Today I Learned on taude.xyz

Publishing from Obsidian

Wed, 22 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0300

Wired up a script that rsyncs markdown out of my taude.xyz Blog vault folder straight into the Hugo repo’s content directory, then builds and pushes. Turns out Hugo slugifies filenames automatically, so Obsidian’s spaces-and-caps note titles turn into clean URLs for free.

Hello, TIL

Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Short, quick notes on things I learn day to day go here.

Using git worktrees to avoid stashing

Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

git worktree add ../hotfix main checks out a second working copy of the repo in a sibling directory, sharing the same .git history. Handy for jumping onto a hotfix without stashing whatever you’re mid-way through.

DuckDB and Native CSV Tables

Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Not new, but I’m light on content. I told my team about this trick the other day, and it’s one of my favorites: using duckdb to ingest various CSV exports from various sources and then using SQL to poke at that data.

Details from the docs over at: DuckDB CSV Import

But in short, I export various datasets from Snowflake pretty regularly, from different databases and datasets that aren’t naturally joined; I download various JSON reports from APIs and convert the Results to CSV. Then I bring them both into duckdb: