Every day is a school day
This is a catalogue of notable things David Winterbottom has learnt (since July 2020).
There have been 162 TILs so far — recent topics include Javascript, Rust, ripgrep, regex, Bash, Docker and Python.
You can browse posts chronologically or by tag.
Recent learnings
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dprintcan be used to speed up Prettier on - How to use look-behind regex assertions with ripgrep on
- How to join an array in Bash on
- Docker for Mac stores all containers and images in a single disk image on
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How to inspect and clear Python’s
functools.lru_cacheon - How to get Vale to work with Vim’s Ale plugin on
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How to use
markdownlintoutput in Vim’s quickfix list on -
About Factory Boy’s
SelfAttributeclass on - You can search for Loggly mapping conflicts on
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About Github’s
involves:$usernamesearch filter on - You can’t use Django’s generic foreign key field with objects stored in a separate database on
- Google Groups can be nested on
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About Django’s
setupmethod for generic view classes on - 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
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