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November 12th, 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.

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Mukund Raghav Sharma (Moko)

Oh, where do I begin.. Been a transformative week where I learnt / accomplished the following:

  1. Deployed my first React.js app on Firebase and wrote about it here
  2. Learnt and wrote about Async Programming Tips in Dotnet and wrote about it here
  3. Finished 90 days of consistent meditation 2x day for 20 minutes each of continued meditation and wrote about my learnings here
  4. Learnt about Pusher, a mechanism to get real time updates for your webapp and wrote about it here
  5. Started learning about the ways people lie with numbers and wrote about it here
  6. Merged 4 pull requests for a new project open source project called "realmon" that is responsible for presenting garbage collection based events for .NET. Majority of the PRs are mine and can be found here.
  7. Learnt how to do dotnet based Linux tracing and performance analysis based on this document.
  8. Learn a bunch about Github actions with the intention to contribute to the hackathon and started a repo here with examples.
  9. Learnt about the Kelly Criterion after attending a webinar by a friend of mine in the finance industry.

Phew.. that was fun! Here's to more productivity next week!! :)

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Hager gamal

ohhhh that alot but y can

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Nick Taylor

Nice! So just a few things. 😜

Nice

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Matthew Foley

Learned the value of the "s" flag in javascript regular expressions - came in handy for me in stripping HTML comments out of markdown content - github.com/mtfoley/pr-compliance-a...

Shout out to regex101.com for being invaluable!

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Nick Taylor

That's awesome! 🔥

Yes, that's awesome!

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Hager gamal

html i will complete it tomorrow and complete css can enyone speak with me to engourge each other

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Nick Taylor

Captain America saluting

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grendel

how WebRTC and STUN/TURN works

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Nick Taylor

Robert Redford nodding in a forest

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Kirk Shillingford

I learned about async generators in javascript

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Nick Taylor

Shia LeBoeuf in character saying Magic!

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Lucia Cerchie

I learned that Next Image components automatically come w lazy loading.

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Nick Taylor

Hot Rod saying Cool beans!

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Ayu Adiati • Edited

I learned more about accessibility.
How to manipulate some HTML with CSS rather than messing up its semantic structure.

I also learned about how to create dynamic attributes in JSX with React 😄

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Nick Taylor

Pam from The Office saying Nice!

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Ehtisham-sudo

I joined as a go language code tester. And i just tested few functions. I am looking forward to learn so much in upcoming week.