Tips / Tip of the day / Today I Learned category

[spdegabrielle]

@alexh

There would have been even more to learn if the TIL was rephrased as a question, and we already have a "Questions" category.

Yes, using existing categories may be a better choice: we have categories for both Questions & Answers and Show & Tell, and Discourse supports tags so users can tag posts in any category as today-i-learnt.

So I'll delay creating a distinct category for a today-i-learnt category for now, with the suggestion users posting a 'today I learnt' tip to any category use the tag today-i-learnt rather than #TIL.

@sschwarzer

I learned the meaning of "TIL" only relatively recently

The comments that acronyms like TIL, ToTD, being opaque to new users is a valuable point. Let's try avoid uncommon acronyms to keep this site welcoming to new users.

Best regards,
Stephen

PS like categories, users can mute tags in preferences so they don't get notifications for tags that are not relevant to them.

PPS There were a number of great tips on the Racket Slack but sadly I can no longer find them

PPPS

@alexh

I noticed that s-exp->fasl can be much faster when writing the data through a port instead of obtaining the FASL value and writing it to disk separately. Why is this the case?

So, does anyone here know why this is faster?

I'd like to know this too!