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.

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

Git large file storage til — Using GitLFS for the first time.

git

2021-08-18 til — Using Google Sheets for event planning

regex google sheets

JS Dates are Weird til — In which type coercion and JavaScript magic bite me in the…date math.

javascript

awk-ing til — Some awk for text file munging

linux tools gcp billing

OSM and Python til — Using Python to work with addresses and Open Street Map networks.

geospatial python geocode osm

Wardley Maps til — Simon Wardley figured out how to make maps that support strategy by balancing user-facing visibility and technical evolution from innovation to commodity.

tools visualization strategy

2021-05-29 til — Trying svelte-kit and Tailwind CSS