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November 12th, 2021: What did you learn this week?

Nick Taylor on November 12, 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. ![Image of t...

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Mukund Raghav Sharma (Moko) • Nov 12 '21

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

Deployed my first React.js app on Firebase and wrote about it here
Learnt and wrote about Async Programming Tips in Dotnet and wrote about it here
Finished 90 days of consistent meditation 2x day for 20 minutes each of continued meditation and wrote about my learnings here
Learnt about Pusher, a mechanism to get real time updates for your webapp and wrote about it here
Started learning about the ways people lie with numbers and wrote about it here
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.
Learnt how to do dotnet based Linux tracing and performance analysis based on this document.
Learn a bunch about Github actions with the intention to contribute to the hackathon and started a repo here with examples.
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!! :)

Hager gamal • Nov 12 '21

ohhhh that alot but y can

Nick Taylor • Nov 12 '21

Nice! So just a few things. 😜

Matthew Foley • Nov 12 '21

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!