Tuesday, 22nd March 2022
TIL
Using the GitHub Actions cache with npx and no package.json
— Some of my repositories have GitHub Actions workflows that execute commands using `npx`, for example my [graphql-scraper](https://github.com/simonw/graphql-scraper) repo using `npx` to [install and run](https://github.com/simonw/help-scraper/blob/54ef9b1fa579dc2d3f68055ffdac9996fd6dae9c/.github/workflows/scrape.yml#L76-L80) the `get-graphql-schema` tool:
TIL
Rewriting a repo to contain the history of just specific files
— I wanted to start [a new git repository](https://github.com/simonw/graphql-scraper/tree/828a1efc4307cca6cd378c394c2d33eac2eceb52) containing just the history of two specific files from my [help-scraper repository](https://github.com/simonw/help-scraper).