I have been writing software for over twenty years and keep relearning things I once knew. Not all of it gone, but scattered — across repositories, browser history, half-remembered Stack Overflow answers.
While searching for something else I found an article by Simon Willison. It was within his collection of short snippets he entitles "Things I've learned". Simon himself was inspired by Josh Branchaud and his TILs, he calls them "Today I learned".
The idea of recording my knowledge has been on my mind for years. Their example pushed me to finally start. Short, precise articles, as Josh describes it:
Writing daily TIL posts became a habit that I could stick with. Josh Branchaud
My goals for this space:
- Write down things I have learned and things I want to remember.
- Write things down in a way that I can understand them in a few years.
- Write them in a way that others can understand them, too.