Today I Learnt - David Winterbottom

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This is a catalogue of notable things David Winterbottom has learnt (since July 2020) — 37 TILs so far.

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Recent learnings

AWS ASGs have an ‘instance refresh’ feature on September 28, 2020
The MacOS keybinds for en- and em-dashes on September 25, 2020
How to read from one buffer to another in Vim on September 23, 2020
SSH config supports multiple host patterns in one block on September 23, 2020
There’s a Chrome extension for switching AWS IAM roles on September 22, 2020
YAML has several string-parsing gotchas on September 21, 2020
Javascript’s unary + operator casts null to zero on September 21, 2020
How to count lines of code in a Git repo for a given commit on September 17, 2020
About Vim’s :helpgrep command on September 16, 2020
Vim recommends using Emacs-style key bindings in command mode on September 16, 2020
How to conditionally include items in a Terraform list on September 15, 2020
You can change the font in Slack with /slackfont $font on September 12, 2020
You can display the typed text in Alfred in a huge typeface on September 7, 2020
Python 3.7 supports postponed evaluation of annotations on September 4, 2020
Vim doesn’t create the persistent undo folder automatically on September 4, 2020
How to use type annotations with Python’s csv module on September 3, 2020
How to configure Alfred’s Bear workflow to open notes in the main window on September 2, 2020
About better YAML file folding in Vim on August 28, 2020
OpenDNS provide free porn-blocking DNS servers on August 27, 2020
AWS Availability Zones have counter-intuitive IDs on August 25, 2020

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