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Nick Taylor
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May 8th, 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.

![A picture it a dog waving their paw with the caption “Learning, cool at school or at home”](https://media.giphy.com/media/1xpm1nTQiRL96Di3Q6/giphy.gif)

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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Vaibhav Khulbe • Edited

Learned basics of developing a Chrome extension (working on a project with a friend 😉) annnd....I'm also learning all about happiness and its psychology! This is via The Science of Well Being course.

Recommend GIF

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Ryan Smith

I'm also taking that course, it is great. Dr. Laurie Santos also has a podcast The Happiness Lab which is also a good listen.

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Vaibhav Khulbe

Yes yes, I've subscribed to it last week and it's good!

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peter279k

I've learned how to use Bash scripts to monitor some of servers status :).

The related tutorial is available here.

I also use systemd-ngrok to let some machines can use proxy server to let me connect from Internet :).

It can help me to monitor server stats easily & conveniently.

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Anusha Bhat

In Go, when you want to unmarshall a json into an unexported struct, its fields should be exported. This is because json is a different package and doesn't have the power to view fields unless they are exported.

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Ryan Smith • Edited

I learned a bit about styled-components. I was never a huge fan of the approach, but I think it is growing on me, it definitely helps clean up and make maintaining React code easier.

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VeeWeb Code

Nothing> :(

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Nick Taylor

+1 to what @citizen428 said. Definitely OK too.

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Chloe • Edited

It's been a year since I joined dev and also a bit about the basics of Nuxt #vue

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Guillaume Grassiant

Learned the basics of Flutter :)

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Shannon Crabill

That puppy gif is the cutest!

This week, I learned that each instance of a React class component has it's own State. It didn't click until the reviewer pointed it out during my project review.

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sanidz

Learned that Rails syntax in html is as ugly as any other mvc framework.
After Rails syntax JSPs looks just fine and Razor is actually normal.
Routes in Rails are such a mess.