Learning from folks from other contexts and in more senior roles allows one to make new mental models for new technical concepts. Thankful to everyone I spoke to this week
Using the console to run functions in JavaScript before noticing differences between what might be written in a code editor and what is allowed in a REPL (Read, Evaluate, Print, Loop)
Typingtsc in a terminal followed by sample.ts compiles the file and will generate a sample.js one
Running a node command like node sample.jswill output results from the code in the file e.g. Hello, world!
Updating dependencies can sometimes mean manually changing their version before installing them instead of relying on a command designed for that purpose
Ruby Object Mapping (ROM) is an open-source persistence and mapping toolkit for Ruby
In Hanami, confirming that the database_url setting is working as intended requires running the command bundle exec hanami before calling the database_url method on the application's settings object
Building a RESTful API in Go means carefully considering which database to add to it