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June 30th, 2022: What did you learn this week?

Nick Taylor on July 01, 2022

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...
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Andy Piper • Edited

I hit something small but interesting (it tripped me up, and I've been writing Python for a lot of years!). I'd started a new Flask project and had intended to keep API keys in a secrets file but then chose to run with environment variables holding them while I was testing. When I switched Flask to development mode, it threw an error - it turned out that it was finding my empty secrets.py file and complaining about it (but worked fine in "production"). TIL!

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Nick Taylor

Bobby Moynahan character from SNL saying awesome!

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Aurélien Delogu

You mean "Flask"?

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Andy Piper

Yep, thanks - fixed!

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Julia 👩🏻‍💻 GDE

I learned a lot about accessibility this week and started to use screen reader in order to check on different websites. Going this path makes me really happy.

I also had to check out digital whiteboards for our company, gaining some firsthand experience working with a windows surface hub. I never worked with a whiteboard before, it was a nice experience.

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Nick Taylor

Lego astronaut saying awesome!

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Nikkhiel Seath

I am exploring Promises, Observables, Subjects in a more detailed level.

I even wrote a post explaining a bug I encountered because of the way Promises are resolved.

What are you learning these days @nickytonline ?

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Nick Taylor

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

For myself, I’ll be learning a bit more about a new web framework called Fresh! It runs atop of Deno. I’ll be chatting with the creator next week about it.

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G33kNoob

learning solidity erc721

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Nick Taylor

Nice!

A kangaroo playing an electric guitar

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Aurélien Delogu

What is it?

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🚩 Atul Prajapati 🇮🇳

Learned lunacy which is a free ui design tool for both operating systems (windows/Ubuntu) 😘 i love it.

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Nick Taylor

Nice!

A pug wearing a pink unicorn costume

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Bobby Iliev

Been learning more about the Postgres wire protocol!

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Nick Taylor

That's awesome! 🔥 I have no idea what it is tbh. Sounds like it’d make for a great blog post!

Yes, that's awesome!

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Bobby Iliev

Yes absolutely! That’s the plan 😁

I’ve basically built a Postgres mock service which you can connect to and run some predefined queries:

psql -U materialize -h psql.bobby.sh -p 6875
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Andrew Baisden

Taught myself how to do some video editing.

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Nick Taylor

Hot Rod saying Cool beans!

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Aurélien Delogu

I learnt that now there is a CSS property to handle fluid typography on web pages : clamp 🦄

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Nick Taylor

Deadpool drawing a rainbow above his head with his hands

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Nick Taylor

Noice!

Noice!