Links tagged “tips”
22 links, newest first.
refp.se
A shell colon does nothing. Use it anyway - the colon as no-op, placeholder and guard. Short, immediately usable.
jola.dev
How to stop Claude from saying "load-bearing" - why LLM verbal tics take hold and how to steer them away, a practical TIL.
simonwillison.net
Using uvx in GitHub Actions in a cache-friendly way - short and immediately applicable CI tip.
nelson.cloud
.gitignore isn't the only way to ignore files in Git: exclude, info/exclude, skip-worktree. The ones you forget you have.
mareksuppa.com
HTTP requests without curl, using Bash /dev/TCP: the kind of TIL that makes you reread your own shell. A request with nothing but Bash.
johnscolaro.xyz
Log by time, not by count: a short piece about better logs.
jvns.ca
You can use `fzf` to review git commits, a TIL by Julia Evans
hynek.me
I’ve seen quite a bit of the world thanks to being invited to speak at conferences.
line25.com
10 Usability Crimes You Really Shouldn’t Commit Over time certain conventions and best practices have been developed to help improve the general usability of websites during their design and build.
lugatgt.org
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pixelbeat.org
screen is a much under utilised program, which provides the following functionality: Remote terminal session management (detaching or sharing terminal sessions) unlimited windows (unlike the hardcoded number of Linux virtual consoles) scrollback buffer (not limited to video memory like Linux virtual…
gawno.com
78 funny photography rules and useful advices created by latvian photographer Ivars Gravlejs ALARMA!
linuxjournal.com
In this post I'll show you how to create a self extracting bash script to automate the installation of files on your system.
vim.org
map <silent> H :<C-U>call HContext()<CR> map <silent> L :<C-U>call LContext()<CR> func! HContext() let moved = MoveCursor("H") if !moved && line('.') != 1 exe "normal! " . "\<pageup>H" endif endfunc func! LContext() let moved = MoveCursor("L") if !moved && line('.') != line('$') exe "normal! " . "\<pagedown>L" endif endfunc func! MoveCursor(key) let cnum = col('.') let lnum = line('.') let wline = winline() exe "normal! " . v:count . a:key let moved = cnum != col('.') || lnum != line('.') || wline != winline() return moved endfunc
multicians.org
Three Questions About Each Bug You Find Tom Van Vleck Do you sometimes fix a bug, and then find another bug related to the first or to the way you fixed it?
