Every day is a school day
This is a catalogue of notable things David Winterbottom has learnt (since July 2020).
There have been 179 TILs so far — recent topics include Vim, Slack, Testing, AWS, Bash, Zsh and Unix.
You can browse posts chronologically or by tag.
Recent learnings
- 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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How
ripgrepinterprets.gitignorerules changes when a filepath argument is used on - It’s better to explicitly chain Python exceptions on
- About indirect parametrization with Pytest on
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That Ubuntu’s
retrycommand captures STDOUT on - How to create an RST table of contents for the current page only on
- Email Log Search in Google Workspace has some strange behaviour on
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About
pyconmarkdown format on -
How to use
xmllintto extract the failing test filenames from a JUnit-XML file on - How to override Django’s settings for every method in a test class on
- How to profile Pytest tests on
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That Python’s
datetimepackage doesn’t support ordinal suffixes for the day of the month on - Some Markdown parsers support definition lists on
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dprintcan be used to speed up Prettier on -
How to use look-behind regex assertions with
ripgrepon - How to join an array in Bash on
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