Today I learnt …

Concise notes on the little things I’ve learnt along the way

How to get quick access to dictionary definitions using Spotlight on MacOS

Today I learnt …
26 August 2025
I wanted to look up Apple’s definition of ‘helpful software’
How to automatically format acronyms according to The Economist’s style guide in Typst

Today I learnt …
29 May 2025
Capital gains: following The Economist’s demanding standards using Typst’s state management, functions, and show rules
How to customise the styling of em-dashes in Typst

Today I learnt …
1 March 2025
Use a simple ‘show rule’ to style em-dashes with no extra markup and no interruptions to your writing flow
How to use DuckDB’s ST_Read function to read and convert zipped shapefiles

Today I learnt …
4 April 2024
What audio formats are supported by Raylib?

Today I learnt …
20 September 2023
How to use JSDoc to add type contraints to generic function arguments

Today I learnt …
23 March 2023
How to search a GitHub repo using regular expressions or case-sensitive matching

Today I learnt …
18 March 2023
How to move your most recent Git commit to a new branch

Today I learnt …
2 March 2023
What do SwiftUI’s built-in shapes look like?

Today I learnt …
1 March 2023
How to really compress JPEGs with mozjpeg

Today I learnt …
11 February 2023
How to mark all GitHub pull request files as not viewed

Today I learnt …
8 October 2022
What’s an LLVM target triple?

Today I learnt …
30 September 2022
How to use a global .gitignore file

Today I learnt …
19 May 2022
How to find the bounding box for a web map tile in Python

Today I learnt …
25 April 2022
How to configure Git to commit using different emails for work and home repos

Today I learnt …
24 April 2022
How to use Pandoc to create computational notebooks that include print-quality vector charts

Today I learnt …
26 January 2022
How to format axis labels in Observable Plot

Today I learnt …
16 January 2022
How to create a GeoJSON feature collection in PostGIS

Today I learnt …
8 January 2022