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August 20th, 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 remembered, if something you learnt was a big win for you, then you know where to drop it as well.👇👇🏻👇🏼👇🏽👇🏾👇🏿

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Dolamu Asipa

I learned the basics of HTML. I read that understanding the anatomy of HTML elements is very important to writing good code and that there are certain mistakes beginners sometime make, like not properly nesting elements and failing to add a closing tag.

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Nick Taylor

Jean-Luc Picard from Star Trek TNG saying Well done!

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Andrew Brown 🇨🇦

I learned that something like 5% of spend is on cloud, meaning that cloud computing is a bubble, and that by getting more people to move to the cloud will help reduce carbon-emissions since the cloud is more energy-efficient as well as freeing up more jobs out of busy IT work into new green-collar jobs

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Nick Taylor

Today I learned

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billy_dev

Hi, this week i got learn on the basics of using and creating APIs, there's no article yet but be free to check out my other articles here, Happy Learning!

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Nick Taylor

Nice!

A kangaroo playing an electric guitar

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Daniel P 🇨🇦

Shadow DOM and CSS definitions don't work how I assumed they do. CSS will leak into your component.

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Nick Taylor

Hot Rod saying Cool beans!

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bulle-dog

I learned about integration testing in .Net5, to consolidate my applications.