I started last month setting up a Linux server at home that I use for remote VS Code work. A lot of learning followed as I’ve never use Linux outside a server environment, except for some short periods of fiddling with Pop!_OS. I’ll probably write up a longer article later, but for now the majority of my TILs the past month has been related to that project.
Linux
- You can run simple GUI applications like
xeyesandgit guiover SSH using X11 and XQuartz - How to run VSCode remotely on a linux server with VS Code Remote/SSH extension
- You can setup default ports to forward on a remote VSCode workspace
̂ + ⎇ + Ttoggles the Terminal panel in VSCode- tmux integrates nicely with iterm2
- Use
tmux select-layout even-verticalto resize panes evenly tmux -CCstarts in Control mode (and disables eCho)- How to fix iTerm 2 so it uses Natural Text Editing preset (via @sobstel)
- neofetch - the CLI equivalent to “About my computer”
- You can restrict which commands that can be run over SSH in
authorized_keys - How to change hostname on ubuntu
Productivity/development
- ActiveRecord has a
commentkeyword argument foradd_columnthat works with postgres - How to fix HMR in expo react-navigation
- Assign env vars to constants and use
stub_constover mocking env vars in tests git checkout -navigates back to your previously checked out branch similar tocd -- @ in slack shows recent activity (via @jennysjogren)
- Heroku supports multiple credentials for their Postgres databases
Random
- The brain has 80 billion neurons…
- How to remove stearin stains from clothes: use a paper towel and an iron
- BTDTBTTS; Been There Done That Bought The T-Shirt
- Variomatic transmission; drives as fast in reverse
Stuff I’ve discovered but didn’t have time to pursue yet
- grasshopper / rhino parametric cad
- Geonames.org
- delayed_deprecation
- Emmet
- Stryker
- OpenChakra – OpenUPM
- docker-entrypoint.sh
@sobstel, a colleague of mine, joined the habit and posted his February learnings too. Check them out!