Wow! July 31st. See you tomorrow 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 learnt about
Github APIand built a small project using it along the lines of Githuv Visual Dashboard. gitgeek.netlify.app.I used git cherry-pick for the first time and also learnt Git is way more vast than I thought and robust too.
This week I learned that even when I make my life stupidly busy, I can still do my 1h of code a day (doing #100DaysOfCode rn). I also learned that if I want to move forward I need to start setting myself goals (to finish in a week for example). I also learned that self compassion works better than a whip, and things get more enjoyable and easier when you curb your overthinking and perfectionism.
Oh, and more practically - THIS (writing image descriptions w/o overthinking)
https ://uxdesign.cc/how-to-write-an-image-description-2f30d3bf5546?gi=98f8477507b9
learn a lot about #arirflow and cloud computing with GCP.
I learnt about using Now / Vercel serverless functions.
I used them to write a couple of proxies. This allowed me to do my UK roadworks app without needing to re-deploy it each week when the new information is posted, and also facilitated writing an RSS reader (so last decade!).
scraping with beautifulsoup
Bundle tweaking for the win to make things blazingly fast.
That, if I keep practising things will get easier. Three months ago I used to struggle with easy leetcode problems. Now I solve 3-4 easy ones spending about 30mins a day. Also, that you start enjoying a new skills after you become better at it...
I learned a lot of accessibility when implementing in my portfolio. I don't know why I was so scared of it before and how important it is.
I started learn React Native this week. I make some clones of famous app in Brazil, like picpay.
I learned about Azure Relay and wrote my first ever service.
First service ftw!
I used git cherry-pick for the first time. I also learned the importance of QA testing features on feature branches, instead of merging it to master before being tested. Yes, these things were related... 🙄
QA is important but lesson learnt. 😄
I think you should write a post about this so we can all learn too!
I started making websites using React and mobile apps using React Native. Also moved from mobile to web for Flutter. Watched a few podcasts abt life as a programmer and some rants by techlead. And moved a little bit closer to my ultimate goal of becoming a game dev. You can lookup some of my work that I am organizing now here or in more detail here
I learned that there are several providers for hosting services that also offer the service of lambda functions so I can be uploading things I make and connect to DB's without an actual backend.
I've heard of serverless before but I didn't know that it was this easy and approachable to do....
Imagine the possibilities!!
I learned the difference between named exports and default exports
Yeah!