Nick Taylor

Posted on Jan 13, 2022

January 13th, 2022: What did you learn this week?

#weeklylearn #discuss #weeklyretro

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 the brain](https://media.giphy.com/media/ojmB7lOn3VUU8/giphy.gif)

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.

And remember, if something you learnt was a big win for you, then you know where to drop it as well.👇👇🏻👇🏼👇🏽👇🏾👇🏿

What was your win this week?

Gracie Gregory (she/her) for The DEV Team ・ Jan 14 '22

#discuss #weeklyretro

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Top comments (49)

K • Jan 13 '22

Remix, the new React framework on the block, does use surprisingly few hooks.

jzombie • Jan 13 '22

That is refreshingly good to hear.

I enjoy using hooks, and at the same time think they should be considered more "low level" as there are too many ways to do them wrong and have really bad performance.

Nick Taylor • Jan 14 '22

TIL!

Lakin Mohapatra • Jan 14 '22

Is it faster than traditional react ?

K • Jan 14 '22

Well, it's built on top of React, so it can't be faster.

But it seems to make some good decisions on when to render and download components.

Drew Ronsman • Jan 14 '22

Learning more about the firebase ecosystem and the products they have to offer for my application

🚩 Atul Prajapati 🇮🇳 • Jan 14 '22

That's great

Nick Taylor • Jan 14 '22

Stephen Belovarich • Jan 13 '22 • Edited

Corporations should probably start supporting open source maintainers monetarily.

I don't condone Marak's actions, but can't help empathize. Open source maintainers I follow looking for sponsors don't get the kind of support they deserve.

Nick Taylor • Jan 14 '22

Ben Halpern • Jan 14 '22

I learned a lot about SQL/Postgres queries this week since I've been diving into @jeremyf's brilliant Forem home feed code. Being tasked to run with this has forced me to fill in some gaps in my knowledge.

Nick Taylor • Jan 14 '22

Nice!

Matijs • Jan 14 '22

Today I learn that PHP is hard

XinuSys • Jan 14 '22

PHP was developed right at the dawn of dial-up Internet, back in the day where only ethernet cables transmitted server data. So yeah , it has chapters and chapters of literals , arrays, regexes and input evals!

Nick Taylor • Jan 14 '22

Learning something can take time and that’s OK.

Mukund Raghav Sharma (Moko) • Jan 15 '22

Created a console app creating a Garbage Collection report in C# diving into GLAD.
Learnt that while doing online demos, your client might crash unrelated to anything you could have done. Accept it, move on.
Refreshed my C knowledge:
- Double pointers
- Malloc / Free
- Pointer arithmetic
Learnt about the new C#9 feature
{get; init;}

from here.
What is Pinning in .NET from here.
You can get the Number of Heaps from the Microsoft-Windows-DotNETRuntime/GC/GlobalHeapHistory event under NumHeaps.

XinuSys • Jan 14 '22

This week , I learnt that it is quite important to organise little workshops and 'hackathons' for development teams ! Teams are diverse 🤓🤠👩‍🌾🤡👩‍🦳🙇‍♂️ , some stay motivated and thorough, others have too much going on in their lives.

People of all ages are getting into development , but many of them don't have the technical experience or the C.S. perspectives to fit into the really demanding jobs.

These really demanding jobs require more than mere competence : they challenge your problem-solving skills🔹️ and your capacity for collaboration🔻. Managers are always presenting progress reports to their boards and facing all kinds of objections ⚠️🟨🧱🧱🟥.

Various compromises will be made in order to deliver on schedule, and some months later users discover lots of random crickets 'n buggies! 🦗🐜☘🦗🌱

👉General courses are fine at the outset - however newbies still need to experience following schedules and adapting to new sorts of workflows (i.e. Summer of Code , issues raised with Github Repos).