jansc/til

Today I Learned

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.

18 TILs and counting...

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Categories

• Bash
• Emacs
• Javascript
• Nginx
• Unix
• Python
• Rust

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Bash

• Changing the default shell
• Repeating a command with sudo
• Resetting the backspace key
• Expose directory on local webserver with Python 3

Emacs

• Displaying total logged time of a tree in org-mode

Javascript

• Node module dependency tree
• Upgrading installed npm packages

Nginx

• Custom content type

Unix/Linux

• Changing user database information
• Composing keys in X11
• Create a self-signed certificate with OpenSSL
• Ejecting a CD on FreeBSD
• Exiting SSH when frozen
• Generating Ed25519 Keys
• Creating a group and becoming a member without logout/login
• Using p12-certificates for VPN in Gnome Network Manager

Python

• Upgrading install packages

Rust

• Cargo dependency tree
• Upgrading packages in Cargo.toml

About

I shamelessly stole this idea from jbranchaud/til who stole it from thoughtbot/til. .

Other TIL Collections

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

License

© 2018-2020 Jan Schreiber

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