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October 14th, 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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Jason F

This week I learned about an awesome package called yalc which has helped make testing an npm package I'm writing a bit easier. Essentially what yalc does is creates a local repo for the npm package you're developing and allows you to "install" it in to another project on your machine. This is easier than trying to troubleshoot symlinks, or dealing with ng pack and .tgz files. I'll write an article on it here in the next few days.

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Nick Taylor

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K

Learned a bit more smart contract development.

One moment of insight was: HTTP-gateway providers (Cloudflare, QuickNode, etc) to access a blockchain from a browser are used when no wallet extension is available in the client.

I had the impression they're always used, which was false.

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Nick Taylor

TIL!

Today I learned

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K • Edited

Code that illuminated me:

   window.addEventListener("load", async () => {
      // Modern dapp browsers...
      if (window.ethereum) {
        const web3 = new Web3(window.ethereum)
        try {
          // Request account access if needed
          await window.ethereum.enable()
          // Acccounts now exposed
          resolve(web3)
        } catch (error) {
          reject(error)
        }
      }
      // Legacy dapp browsers...
      else if (window.web3) {
        // Use Mist/MetaMask's provider.
        const web3 = window.web3
        console.log("Injected web3 detected.")
        resolve(web3)
      }
      // Fallback to localhost; use dev console port by default...
      else {
        const provider = new Web3.providers.HttpProvider(
          "localhost:8545"
        )
        const web3 = new Web3(provider)
        console.log("No web3 instance injected, using Local web3.")
        resolve(web3)
      }
    })
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In that case a local gateway is used, probably either for development purposes, or even a wallet that starts such a gateway server locally, but doesn't directly connect with the browser via an extension (like in the first case).

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Amrin

Last week i planned to build my blog in MERN stack.
Things i learned is
1. make the scope of the project as much as you can handle.
2. start bulding as first as possible.
3. don't waste time watching video courses :)

the resoult i got is a blog backend in in node js. couldn't learn React so used ejs to write the html :)

I gotta write an TIL article too LOL :)

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Nick Taylor

Chow Yun-fat giving a thumbs up

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Keff

I learned that people confuse opinions with facts.

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Nick Taylor

Loki holding KFC

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Keff

great reaction, keep your distance lol!!!

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Goran Kortjie

I learned about the many database services out there, SQL, MySQL, MariaDB, Cassandra, PostgreSQL etc...and there different use cases. Finally seeing how important it is to design your database structure and the importance of choosing the correct database service.

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Nick Taylor

Nice!

A kangaroo playing an electric guitar

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Maddy

This week I've learned about:

  1. Api-testing.
  2. Search Engine Optimization (for content writing).
  3. Found out about 429 status code (I accidentally came across this error when testing an endpoint on Postman 😆).
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Nick Taylor

Bobby Moynahan character from SNL saying awesome!

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Ben Halpern

I learned a little bit about parsing Rails erb files when putting this PR together.

Add bin script to find untranslated text in erb files #15072

What type of PR is this? (check all applicable)

  • [x] Dev tool

Description

In hunting down all text that needs translation, I thought this tool might help!

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Related Tickets & Documents

github.com/forem/forem/issues/14888

If we merge this, I'll add this to the issue, and socialize this to the contributor community. From a documentation perspective, this seems most relevant because this will be most useful during this stage in the project.

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Nick Taylor

Nice!

Actor from Game of Thrones saying Nice!

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Greaby

This week I learned how to use Github actions to automaticaly update my latest blog posts using gautamkrishnar/blog-post-workflow

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Nick Taylor

A puppet Yeti clapping their hands saying congratulations

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Hrishi Mittal

I started doing the CryptoZombies course to learn Solidity. It's quite fun!

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Lucia Cerchie

my co-worker taught me another way to hack alpinejs to make an easy "form"!

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Nick Taylor

Stephen Colbert saying Awesome Sauce