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Link to actual TILs: https://til.simonwillison.net/

In case the author reads this, what might be useful is to group them by some topic. A framework is only interesting if I also use it, and as it is, I'm not into front-end dev so none of the frameworks are interesting to me, but I have to read the 41 categories individually because they're spread throughout. Same for Mac stuff (I have no mac, so I don't use homebrew), database engines, python: they're all over the place.

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This one sounded interesting: "Search across all loaded resources in Firefox" but unfortunately it's just about the debugger (the debugger also gives you that help right when you open it). What I'd love to know is how to ctrl+f across all tabs' page contents, or even just a stable search field that doesn't change every time I switch tab (so I can just Ctrl+Tab,F3 across them).

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I have a simple search engine for them here: https://til.simonwillison.net/tils/search?q=debugger

I haven't put a great deal of thought into the https://til.simonwillison.net/ page design!

Hey Simon!

I love the concept of "learning in public" and I absolutely love what you've done here. So much so that I am now creating my own TIL page and have also decided to create a webpage listing links to TIL pages, with TILs sortable by category, interest, topic, person, date etc.

Your page will of course be the first on the list. If anyone else has a TIL page (or is planning to create one, or knows of any other great TIL pages) please reply with a link and/or follow me on Twitter @TILpages and I'll follow you back and find your page! Or you can use the email address in my bio. I'm excited! I think this will be a fun project.

P.S. And I just realised, Simon, that you are the co-creator of Django, the framework I am currently learning. Ha! What a beautiful coincidence. Only on HN could this happen.

Anyway, thanks for Django and for providing the inspiration for this project :)

I have one! Here's my (proud :)) TIL repository: https://github.com/saveriomiroddi/personal_notes.

Thanks, Saverio! Your page is now on the list! I had a look through and your notes are great as well.

Inspired by Simon, I created my own TIL site a few months ago. https://til.codeinthehole.com/

It's built using Hugo and hosted on Github Pages. Hugo is good fit for collecting TILs as it makes it easy to create tag pages and link to related content. Source: https://github.com/codeinthehole/til/

As Simon notes, writing TILs drastically lowers the barrier to publishing something online. I see publishing in increasing sizes of granularity as a pipeline (notes → tweets → TILs → blog posts) where each prior step helps inform the next step. To paraphrase a British proverb: look after the TILs and the blog posts look after themselves.

Hey David, I'm adding your TIL page to the list/site/project I mentioned upstream in this thread (a sortable collection of TIL pages and notes).

> I see publishing in increasing sizes of granularity as a pipeline (notes → tweets → TILs → blog posts) where each prior step helps inform the next step. To paraphrase a British proverb: look after the TILs and the blog posts look after themselves.

I really like the way you've expressed this point and I'm hoping you won't mind if I quote you somewhere on this new site, either on the homepage or about page?

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