Every day is a school day
This is a catalogue of notable things David Winterbottom has learnt (since July 2020).
There have been 194 TILs so far — recent topics include Vim, mypy, Python, Git, Chicken, Food and Github Copilot.
You can browse posts chronologically or by tag.
Recent learnings
- How to write Vimscript functions that operate on a visually selected area on
- Not to union Python list types on
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How to show the history of a file with
git log --patchon - A better technique for roasting chicken on
- How to automatically disable Github Copilot in Vim when editing large files on
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How to format JSON into a table with
jqandcolumnon - How to make Homebrew-installed Bash your default shell on
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That
hubclashes withvim-polygloton -
Django’s JSON encoder rounds
datetimes down to the nearest millisecond on - How to handle convenience imports with Mypy on
- You can use JQ to build JSON payloads on
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How Django’s
override_settingsdecorator causes flakey tests on -
How the
newargument tomock.patchis shared between parameterized tests on - That Postgres sequences aren’t restored after a transaction rollback on
- Mypy skips empty functions on
- How to use STDIN to populate Vim’s quickfix list on
- You can search Slack by emoji reactions on
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Python tests using
motoshould be explicit about AWS regions on -
whichbehaves diffferently in Zsh compared to Bash on - AWS target groups fail open when all instances are unhealthy on
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