If that abbreviation is new to you, TIL stands for Today I Learned. You usually use it as a prefix to an interesting piece of knowledge you acquired recently. For example:

TIL earth is round!

I noticed recently that folks like Simon Willison and Julia Evans have a TIL section in their sites. They use it to share small snippets of knowledge they happen to come upon in their daily adventures.

My initial thought was—why? Rummaging through their existing TILs, I noticed that unlike their blog posts, the TILs were rather small and scrappy or long but unstructured and not necessarily well-researched. It’s also a way to record some discovery rather quickly instead of procrastinating on writing a blog post, like I tend to do. So I decided to have my own TIL site.

Now to decide where to put this: under my blog or my digital garden?