[HN Gopher] One Year of TILs
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One Year of TILs
Author : tosh
Score : 98 points
Date : 2021-05-02 18:31 UTC (4 hours ago)
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| abraae wrote:
| Now I want to mark this site (in Google, say) with a "high
| quality" measure.
|
| Then I want my search results to prefer this page, and other
| pages marked high for quality by people who [some algorithm] to
| this page.
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| Then Google would be far more useful to me than it is now, when
| screeds of blogspam always seem to occupy the top organic results
| for any "how to" tech questions.
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| In turn I would be a happier and more loyal Google customer (not
| a high bar).
| kabouseng wrote:
| And then less reputable website will hire consultants and
| influencers to mark their website as high quality. And then
| click farms will appear in India and China to mark website's as
| high quality at a price. And that is why we cannot have nice
| stuff / nice search results...
| abraae wrote:
| It's not about who else marked this as high quality. I want
| my signal to count (disproportionally).
| hamstergene wrote:
| You're contradicting your first comment:
|
| > I want my search results to prefer [.....] other pages
| marked high for quality by people who [some algorithm] to
| this page.
|
| Facebook/YouTube already do this and it is a disaster,
| which maybe even has indirectly contributed to rise of
| antivaxx, Q, Trump election, Capitol attack etc.
|
| Before personalized recommendation systems, when an
| antivaxxer made a video, hardly anyone saw it, when they
| liked it, the like resulted in nothing.
|
| When their likes started affecting their personal search
| results, liking one antivaxx video made search produce
| hundreds more of them. It finds so much of the same stuff
| they no longer have free time to check an opposing opinion.
|
| You're operating under an assumption that your judgement is
| more correct or better for you, and the entire problem is
| about finding gems in an ocean of trash. The reality is
| more complicated, for you antivaxx content is trash, for
| them it is _your_ content that is trash.
| true_religion wrote:
| I see what you mean, but like the OP, I would rather have
| google search preference resources that I like over
| resources that everyone in the internet.
|
| Like if I think Wikipedia is a better resource than
| crunch base, then let me make that decision. I don't care
| how good their SEO is.
| hansvm wrote:
| I think what they're going for is more personalized results
| -- i.e., don't aggregate my preferences with those of a bunch
| of click farms.
| jaredsohn wrote:
| Maybe you want to set up a programmable search engine?
| https://support.google.com/programmable-search/answer/451388...
|
| Haven't tried it myself; but remember using a predecessor to
| this maybe 15 years ago.
|
| "You may want to augment your results with general Web Search
| results. This includes results from anywhere on the web, but
| places emphasis on your personalized results"
| abraae wrote:
| That's interesting, but it lost me at " all you have to do is
| choose which sites to search".
| jaredsohn wrote:
| I was hoping you would just need to add urls to it.
|
| I'm guessing the right way to handle this problem is to
| search your browser history or bookmarks but those are
| additional searches.
| kickscondor wrote:
| This mindset is closer to those who keep personal wikis in public
| - not simply broadcasting updates to an audience, but writing and
| working in public. It gets even better when conversations start
| to emerge with others who are also blogging this way. You can
| start to do longform group messaging that is open-ended - anyone
| can join in if they want.
| abledon wrote:
| I think a lot about how we amass 'knowledge' all our life, then
| at one point we grow old/die and most of it is 'lost' unless
| we've written a book etc.. passed it down w/ someone else who has
| done the 'work' to have it transferred etc..
|
| I wonder in say.. year 2155, the learning 'curriculum' for
| whatever tech thats going to exist then.... will be super
| streamlined and powerful.
| nicbou wrote:
| I do the same thing, except my bar is "could this help someone
| else?"
|
| I don't collect visitor statistics nowadays, but those posts tend
| to bring hundreds of visitors per month, so they're certainly
| worth something to someone.
| superasn wrote:
| Thanks! This bash string escape trick will be really useful for
| me(1). It is one of the biggest pain points in using cli
| especially with nested commands like su -c where the actual
| command is supposed to go inside quotes and becomes hell to quote
| if it too has nested quotes inside it.
|
| Oh how i wish that bash and every other language would support
| the Perl's brilliant `q()` and `qq()` for quoting strings. That
| simple fn really made life very easy and code cleaner.
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| (1) https://til.simonwillison.net/bash/escaping-a-string
| loloquwowndueo wrote:
| I started keeping track of useful tidbits i found or cobbled
| together from stuff on the web, on my blog, years ago , to keep
| them easy to find. This is mainly for my own benefit though
| there's some added value in publishing it all in my public page,
| as opposed to keeping it in my local notes (easy to refer to and
| search) - if search engines index my content and it ends up
| helping someone, that's an extra win :)
| sm_ts wrote:
| TIL is actually a foundation of my knowledge, although I have a
| different approach - I keep Markdown files categorized by subject
| (e.g. `git`, `ruby`), essentially, notebooks.
|
| The ultimate goal is both to memorize and to keep references to
| useful snippets or quirks I may need in the future - I actually
| use them very frequently (it's a format that tends not to be
| useful to the general public, though).
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| In the long term, some subjects become small books. Amusingly, by
| far, the largest notebook is Rust - around 15k words, and I am
| still an advanced beginner (!).
|
| I really miss a program that is very good for both editing and
| viewing Markdown! I currently use an always-open VSC; reading
| Markdown is ok, but not super convenient.
| dasnacl wrote:
| Assuming you know about stuff similar to obsidian.md (markdown
| left, rendered right) and Typora (rendered where you edit),
| what is missing for you in terms of editing/viewing MDs? What
| makes current stuff bad?
| lucb1e wrote:
| 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).
| simonw wrote:
| 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!
| mraza007 wrote:
| I think I came across something similar related to TILs and that
| motivated me to start my own TIL and that has really helped
|
| If you are interested here's the link: https://til-
| mraza007.vercel.app/
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