Links tagged “tips”

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.

jvns.ca

CSS supports nested selectors now!.

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

markusholtermann.eu

Advanced Django ORM query techniques — aggregation, query optimisation, and picking the top-k rows per group without dropping to raw SQL.

julien.danjou.info

Why naive timestamps carry no useful information, and the case for always using timezone-aware datetime objects and ISO 8601 in Python.

hillelwayne.com

A grab-bag of lesser-known Vim features, split between what plain Vim already does and what needs extra configuration or plugins.

sanctum.geek.nz

Habits that slow Vim editing down — moving line by line, reaching for arrow keys, staying in insert mode — and the idiomatic motions that replace them.

hynek.me

A ten-phase process for conference talks, from finding an idea and writing the proposal through slide design, rehearsal and delivery on stage.

blog.dominodatalab.com

A tour of lesser-known Jupyter notebook features, from magics that run shell commands and other languages to turning notebooks into scheduled reports and dashboards.

kilianvalkhof.com

How to give an element a sloped edge whose angle stays constant whatever its width, using clip-path with viewport-width units.

paulgraham.com

Thirteen condensed rules for running a startup, from picking good cofounders to making a few users very happy rather than many users mildly so.

paulgraham.com

Eighteen common ways startups fail, from founding alone to mismanaging investors, all of which reduce to not making something users want.

paulgraham.com

Seven lessons founders resist learning, among them releasing early, shipping constantly, and fearing other startups rather than established companies.

line25.com

Ten common web design mistakes that hurt usability — unlabelled form fields, non-clickable logos, badly styled links — each with the conventional fix.

code.activestate.com

Recipe declaring a Python property from a single decorated function whose nested getter and setter are captured by a trace hook, instead of returning locals() by hand.