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May 6th, 2021: What did you learn this week?

Nick Taylor on May 07, 2021

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. ![Informatio...
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Heiker

I learned about vim's package feature , which apparently is how one should handle 3rd party plugins. Lucky for me my current setup works perfectly with this feature. The sad part is that installing and updating packages is not on the scope of this feature, so I for one still need a plugin manager to handle that stuff.

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Nick Taylor

Croc mascot nodding

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Dana Ottaviani

I'm slowly organizing my inbox following Don’t drown in email! How to use Gmail more efficiently. I'm hoping I'll be less overwhelmed whenever I check my mail.

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Nick Taylor

Hot Rod saying Cool beans!

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Jason F

I learned how to cluster pins in mapbox. I also somehow figured out how to use mapbox's esoteric "step expressions" to set the size and color of my cluster depending on cluster count. The last three weeks of my life at work have been very mapbox centric.

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Nick Taylor

That's awesome! 🔥

Yes, that's awesome!

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Lucas Pacheco

I remember that Distinct<>() Linq's method on C# looks for the reference and not value in a code review :)

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Lucas Pacheco

Also learnt to use Task.WaitAll and Task.WhenAll with C#

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Nick Taylor

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

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Ayu Adiati

I started to take a peek (again, after months) at Vue this week. And I like it so far 😃

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Nick Taylor

Amy Poehler being cool

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Jan Peterka

I am adding Hotwire/Turbo to my Flask app (using turbo-flask, and it's a delight.

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Nick Taylor

Nice!

Nice

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Lea Rosema (she/her)

I learned about creating viewMatrices and projectionMatrices and using them in Vanilla WebGL :)

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Nick Taylor

Awesome!

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