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.
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.
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Totally non-dev related, but I learned that the web app for Instagram doesn’t yet have Reels.
As someone who has increasingly been doomscrolling these videos but not willing to give up on IG completely, this has been a game changer! I’ve uninstalled the app and replaced it with an iOS shortcut to the web app.
I learned the lyrics to "Scar Tissue" by the Red Hot Chili Peppers. 🌶
Been singing it all week much to my wife's dismay, haha!
I've been working on a programming video game for a few weeks now. This week I realized that I am not that passionate about the game dev side of things, but really enjoy working on the developer experience. Things like designing the API, writing documentation, creating examples, automating tasks, ...
On one hand I really appreciate the insight, but it does make me wonder how I should proceed with the project. 😅
This is my second week at a new job and I've picked up some newbie Docker things! I haven't been assigned a proper project yet (and have a ways to go until that's a thing - the ecosystem is massive) but skilling up is rad.
I also learned how to play Gaslands, which isn't dev related but super fun.
Nice!
I learned that a problem I have been thinking about for the last six months can probably solved using Event Sourcing:
martinfowler.com/eaaDev/EventSourc...
The problem is to synchronize a global state in an IOT system with very unreliable connections.
That's awesome! 🔥
I started working with Plotly.js: I really like this library!
I created my first ever Chrome extension, although a basic one but gave me a spark to keep up with something creative...
Awesome!
I learned how a key-value pair is represented in json, and how to deserialize it to C# (spoiler: it's a Dictionary)
Nice!
I learned that I’m definitely not ready to work at Amazon, but it was a good interview experience, anyway.