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September 24th, 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.

![Claymation owl teacher helping a student owl](https://media.giphy.com/media/3ohzdU2IVgD2goFS3S/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.👇👇🏻👇🏼👇🏽👇🏾👇🏿

Winning!

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Cole Walker

You can chain assignment operators in JS.

w = z = x = y 

This means you can also do horrible things like:

w +=y *= x -= z
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Rafi

Not related to tech. Simple "thank you" can really make a big difference than you think.

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Nick Taylor

Captain America saluting

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Jorge Catriel Lopez

Not programming related, I've been studying for my finals exams next week. Lots about DB management and OS design!

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Nick Taylor

Processing data via an animated gif

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Heiker

I'm learning about fish shell.

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Nick Taylor

Dori saying “just keep swimming” in the movie Finding Nemo

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Ronaldo Hoch

I learn that angular has a validator to input checkbox to valid if it's true.

Eg: "aceptTerms":[false,Validators.requiredTrue]

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Nick Taylor

Bobby Moynahan character from SNL saying awesome!

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Fadhli890

nothing

because I'm too lazy

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Nick Taylor

Chow Yun-fat giving a thumbs up

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Jason F

I learned about the interval operator in rxjs. I started working on a personal project that shows current crypto currency prices. Fun stuff!

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Nick Taylor

Lego astronaut saying awesome!

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Harsh Shandilya

Learnt that no matter how hard I pretend to have infinite capacity, I don't. Investing in getting everything to stop being overwhelming :)

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Nick Taylor

It's True - Dwight Shrute

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Phippsy

Finally cracked open Svelte. Very impressed.

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Corey Alix

Same... incredible tool.

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Nick Taylor

Nice!

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