Nick Taylor

Posted on Jan 31, 2020

Jan. 31, 2020: What did you learn this week?

#weeklylearn #discuss #weeklyretro

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.

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

What was your win this week?

Jess Lee ・ Jan 31 '20

#discuss #weeklyretro

Latest comments (29)

Naveed Ahmed • Feb 6 '20

I am working on self-development

what i have learned so far the last week

Be a good listener trying to improve my listening skills
Be proactive in discussions
Must have clarity of the tasks before committing the timeline.
Improved bit decision making in technical things ( by Reading a lot of practical use cases, scenarios, test cases, white papers, best practices )
studied 30 articles including technical and nontechnical ( for self-development)
Helped my colleague when he was stuck in Linux related task
Saving a lot of time by planning each and everything instead of wasting time without planning for a whole week.
I just got to know the maximum limit of reading books/technical articles Articles 10 per day, 15 pages/day.
Just got to know that there is a weekly thread for What was Your win this week and will follow this weekly

Sumit Kharche • Feb 2 '20

This week I have published one article on dev.to which you can see here.

Different ways to Create Refs in React

Sumit Kharche ・ Feb 1 ・ 4 min read

#react #webdev #javascript #beginners

Also, learn about different deployment modes in .NET Core.

Mohammadjavad Raadi • Feb 1 '20

If you're running a server that's running port mapper service and is listening on port 111(Proxmox by default), make sure you won't expose it to the public internet. Your server may be exploited and used in large DDoS attacks.

Juan F Gonzalez • Jan 31 '20

I learned how to create pages on Next.js based on metadata and edit a template page (written in handlebars) to autogenerate pages with the info I want them to have. Also messing around with the

Calvin • Jan 31 '20

I learned more about Angular and CSS. We are in an ocean of software and it's amazing.

kenneth okenwa • Jan 31 '20

This is cool

AxelleDRouge • Jan 31 '20

I learned React.Context. It goes beautifully with React Hooks, and make a nice React Leaflet GIS app.

Ben Lovy • Jan 31 '20

You can build docker containers FROM scratch!

kenneth okenwa • Jan 31 '20

Did you?

Ben Lovy • Jan 31 '20 • Edited

Yep! Granted, it's straightforward when your whole application can compile to a single statically-linked binary. I just didn't even know this was an option.

Eddie Hale • Jan 31 '20

With the help of our security team we deployed a Kubernetes service account that inherits access from an AWS IAM role. Instead of using static access/secret keys deployed to our secrets store we're able to allow temporary access to AWS resources.