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-activeto determine if a service is runningRemoving 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>.