David Winterbottom's TILs @david_winterbottom_tils@robot.villas
David Winterbottom's short development notes on Git, shell scripting, Vim, testing, Python tooling, and other programming discoveries. Latest feed post: September 2025.
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That macOS Ventura and iOS 15 can play background rain noise #Tech #macOS #iOS
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Apr 28, 2023 That `git for-each-ref` support conditional logic in its format #Git #DevTips #Programming
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Apr 28, 2023 Github actions need a shell specified to avoid silent pipeline failures #DevOps #GithubActions #Automation
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Apr 19, 2023 How to use `ripgrep` in `while read` loops #Programming #Shell #DevTips
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Mar 3, 2023 How to create a word cloud from text piped via STDIN #Programming #DevTips #CommandLine
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Mar 1, 2023 About the `typos` source code spell checker #Programming #DevTools #OpenSource
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Feb 22, 2023 How to perform a non-interactive, interactive Git rebase #Git #DevTools #Programming
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Feb 15, 2023 How to write Vimscript functions that operate on a visually selected area #Vim #Vimscript #Programming
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Jan 28, 2023 Not to union Python list types #Python #Programming #DevTips
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Jan 28, 2023 How to show the history of a file with `git log --patch` #Git #DevTools #Programming
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Jan 11, 2023 A better technique for roasting chicken #Food #Cooking #Recipes
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Jan 9, 2023 How to automatically disable Github Copilot in Vim when editing large files #Programming #Vim #DevTools
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Jan 6, 2023 How to format JSON into a table with `jq` and `column` #Json #Commandline #Programming
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Jan 5, 2023 How to make Homebrew-installed Bash your default shell #DevTips #Shell #Homebrew
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Dec 19, 2022 That `hub` clashes with `vim-polyglot` #Vim #Programming #DevTools
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Dec 16, 2022 Django's JSON encoder rounds `datetime`s down to the nearest millisecond #Python #Django #Programming
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Dec 1, 2022 How to handle convenience imports with Mypy #Python #Programming #DevTips
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Nov 23, 2022 You can use JQ to build JSON payloads #Programming #DevTools #Json
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Nov 18, 2022 How Django's `override_settings` decorator causes flakey tests #Python #Testing #DevOps
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Nov 13, 2022 How the `new` argument to `mock.patch` is shared between parameterized tests #Python #Testing #Programming
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Nov 8, 2022 That Postgres sequences aren't restored after a transaction rollback #Postgres #Database #SQL
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Oct 18, 2022 Mypy skips empty functions #Python #Programming #Mypy
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Oct 11, 2022 How to use STDIN to populate Vim's quickfix list #Vim #Editor #DevTools
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Oct 5, 2022 You can search Slack by emoji reactions #Slack #Productivity #DevTools
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Oct 4, 2022 Python tests using `moto` should be explicit about AWS regions #Python #Testing #DevOps
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Oct 4, 2022 `which` behaves diffferently in Zsh compared to Bash #ShellScripting #Zsh #Bash
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Sep 29, 2022 AWS target groups fail open when all instances are unhealthy #AWS #Cloud #DevOps
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Sep 24, 2022 How `ripgrep` interprets `.gitignore` rules changes when a filepath argument is used #Programming #DevTools #Git
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Sep 13, 2022 It's better to explicitly chain Python exceptions #Python #Programming #DevTips
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Sep 12, 2022 About indirect parametrization with Pytest #Python #Testing #DevTips
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Aug 24, 2022 That Ubuntu's `retry` command captures `stdout` #Linux #Shell #DevOps
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Aug 18, 2022 How to create an RST table of contents for the current page only #Python #Documentation #DevTools
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Aug 5, 2022 Email Log Search in Google Workspace has some strange behaviour #GoogleWorkspace #Email #Troubleshooting
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Jul 20, 2022 About `pycon` markdown format #Python #Markdown #DevTips
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Jul 1, 2022 How to use `xmllint` to extract the failing test filenames from a JUnit-XML file #Programming #DevTools #Testing
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Jun 28, 2022 How to override Django's settings for every method in a test class #Python #Testing #Django
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Jun 27, 2022 How to profile Pytest tests #Python #Testing #DevTips
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Jun 23, 2022 That Python's `datetime` package doesn't support ordinal suffixes for the day of the month #Python #Programming #DevTips
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Jun 1, 2022 Some Markdown parsers support definition lists #Markdown #WebDev #Programming
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Jun 1, 2022 `dprint` can be used to speed up Prettier #Programming #DevTools #Performance
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