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June 26th, 2020: 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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Nick Kasprzak

A lot of terminal stuff it seems.

I learned that instead of using > you can use >> to concat an output to a file.

For grep I learned a bunch of options like -v (ignore case), -A (lines after), -B (lines before), -o (get just the specific searched string) and this cool one -Eo '.{0,20}a href.{0,70}' to get the amount of chars before and after an occurrence of a string, 'a href' in that case.

Learned of a type of program called terminal notifier, which notifies you when a long task like compiling finally finishes. Though I couldn't figure out how to get that to work w/ my server I SSH into.

Learned about Insomnia, alternative to Postman.

This git command, git diff -U0 HEAD~1 , which will just show you the difference and no lines before like git diff usually does. Helpful for when I pipe for a change like git diff -U0 HEAD~1 | grep crm to see if I missed a search and replace.

Lastly how to find the top 5 directories , du -hs * | sort -rh | head -5. This helped me when my VM that I use for my staging Cassandra instance got full and nothing could connect anymore. I learned where Cassandra keeps the data on the disk, /var/lib/cassandra/data

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Nick Taylor

Awesome!

Hackerman from Kung Fury putting on a Nintendo Power glove

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Etienne Burdet

Realised that DE-NO is NO-DE reversed. Changed my life.

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Rohith Gilla • Edited

Did you mean :p

"node".split("").sort().join("")
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Nick Taylor

Bobby Moynahan character from SNL saying awesome!

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Doaa Mahely

I learned about linters and started setting up ESLint for one of my repos.

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Nick Taylor

Nice!

A kangaroo playing an electric guitar

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BenPearo

Great week for me! I set up pre commit hooks for linting and running tests for staged files, set up a Jenkins pipeline, and got docker compose running for my services. I want to write my first post/guide on one of them later this week

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Heiker

I learn how to add forms to an observable notebook (it's like a coding playground) and modify their behavior. I used them to make interactive examples in here: Using the Maybe type in js

This was last week but I'm still proud I figure out how to do it.

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Nick Taylor

Nice!

A kangaroo playing an electric guitar

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celyn

this week i learned how to block ip addresses in wordpress and implmented it on my site as well. It is an important security aspect which site owners sideline. Was required from security aspect on our blog .have also come up with a post here dev.to/celyn_davis/how-to-block-ip...

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Nick Taylor

Nice!

A kangaroo playing an electric guitar

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PremJeet • Edited

I made a visualisation of the clustering algo ${ baby-oopsy-daisy.github.io/sketche...
Give this a look, and the most important, you feedback
(Doesn't work in firefox mobile, if you know the reason please enlighten me)
✌️🧐

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Nick Taylor

Hot Rod saying Cool beans!

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Waylon Walker

actions/cache@v2

GitHub actions cache. My gatsby site now builds in about half the time, much of which is now installing node_modules and deploy.

REGEX

I got comfortable enough with a few regex commands to use it to filter data catalogs.

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Nick Taylor

GitHub actions cache be like

The Flash running

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Sdu

I finally learned how to use docker for local development. I always pushed this aside until I needed to use postresql which is a pain to setup locally on a linux environment. So I learned how to use

WSL + Docker + Docker compose

Local development has hit a whole new level for me

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Nick Taylor

Nice!

Nice

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basuradeluis

I learned how to use bookmarks and Mark All/find feature in Notepad++ to select lines that contains/not contains some string in a huge log file.
winhelponline.com/blog/remove-line...
Then, I remembered I could have used grep utility instead :-)

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jun

I learned about - that this simple js code
window.print();
you can print the screen 🔥

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Nick Taylor

Jet Ink printer printing

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Kelvin Liang

I finish one article writing about React Testing and start to explore the Static Site Generator - Gatsby.js's concepts and starting guide.

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Nick Taylor

Noice!

Noice!

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SamuelALSN

As newbies in React js , i've learned React imposible states error handling , React REDUCERS HOOKS and use of Third party library

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Nick Taylor

Stephen Colbert saying Awesome Sauce

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Raksha Kannusami

Learnt about Tree data structures. Diving into binary search trees. Will be publishing a devpost every Saturday.

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Nick Taylor

That's awesome! 🔥

Yes, that's awesome!

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Rohith Gilla

After long procrastination and constant notifications from Notion and TickTick, I finally started to learn TypeScript 🔥
Any paths or suggestions for me to learn it are always welcomed 🙌🏻
TypeScript
P.S: Any other typescript memes are always welcomed 🚀