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What are you learning about this weekend? 🧠

Hey hey hey!

Hope you're having a nice relaxing weekend. If you're spending some of that time learning something new, tell us about it!

Whether you're sharpening your JS skills, making PRs to your OSS repo of choice 😉, sprucing up your portfolio, or writing a new post here on DEV, we'd like to hear about it.

Learn some, chill some, eat some, sleep some, repeat. 😀

A cheesy 90's looking graphic with the words "Today I learned" as a cartoon star flys across the screen and settles at the end of the phraser.

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Alex Lohr

I just started my new job at @crabnebuladev this week (super happy about it) and I am going to learn some things about tauri-2.0 and cargo-packager. Maybe I'll start to extend the latter with additional linux package formats for a bit of a warm-up.

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Mohammed • Edited

Simulating hair physics in pixel art games.

This is the original sprite:

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This abomination is the first attempt at simulating hair (the red outline defines the characters head):

youtu.be/ZdALaMPGfEY

This was a great idea, definitely not overengineered at all.

(Thinks) But what if we used a quadtree to find the right hair strand?

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Sukhpinder Singh

I am currently managing the README files of GitHub repositories to enhance user engagement. Github Profile

Here are some of the documentation I have done so far

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Schalk Neethling

Nice, you might also find this helpful - github.com/schalkneethling/qilin-o...

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Sukhpinder Singh

Thanks @schalkneethling that's a great template to start with. Appreciate it.

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Schalk Neethling

I am glad it looks like it will be helpful. Feel free to contribute if you find something that is missing.

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Stefan Moore • Edited

We will see what pops up over the weekend. The main goal is to visit water holes and rate their Long Island Iced Teas. If that doesn't work out, learn about Terraform or Docker.

@michaeltharrington so what are you learning about this weekend?

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Schalk Neethling

That sounds like a solid plan. 🍹

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Stefan Moore

I believe it is as well. Plans like that require a study group.

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Cipi

I'll be getting into the CI/CD pipeline with Github actions and Docker on Arch Linux. I appreciate any helpful resources. Happy weekend everyone!

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Lev Nahar

GH Actions are great and relatively straight-forward from my experience (compared to other solutions). Good luck!

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Cipi

Thanks! Good luck to you as well. Your project sounds very interesting.

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Schalk Neethling

Check out this project for help with debugging workflows and actions locally - github.com/nektos/act

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Cipi

Thanks a lot! Definitly going to check it out.

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Monty Harper

Working with SwiftData.

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Ahana Sharma

I'm thrilled for the weekend ahead as I'm diving into a data science course in Noida! It's an incredible opportunity to elevate my skills and explore fascinating topics in the field. I can't wait to immerse myself in the world of data science and unlock new insights that will propel my career forward.

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Lev Nahar

How to compile C programs to run on a very specific and niche SDR, to try and detect drones and their host’s location in real-time.

Wish me luck because I will most definitely need it 🥲

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Schalk Neethling

You got this!

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Athreya aka Maneshwar • Edited

Learning a few Load Balancing techniques in OCPP RPC for EV chargers.

Implemented Load Balancing for a particular place so that the owner of the place will not be billed for higher prices.

Pretty good problems, and fun to solve.

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Schalk Neethling

I am going to dig into the Practical Accessibility course from Sara Soueidan.

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I am revising python. As i want to become AI engineer, i will learn all the concepts and tech stack which makes me the best ai engineer.

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Zack Grooms

Hey, Micheal, I hope your weekend goes well, too. I will work on my portfolio this weekend and relax with the family. What are your plans?

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Riccardo Basile

I'm surfing React (from a couple of weeks)..never liked it and I feel it not so "straight", a lots of traps.
But, I want to give it a chance, just to understand if it's me or... ;)

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Anita Olsen*°•.¸☆ • Edited

I have sat my first ever goal and I am on my first ever personal learning path with W3Schools! I believe it will do me good to refresh my knowledge of HTML and eventually, CSS! Perhaps I will also learn something new while at it! ✨
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Else I will be busy learning Python on CodeCombat! ✨
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I am also making changes to my personal start page which I coded from scratch 😊 ✨
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Mike Stemle

I've been learning Qml so that I can help out with some KDE tasks. It's been an unusual tech to learn, it's kinda like React for Qt with some easy paths to incorporate C++ code. It's novel and I'm having a good time, though.