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May 15th, 2020: What did you learn this week?

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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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Glenn Carremans

Learning how to setup our own F-Droid app repository and white label Android F-Droid client. Really an amazing project!

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Nick Taylor

Borat saying Great Success!

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Yechiel Kalmenson

My company is migrating from GSuite to Outlook (😞) so this week I learned a lot about Outlook's APIs and how they differ from GSuite's APIs.

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Nick Taylor

Multiple TV and movie characters giving a thumbs up

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James Esh

What are your thoughts on the Outlook API? Is it easier? Harder?

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Vaibhav Khulbe

Learned GitHub Actions and integrated it into one of my projects!

Life feels...

Smooth

...now.

PS: Article soon 👀

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Nick Taylor

Noice!

Noice!

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🦄N B🛡

On my to-do list.

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Waylon Walker

Do it! It's totally worth it.

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Waylon Walker

💯 I definitely did the same thing!

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Rei Allen Ramos

Github Actions ♥️

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Nick Taylor

That's awesome! 🔥

Yes, that's awesome!

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Matteo Bruni • Edited

This week I learnt about HSL colors, I always used RGB in these years but programmatically HSL is really nice.

With HSL I created these with a little code session

And I learned how to draw triangles 🤣

I Started using ESLint and Prettier too, never used them, really useful

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Rafał Makara

First time with Google Cloud: Could Functions, Pub/Sub, Scheduler. :)

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Nick Taylor

Chow Yun-fat giving a thumbs up

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Paul (hxii) Glushak

Recently unemployed so a bunch of spare time to work on things.
I decided one day to make a static website engine - actually learned a bunch as I was creating Saishō. Regex, caching files, more about PHP, and so on.

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Nick Taylor

Nice!

Guitars and more guitars being played

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Etienne Burdet • Edited

How to make async data available anywhere in a Svelte app 😱
Learned from here ;) :
svelte.dev/repl/a8d0c3c32afc4dc8b8...

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Anthony Bouvier

That Makefiles can invoke other "shells" so you can write inline ruby, python, etc.

agdr.org/2020/05/14/Polyglot-Makef...

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Rick Hood

Continued this week learning Node via Wes Bos' learnnode.com/ course. I am a longtime PHP/Drupal dev who has been diving into JAM Stack to see what it's all about. I became fascinated enough with it to do a talk on "All the Ways! [to build a website]" alltheways.website

There sure are lots of ways these days! A bit hard to decide which is "best" for what: Next, Gatsby, Express, straight React to an API, etc. + lots more. ;-)

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Nick Taylor

@wesbos has some awesome courses. Good choice! 😉