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

Nick Taylor on October 15, 2020

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. ![Yoda woopi...
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Henry Boisdequin

This week, I learnt Flutter. As a React dev, I started learning React Native but found how slow it was. I would run it on a simulator and my Google Chrome would crash (couldn't even check StackOverFlow 😢). Naturally, I went to the next best option: Fluttter. I have been trying it out for the past few days and have seen that it is so much better than React Native. I will still use React (the best web framework) but I will not use React Native. Just because you are in an ecosystem (e.g. react ecosystem) doesn't mean you have to do everything in that ecosystem and hate everything else. I think that is the biggest thing I learnt this week

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Stephen Colbert saying Awesome Sauce

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Nick Taylor

Nice!

Nice

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Charanjit Chana

I spent some time discovering how best to optimise for Reader View in Safari. Looks like there’s a lot of nuance and I even found cases where it would change the layout. Got there in the end (mostly), after plenty of trial and error.

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Nick Taylor

Yeah!

A T-Rex saying Yeah!

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Tomas Sirio

How to keep going even though I'm stuck af

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Nick Taylor

Sometimes stepping away then coming back is what helps the most.

It's True - Dwight Shrute

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Nastassia Danilava

This week I've started an internet fundamentals course (hope to finish by the end of this week). I find it useful to refresh the knowledges from time to time
internetfundamentals.com/

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Nick Taylor

That's awesome! 🔥

Yes, that's awesome!

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deep-linux

I started learning React few weeks earlier and still do not feel confident enough to apply for a job.
This week I studied JS more deeply and I am simply amazed by it.

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Nick Taylor

Nice! I. Case you weren’t aware. Kent C. Dodds has a great free beginner React course on egghead.io, kentcdodds.com/blog/the-beginners-.... Also, another great free React resource is Frontend Armory. It used to be a paid subscription, but now it’s entirely free. Check out frontarm.com.

A kangaroo playing an electric guitar

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deep-linux

Yes it was him(and official docs) who made me understand React.

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Pacharapol Withayasakpunt

wget vs cURL

wget is not just GET request maker, but for downloading almost anything.

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Bobby Moynahan character from SNL saying awesome!

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Developers Planet • Edited

I am learning node js behind the scene

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Hot Rod saying Cool beans!

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Andrew Bone

I learnt about frontend test 😉

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Gym teacher from Glee saying amazing!

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Jason F

I started looking more in to Sass. I created media query breakpoints as mixins for the first time.

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Charanjit Chana

You won’t regret it! I haven’t written pure CSS out of choice for about 10 years now, I always opt for LESS/SASS.

When you get time, check out bourbon.io 🥃

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A puppet Yeti clapping their hands saying congratulations

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ヘンタイちゃん • Edited

I started to use InkScape for making my mockups! The screenshot was one of my earlier attempts, working on something new right now that I hope will be online by the next week.

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Lego astronaut saying awesome!

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Jonathan Boudreau

Been learning more about azure at work, setting up alerting and whatnot. On the side I've been writing Rust, specifically doing async Rust.

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

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Yordi Verkroost

I learned how to use Jekyll Collections. It helps me to separate specific series of content to their own place on my website.

dev.to/yordiverkroost/group-jekyll...

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Pam from The Office saying Nice!

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Syed Injamul

i am learning NativeScript

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Nick Taylor

Sounds like it would make for a great blog post.

Noice!

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Damian96

This week I learned React Native. It is amazing for a developer to learn a new framework, and the experience was great!

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Robert Redford nodding in a forest

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shadowtime2000

I learnt how to make an ESLint plugin with a processor, ESLint configs, and stylelint configs.

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TV personality saying Frickin' awesome!

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Médéric Burlet
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Awesome!

Hackerman from Kung Fury putting on a Nintendo Power glove

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Natalie Martin

I started learning how to use WebGL (I guess it's specifically WebGL2) to see if it would be a good fit for a project I'm working on!

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Nick Taylor

Awesome!

Hackerman from Kung Fury putting on a Nintendo Power glove

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sushil sarwade

this week i was trying to contribute to an open source project, so i got to learn docker, teehee

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Actor Zach Galifianakis giving a thumbs up in a convertible car

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Nash The Coder • Edited

I learned how to use Figma to design basic UI and now applying it.

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Nick Taylor

Awesome!

Loki holding KFC

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Vinicius Rio

I struggle to use phpmyadmin with Mariadb. Throw a error: Permission denied. But is fine.