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August 13th, 2021: 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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YJDoc2 • Edited

I started reading 'crafting interpreters' and learnt a lot about parsers, interpreters, bytecode and vms. It is a really great read, and having fun reading it :)
For anyone interested, the author has made the whole book available for free in web version.

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Nick Taylor

Awesome!

Hackerman from Kung Fury putting on a Nintendo Power glove

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Alexander Halemba

I learnd how to embedded highlighting for an new language (AQL) to an existing laguages to VSCode.

I never used >Developer: Inspect Editor Tokens and Scopes or heard about (?<!-) and (?=-) before 🤯

github.com/Alexander89/actyx-vscod...

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Nick Taylor

BB-8 giving a thumbs up

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jzombie • Edited

I learned that GitHub CodeSpaces (online VS Code editor) can be used on any GitHub repository, simply by pressing the period (.) key when viewing a repository's directory.

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Nick Taylor

As far as I know, it only opens in editor mode, not CodeSpaces. twitter.com/github/status/14255058...

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jzombie

Thanks for confirming that. The editor is still pretty cool though.

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Nicky Meuleman

How the sieve of Eratosthenes works, how to optimize it, and how to code it.
So I wrote about it dev.to/nickymeuleman/the-sieve-of-...

And on my personal blog, where it's adapted from, I wrote a codeblock component that can support multiple languages!

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Nick Taylor

Kylo Ren on Undercover Boss giving a thumbs up

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Nicky Meuleman

I aspire to one day have a fraction of your gif-chops

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Andrew Brown 🇨🇦 • Edited

I learned that 70% of all carbon emissions are generated by 100 companies (its all coal, oil and gas companies).

That being net-zero carbon emissions is not enough, and having a goal of net-zero set out by 120 countries by 2050 is stupid because we have to be there much earlier.

That we cannot rely on technical salvation and that curbing the efforts reducing emissions today.

That understand climate change has been up to this point to been organized in a digestable manner so us technical folk can quickly adopt climate knowledge, and start applying technical solutions or applying pressure to where its best needed

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Nick Taylor

Dog slipping ice and sliding on their belly

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Heiker

I gathered enough knowledge about lua to finally try out Awesome (the window manager). I made a theme that looks really nice.

desktop screenshot. Simple desktop showing a terminal window, a file manager and a calendar widget

In the process I found out lxsession can be used to fill some of the features that window manager don't handle. It's part of the LXDE desktop environment but I think is a standalone module. The main use case for me is the autostart features, to enable some background services. It has a policykit daemon, and also a "logout menu", and some others stuff. It's cool.

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Nick Taylor

Croc mascot nodding

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Fyodor

I have learnt how to roll out a local build of Forem and work with it (to start contributing to DEV)

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Nick Taylor

That's awesome! 🔥

Yes, that's awesome!

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Tareq Monwer

I learned writing Clean Code from Uncle Bob. It's a life-changing book!

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Nick Taylor

Nice!

Nice

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Lucia Cerchie

reading the GQL spec and learning the details on how the runtime parses and serializes!

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Nick Taylor

Amy Poehler being cool

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duccanhole

i'm learning nodejs and npm, its so fun and has many things to discover