TIL: Today I Learned – short notes, to learn and remember

Short notes with tech tips and tricks that I learn from day-to-day.

• AWS
• ElasticSearch
• Git
• GitHub
• PostgreSQL
• Python
• Unix(y)
• VSCode

• Redshift: Generate DDL Create Table Statements
• Use a Lambda function to duplicate other functions

• ElasticSearch API Cheatsheet

• Keep the message when amending files in the last commit
• Pull (fast forward) another branch
• Show patch diff for merge commits in git log
• Stash specific files
• Use switch and restore commands in Git from 2.23

• Username alias @me

• Manage PostgreSQL Permissions (Cheatsheet)
• Print size of PostgreSQL tables etc

• Install Python 3 tools with pipx
• Use multi-line text blocks with inspect.cleandoc

• Run commands in parallel with GNU parallel

• Markdown Table of Contents (ToC)

Inspired by https://github.com/jbranchaud/til

Other TILs:

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

© 2020 James Murty

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