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November 5th, 2020: What did you learn this week?

Nick Taylor on November 06, 2020

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. ![It’s time ...
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Robin Kretzschmar

This week I learned that when writing requirements for other developers, I need to consider the experience level of all people on the team and describe everything as detailed as possible to make it clear to everyone.

Things that are implicit for me are certainly not for junior devs - I need to keep that in mind :)

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Nick Taylor

It's True - Dwight Shrute

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Tomas Sirio

This is extremely important. Focus on specification while the devs focus on the implementation

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Pavol Pidanič

Few minutes ago I learned how simple was to configure multiple containers networks in docker-compose. I needed a web server and redis to communicate each other. I wasn't able to figure it out many months and it will really speed my development

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Nick Taylor

Nice!

Nice

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Ridhik Govind

This week I learned about how to set up Firebase Authentication and use Firebase Firestore to store data using both Vanilla JavaScript as well as React !

Although, it was a little overwhelming to understand how some Firebase functions worked, I was patient enough to go through the docs multiple times and understand them. :-)

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Amy Poehler being cool

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Meat Boy

Buffers and streams :)

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Processing data via an animated gif

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🚩 Atul Prajapati 🇮🇳
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Bobby Moynahan character from SNL saying awesome!

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🚩 Atul Prajapati 🇮🇳

Thanks a lot :)

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Narendra Kumar Vadapalli

My website was down and after redeploying it on AWS Amplify, any url pasted was getting redirected to home page. Learned to debug this by removing the redirect rules

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Kylo Ren on Undercover Boss giving a thumbs up

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Jesse M. Holmes • Edited

I learned that Lerna's most crucial command isn't so crucial after all.

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Tomas Sirio

I learned a little bit about ARM programming. I learned a bit of x86_64 in college so the next big step was ARM for me

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Nick Taylor

Awesome!

Hackerman from Kung Fury putting on a Nintendo Power glove

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Hillary Nyakundi

This week I was able to start on a react project, and the project is just amazing😊

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Nick Taylor

Yeah!

A T-Rex saying Yeah!

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Captain America saluting

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Freddy Montes

I learned how to set up lights, mic and stream from a DSLR camera.

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

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Bevis

This week I have learn and wrote a high performance UI gesture component for react native, with nice design.

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Nick Taylor

Blazingly fast?

Quicksilver from X-Men running

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Vaibhav Khulbe

Got to know some new styled-components features. 🔥

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Nick Taylor

That's awesome! 🔥

Yes, that's awesome!

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Andrew Brown 🇨🇦

How to run Rails on AWS Lambdas:

lamby.custominktech.com/

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Gym teacher from Glee saying amazing!

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Ivo Ico e Silva

Started a great project on forms. Not really learning, more of reviewing the topic. Through reading and writing code. Great stuff, my passion for coding grows stronger everyday.

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Nick Taylor

Nice!

Actor from Game of Thrones saying Nice!

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Nice!

A kangaroo playing an electric guitar