Every day is a school day
This is a catalogue of notable things David Winterbottom has learnt (since July 2020).
There have been 92 TILs so far — recent topics include Chrome, Vim, Unix, Github.
Browse posts by month or by tag.
Recent learnings
- Chrome has a flags page for enabling experimental features on
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How to use custom functions with
:cdoon -
The order of permissions matters with
chmodon -
About Github’s
@mesearch term on - Recruiters talk about T-shaped leaders on
- Virgin Media’s “Web Safe” product uses DNS on
- How to scroll horizontally with a mouse on
- You can take screenshots with Chrome DevTools on
- You can arbitrarily chain Python comparison operations on
- How to pipe an argument list into Vim on
- How to copy the current filepath to the system clipboard in Vim on
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How to search for fixed strings with
grepandripgrepon - How to easily disable a CircleCI workflow on
- BBC Sounds only works on Alexa if the language setting is UK English on
- How temporary files are removed on MacOS on
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You can define custom file-type filters in
ripgrepon - How to enable Docker BuildKit in MacOS Docker Desktop on
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You can specify the file-type for
baton -
About
envsubston - How to add project-specific Vim settings on
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