Today I Learned

This might not exactly be daily, but it does capture short snippets of knowledge that my future self will probably find useful.

Previewing Markdown Files with mdserve — October 3, 2025 — Dependency free markdown server

Whitelisting Pi-hole — March 9, 2023 — Working with Pi-hole and a bit of sed.

GitHub CLI — February 11, 2023 — Using the GitHub CLI to make authenticated and authorized download from a private repo.

OSS donations, fonts — February 5, 2023 — Starting some micro-donations to open source developers. And a font.

SQLite schema — December 17, 2022 — Learning a few bits about SQLite that are worth noting.

VSCode for Markdown — February 6, 2022 — Writing Markdown using VS Code

Python, SQL, and data eng — November 11, 2021 — Data engineering audiocast, plus Python photos

.env file, tmux, and direnv — August 31, 2021 — Using direnv to automatically handle environment variables.

2021-08-28 — August 28, 2021 — Using GitLFS for the first time.

2021-08-18 — August 18, 2021 — Using Google Sheets for event planning