| 2025-04-16 |
API keys are not a part of the ChatGPT
Plus subscription. They are served by the OpenAI API platform. |
https://community.openai.com/t/api-access-as-a-chatgpt-plus-subscriber/573409/2 |
| 2025-04-15 |
InDesign’s GREP supports word boundaries:
\b. (It also supports the opening/closing boundaries:
\< and \>.) |
https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/grep-in-indesign/9780596157173/ch04.html |
| 2025-04-10 |
Zenburn is a Vim color scheme used
natively for Pandoc syntax highlighting. It is so good, I am using it in
my .vimrc. |
https://github.com/jnurmine/Zenburn |
| 2025-04-10 |
SVG favicons are now a thing. |
https://css-tricks.com/svg-favicons-and-all-the-fun-things-we-can-do-with-them/ |
| 2025-04-10 |
In CSS, use
display: flow-root; to ensure parent elements min size
accounts for floated elements. |
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/css-no-more-clearfix-flow-root |
| 2025-04-09 |
In Vim insert mode, evaluate expressions
(e.g. math) by typing
<C-R>=yourexpression<CR>. |
:help c_CTRL-R_=, https://vimtricks.com/p/vim-calculator/ |
| 2025-04-09 |
In Vim, open file under the cursor in a
new split with CTRL-W_f. |
:help CTRL-W_f, https://vimtricks.com/p/open-file-in-a-split/ |
| 2025-04-09 |
In Vim, quickly switch to a one-time shell
with :shell or :sh. |
:help :shell |
| 2025-04-09 |
In Git, use git reset to
clear local changes since last commit. |
https://stackoverflow.com/a/1146981/28799158 |
| 2025-04-09 |
In Vim, use g& to repeat
last substitution. |
:help g&, https://vi.stackexchange.com/a/18107/54693 |
| 2025-04-09 |
In Git, safely undo up to a prior commit
without destroying history:
git revert --no-commit 0d1d7fc3..HEAD |
https://stackoverflow.com/a/21718540/28799158 |
| 2025-04-08 |
Pandoc will treat iframes and other plain
HTML as code blocks if there are more than four spaces worth of
indentation. |
https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/2244 |
| 2025-04-08 |
In Vim, delete all but current buffer with
%bd | e# |
https://stackoverflow.com/a/34050776/28799158 |
| 2025-04-08 |
Quickly create a PDF with a subset of the
pages of another PDF by selecting the pages in the sidebar,
right-clicking, and selecting Extract Pages…. |
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| 2025-04-04 |
A joke about how deep the rabbit hole goes
for solving computer problems. |
https://people.willamette.edu/~fruehr/haskell/evolution.html |
| 2025-04-03 |
The T2 chip on Apple computers can make
installing Linux difficult. |
https://wiki.t2linux.org |
| 2025-04-02 |
Tufte CSS is a CSS styling philosophy
derived from Edward Tufte’s books and handouts. (It is very
elegant.) |
https://edwardtufte.github.io/tufte-css/ |
| 2025-04-02 |
git checkout -b [<name-of-new-branch>]
is a composition of git branch and
git checkout. |
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66882952/how-to-create-new-local-branch-and-switch-between-branches-in-git |
| 2025-04-02 |
Pandoc multiline tables best fit my needs
for note taking. NOTE: They still convert to single-line. |
https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#extension-multiline_tables |
| 2025-04-02 |
In Vim, use
:echo expand("%:h") to show the path of the current
file. |
:help :echo,
:help expand() |
| 2025-04-02 |
In Vim, % refers to the
complete file path, %:h gets the head (path minus
filename). |
:help %:h |
| 2025-04-02 |
In Vim, insert current time insert mode
with <C-r>=strftime('%F')<CR>. |
https://superuser.com/questions/451340/how-to-insert-the-date-into-vim |