Every day is a school day
This is a catalogue of notable things David Winterbottom has learnt (since July 2020).
There have been 149 TILs so far — recent topics include Docker, Discourse, Bash, Vim, Git, AWS and Aurora.
You can browse posts chronologically or by tag.
Recent learnings
- How to list the mounts of a running Docker container on
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About Bash’s
$SECONDSshell variable on - That Vim can transform replacement values when substituting on
- How to continue a Git rebase and skip editing the commit message on
- That AWS Aurora clusters have two types of storage on
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How to use
aws-mfa-v2to avoid entering so many MFA tokens on -
About a gotcha with
psycopg2’s autocommit handling on - How to find the files from a commit that deleted a given pattern on
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Python’s
envparselibrary has counter-intuitive boolean casting on -
About Git’s
diff.relativeconfig option on - How to effectively scan files using an iPhone on
- How to delete all buffers in Vim on
- Factory boy can be used to build dicts on
- Django settings prefixed with an underscore are private on
- How to reset an SSH session on
- How to easily copy annotated screenshots to the clipboard on macOS on
- The names for macOS keyboard meta-characters on
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About
git merge-baseon - You can have SSH sessions via AWS Session Manager on
- Django doesn’t flush caches between tests on
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