All things learnt

Sorted chronologically.

September 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