Today I Learned

Short snippets of knowledge that my future self will find useful. Borrowed from Simon Willison’s TIL concept. Check out the blog for longer form writing.

Tailscale Exit Node on Mac Mini til — — I want to set up an exit node on my Mac Mini using Tailscale. That way I can watch movies from anywhere and print stuff without being at home.

tailscale networking mac

Interpret LLM Model Size til — — How to interpret the numbers used to describe LLMs.

llm ai

Previewing Markdown Files with mdserve til — — Dependency free markdown server

tools markdown

Whitelisting Pi-hole til — — Working with Pi-hole and a bit of sed.

sed macos pihole networking

GitHub CLI til — — Using the GitHub CLI to make authenticated and authorized download from a private repo.

authentication github api curl

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

github sponsorship opensource font

SQLite schema til — — Learning a few bits about SQLite that are worth noting.

sqlite

VSCode for Markdown til — — Writing Markdown using VS Code

markdown

Python, SQL, and data eng til — — Data engineering audiocast, plus Python photos

replit python data engineering sql sqlite

.env file, tmux, and direnv til — — Using direnv to automatically handle environment variables.

tools direnv

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