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TILs Are Junk Food
- AnthonBerg 2y ago[flagged]
- MonkeyClub 2y agoYou took the very words right out of my mouth. Jokes aside, TILs are not necessarily just junk food. As a reader, oftentimes I find them akin to hors d'oeuvres that whet my appetite for something other than what I'm diving into at that period, a sort of inspiration. Sure, many of them may turn out to be low effort blog fodder, but that usually has to do with each individual source's quality - in which case they help filter out low SNR sources. Of course, when I have TIL-style moments myself, I jot down a quick note, usually ending up fleshing it out later, as I expect many other engineers do. I prefer having a low effort aide memoire for later, rather than an open browser tab or bookmark that I'll almost certainly forget about in a few hours' or a day's time.
- bnetd 2y ago[dead]
- Tainnor 2y agoTo me, TIL is just a phrase and not a "thing" that you actively seek out. I don't doubt that some people do this, people do everything imaginable, but on the list of problems I'd like to have, this rant seems quite high up.
- thomascountz 2y agoI like "TIL"s for quick references. HashRocket's TIL page[1], for example, often comes up in my searches. I don't know if it counts as a TIL in the way OP means... 1. https://til.hashrocket.com/ https://til.hashrocket.com/