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Wednesday, 22nd July 2020

You always get the name of the dog, the editor explained. The dog is a character in your story, and names tell readers a lot about your characters. It’s a crucial storytelling detail, and if you’re alert and inquisitive enough to ask for the name of the dog, you’ll surely not miss any other important details.

Justin Willett

# 2:29 pm / journalism

Release datasette-clone 0.5 — Create a local copy of database files from a Datasette instance

The unofficial Google Cloud Run FAQ. This is really useful: a no-fluff, content rich explanation of Google Cloud Run hosted as a GitHub repo that actively accepts pull requests from the community. It’s maintained by Ahmet Alp Balkan, a Cloud Run engineer who states “Googlers: If you find this repo useful, you should recognize the work internally, as I actively fight for alternative forms of content like this”. One of the hardest parts of working with AWS and GCP is digging through the marketing materials to figure out what the product actually does, so the more alternative forms of documentation like this the better.

# 5:20 pm / documentation, google, cloudrun

TIL Updating a Markdown table of contents with a GitHub Action — [markdown-toc](https://github.com/jonschlinkert/markdown-toc) is a Node script that parses a Markdown file and generates a table of contents for it, based on the headings.
Tuesday, 21st July 2020
Thursday, 23rd July 2020