js

// Do stuff to get version
console.log(newVersion)

Stdout in action using JavaScript, sweet.
Pair that with $npm_package package.json variables as stdin and you have a nice workflow.

[Nick Taylor]

Awesome!

[Nick Taylor]

They all need love and make you productive so good on ya.

[peter279k]

I've learned how to install KVM in Ubuntu 18.04, CentOS 7 & 8.

And using KVM to define and create a VM via libvirt XML setting and raw image files.

Here are my notes and some references (including troubleshooting):

• gist.github.com/peter279k/c54cb6f0...
• gist.github.com/peter279k/e48ea5bb...

[Nick Taylor]

Nice!

[Marie Antons]

Lately I have been trying to learn how to make an organizational chart using d3.js I have the nodes and paths along with the labels that store the information for those nodes. Feeling happy with my progress so far

[Nick Taylor]

[Jason F]

I deployed my first Blob storage container using an ARM (Azure Resource Manager) Template to a dev environment at work. I've also been trying to learn as much as I can about Azure Pipelines because I will have to make my own very very soon.

[Nick Taylor]

Noice!

[Shannon Crabill]

This week I learned, that I'm not as strong in Javascript as I thought.

I had a mock technical interview this week as part of my Bootcamp and technically, scored 2/5 on Javascript fundamentals and 3/5 on current standards and frameworks.

It was humbling, but helped me to see that I need to circle back and refresh my knowledge of those core concepts. I know how to code, how to get done what I need to, but dictionary definitions and concepts I need to memorize / better understand for future technical interviews.

[Nick Taylor]

That's great that you had a mock technical interview though. Now you know what to work on.

[Shannon Crabill]

Yup. Just need to fine or make the time. 😬

[Abhineet Tandon]

@shannon, i think we are in same boat. So would love to know from where you got the mock interview. I need to practice alot. Thanks.

[Shannon Crabill]

I did my mock technical interview through skilled in. A no-cost-to-me interview was included as part of my boot camp. Had a good experience, me reviewer was great and I got a lot of detailed feedback, but I have heard mixed results from others that have used the platform.

[Abhineet Tandon]

Thank you 😊

[Abhineet Tandon]

Looking for a job and learned how to take rejections. 😎👨‍💻

[Nick Taylor]

Yeah, don't take rejections personally. Keep at it and good luck!