firebase platform. I don't have any "at scale" experience with it, but it's now my default web deployment platform and I love it.
Ask HN: What technologies did you learn in 2018?
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Re: Ask HN: What technologies did you learn in 2018?
#112Kotlin; using it for integration and user automation tests (so much less boiler plate)
AWS ecosystem
Hammer, Stihl saw, wiring a house
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#113While I had dabbed with GraphQL before, all my projects have started to use it.
Similarly, I had already worked on weekend projects with the bitcoin blockchain, this year I picked up on Lightning Networks and I built a library on top of it.
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#114I learned and used RxSwift and rxjs a lot. I'm glad I got the chance. It was one of those things that broke my brain, like learning how quantum computing and its programming work last year.
I would recommend learning Rx if you are into having less state in your application. It's a fun way to think.
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#115Machine Learning. In 2018 I went from "zero to sixty", so to speak. At the beginning of the year I knew nothing about ML, and my math skills had gotten so rusty I couldn't even remember how to do simple derivatives or multiply two matrices. In the first half of 2018 I relearned the college math that I had forgotten by working through MIT OCW's Linear Algebra, Calculus, and Probability courses. In the Fall, I enrolled…
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Re: Ask HN: What technologies did you learn in 2018?
#116Machine Learning. In 2018 I went from "zero to sixty", so to speak. At the beginning of the year I knew nothing about ML, and my math skills had gotten so rusty I couldn't even remember how to do simple derivatives or multiply two matrices. In the first half of 2018 I relearned the college math that I had forgotten by working through MIT OCW's Linear Algebra, Calculus, and Probability courses. In the Fall, I enrolled…
Where did you get that kind of motivation? Sounds almost super natural.
Re: Ask HN: What technologies did you learn in 2018?
#117I've learned TypeScript and introduced it at my company. It's awesome.
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#118Vue.js. It's a breath of fresh air.
Totally. I had been planning on moving from vanilla/jquery to a framework (Angular, React) for a long time but the initial setup and complexity always repelled me. I knew Vue.js was what I wanted the moment I read the docs.
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#119React Native
I had a use case that I wanted solved for automatically tracking how much crypto I own on exchanges that hasn't been done by any other apps/websites. Used it as a learning/side project, and got the mobile apps on both app stores (they're not as picky as you would think, especially the google store). User base of 1 (me). Web app/api in rails. I used create-react-native-app (Expo) and have not ejected yet. It's an awesome developer experience live reloading your device wirelessly. The biggest difference between react and react native is what lives in your render function: instead of you have .
2019 will be elixir+phoenix (finally). I plan on creating a self hosted RSS reader with the new phoenix live reload module that should be pretty slick
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#120As a theater major who spent the last 8 years doing web development and web design I decided to start building augmented reality games using Unity, Vuforia and C#.
My best decision of 2018. I have never been happier with my day-to-day work.
The theatrics of it all take me back to college. The amount of creative freedom you have to build narratives, characters and effects is just so much fun.
Highly recommend for any one who was involved in theater.
You can see what I have been building here: https://codetocanvas.com/