Benji 🍙

Senior Software Engineer with 11+ years building a variety of cool software. Skilled in Python (FastAPI, Flask, Django etc), Gen AI, LangGraph, LLM, and AWS. Created a 98% accurate AI app and boosted

Joined on Oct 21, 2020 https://benji011.github.io/til/

Benji 🍙

Jan 8

My sudden episode to keep my virtualenv in check

#python #webdev #programming #bash

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Dec 23 '25

TIL about the command `nohup`

#nohup #linux #webdev

1 min read

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Jun 9 '25

TIL you can output `aws ecr describe-images` as a table

#aws #ecr

1 min read

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Jan 23 '25

TIL you can apply git fixup automatically with git absorb

1 min read

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Jan 16 '25

TIL how to profile `zsh` start time

2 min read

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Dec 6 '24

TIL that the `requests` library supports automatic retries with exponential backoff

#requests #retry #python

1 min read

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Nov 27 '24

TIL how to see the entire commit column on GitLab using JS

#javascript #gitlab #commit #pipelines

1 min read

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Jun 30 '24

TIL you can create keyboard shortcuts to switch between a specific desktop

#todayilearned #mac #osx

1 min read

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May 17 '24

TIL you can restore deleted files from a commit and then apply a git fixup to update the changes of that commit instead.

1 min read

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Jun 13 '23

TIL you can re-order your commit history through rebase -i

2 min read

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May 28 '23

TIL you can convert media file extensions with ffmpeg

#ffmpeg #convert #file #extensions

1 min read

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May 24 '23

TIL you can trick Mypys typechecker using typing.cast

#python #typechecking #typeannotating #mypy

1 min read

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May 18 '23

Using xyz.objects.get() with Q unexpectedly returns multiple objects

1 min read

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May 16 '23

TIL HTMX is way faster than writing AJAX logic directly inside a Django template

1 min read

Hacktoberfest: Open Source Reflections

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Dec 29 '20

My Hacktoberfest SWAG has arrived

#showdev #hacktoberfest #opensource #discuss

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My sudden episode to keep my virtualenv in check

Want to connect with Benji 🍙?

TIL about the command `nohup`

TIL you can output `aws ecr describe-images` as a table

TIL you can apply git fixup automatically with git absorb

TIL how to profile `zsh` start time

TIL that the `requests` library supports automatic retries with exponential backoff

TIL how to see the entire commit column on GitLab using JS

TIL you can create keyboard shortcuts to switch between a specific desktop

TIL you can restore deleted files from a commit and then apply a git fixup to update the changes of that commit instead.

TIL you can re-order your commit history through rebase -i

TIL you can convert media file extensions with ffmpeg

TIL you can trick Mypys typechecker using typing.cast

Using xyz.objects.get() with Q unexpectedly returns multiple objects

TIL HTMX is way faster than writing AJAX logic directly inside a Django template

My Hacktoberfest SWAG has arrived