June 5th, 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 ・ Jun 5 '20

#discuss #weeklyretro


Comments

[Chris]

I'm a student at lambda schools. I just started this week with HTML, css, and Flexbox. The biggest take aways from this week are responsive HTML, mastering Flexbox, and centering elements with margin/padding control. It was a really good week and I'm even more excited to see what next week with JavaScript will unfold. Check out this portfolio site hosted on netlify I made yesterday. I'd say pretty good for a newb in one day. Comments are very much appreciated
coleman-wk1-mod4-project.netlify.app/

[peter279k]

I've learned about RedHat Enterprise Linux system administration and take the EX 200 exam on this Friday :).

[Vaibhav Khulbe]

Goodluck!

[Nick Taylor]

Good luck!

[peter279k]

Finally, I passed the EX 200 exam :-)!

[Arman Khan]

Congratulations 🎊

[Dmitry Maksyoma]

I've learned a quite surprising and obvious thing that our lives are shaped by pain and pleasure. And the best procrastination advice I've ever had:

• Write down the pain I'm avoiding
• Write down the pleasures I'm getting by avoiding
• What it costs me to continue putting it off
• What pleasures will I get by doing it

From the book Awaken the Giant Within.

[Vaibhav Khulbe]

I learnt there are some bad accounts or maybe bots which can disturb your (public) repo on GitHub. One such issue from an account was:

"Hi sir how ryou". Exactly the same words. 🤦‍♂️

Lesson: REPORT or block those. Or maybe make an Action? 👀

[Nick Taylor]

I feel like there must be some spam prevention bots that exist, but maybe not. Could be a side project then. 😉

[Vaibhav Khulbe]

Yes, defintely. I was thinking of the same.

[Mike Talbot ⭐]

I built my first React Native app :) (and shortly after released my first library that works on React Native)

Ok the app doesn't do much, but woo, now I get the differences to the browser version!

[Nick Taylor]

Awesome!

[Eka]

A couple of things, but the most recent is:

When you have fs-extra installed, you don't need to import mkdirp anymore.

[Timotej Avsec]

I finally figured out how Gitlab CI/CD and AWS work together :) . Might not sound like big of a deal, but I'm super happy about it.

[Nick Taylor]

Nice!

[Shannon Crabill]

I couldn't sleep last night/this morning so I read half of the Pocket Guide to Writing SVG. I have not dabbled with SVGs much, but I am very interested now.

[Nick Taylor]

[Nishant Mittal]

I learnt about graphql queries, async await vs promise and made some plugins for vue and gridsome. 😃

[Nick Taylor]

[Emilie Ma]

Been reading up on some algorithms - Khan Academy is a great source!

[Nick Taylor]

That's awesome! 🔥