Community Highlight
This month's community highlight goes to Drey!!
Drey (they/them) has earned the well-deserved award for this month's community highlight due to their exceptional contributions to our community. Their continuous efforts have been instrumental in the successful launch of our website. Drey's commitment to the project has not only demonstrated their technical skill but also showcased their dedication to advancing our community's goals.
This award truly reflects the outstanding contributions Drey has made to TechTank and so we want to say a very big Thank You!!
In case you missed it
Tech Tank at Tyrolean Resorts at Blue Mountain
Early last month, a group from TechTank spent a weekend at Tyrolean Resorts, Blue Mountain!! Twas a weekend full of fun, laughter, games, bonding, very clear waters, and so much more!!
✨New Logo, Website, and More!
Meetup Page: Join our new Meetup page! We're integrating TechTalks to run Riaz Virani under our community from September onwards. We’re super excited about this initiative which will help grow our community further 💙
LinkedIn: We are on LinkedIn! Please follow our page and feel free to invite others to join our community :party_blob:
Website: Our website is now live🚀! For all current and new members, please take a look at our Code of Conduct as well, and let us know if you have any questions or concerns. We’ll be integrating other features into our website, so stay tuned for further updates ✨
Panel Discussion: I made it through the HELLSCAPE that is job search part II
We hosted part two for panellists discussing the HELLSCAPE that is job search! Thank you to Sammy, Louise, and Vanessa for an AMAZING panel discussion.
We have a recording for the session available here!
Beyond Markdown
Early last month, Nonso spoke about how we could go beyond the traditional use cases for markdown when authoring documentation. He spoke about MDX — a superset of markdown that allows us to write JSX components within our markdown content — and how it allows us to enhance the way we author documentation so as to make docs a joy to read, use, and contribute to.
Nonso has given us a link to the presentation & blog article. He also wanted to note that there are interactive quizzes and demos you can do in the article to keep in line with the overall platform.
What is OOP?
During a study-tank session, Ked gave an interactive presentation on Object Oriented Programming! He walked us through the definition of OOP, the 4 pillars of OOP, and “good” and “bad” examples of classes. It was an awesome session, and we definitely learned a lot! Thanks so much, Ked!
You can find the recording along with the slides here
Tech Tank Socials Takes Over The Fire Pits @ Center Island
We did our 2nd ever firepit at Center Island. The day started off rainy but the weather turned around and made this a great event. We later continued the night at C'est What!
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Tech Insights
Passkeys: What the Heck and Why?
Neal Fennimore has an amazing article that details what PassKeys are and why they are important. In short, Neal explains that Passkeys are another way for us to enable passwordless login but in a more secure way. A disclaimer to be made is that Passkeys are very different from magic links -- an email that includes some sort of token to authenticate you against a service.
But why should we care?? Passkeys are gaining support in web browsers and products like 1passwords are leading the way with their integrations.
It's a really cool article that delves a bit into cryptography and the inner workings of how passkeys work. Give it a read here.
CSS Nesting
The ability to nest selectors within other selectors is something that has been available in Sass for years now. However, it is now natively supported within CSS!! There are some caveats though as nesting within CSS natively is not the same as nesting within Sass. Kevin powell has an amazing video where he delves into the differences!
The “const” Deception 😮
In this article, Josh Comeau explores the differences between assignment and mutation in JavaScript. Josh uncovers why we are able to edit objects and arrays that are created using "const".
It's a really important concept and it's one of those "gotcha" in JavaScript! The article is a fun read and it's fully interactive as well!
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