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.
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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By default,
bashhashes the location of executables you call the first time you run them. This means that if you place a different version with the same name at some location in your$PATHeven with higher precedence, you'll still get the first one by default. You can toggle this off withset +h.TIL!
I learnt to deal with CJS vs ESM, and migrating from CJS to ESM. And also about vite plugins, roll-up build configuration and something more.
dev.to/naveennamani/using-vite-plu...
Saaaass ! đ
For my next project on my training, I need to create a simple website on mobile first with SASS.
Look in to how Sass mixins might be able to help you out with handling media queries.
Nice!
I've been progressively learning more about the Hotwired stack. I've known the gist for a while, but am progressively taking the time to truly understand it. Since it's becoming more popular and/or default in Rails, I think it's worth keeping up with, even if I'm not doing any active development with it.
In Javascript, document.designMode = âonâ will allow you to edit the text on a web page like you would in a Word doc.
Huge timesaver if you want to mock up content changes quickly, drop that in the console and edit away.
Launched a python package (npm install taskquant) that weighs less than 8kb.
It adds a layer of gamification and scoreboards on top of TaskWarrior, and what Iâve learned was how heavy the dependencies of numpy / pandas are just to be able to do something like group by, aggregation, pivot table, indexing etc. So took a couple of hours out to build out the package with no dependencies â everything in vanilla python.
Yes, pandas alone (numpy being a dependency) sits at 250mb. So stripping away all of that and doing it in vanilla takes it all the way down to 8kb.
The end result is a python library that is extremely lightweight (<10kb), installs in under one second. I created a video to walk through the whole process as a tutorial:
youtu.be/lT2jqmhRkxo
Code is on my GitHub as well! GitHub.com/onlyphantom/taskquant
I learned some F# for fun and
profit. I don't know what to do with it yet. I think F# is a pretty fun language to code.Started digging into the Golang by finishing the Tour of Go, since I really want to try this language out. So far it's been alright, but I'm yet to implement something in it. Also, I was learning about how to write good articles
Finally learnt CSS grid layout đđđ
A lot simpler and more useful than I anticipated.
Nice!
That's impressive.