Notes

Notes are snippets of information that I find useful and wanted to write down, but aren’t long or original enough to be articles. I expect most people will find these notes by browsing my list of topics or from a search engine.

• The “strangler” pattern is named after a tree, not an act of violence

  It’s named after the strangler fig tree, which wraps itself a host tree and gradually kills them.

• Place with the same name, but different etymology

• Use systemctl is-active to determine if a service is running

• Removing a self-hosted runner from GitHub Actions

• My Git config

  How I set up Git on a new computer.

• Who is Bufo the frog?

  Unpicking the history of a Slack icon.

• Python f-strings cheat sheet

  Some Python f-string examples that I find helpful.

• Don’t show Dock icons from apps on another device

  The name of this feature is “Handoff”, and that’s where you’ll find the setting for it.

• How to expire a Tailscale node key faster than the min expiry

  Use tailscale debug set-expire --in=<duration>.