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December 16th, 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.

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Michael Tharrington

Not programming, but I started learning to play the song "Blue Christmas" by Elvis. 🎄

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Nick Taylor

Nice!

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XinuSys

I learnt about the importance of extensive testing of new and existing (open-source) projects . I didn't realise that various malicious users are quite keen about exploiting code vulnerabilities.

I now understand the views of professionals who insist on additional layers of security . For instance , in this article which contains recent reports ---> makeuseof.com/why-cyberattacks-sur...

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Nick Taylor

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

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kao

Learned to setting up: webpack, tailwind, typescript. I also I learned to create react from scratch using webpack. Now i am trying to integrate all of them together. I am hopeing that I can get my first job when i apply these technologies.

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Nick Taylor

Nice!

Nice

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K

Played a bit with the Rust game engine "Bevy".

Haven't seen such a good piece of software engineering for a long time.

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Nick Taylor

Nice!

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mznaim

Learned unit testing with jest.

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Nick Taylor

Awesome!

Hackerman from Kung Fury putting on a Nintendo Power glove

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Sameer

I learned, how not be an a**, when you lead teams! hhaha