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June 5th, 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.

![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.👇👇🏻👇🏼👇🏽👇🏾👇🏿

![Big win. Danny Devito walking away from a huge explosion](https://media.giphy.com/media/U6pavBhRsbNbPzrwWg/giphy-downsized-large.gif)

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Chris

I'm a student at lambda schools. I just started this week with HTML, css, and Flexbox. The biggest take aways from this week are responsive HTML, mastering Flexbox, and centering elements with margin/padding control. It was a really good week and I'm even more excited to see what next week with JavaScript will unfold. Check out this portfolio site hosted on netlify I made yesterday. I'd say pretty good for a newb in one day. Comments are very much appreciated
coleman-wk1-mod4-project.netlify.app/

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peter279k

I've learned about RedHat Enterprise Linux system administration and take the EX 200 exam on this Friday :).

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Vaibhav Khulbe

Goodluck!

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Nick Taylor

Good luck!

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peter279k • Edited

Finally, I passed the EX 200 exam :-)!
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Arman Khan

Congratulations 🎊

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Dmitry Maksyoma

I've learned a quite surprising and obvious thing that our lives are shaped by pain and pleasure. And the best procrastination advice I've ever had:

  • Write down the pain I'm avoiding
  • Write down the pleasures I'm getting by avoiding
  • What it costs me to continue putting it off
  • What pleasures will I get by doing it

From the book Awaken the Giant Within.

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Vaibhav Khulbe

I learnt there are some bad accounts or maybe bots which can disturb your (public) repo on GitHub. One such issue from an account was:

"Hi sir how ryou". Exactly the same words. 🤦‍♂️

Lesson: REPORT or block those. Or maybe make an Action? 👀

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Nick Taylor

I feel like there must be some spam prevention bots that exist, but maybe not. Could be a side project then. 😉

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Vaibhav Khulbe

Yes, defintely. I was thinking of the same.

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Mike Talbot ⭐

I built my first React Native app :) (and shortly after released my first library that works on React Native)

Ok the app doesn't do much, but woo, now I get the differences to the browser version!

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Nick Taylor

Awesome!

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Eka

A couple of things, but the most recent is:

When you have fs-extra installed, you don't need to import mkdirp anymore.

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Timotej Avsec

I finally figured out how Gitlab CI/CD and AWS work together :) . Might not sound like big of a deal, but I'm super happy about it.

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Nick Taylor

Nice!

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Shannon Crabill

I couldn't sleep last night/this morning so I read half of the Pocket Guide to Writing SVG. I have not dabbled with SVGs much, but I am very interested now.

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Nick Taylor

Chow Yun-fat giving a thumbs up

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Nishant Mittal

I learnt about graphql queries, async await vs promise and made some plugins for vue and gridsome. 😃

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Nick Taylor

Borat saying Great Success!

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Emilie Ma

Been reading up on some algorithms - Khan Academy is a great source!

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Nick Taylor

That's awesome! 🔥

Yes, that's awesome!