Using a self-rewriting README powered by GitHub Actions to track TILs • Hacker News Board

Re: Using a self-rewriting README powered by GitHub Actions to track TILs

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Post by lonelappde » Mon, Apr 20, 2020, 1:10 PM UTC

It's automatically updated, not aelf-rewriting.

Re: Using a self-rewriting README powered by GitHub Actions to track TILs

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Post by lonelappde » Mon, Apr 20, 2020, 1:11 PM UTC

jmartinpetersen wrote: post #15

This is cool stuff. But could someone explain how this is a self-rewriting README? It looks to me like a file updated by a commit hook.

Your version doesn't have the clickbait name.

Re: Using a self-rewriting README powered by GitHub Actions to track TILs

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Post by pdepip » Mon, Apr 20, 2020, 1:33 PM UTC

I actually wrote a tool like this that's aimed at storing and accessing information: https://mmap.it

The main difference is it provides full text search and global keyboard shortcuts so you can access it when you need it, without context switching.

Re: Using a self-rewriting README powered by GitHub Actions to track TILs

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Post by mikelothar » Mon, Apr 20, 2020, 1:44 PM UTC

Seems like many of us had this same idea. :)

Here's my TIL implementation using Github Actions: https://github.com/mlpetersen/til

Mine is quite simple, you add new TIL's in the develop branch and commit them. Then it's built and added to the master branch.

Re: Using a self-rewriting README powered by GitHub Actions to track TILs

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Post by auggierose » Mon, Apr 20, 2020, 2:12 PM UTC

My TIL for today is that I learnt what TIL stands for. How useless.

Re: Using a self-rewriting README powered by GitHub Actions to track TILs

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Post by auggierose » Mon, Apr 20, 2020, 2:18 PM UTC

auggierose wrote: post #25

My TIL for today is that I learnt what TIL stands for. How useless.

Actually that's wrong, in the morning I convinced myself that given a sequence of code points which forms a valid Unicode character (an extended grapheme cluster), any non-empty prefix of it also forms a valid Unicode character.

Re: Using a self-rewriting README powered by GitHub Actions to track TILs

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Post by factorialboy » Mon, Apr 20, 2020, 5:03 PM UTC

Since when is programmatically generating a text file considered noteworthy / novel.

Or is this trending on HN because it has the "GitHub Actions" buzzword in the title?

Edit: This is a serious question.

Re: Using a self-rewriting README powered by GitHub Actions to track TILs

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Post by simonw » Mon, Apr 20, 2020, 6:33 PM UTC

factorialboy wrote: post #27

Since when is programmatically generating a text file considered noteworthy / novel. Or is this trending on HN because it has the "GitHub Actions" buzzword in the title? Edit: This is a serious question.

Author here. I was really proud of this piece - it's a very detailed tutorial on how to use GitHub Actions, which for me fulfills exactly the kind of content I want to see on Hacker News.

It's the article I wish I had been able to read when I started working on this project.