Show HN: I've been writing daily TILs for a year
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Re: Show HN: I've been writing daily TILs for a year
#2Just wanted to say, this is an excellent idea and I'll be blatantly stealing it for myself from this point forward; thank you for putting this motivation in my head by your successful implementation.
I've done a half-assed "important learnings from the last year" retrospective for myself, but your method of keeping it going forward is both far less lossy and more complete.
Putting it on GIT as well seems like a smart choice. Treat it as your "Accessible anywhere" personal cheat-sheet.
Re: Show HN: I've been writing daily TILs for a year
#3That is an awesome idea.
Re: Show HN: I've been writing daily TILs for a year
#4For me, this is all about tracking my personal learning. I reference old posts several times a week. I hope others can learn from it as well!
Re: Show HN: I've been writing daily TILs for a year
#5Just wanted to say, this is an excellent idea and I'll be blatantly stealing it for myself from this point forward; thank you for putting this motivation in my head by your successful implementation. I've done a half-assed "important learnings from the last year" retrospective for myself, but your method of keeping it going forward is both far less lossy and more complete. Putting it on GIT as well seems like a smart…
Can I jump-start your list? "Git" is a product name, not an acronym. It's just spelled Git.
(Please forgive me this act of pedantry, as I forgive those who commit pedantry against me...)
Re: Show HN: I've been writing daily TILs for a year
#6Just wanted to say, this is an excellent idea and I'll be blatantly stealing it for myself from this point forward; thank you for putting this motivation in my head by your successful implementation. I've done a half-assed "important learnings from the last year" retrospective for myself, but your method of keeping it going forward is both far less lossy and more complete. Putting it on GIT as well seems like a smart…
Can I jump-start your list? "Git" is a product name, not an acronym. It's just spelled Git. (Please forgive me this act of pedantry, as I forgive those who commit pedantry against me...)
I blame that I've been writing "SQL" all day and have unconsciously associated three letter non English words and "Is acronym". (Although I guess "git" is a word, although not typically part of my colloquial vocabulary... Maybe if I was a curmudgeon ~50 years ago as opposed to being a curmudgeon now)
Regardless, your pedantry is excused :)
Re: Show HN: I've been writing daily TILs for a year
#7This is great.
As an extension, I was discussing with a friend a while ago how great Stackoverflow is at capturing the contents of expert's brains. Is there a way to achieve that on a broader scale without requiring the question-asking side of things? Say you're a lab scientist and you have a small trick or bit of informal insight, how could you be prompted in the right way to share it?
Re: Show HN: I've been writing daily TILs for a year
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can I jump-start your list? "Git" is a product name, not an acronym. It's just spelled Git. (Please forgive me this act of pedantry, as I forgive those who commit pedantry against me...)
I blame that I've been writing "SQL" all day and have unconsciously associated three letter non English words and "Is acronym". (Although I guess "git" is a word, although not typically part of my colloquial vocabulary... Maybe if I was a curmudgeon ~50 years ago as opposed to being a curmudgeon now) Regardless, your pedantry is excused :)
> I blame that I've been writing "SQL" all day and have unconsciously associated three letter non English words and "Is acronym".
Hyperpedantically, "SQL" is an initialism, but not an acronym.
Re: Show HN: I've been writing daily TILs for a year
#9For me, this is all about tracking my personal learning. I reference old posts several times a week. I hope others can learn from it as well!
Great idea. Thanks for posting it. I'm motivated to do the same.
Re: Show HN: I've been writing daily TILs for a year
#10For me, this is all about tracking my personal learning. I reference old posts several times a week. I hope others can learn from it as well!
Really well done and nicely organized. Did you find yourself noticing the overhead of writing these after learning something new? Or did you write them as an afterthought later on? Did you pick certain things to include rather than others?
Defiantly thinking about doing something similar to this sometime soon!!