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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How to use look-behind regex assertions with `ripgrep` #Regex #Programming #CommandLine
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Apr 5, 2022 How to join an array in Bash #Bash #ShellScripting #Programming
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Mar 29, 2022 Docker for Mac stores all containers and images in a single disk image #Docker #DevOps #Container
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Mar 9, 2022 How to inspect and clear Python's `functools.lru_cache` #Python #Programming #DevTips
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Feb 21, 2022 How to get Vale to work with Vim's Ale plugin #Programming #Vim #DevTools
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Feb 20, 2022 How to use `markdownlint` output in Vim's quickfix list #Vim #DevTools #Markdown
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Feb 16, 2022 About Factory Boy's `SelfAttribute` class #Python #Programming #DevTools
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Feb 16, 2022 You can search for Loggly mapping conflicts #DevTips #Logging #Troubleshooting
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Feb 10, 2022 About Github's `involves:$username` search filter #Github #Search #DevTools
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Feb 2, 2022 You can't use Django's generic foreign key field with objects stored in a separate database #Python #Django #Database
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Feb 2, 2022 Google Groups can be nested #Tech #DevTools #Productivity
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Jan 31, 2022 About Django's `setup` method for generic view classes #Python #WebDev #Programming
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Dec 14, 2021 How to list the mounts of a running Docker container #Docker #DevOps #Container
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Dec 7, 2021 About Bash's `$SECONDS` shell variable #Bash #ShellScripting #Programming
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Nov 26, 2021 That Vim can transform replacement values when substituting #Vim #Programming #TextEditing
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Nov 15, 2021 How to continue a Git rebase and skip editing the commit message #Git #DevTools #Programming
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Nov 12, 2021 That AWS Aurora clusters have two types of storage #CloudComputing #Databases #AWS
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Nov 9, 2021 How to use `aws-mfa-v2` to avoid entering so many MFA tokens #DevTools #Security #Automation
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Nov 8, 2021 About a gotcha with `psycopg2`'s autocommit handling #Python #Database #Programming
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Nov 5, 2021 How to find the files from a commit that deleted a given pattern #Git #DevTools #CLI
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Oct 15, 2021