Create a habit of continuous improvement and development
With over 20 years of experience in software development, I have learned a lot. And I forgot a lot. Not that it's all gone. But every now and then I have to think hard to remember some really valuable and good things. And I have to search my repositories or the internet for some things I already knew before.
One day on another internet research I came across a very useful 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, and it's not a new concept. But this event encouraged me to finally write my own articles. With the short and precise articles I hope I found a way to do it, as Josh describes it:
Writing daily TIL posts became a habit that I could stick with.
Josh Branchaud
I will try to write down things I have learned and things I want to remember. I will try to write them down in a way that I can understand them in a few years. And I will try to write them down in a way that others can understand them, too.
Let's see how it goes.
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