I've been putting each fact I learn as a line in a til.yaml file for the last 6 months. I grep through all my til.yaml files any time I need to remember something. It's been useful.
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#52I've had https://github.com/voltagex/junkcode/blob/master/Bash/comman... for a while but this is much better.
I have to resist the urge to automate the ToC, though.
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#53Smart to put it on GitHub. Works as a nice hack to appear super productive on public profile. My day-to-day commits are all private, so I look slow/lazy to the vagabond internet surfer or startup CTO hiring based on GitHub presence.
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#54Lots of good stuff here. I would appreciate a wiki-style site with short answers like these instead of searching {Google,DDG} and trawling the [stackoverflow] results. Not all of them are necessarily good practice though. This made me chuckle: What Is The Current [Git] Branch? git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD (if you're reading this jbranchaud, try `git branch` :p)
You could open an issue on his repo :)
Re: Show HN: I've been writing daily TILs for a year
#55would be nice to auto generate these TIL readmes based off personal stack overflow upvotes.
Especially when the correct / better answer is not the accepted one.
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#56Just 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…
Everyone at my company really got behind the idea of TILs too, so we created a little web app for it -- https://til.hashrocket.com/
Any chance this is open source? Would love to set this up for my office
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#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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.
Pronouncing SQL as es-kyoo-el is a rookie mistake. Sequel!
For fun, try trolling obnoxious people by pronouncing it like "squeal" :)
Re: Show HN: I've been writing daily TILs for a year
#58Would be nice to connect this to Twitter and get an update when a new one appears. Have you thought of doing that?
That's what newsfeeds are for. You can get an atom feed of the latest commits to any repo via github: https://github.com/jbranchaud/til/commits/master.atom
Thanks for that. The HTML encoding is... interesting there - < is there, but > isn't replaced by >. How on earth is a feed reader meant to parse that?
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#59My favoriate, check if port is in use: https://github.com/jbranchaud/til/blob/master/unix/check-if-... Would be cool, to be able to collaborate and comment on each article. Perhaps, make this entire thing GitHub gists or Wiki?
Pull requests will work there.
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#60When I was first learning UNIX many years ago a grey-beard told me to always keep a spiral bound notebook and pen at my side. It was great advice. Jotting down the arcane commands committed most of them to memory, for the rest my black little spell book held the magical incantation for any situation. I've since gotten away from that habit. Perhaps I should follow this fellow's lead.