Why I started a TIL blog

This is mostly for me. The idea is simple: every day I run into something — a language feature I’d forgotten, a sharper way to do a thing I’ve done a hundred times, a “wait, why do we even do it like this?” moment. Most of it evaporates by the next morning. So I’m writing it down.

That’s the whole point of a TIL: one small thing, learned today, captured before I lose it. Not essays, not tutorials — a sentence or two and maybe a snippet.

What I’m really after is the habit underneath it. It’s easy to spend years on autopilot, reaching for the same patterns because they worked last time. Forcing myself to note one new thing a day is a nudge to stay curious — to keep poking at the everyday stuff and asking whether there’s a better way, instead of just shipping on muscle memory.

// the kind of thing that ends up here:
// "huh, didn't know that was built in" — then it goes in a note

If a future me (or you) gets one useful nudge out of these, even better. More tomorrow.