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January 29th, 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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peter279k • Edited

I pass the RHCE (RedHat Certified Engineer) exam.

And now I'm familiar with the Ansible usage :).

And I can configure one YAML file to deploy multiple hosts :).

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Nick Taylor

Actor Leonardo DiCaprio as Gatsby doing a cheers

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Luke Westby

While doing some functional programming I learned that doing a foldl with map2 over a list of lists only constrains the length of the final list to the shortest length if the input is sorted by length first.

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Nick Taylor

Awesome!

Hackerman from Kung Fury putting on a Nintendo Power glove

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Dhruvin

I learnt how to cache the users scroll postion when you have to render long list of posts in angular, for better ux

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Nick Taylor

Yeah!

A T-Rex saying Yeah!

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BekahHW

I learned that there are some really cool things happening with deep learning and mental health treatment.

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Mirco

I read a couple of chapters from "Mindware" and learned a lot about how our mind works.

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Kirk and Bones nodding to each other in Star Trek

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Vicente G. Reyes

Learned how to build a facebook messenger chatbot in Hubspot for my site and my facebook page

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BB-8 giving a thumbs up

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Mohamed Edrah

Studying behavioral design patterns in node, this week I learned about the strategy, state machine, template constructors and middleware patters.

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Gym teacher from Glee saying amazing!

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Pranav Karawale

I learnt a lot about Promises which would help me in implementing a method by which I can dynamically import JS modules and cache them for later use.

PS. You just posted this on my birthday!

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Nick Taylor

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

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Mohammad Fazel

I'm finally launching my fav project have been working recently, it is built using vuejs and laravel. So excited about it.

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Nick Taylor

Stephen Colbert saying Awesome Sauce

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BekahHW

I just posted one of my resources here: virtualcoffee.io/monthlychallenges..., but I love listening to Dr. Eric Topal's podcast too: Medicine and the Machine.

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Nick Taylor

That's awesome! 🔥

Yes, that's awesome!