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October 30th, 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.

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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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Michael Tharrington

I learned how to use a sampler! Been making beats. 🎧

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Nick Taylor

Awesome!

Hackerman from Kung Fury putting on a Nintendo Power glove

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

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Lakshya Singh • Edited

I learnt a lot about telegram bots which I initially was deploying using vercel but now shifted to more powerful firebase cloud functions.

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Nick Taylor

Nice!

A kangaroo playing an electric guitar

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Tomas Sirio

I learned a lot of Github Actions and Shell bash (Yes I mixed both, don't @ me)

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Stephen Solka

Github actions are great!

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Nick Taylor

Processing data via an animated gif

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Hillary Nyakundi

In this week I focused more on python and improving my skills by creating projects I also learned some ReactJs, It was a great week

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Nick Taylor

That's awesome! 🔥

Yes, that's awesome!

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Tierney Santoro

I also worked on React this week! 🙌

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Hillary Nyakundi

what project were you working on? for me am trying to create a slack clone..

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Takunda Madechangu • Edited
  1. You should have enough sleep.
  2. You should beware or your feeling, thoughts and sensation otherwise it will spell trouble for you. Learn to control your emotions, feelings and thoughts
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Nick Taylor

It's True - Dwight Shrute

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Mark Roeling

AWS lambda, never used one before. Changed one of our lambda's to identify an image before ImageMagick converts it.

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Actor Leonardo DiCaprio as Gatsby doing a cheers

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Yash_Jaiswal

I felt like I was not made for programming so I'll be taking a week off.

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Nick Taylor • Edited

Don't count yourself out quite just yet. Enjoy the week off and come back with a fresh head.

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Akshit Garg

This week, I learnt a lot of ROS (robot operating system)! Enjoying it

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Tommy Boy saying That was awesome!

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Rohan Prabhu

Submitted 4 pull requests for Hacktoberfest 2020 in October.

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Prince Harry Saying Boom! while beside his grandmother, the queen

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TJ Johnson

How to extend a logical volume, nothing fancy

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Yeah!

A T-Rex saying Yeah!

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Dog slipping ice and sliding on their belly

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ProMikeCoder2020 • Edited

I learned some html tags, some JavaScript tricks(one of them lets you create range arrays in a shorter form which to be fair is only useful for clash of code short mode😂), the way automatic semicolon insertion in JavaScript work and the declare keyword in Typescript so I could use a package called react-media-hook which has no type declarations. The sad part of this story is that I discovered afterwards that a library that I was already using(material-ui) had this functionality with types😂

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Hot Rod saying Cool beans!

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Fulton Browne

I've been learning a lot about the discontinued but picked up by the community operating system called plan9. It was made by the same people who brought you C, unix, and later Go. the community maintained release is called 9front and they keep an archive of all the papers on cat-v.org

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A puppet Yeti clapping their hands saying congratulations

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jtdoria

I learned SPI and I2C protocols, SSH, how to run a script on linux at startup, and how to setup an EC2 on AWS, phew all for a headless raspberry pi project where I turned a mini arcade into a controller for a remote cat toy lol

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TV personality saying Frickin' awesome!