Every day is a school day
This is a catalogue of notable things David Winterbottom has learnt (since July 2020).
There have been 117 TILs so far — recent topics include Ubuntu, Bash, Linux, Vim, Standards.
Browse posts by month or by tag.
Recent learnings
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About Ubuntu’s
alertBash alias on - About Vim’s semi-colon search offset on
- The ISO-3166 codes for the United Kingdon are inaccurate on
- That Vim’s uppercase marks are global and persistent on
- Sensitive Terraform Cloud variables are included in Sentinel mocks on
- The correct sequence of SQL statements for dropping a role on
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Python’s
csv.writerfunction defaults to Windows line endings on -
You can use
shufto take random samples of lines on -
That
vim-polyglotconflicts with Hub when creating pull requests on -
About
git-absorbon - JSON is valid YAML on
- How to convert SSH2 public keys to OpenSSH format on
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How to include the date in
git reflogoutput on -
About
xargs -ton - What the sections of the Unix manual are on
- About delta, a viewer for Git and diff output on
- You can have class-scoped autouse pytest fixtures on
- That software can be “free as in mattress” on
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systemd sends SIGKILL signals after waiting for
TimeoutStopSecseconds on - iTerm2’s “Cursor boost” feature will cause everything to appear dimmed on
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