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May 1st, 2020: What did you learn this week?

It's that time of the week again, just a day early. I'm off tomorrow and Monday so posting this now.

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

![Justin Timberlake saying it's just May](https://media.giphy.com/media/l3V0zeekyJuwYOE0M/giphy.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.👇👇🏻👇🏼👇🏽👇🏾👇🏿

![Johnny Rose from Shitt's Creek giving a power high five](https://media.giphy.com/media/4QFAH0qZ0LQnIwVYKT/giphy.gif)

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Matteo Bruni

This week I learned something about noise generation to create something like this

I learned and implemented quad tree instead of spatial hashing but I still don't know what algorithm has the best performance.

I learned about canvas and retina/HiDPI screen, not from zero but I improved my knowledge.

I created other cool feature for particles, not really new things learned, but at least it was the first time for me to do these things

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Nick Taylor • Edited

Borat saying "Great Success!"

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Vaibhav Khulbe

I started this GCP course on Coursera and I learned a lot about the massive set of features it provides for cloud computing. I definitely think we as web developers should also have at-least basic cloud computing skills. 💯

Also, implemented some React Router stuff for an app and wrote an article about it:

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Nick Taylor

Noice!

Noice!

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Vaibhav Khulbe

I like this GIF 😂😂

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Nate Shoemaker

Distributed Elixir isn't as hard as I thought 😇

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Nick Taylor

Sounds like it would make a great post! I know nothing about Elixir aside from it has a really cool name.😎

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Nate Shoemaker

Haha! I got some posts cookin' :) Definitely do yourself a favor and watch this youtube.com/watch?v=JvBT4XBdoUE

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Davide de Paolis

I dived deeper in Database Modeling and different approaches available for DynamoDB

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Nick Taylor

That's awesome! 🔥

Yes, that's awesome!

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pipe2path

I submitted my Twilio hackathon project called GroceryAssist, a web app for citizens helping other citizens during the pandemic.

It was a great learning experience and had a blast working on it.

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Chow Yun-fat giving a thumbs up

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Nick Taylor • Edited

Nice!

Guitars and more guitars being played