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Nick Taylor
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April 22nd, 2021: What did you learn this week?

#weeklylearn #discuss

It's that time of the week folks. So wonderful code newbies, what did you learn this week? It could be programming tips, career advice etc.

![Deadpool and his cohorts chatting](https://media.giphy.com/media/w7fJO4TOqiaSQ/giphy-downsized-large.gif)

Feel free to comment with what you learnt and/or reference your TIL post to give it some more exposure. 👇👇🏻👇🏼👇🏽👇🏾👇🏿

#todayilearned

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Robert Lin •

I learned about randomuser.me this week! A great resource to get random user information like fake names, photos, dobs, phone numbers, and addresses! You truly learn something new every week! 😄👍

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Nick Taylor • • Edited

Awesome!

Hacker man from Kung Fury putting on a Nintendo Power glove

I wonder if it uses faker.js under the hood. 🤔

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    <script src = "faker.js" type = "text/javascript"></script>
    <script>
      var randomName = faker.name.findName(); // Caitlyn Kerluke
      var randomEmail = faker.internet.email(); // Rusty@arne.info
      var randomCard = faker.helpers.createCard(); // random contact card containing many properties
    </script>
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Node.js

    var faker = require('faker');
    var randomName = faker.name.findName(); // Rowan Nikolaus
    var randomEmail = faker.internet.email(); // Kassandra.Haley@erich.biz
    var randomCard = faker.helpers.createCard
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Robert Lin •

This is cool; I didn't know about faker.js! Thanks for sharing! 🙏

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