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Jan. 8th, 2021: What did you learn this week?

It's that time of the week again folks for the first time in 2021. Last week was time off for me.

Check out last year’s series of “What did you learn this week?”

So wonderful devs, what did you learn this week? It could be programming tips, career advice etc.

![Deadpool and his cohorts chatting](https://media.giphy.com/media/w7fJO4TOqiaSQ/giphy-downsized-large.gif)

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.👇👇🏻👇🏼👇🏽👇🏾👇🏿

![Price is Right contestant celebrating](https://media.giphy.com/media/gF29UEqBhSoDY8LHKg/giphy.gif)

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tq-bit • Edited

Figured how to send texts with Telegram bots over Node.js (pings me the cheapest 5 macbooks for german ebay everyday)

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Nick Taylor

Hot Rod saying Cool beans!

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Lakshya Singh

is there any specific api that you are using?

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tq-bit

I'm using node-telegram-bot-api to do the communication part. You could also do that stuff manually, or even setup your own local bot api, see here: core.telegram.org/bots/api

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Nick Taylor

Pam from The Office saying Nice!

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E.R. Nurwijayadi

Go, C#, F#, Julia.

🕷 epsi.bitbucket.io/lambda/2020/11/1...

Julia - Function Composition

Today I wrote the second part of Go.
Two days ago, C# part two.
Four Days ago. F# part two.
Six Days ago. Julia part two.

Tonight I'm going to write the third part of Go.

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Nick Taylor

Stephen Colbert saying Awesome Sauce

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Sundeep

Went through cli options for Python interactive shell (see docs.python.org/3/using/cmdline.html) and started using two of them:

-q : don't print version and copyright messages on interactive startup

-O : remove assert and __debug__-dependent statements; add .opt-1 before .pyc extension; also PYTHONOPTIMIZE=x

Also, idle3.9 -d will open IDLE with debugger enabled.

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Nick Taylor

Bobby Moynahan character from SNL saying awesome!

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Jesse M. Holmes

Rollup doesn't really agree with { composite: true } yet.
ts-loader has { projectReferences: true }, and it works.
Webpack 5 still doesn't support ESM out of the box.
node-sass 5 hasn't made great friends with create-react-app.
SnowPack is fast.
Folks are beginning to consider Deno as a target when compiling libraries.
A single hair tie can stop a large basin from draining properly, allowing my basement to fill up with the better part of 90 gallons of nasty turtle water in about two minutes.

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Nick Taylor

Processing data via an animated gif

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Vicente G. Reyes
  1. I learned Twilio Studio this week
  2. If learning is realizing that there are advantages and disadvantages on tech stacks, then I learned that too.
  3. Learned 2 colors that go well with brown 😄

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Nick Taylor

Nice!

A kangaroo playing an electric guitar

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devhe4d

this week was a busy week for me.
I learned how to develop add-ons for Jira Cloud with React
Installed Notion and customize some templates for my use cases.
Installed WSL2 on my windows machine and then installed zsh with oh-my-zsh and configure them.
it was quite fun 😅

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Nick Taylor

Actor Zach Galifianakis giving a thumbs up in a convertible car

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Benjamin La Madrid

It was hands-on-Linux-superuser week for me
I learned to remain calm while working at 10fps on a triple-layered remote desktop connection to a Red Hat server in order to retrieve several logs. I had the chance to review and reinforce my knowledge on Bash stuff like pipes and commands (for example, I did not remember that grep accepts regex, unlike cp).
Also, I learned a simple yet useful linux command to switch from cli to gui when using my Debian machine; startx. Before I'd run systemctl start lightdm but that was easy to forget.

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Nick Taylor

Awesome!

Hackerman from Kung Fury putting on a Nintendo Power glove

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Debra-Kaye Elliott

I’m here for the Deadpool meme 🙃.

Seriously though, I’d say this week I finally have a better understanding of CSS property, value and declaration.

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Nick Taylor

Noice!

Noice!

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Al Nahian • Edited

I learned a few new concepts of front-end-development by completing some challenges from [FrontEndMentor.io].

I've learned this week:
• Writing HTML using The Semantic Elements.
• Advanced CSS Grid, Flexbox
• Advanced JavaScript DOM Manipulation

I also got some good ideas about API, JSON, HOOKS this week.

happy_coding

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Rishab Kumar

Just started preparing for my Google Cloud exam, so a lot of GCP this week!

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Nick Taylor

Nice!

Nice

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Rishab Kumar

Also, forgot that I worked on the DO APP Platform Hackathon, which was fun!

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official_dulin

New CSS function env()

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Nick Taylor

Nice!

A kangaroo playing an electric guitar

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SJellen

Next.js and framer-motion

I love both.

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Nick Taylor

That's awesome! 🔥

Yes, that's awesome!

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slidedish

Flask and MongoDB

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BB-8 giving a thumbs up

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