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June 26th, 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.

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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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Rohith Gilla

After long procrastination and constant notifications from Notion and TickTick, I finally started to learn TypeScript 🔥
Any paths or suggestions for me to learn it are always welcomed 🙌🏻
TypeScript
P.S: Any other typescript memes are always welcomed 🚀

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celyn

this week i learned how to block ip addresses in wordpress and implmented it on my site as well. It is an important security aspect which site owners sideline. Was required from security aspect on our blog .have also come up with a post here dev.to/celyn_davis/how-to-block-ip...

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Nick Taylor

Nice!

A kangaroo playing an electric guitar

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Pravin Poudel

This week i learnt about lighting in webgl and yesterday designed reaponsive navbar using flexbox.

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Nick Taylor

Noice!

Noice!

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Matouš Borák

I learned how partial page updates work in Hey site. Pretty cool stuff, indeed!
dev.to/borama/a-few-sneak-peeks-in...

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Nick Taylor

Lego astronaut saying awesome!

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basuradeluis

I learned how to use bookmarks and Mark All/find feature in Notepad++ to select lines that contains/not contains some string in a huge log file.
winhelponline.com/blog/remove-line...
Then, I remembered I could have used grep utility instead :-)

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i am message

Node.js, Express.js, MongoDb and the beauty of MVC architecture never felt so good and eventful in while now.

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Mirko Vukušić • Edited

Learned how to setup all AWS resources using templates and AWS Sam. It's easier (once you get the hang of it), it can be put in source control, it can be included in build scripts, it can be launched locally. Really happy with this. Wrote a post about it too: dev.to/psiho/build-deploy-all-aws-...

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BenPearo

Great week for me! I set up pre commit hooks for linting and running tests for staged files, set up a Jenkins pipeline, and got docker compose running for my services. I want to write my first post/guide on one of them later this week

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jun

I learned about - that this simple js code
window.print();
you can print the screen 🔥

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Nick Taylor

Jet Ink printer printing

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Prashanth Prabhu

Upgrading to Angular 10 from 9 (which was done just a week ago). Thinking Angular should be named as Zoomgular due to speed of releases.

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Nick Taylor

Zoom zoom zoom!

1st place in Mariokart

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Macauley Parry

I learned some more C#/XAML styling techniques 😁

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Nick Taylor

Lego astronaut saying awesome!

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SamuelALSN

As newbies in React js , i've learned React imposible states error handling , React REDUCERS HOOKS and use of Third party library

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Nick Taylor

Stephen Colbert saying Awesome Sauce

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Heiker

I learn how to add forms to an observable notebook (it's like a coding playground) and modify their behavior. I used them to make interactive examples in here: Using the Maybe type in js

This was last week but I'm still proud I figure out how to do it.

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Nick Taylor

Nice!

A kangaroo playing an electric guitar

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Waylon Walker

actions/cache@v2

GitHub actions cache. My gatsby site now builds in about half the time, much of which is now installing node_modules and deploy.

REGEX

I got comfortable enough with a few regex commands to use it to filter data catalogs.

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Nick Taylor

GitHub actions cache be like

The Flash running