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would be nice to auto generate these TIL readmes based off personal stack overflow upvotes.
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> 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.
Perhaps even more pedantically, SQL is actually an abbreviation of an acronym. It was originally conceived as SEQUEL for Structured English QUEry Language[0], only being abbreviated to SQL for legal purposes (SEQUEL was already trademarked). For this, and sheer convenience, I take the stance that it should always be pronounced as "sequel" rather than pronouncing each letter. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL#Hist…
When 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.
At the end of the internship, I grepped the logs for all those lines but never found anything useful worth re-visiting. :)
Just 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...)