April 9th, 2021: What did you learn this week?

Recently, while working on one of my tasks to process a very large AWS S3 file, I came across this really good AWS S3 select feature. This helped me accomplish my task and decided to share my learnings with the community 😁

Hope the community finds it an interesting read 🙏

Efficiently Streaming a Large AWS S3 File via S3 Select

Idris Rampurawala ・ Apr 6 ・ 6 min read

#aws #python #showdev #datascience

vim has an easy mode. You enable it by using -y flag, like this vim -y. Is kinda cool, it makes it behave like a regular "click-and-type" text editor. In this mode regular shortcuts work as expected, ctrl + s for save, ctrl + c for copy, ctrl + v paste, ctrl + z to undo, ctrl + y redo.

The downside (and the reason nobody makes a big deal about it) is that is was designed to be used inside a GUI, so no shortcut to quit. You need to close whatever graphical interface vim is in.

Not all is lost, I think it provides a nice base to use vim for quick edits. For the people who will never use vim on purpose, I will recommend creating a .vimrc on their home folder with this content.

" Enable 'easy mode'
source $VIMRUNTIME/evim.vim

"  Ctrl + q to Quit vim
inoremap <c-q> <c-o>:q<cr>

This will create a ctrl + q shortcut to quit. You could also replace (or add) <Esc> as a shortcut to quit.

This way even if you enter vim by accident it will behave somewhat like a "normal" text editor.

I learned state management in React, useState to be specific.

I learned that ruby ships with a .gdbinit file in the source repo, that permits inspecting the class/objects in the internals, basically handling the unpacking of the tagged ids for you, and saving the results as history items.

Of course I learned that after searching a few locations for "how to debug ruby" and finding a mix of snippets, most attributing a blog that's been offline for a year or two as the source, and a lot of two paragraph "here's how to start gdb" tutorials.

Kind of handy to have the tooling to debug the vm ship with the language sources!

I learned how to use GitHub's Scientist gem, and ran my first experiment on a weird trick for (sort of) speeding up ORDER BY.

dev.to/cassidycodes/one-weird-tric...

I learned something yesterday which for me was a pretty "weird" discovery:

If you use CSS Flex and you want to (for example) right-align one particular item (while leaving the rest "default"), then guess what you can use ... "margin-left: auto"!

Pretty surprising, to me at least. More info here:

dev.to/samanthaming/flexbox-aligni...

Well so that wasn't what I expected really, I was looking for something like "align-self" or "justify-self" or whatever ...

Speaking of which - I can never remember which is which ("align-items" or "justify-content"), and I finally came across a way to somewhat easily remember which is which:

css-tricks.com/a-quick-way-to-reme...

Today I have learned about the CSS position and shared it with our community

Learn CSS positions with Elon Musk

Atul Prajapati ・ Apr 9 ・ 4 min read

#css #todayilearned #tutorial #beginners

I used the !! operator for the first time. I used it in a ternary and it looks something like this:

const myValue = !!thing.val ? thing.val : '';

Today I started using Snowpack. I'm seeing really fast build times for React applications with it - even on a creaky old laptop adding a new Tailwind class is basically instantaneous.

This week I learned about React Hook, more about reference and reference forwarding in React.