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I’ll copy/paste the text into my notes and will later generalize it and turn it into a blog post.
Even if the topic seems simple and self-evident, there’s always someone out there who will benefit from learning from your experience.
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It's still science even with a low p value! It's just a negative result instead of a positive one. Such results really ought to be published, even if they aren't usually.
Well, not all of them deserve to be published. But I understand your meaning.
I started publishing "TIL" posts a few years ago and everything in this post here resonated 100% with my experience of writing those. The great thing about TILs is that once you form a solid set of habits around them they can be extremely quick to put together: the majority of my TIL posts take between 15 minutes and half an hour to write. I make extensive personal notes on everything I'm doing (in GitHub issues thre…
I have this odd fear that sharing what I learned today will make me look stupid. “Look it’s 2023 this dude just learned about http error codes”. Silly example but you get the idea.
No-one knows everything. I respect anyone who is constantly learning new things, no matter how basic those things might be.
Here's the most basic one I published recently: https://til.simonwillison.net/html/scroll-to-text
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I have this odd fear that sharing what I learned today will make me look stupid. “Look it’s 2023 this dude just learned about http error codes”. Silly example but you get the idea.
Anyone who thinks they don't have gaping holes in their knowledge, and criticizes others for it, is probably suffering from a severe case of Dunning-Kruger.
I started publishing "TIL" posts a few years ago and everything in this post here resonated 100% with my experience of writing those. The great thing about TILs is that once you form a solid set of habits around them they can be extremely quick to put together: the majority of my TIL posts take between 15 minutes and half an hour to write. I make extensive personal notes on everything I'm doing (in GitHub issues thre…
How often do you go over these notes and review or study them? I don't mean ones you need and hence use, but all of them? I have an issue where I feel I have so many notes that I forgot what's in there, and sometimes I remember or find out when I don't need it, and I seem to lack a habit of reviewing my notes.
I added "related TILs" to my site a while ago - here's a TIL about how I built that: https://til.simonwillison.net/sqlite/related-content - and as a result occasionally I'll post a new TIL and the related ones will remind me of an older one.
Occasionally I'll completely forget the subject of the TIL itself! I was delighted to randomly stumble on this one here https://til.simonwillison.net/html/datalist the other day (after clicking my "html" tag from another TIL) which reminded me of the HTML datalist element, which I had forgotten existed.
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> That helps it have legal force Could you elaborate on this point?
Presumably this is about intellectual property claims. If you get into legal issues around patents, being able to prove when you made notes on something could be important. Signing and dating each page helps demonstrate that you've been taking notes at specific times. Crossing out the areas of the page that you don't use helps in case you get accused of deliberately leaving blank space in your notebook so you can bac…
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Presumably this is about intellectual property claims. If you get into legal issues around patents, being able to prove when you made notes on something could be important. Signing and dating each page helps demonstrate that you've been taking notes at specific times. Crossing out the areas of the page that you don't use helps in case you get accused of deliberately leaving blank space in your notebook so you can bac…
I thought this was a myth
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> That helps it have legal force Could you elaborate on this point?
Presumably this is about intellectual property claims. If you get into legal issues around patents, being able to prove when you made notes on something could be important. Signing and dating each page helps demonstrate that you've been taking notes at specific times. Crossing out the areas of the page that you don't use helps in case you get accused of deliberately leaving blank space in your notebook so you can bac…
There was space for a notary seal as well. I think the idea was to have it notarized once every so often so that the notary was affirming the date on the page, and that location of the X-ed out areas.
I started publishing "TIL" posts a few years ago and everything in this post here resonated 100% with my experience of writing those. The great thing about TILs is that once you form a solid set of habits around them they can be extremely quick to put together: the majority of my TIL posts take between 15 minutes and half an hour to write. I make extensive personal notes on everything I'm doing (in GitHub issues thre…
I have this odd fear that sharing what I learned today will make me look stupid. “Look it’s 2023 this dude just learned about http error codes”. Silly example but you get the idea.
https://overreacted.io/things-i-dont-know-as-of-2018/
It's written by Dan Abramov who has been instrumental in React's development