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:git: #TIL Put the line
**/*__gitignore__*
in your ~/.gitignore_global file to ignore any file or directory whose name contains __gitignore__ anywhere in the path.
This handy little glob trick allows you to quickly create a space for temporary files, ad-hoc-experiments or other "stuff" you want to keep out of version control (and also out of you versioned repo-specific…

#TIL: Bibliothèques Sans Frontières / Libraries Without Borders
https://www.librarieswithoutborders.org/
"Since 2007 [it] has been working to provide everyone with access to knowledge. Thanks…

#TIL that the Python Pillow library uses the PING command as a #Windows equivalent of sleep.
#cmd

East Prigorodny conflict - Wikipedia
#til #history

East Prigorodny conflict - Wikipedia

#TIL there’s actually a name that’s common enough in my company that has exhausted all the 24 combinations of:
- JohnDoe, JohnDo, JohnD
- JohDoe, JohDo, JohD
- JoDoe, JoDo, JoD
- JDoe, JDo, JD
- DoeJohn, DoeJoh, DoeJo, DoeJ
- DoJohn, DoJoh, DoJo, DoJ
- DJohn, DJoh, DJo, DJ

... and someone with that name has landed on JohnDoe1 as their email alias.

#til

#TIL Peter Zinovieff, co-founder of EMS, sold his wife’s tiara to buy a DEC PDP-8, making him the first private individual in the world to own a computer. He used it to build a revolutionary electronic music studio in his back garden. 🎹💻 https://…

The Story Behind The EMS VCS3 in the 1970s, part 1
A musical review of a great instrument from the golden era of analog synths, the EMS VCS3, featuring The Who, Hawkwind, Roxy Music and Brian Eno.

#TIL that "Delete Files and Remove" in #Transmission doesn't actually delete files but puts them into trash instead. You can guess how I learned.

#TIL `volta` is unmaintained. The maintainers recommend migrating to `mise` 😩 https://github.com/volta-cli/volta/issues/2080

Volta is unmaintained; we recommend migrating to `mise` · Issue #2080 · volta-cli/volta
The volta maintainers recommend using mise. It is the tool that most of them use nowadays. They're working on getting an official statement out to that effect at some point. Until then, this pinned...

/insights
"Generate a report analyzing your Claude Code sessions, including project areas, interaction patterns, and friction points"
#ClaudeCode #TIL

RE: #TIL You can copy or rename files without retyping the path:
❯ cp /your/long/path/config.toml{,.bak}

#TIL https://www.pizzint.watch/polyglobe/app exists. Is this supposed to be civil palantir for the masses?

Polyglobe — Live Global Intelligence Map
Interactive 3D globe tracking live conflict zones, thermal anomalies, OSINT intelligence feeds, and Polymarket prediction markets in real time.

#TIL: "Anders als arabischer Text, der von rechts nach links gelesen wird, liest man die #arabisch​e Brailleschrift gemäß den internationalen Konventionen von links nach rechts."
– aus dem newsletter 4/2026 des @…

#TIL that there is also a pre-commit check for uv audit: https://www.python4data.science/en/latest/productive/security.html#codecell3

Security
In previous chapters, we have already provided some tips designed to help ensure safer operation. Here, we would like to summarise and expand on the individual elements once again. We will be using...

#TIL Droid Sans, Open Sans, and Noto Sans are all on the same family tree.
youtu.be/s2wyABY-o8Q

#TIL: den #gedankenstrich kann man nicht nur mit alt 150 eingeben, sondern auch mit windowstaste und minuszeichen!

TIL: There is a real disease that is called "Maple Syrup Urine Disease."
#TIL

TIL there will be a sequel to "The Social Network" (again written by Aaron Sorkin) 😮
#TIL

🍉 never heard of the band "The Strokes" before. not really my cup of tea. but they done a thing at that #coachella
spose its what rock and roll is for. #thestrokes #TIL

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
’Til Tuesday:
🎵 Voices Carry
#TilTuesday
https://pentafonica.bandcamp.com/track/til-tuesday-voices-carry
https://open.spotify.com/track/0ZYf6N5eBeXStMri0mf3DZ

#TIL that Patriarch Mar Awa III of the Assyrian Church of the East is born in Chicago and is a fan of the Chicago Cubs. In a bit of good-natured trolling while visiting the Vatican last October, he gifted Pope Leo XIV with a custom Cubs jersey with “Leo” and “14” on the back. The Pope is a noted fan of the rival Chicago White Sox. ⚾️

Pope Leo Gets Cubs Jersey from Mar Awa III
Mar Awa III gifts Pope Leo XIV a Cubs jersey, poking fun at the pontiff’s loyalty to White Sox. Baseball meets Vatican diplomacy.

#TIL: You can't save a spreadsheet in the "Save as" dialog in #LibreOffice whose file name contains an asterisk ("*"). You don't get any error message nor an greyed out "Save" button. It just does nothing, even though the originally opened file has that asterisk in th…

#TIL In bash you can create multiple (nested) directories with a single compact line:
❯ mkdir -p a/{b,c/{x,y},d/{e,f}}
❯ tree
.
└── a
├── b
├── c
│    ├── x
│   └── y
└── d
├── e
└── f

#TIL: Die Weiterbildung vom #Virologen zum #Meeresbiologen dauert 6 Jahre.
🤦
Bild: Tagesspiegel/dpa/Marcus Golejewski

#TIL that if you quote the "EOF" word for #bash here-document thing, it does not perform all the substitutions inside the here-doc, i.e. treats it like single-quoted rather than double-quoted string.
cat > ... <<-'EOF'
${foo}
EOF
will get you raw '${foo}', no escaping needed.

#TIL GitHub Copilot CLI came with computer-use MCP tools.

#TIL: SciFree Journal Search Tool: https://scifree.se/jst
via University of Iowa Libraries:

« J'ai découvert le terme "test sociable" »
#TIL

#TIL "Fußpils"

#TIL about #osm-mode, allowing you to browse #openstreetmap from #emacs.

#TIL that instead of grepping through `git log -p` to figure out when the last dependency on a package was removed, I can just search through gentoo-commits ml archives.
#Gentoo

#TIL: "The book store supply chain [#Bookland] wanted to be able to identify individual books in greater detail than was possible with the U.P.C. code. […] The EAN aggreed and assigned them a country code [in 1985]. The code proposed by Bookland with a "978" prefix has now been accep…

I was just watching an old QI collection of segments about death. #til The Ouija Board™️ was patented as a parlor game, unrelated to the occult, in 1891. An American spiritualist started using it as a divining tool during WWI. There are apparently people doing actual research with them who are pissed about the occult connection. It’s a tool to help you figure out stuff, analogous to casting the I Ching…

#TIL that #RStudio supports multiple levels of code sections. The level depends on the number of # signs at the beginning of the line.
# First Level -----
## Second level ------
This is also reflected in the document outline you get with Cmd Shift O (on a Mac, I guess it's Ctrl Shift O anywhere else).
Why did no-one tell me that earlier?!?
#rstats

#TIL Since :git: version 2.5 from 2015 (!) there is the `git worktree` command.
It lets you checkout a branch in a parallel directory which can be super useful if you have to interrupt your current task but do not want to commit or stash.
This tutorial was helpful to me:

is learning that there was a time when people thought that eating tomatoes would give you loose morals. (Source: #TIL

« J'ai découvert le terme "test sociable" »
#TIL

#TIL: beim verlag ESV gibt es "bürolizenzen" für ebooks für maximal 3 nutzer:innen. 🤨
beispielbuch: https://www.esv.info/978-3-503-24306-8

#TIL NASA offers free ebooks. https://www.nasa.gov/ebooks/
Looking for literature about NASA's test-development-cylce approach during rocket science, though.

e-Books - NASA

#TIL 🤓 There is a concept called "Architectural Decision Record" #ADR, see https://adr.github.io/.
ADRs are used t…

#TIL tittles in “i” and “j” doesn’t have to have the same shape as period.

#typography

#TIL: die aufkleber auf glastüren, die verhindern sollen, dass man in die scheibe läuft, heißen auflaufschutz! ☝️
aus: "Die Neugestaltung der Hochschulbibliothek der Katholischen Hochschule Nordrhein-Westfalen in Köln: Partizipative Planung, Zonierung und Open-Library-Betrieb"

« J'ai découvert snip et rtk et testé rtk (reduce LLM usage) »
#TIL

« J'ai découvert snip et rtk et testé rtk (reduce LLM usage) »
#TIL

#TIL: für das burgtheater in wien hat kaiser joseph II. verfügt, dass alle gezeigten stücke ein happy end haben müssen. also mussten hamlet & co. umgeschrieben werden.
I feel you, jupp, I feel you!

#TIL: "predatory towing".
"Service Request #5: Is My Car in a Lot of Trouble?" @ 99% invisible #podcast
https:…

« J'ai découvert gh-issue-sync »
#JaiDecouvert #TIL

#TIL: The Atthi Varadha idol at Varadharaja Temple in Kanchipuram #India stays submerged in the temple tank and is brought out once every 40 years; and only for 48 days. A true *once in a lifetime event*. ☺️
The idol will be brought out next in 2059. So, not in my lifetime. 🥹
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varadharaja_Perumal_Temple,_Kanchipuram#Atthi_Varadhar

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#JaiDecouvert #TIL