One Thousand TILs and Counting

I started my own TIL collection inspired by Josh and it&#x27;s been fantastic - I&#x27;m up to 102 now: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;til.simonwillison.net&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;til.simonwillison.net&#x2F;</a><p>The thing I love about these compared to regular blogging is that they reduce the barrier to writing something up to almost nothing. Did I learn something? If yes, I can write it up as a TIL - no pressure at all for it to be anything novel or interesting to other people.<p>I refer back to mine a LOT. The principal audience for them is future me - if anyone else finds them useful too that&#x27;s just a bonus.

One issue I find as I do a similar thing to the author with small notes&#x2F;points of knowledge, in form of wiki (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;nikitavoloboev&#x2F;knowledge" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;nikitavoloboev&#x2F;knowledge</a>). Is that it makes sharing things harder as it feels wasteful to share small notes on twitter&#x2F;hn&#x2F;..<p>But besides that, it&#x27;s strictly superior format as it evolves with time compared to big well researched articles that are more worthy to share.

I wrote about my thinking and process behind this TIL repo here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dev.to&#x2F;jbranchaud&#x2F;how-i-built-a-learning-machine-45k9" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dev.to&#x2F;jbranchaud&#x2F;how-i-built-a-learning-machine-45k...</a>

Slight correction: the description for Get The Unix Timestamp references <i>time</i> instead of date.