All things learnt

Sorted chronologically.

January 2021

• You can arbitrarily chain Python comparison operations on January 15, 2021
• How to pipe an argument list into Vim on January 15, 2021
• How to copy the current filepath to the system clipboard in Vim on January 12, 2021
• How to search for fixed strings with grep and ripgrep on January 12, 2021
• How to easily disable a CircleCI workflow on January 8, 2021
• BBC Sounds only works on Alexa if the language setting is UK English on January 7, 2021
• How temporary files are removed on MacOS on January 7, 2021

December 2020

• You can define custom file-type filters in ripgrep on December 29, 2020
• How to enable Docker BuildKit in MacOS Docker Desktop on December 29, 2020
• You can specify the file-type for bat on December 21, 2020
• About envsubst on December 19, 2020
• How to add project-specific Vim settings on December 18, 2020
• You can stack pytest’s parametrize decorators on December 16, 2020
• About YAML’s node anchors and aliases on December 11, 2020
• You can label parameterized fixtures with pytest on December 11, 2020
• Universal Ctags can index more things than I realised on December 10, 2020
• A better way of configuring mypy on December 10, 2020
• How to spell-check markdown repos on CircleCI on December 7, 2020
• How to set per-project ripgrep and fzf exclude rules on December 4, 2020
• Vim-markdown has some useful commands on December 4, 2020
• GSuite’s “Groups Admin” role can read any group email on December 2, 2020

November 2020

• How to run Jekyll in a Docker container on November 30, 2020
• About how to use keywordprg effectively on November 27, 2020
• How to configure ctags to parse Terraform files on November 26, 2020
• You can easily share 1Password items via a link on November 23, 2020
• You can convert a Slack group direct message chat into a private channel on November 20, 2020
• How to use Bandit with Vim’s quickfix list on November 19, 2020
• Exuberant-ctags has been superceded by Universal-ctags on November 16, 2020
• About column on November 12, 2020
• You can hide night-time hours in Google calendar on November 6, 2020
• You can run :grep without using parent shell process on November 4, 2020
• There’s a QuickFixCmdPost event in Vim on November 4, 2020

October 2020

• You can jump to previous quickfix lists in Vim on October 31, 2020
• How to embed markdown content in a Github code block on October 27, 2020
• You can create QR codes for WiFi networks on October 27, 2020
• fd has an option for searching filepaths on October 23, 2020
• datetime.datetime is a subclass of datetime.date on October 22, 2020
• The keyboard shortcut for grabbing a MFA code in 1PW on October 22, 2020
• How to use AWS profiles that require MFA on October 21, 2020
• About the difference between minimising and hiding windows in MacOS on October 19, 2020
• About readonly Bash variables on October 13, 2020
• About shellcheck on October 12, 2020
• About pip-licenses on October 8, 2020
• About Bash’s DEBUG signal on October 7, 2020
• How to resolve Git rebase conflicts on renamed files on October 5, 2020
• There is a “Bongcloud” chess opening on October 2, 2020

September 2020

• How to use xargs with printf on September 29, 2020
• AWS ASGs have an ‘instance refresh’ feature on September 28, 2020
• The MacOS keybinds for en- and em-dashes on September 25, 2020
• How to read from one buffer to another in Vim on September 23, 2020
• SSH config supports multiple host patterns in one block on September 23, 2020
• There’s a Chrome extension for switching AWS IAM roles on September 22, 2020
• YAML has several string-parsing gotchas on September 21, 2020
• Javascript’s unary + operator casts null to zero on September 21, 2020
• How to count lines of code in a Git repo for a given commit on September 17, 2020
• About Vim’s :helpgrep command on September 16, 2020
• Vim recommends using Emacs-style key bindings in command mode on September 16, 2020
• How to conditionally include items in a Terraform list on September 15, 2020
• You can change the font in Slack with /slackfont $font on September 12, 2020
• You can display the typed text in Alfred in a huge typeface on September 7, 2020
• Python 3.7 supports postponed evaluation of annotations on September 4, 2020
• Vim doesn’t create the persistent undo folder automatically on September 4, 2020
• How to use type annotations with Python’s csv module on September 3, 2020
• How to configure Alfred’s Bear workflow to open notes in the main window on September 2, 2020

August 2020

• About better YAML file folding in Vim on August 28, 2020
• OpenDNS provide free porn-blocking DNS servers on August 27, 2020
• AWS Availability Zones have counter-intuitive IDs on August 25, 2020
• You can rate-limit issues using a Sentry DSN on August 24, 2020
• How to list pages with matching tag in Hugo on August 17, 2020
• About :help macvim on August 17, 2020
• About Vim’s :diffthis command on August 17, 2020
• About the stationery pad feature in Finder on August 14, 2020
• About pngcrush on August 14, 2020
• Asana has some magic search terms on August 12, 2020
• You can have SASS asset pipelines in Hugo on August 11, 2020
• About text fragments on August 10, 2020

July 2020

• Renaming a Terraform module is dangerous on July 23, 2020
• Where authentication for the ubuntu user on a EC2 instance is defined on July 22, 2020
• About the phrase “Parking downhill” on July 21, 2020
• About the MacOS screencapture utility on July 20, 2020
• About Quitter on July 20, 2020
• About Alfred’s snippet collections on July 20, 2020
• About Alfred’s clipboard history feature on July 20, 2020
• About Twitter’s min_faves search filter on July 16, 2020