TIL (Today I Learned)
The TIL series of articles contains very short articles documenting something I learned “today”.
Today I learned about the Damerau-Levenshtein distance used on strings in the field of genetics.
Today I learned how to customise the Python REPL on start-up.
Today I learned how to read the bytecode from a file of compiled Python bytecode (.pyc).
Today I learned how to write and run tests in the Rust programming language.
Today I learned that generators support membership testing with the operator in.
Today I learned how to create nested git repositories through the submodules command.
Today I learned how to create a VS Code extension to do custom syntax highlighting.
Today I learned how to create an alias to activate my Python virtual environments with a single-word command.
Today I learned how to skip tests on Microsoft Windows in pytest.
Today I learned why I should use the dbg! macro instead of the println! macro for debugging in Rust.
Today I learned how to use the VS Code debugger in code from “other” modules.
Today I learned how to optimise my website images for the web and I automated that process.
