A collection of shorter thoughts, quick updates, and things I’ve learned that don’t warrant a full blog post.
Android Gradle Plugin 9.0.0 upgrade notes
Some tips to ease the Android Gradle Plugin 9.0.0 upgrade
Notes
Short thoughts and quick updates
Collating entries in my Obsidian journal for week notes
Quick how-to of setting up my Obsidian journal to create a gist of noteworthy events through the week
TIL: Bypassing aliases in a Bash script
Quick syntactic solution for ensuring aliases don’t mess up scripts
Migrating a Postgres database between servers
A quick rundown of the process so future me can have an easier time
GPT-5 seems to forget things well within its context window
An instance of LLMs seemingly not being able to utilize their context window effectively
Copying Nix Flake inputs to a different machine
Simple one-liner to avoid re-downloading inputs on a different machine on your LAN
Changing the locale set on a maching running Postgres
I keep rediscovering that Postgres uses the system locale and timezone database, despite having read other people’s woes. I changed the locale in my NixOS configuration from en_US to en_GB to appease the spell checker on my desktop. When I deployed this updated configuration to one of my servers, all my services immediately fell over. I had the sense to look at journalctl right away which made it very apparent what the problem was: ...
Welcome to Notes
New section woo! This is mostly going to be used for relatively smaller things that I don’t find worthy of a blogpost but are a bit awkward to fit into a toot. Over time I plan to backfill this with the contents of my Obsidian Vault’s “TIL” folder and then just use this public listing for the purpose, since it’s equally accessible to me via the excellent Sveltia CMS.
Adding boarding passes to Google Wallet
Google Wallet lets you add passes via image, so rather than try to share a PDF with it you can take a screenshot and share that to the app instead. “Google AI” does the rest.
Interactive reverts in Git
Git has the capability to revert only specific hunks of a commit using the git checkout --patch command. To revert the changes to file example.md made in commit 0xDEADBEEF, you would run git checkout --patch 0xDEADBEEF^ example.md and Git will open up the interactive diff editor so you can select which reverts you want to apply to your index.