Monday, 20th April 2020
Using a self-rewriting README powered by GitHub Actions to track TILs
I’ve started tracking TILs—Today I Learneds—inspired by this five-year-and-counting collection by Josh Branchaud on GitHub (found via Hacker News). I’m keeping mine in GitHub too, and using GitHub Actions to automatically generate an index page README in the repository and a SQLite-backed search engine.
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Running different steps on a schedule
— Say you have a workflow that runs hourly, but once a day you want the workflow to run slightly differently - without duplicating the entire workflow.
Estimating COVID-19’s Rt in Real-Time. I’m not qualified to comment on the mathematical approach, but this is a really nice example of a Jupyter Notebook explanatory essay by Kevin Systrom.
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Using macOS stickies to display a workshop link on the screen
— When giving a workshop it's often useful to have a URL to the workshop materials visible on screen at all times. I use a bit.ly link for these.