til/README.md

TIL

Today I Learned

A collection of concise write-ups on small things I learn day to day across a variety of languages and technologies. These are things that don't really warrant a full blog post. These are mostly things I learn by pairing with smart people at Hashrocket.

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Categories

• Clojure
• Devops
• Git
• Go
• JavaScript
• Linux
• Mac
• Postgres
• Rails
• Ruby
• tmux
• Vim

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clojure

• Evaluate One Liners With lein-exec
• Expanding Macros
• Open JavaDocs
• Quick Clojure Docs
• Reductions
• Set Max Heap Size
• Specify the Directory of a Shell Command
• Splitting On Whitespace
• Swap Two Items in a Vector
• Type of Anything
• When Overflow Is Desired

devops

• Check The Status of All Services
• Check The Syntax Of nginx Files
• Push Non-master Branch To Heroku
• Reload The nginx Configuration
• Running Out Of inode Space
• Wipe A Heroku Postgres Database

git

• Accessing a Lost Commit
• Amend Author Of Previous Commit
• Caching Credentials
• Checkout Old Version Of A File
• Checkout Previous Branch
• Clean Out All Local Branches
• Clean Up Old Remote Tracking References
• Delete All Untracked Files
• Determine The Hash Id For A Blob
• Dry Runs in Git
• Excluding Files Locally
• Grab A Single File From A Stash
• Ignore Changes To A Tracked File
• Intent To Add
• Last Commit A File Appeared In
• List Filenames Without The Diffs
• List Untracked Files
• Renaming A Branch
• Single Key Presses in Interactive Mode
• Staging Changes Within Vim
• Staging Stashes Interactively
• Stashing Only Unstaged Changes
• Stashing Untracked Files
• Untrack A File Without Deleting It
• Verbose Commit Message
• Whitespace Warnings

go

• Not So Random
• Replace The Current Process With An External Command

javascript

• Character Codes from Keyboard Listeners
• Throttling A Function Call
• Truthiness of Integer Arrays

linux

• Check Ubuntu Version
• Configure Your Server Timezone
• Upgrading Ubuntu

mac

• Default Screenshot Location

postgres

• Auto Expanded Display
• Checking The Type Of A Value
• Configure The Timezone
• Count Records By Type
• Default Schema
• Defining Arrays
• Edit Existing Functions
• Extracting Nested JSON Data
• Find The Data Directory
• Fizzbuzz With Common Table Expressions
• Generate A UUID
• Generate Series Of Numbers
• Getting A Slice Of An Array
• Insert Just The Defaults
• Integers In Postgres
• Intervals Of Time By Week
• Limit Execution Time Of Statements
• List All Columns Of A Specific Type
• List All Versions Of A Function
• List Database Users
• Restart A Sequence
• Send A Command To psql
• Special Math Operators
• String Contains Another String
• Temporarily Disable Triggers
• Temporary Tables
• Timestamp Functions
• Toggling The Pager In PSQL
• Truncate All Rows
• Turning Timing On
• Types By Category
• Use Argument Indexes
• Using Intervals To Offset Time
• Who Is The Current User
• Word Count for a Column

rails

• All or Nothing Database Transactions
• Attribute Getter without the Recursion
• Attribute Was
• Autosave False On ActiveRecord Associations
• Capybara Page Status Code
• Code Statistics For An Application
• Conditional Class Selectors in Haml
• Creating Records of Has_One Associations
• Hash Slicing
• Ignore Poltergeist JavaScript Errors
• Pretend Generations
• Retrieve An Object If It Exists
• Select Value For SQL Counts
• Show Pending Migrations

ruby

• Are They All True?
• Assoc For Hashes
• Colorful Output With MiniTest
• Comparing Class Hierarchy Relationships
• Construct A Constant From A String
• Create an Array of Stringed Numbers
• Destructuring Arrays In Blocks
• Disassemble Some Codes
• Double Splat To Merge Hashes
• Editing Code In Pry
• Evaluating One-Off Commands
• FactoryGirl Sequences
• Finding The Source of Ruby Methods
• Invoking Rake Tasks Multiple Times
• Last Raised Exception In The Call Stack
• Limit Split
• Listing Local Variables
• Next And Previous Floats
• Override The Initial Sequence Value
• Parallel Bundle Install
• Passing Arbitrary Methods As Blocks
• Passing Arguments To A Rake Task
• Percent Notation
• Question Mark Operator
• Rake Only Lists Tasks With Descriptions
• Replace The Current Process With An External Command
• Set RVM Default Ruby
• Squeeze Out The Extra Space
• Summing Collections
• Uncaught Exceptions In Pry
• undef_method And The Inheritance Hierarchy
• Zero Padding

tmux

• Adjusting Window Pane Size
• Create A Named tmux Session
• Cycle Through Layouts
• List All Key Bindings
• Organizing Windows
• Pane Killer
• Reclaiming The Entire Window
• Swap Split Panes
• tmux in your tmux

unix

• All The Environment Variables
• Cat A File With Line Numbers
• Check If A Port Is In Use
• Clear The Screen
• Create A File Descriptor with Process Substitution
• Do Not Overwrite Existing Files
• File Type Info With File
• Find Newer Files
• Global Substitution On The Previous Command
• Hexdump A Compiled File
• Kill Everything Running On A Certain Port
• Killing A Frozen SSH Session
• List All The Say Voices
• List All Users
• Only Show The Matches
• Repeat Yourself
• Saying Yes
• Search History
• Search Man Page Descriptions
• Securely Remove Files
• SSH With Port Forwarding
• Switch Versions of a Brew Formula
• Watch The Difference
• Watch This Run Repeatedly
• Where Are The Binaries?

vim

• Absolute And Relative Line Numbers
• Add Custom Dictionary Words
• Alternate Files With vim-rails
• Amend Commits With Fugitive
• Beginning And End Of Previous Change
• The Black Hole Register
• Buffer Time Travel
• Case-Aware Substitution With vim-abolish
• Case-Insensitive Substitution
• Center The Cursor
• Check Your Current Color Scheme
• Close the Current Buffer
• Coerce The Current Filetype
• Count the Number of Matches
• Create A New Directory In netrw
• Create A New File In A New Directory
• Delete Every Other Line
• Delete Lines That Match A Pattern
• Deleting Directories Of Files From netrw
• Edges Of The Selection
• End Of The Word
• Filter Lines Through An External Program
• Format Long Lines To Text Width
• Generate and Edit Rails Migration
• Head of File Name
• Help For Non-Normal Mode Features
• Horizontal to Vertical and Back Again
• Incremental Searching
• Interactive Buffer List
• Joining Lines Together
• Jump To Matching Pair
• Jump To The Next Misspelling
• List All Buffers
• List Of Plugins
• Match The Beginning And End Of Words
• Marks Across Vim Sessions
• Moving To A Specific Line
• Navigating By Blank Lines
• NETRW Listing Styles
• Next Modified Buffer
• Open an Unnamed Buffer
• Opening a URL
• Preventing Typos with Abbreviations
• Previous Buffer
• Previous Visual Selection
• Quick File Info
• Quick Man Pages
• Quick Quickfix List Navigation
• Re-indenting Your Code
• Rename Current File
• Repeat The Previous Change
• Repeating Characters
• Replace A Character
• Scrolling Relative to the Window
• Searching For Hex Digits
• Set End Of Line Markers
• Set Your Color Scheme
• Split Different
• Swap Occurrences Of Two Words
• Swapping Split Windows
• Tabs To Spaces
• The Vim Info File
• Verbose Commits With Fugitive
• View Commit History of a File
• Viewing Man Pages with man.vim
• Vim Without The Extras
• Whole Line Auto-Completion
• Wrap With Some Room

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Other TIL Collections

• Today I Learned by Hashrocket
• jwworth/til
• thoughtbot/til

License

© 2015 Josh Branchaud

This repository is licensed under the MIT license. See LICENSE for details.