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:memo: Today I Learned

20 mentions on Hacker News by 15 people: 9 stories, 11 comments · first 2016-02-09 · latest 2026-09-11

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  1. 1507! https://github.com/jbranchaud/til Not me.
    comment by goosejuice · 2024-11-15 · in New Microblog with TILs
  2. See https://github.com/jbranchaud/til I think this guy pioneered it many moons ago, I've been doing something similar ever since I saw that. Previously... - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11068902 -…
    comment by iKlsR · 2022-07-19 · in Tell HN: My new free note taking tool
  3. …is still an overwhelmingly read-only parent fork that is basically the author's personal TIL blog. https://github.com/jbranchaud/til/pull/24
    comment by hhsuey · 2020-04-18 · in I've been writing TILs for 5 years
  4. Possibly in order to raise Pull Requests against the repo? https://github.com/jbranchaud/til/pulls?q=is%3Apr
    comment by dcminter · 2020-04-18 · in I've been writing TILs for 5 years
  5. …multiple machines and I don't want to set it up for each machine. I got the idea from this one ( https://github.com/jbranchaud/til )
  6. …to get in the habit of writing it down daily. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11068902 [1] https://github.com/jbranchaud/til [2] http://arminmsg.github.io/blog/til/ http://arminmsg.github.io/blog/til/
  7. …by a previous HN post where someone made a repo of short memos about things they had learned https://github.com/jbranchaud/til
  8. https://github.com/jbranchaud/til/blob/master/ruby/comparing... I really like the .contain_exactly() matcher for this purpose as well :)
  9. …don't fit that pattern. To take one example from here, I use 'pry' regularly, but before reading https://github.com/jbranchaud/til/blob/master/ruby/editing-c... , I didn't even think to wonder whether there was a way to fire up an editor…
  10. 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
  11. My 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?