TK, or the secret to effortless writing (2024)(atthis.link)
36 pointsby Tomte5 hours ago9 comments
  • rsingel2 hours ago
    Indeed a great trick. I often double it to TKTK just to make it stand out even more.

    Fun fact: the Ghost.org editor looks for TK

    https://ghost.org/changelog/tk-reminders/

  • cauch4 hours ago
    I've a very dim memory of having heard about it years ago (more than a decades), from an article of Cory Doctorow, and in my mind, he was the one who came up with the idea (and chose the letters TK).

    But I can be wrong (maybe it's not from Doctorow, maybe the article did not even claim the paternity of coming up with TK but it was me badly understanding it, ...)

  • pratikdeoghare2 hours ago
    If you use Brashtag notation you could insert #tk{} bag.

    https://github.com/pratikdeoghare/brashtag

  • natbennett3 hours ago
    I do this a lot but I use “TK:” with the colon to make it unambiguously grep-able (stands out better visually too)
  • karmakaze3 hours ago
    LLMs should use "TK" or stable diffusion (and the like) so as not to get hung up on sequential words/thoughts and fill them in later instead of hallucinating filler.
    • Haranrk3 hours ago
      I think this is a great idea.
  • chickensongan hour ago
    Shout out to Title TK by the Breeders.
  • sublinear3 hours ago
    Could you instead use any two numerical digits? Then you've got a tagging system with up to 100 tags.

    This assumes you're writing according to guidelines that insist you spell out all numbers. i.e. 58 is always intentionally "fifty-eight", so "58" must be your own meta text.

    • chickensong2 hours ago
      I think you can use whatever you want. The point is just to drop a quick marker that you can find later, and not interrupt your flow.
      • sublinear42 minutes ago
        Ah, never mind. A slight refinement needed here.

        AP style only spells out one through nine. 10 and above are written as numerals. So, you'd get 10 tags, not 100.

        I think the regex would be: /(?<!\d)\d{1}(?!\d)/

  • aleksiy1233 hours ago
    GCP employees heart rate spiking at the title.
  • x______________4 hours ago
    tl;dr

    add tk when you hit a wall (abbreviated from 'to come', yet spelled with k as tc appears in many words)

    • ultraboom4 hours ago
      I slice my latke with a pocketknife.
      • karmakaze3 hours ago
        I found the low frequency surprising as it's so easy to pronounce--I suppose tc is used in most cases. Here's what I found for bigram freqs near TK:

        Ratios (count / total) and percentages:

            PG: 0.00047%
    TK: 0.00046%
    KK: 0.00045%
    HQ: 0.00042%
    FN: 0.00042%
        Every other one here I'd expect to see: Postgres, kk/okay (and my initials), headquarters, function. Of course there's Tcl/Tk but not used nearly as much as it could.
      • wonger_3 hours ago
        True, but have you ever sliced your LATKE with a POCKETKNIFE?
        • techno_tsar2 hours ago
          ...I did, a few years ago, when I went camping with some friends.