series:Til

TIL you can have conditional sections in your .gitconfig As some of you may know, I keep my dotfiles in a git repo. The problem with this approach is that my email in my .gitconfig is set to [email protected]. Where my config looks something like this: [user] email = [email protected] name = Haseeb Majid # ... However, when I am at work I need to use a different email to commit i.e. work email [email protected] not my personal email. So I was wondering how could I do that; one way would be to change the file locally and just not commit it. But of course, that is not ideal. ...

What is a TIL post? TIL - Stands for today I learnt. These posts will be shorts summaries of something I learnt “today”. The TIL posts have a low barrier to entry and are a lot easier to write. Therefore they should encourage me to post more often. In all my blog posts I try to post about things that I struggled to do. If I struggled to implement a feature or build something. It shows that there wasn’t a tutorial or an easy example I could follow. So then I usually decide to write my own, to make it easier for others. It also has a nice side effect of helping me remember the topic better. ...