Today I Learned

My Today I Learned snippets. Inspired by Simon Willison who was inspired by jbranchaud/til, which he spotted on Hacker News.

53 TILs so far.

til

• Learning how to get it set up - 2021-03-06

pypi

• Adding a Package to PyPi - 2021-03-07

github

• Stage Partial Changes in Git - 2021-06-05
• Delete Branch on Merge - 2023-06-27
• kbd tag in Markdown on GitHub - 2023-12-28
• commit messages - 2024-01-08
• Default Environment Variables - 2024-03-01
• Dependabot to update GitHub Actions - 2025-01-25
• GitHub Flavored Markdown via the gh cli - 2025-04-18

regex

• Named Regular Expression Groups - 2022-11-30

Django

• Adding setproctitle to Django - 2022-12-10
• Using or to set a value - 2024-01-07
• Django's raw_id_field - 2024-02-24
• Migrate Zero - 2024-03-04
• Proxy Models - 2024-03-06
• Include and the with argument - 2024-05-04
• Django migrations fake flag - 2024-10-06
• sqlitemigrate Django command - 2025-01-19
• Documentation Update PRs - 2025-01-20

pelican

• Adding a robots.txt and favicon.ico files to my Pelican Site - 2022-12-10

hockey

• Delay of Game on Failed Coaches Challenge - 2023-12-21
• Persisting a Fight - 2024-01-24
• Pull Yer Goalie Eh - 2024-03-16

sqlite

• SQLite may be OK to use in Production - 2023-12-22

css

• CSS Specificity - 2023-12-23
• css grid areas - 2023-12-30

nginx

• nginx and slashes - 2023-12-26
• Load Balancers - 2024-02-28

ssis

• SSIS and git - 2024-01-03
• SSIS .database files - 2024-03-18

DjangoPackages

• uWSGI is used on DjangoPackages - 2024-01-11

vscode

• Snippets - 2024-01-14
• File Associations - 2024-02-10

tailscale

• Subnet Routers - 2024-01-18

computing

• Tilde - 2024-01-25
• Column Command - 2025-01-05
• Authorized Keys Can Restrict Actions - 2025-04-28

git

• Exclude in git - 2024-01-26
• git branch rules - 2024-02-23
• e flag - 2025-01-21

Python

• Adding objects in Python - 2024-02-04
• Require a Virtual Environment to install packages - 2024-03-03
• Fork of YouTube Download (youtube-dl) written in Python. - 2025-06-04

Docker

• Using multiple docker images on a single server - 2024-02-26

html

• Text Fragments - 2024-11-02

uv

• uv venv and missing pip - 2024-11-03
• Run remote scripts with uv - 2025-06-04

iOS

• Fantastical Create Event - 2025-01-01

Synology

• Synology OS iso Location for VMs - 2025-01-02

just

• Global justfile - 2025-01-22
• Remote justfile - 2025-01-23
• Interactive Chooser - 2025-01-24
• just modules - 2025-09-21