• Started TIL repo: 10 years ago on February 6th, 2015, with the repo at https://github.com/jbranchaud/til.
• Number of posts: Almost 1600 tiny Today I Learned (TIL) posts across programming topics.
• Impact: Caught fire on the orange site, has 13k stars on GitHub, inspired Simon Willison to start writing TILs, and shown in Google search results.
• Personal benefits: Anchoring during work ebbs and flows, a way to convince oneself of improvement, and a useful practice for deepening understanding and practicing writing.
• Process: Scribble notes throughout the day, dig deeper when time allows, think of a concise title, write in Vim, add categorically and alphabetically to README.md, commit and push.
• Numbers breakdown: Actual number of TILs at writing is 1585, almost 160 per year. Top three topics/categories per year and all-time counts per topic/category not detailed.
• Call to action: Reach out via bluesky, twitter, or email to share TIL repo or other career projects and reflect on learning journey.