You know that thing folks get sometimes where they're having a technical problem, they look it up online, and the top relevant hit is one of their own blog posts? And it does in fact answer the technical question?
I just had something like that, but for code I was trying to figure out, and instead of a Web search it was grepping through a folder of checked-out projects.
Oh.
I wrote the code to do this exact thing two years ago.
I frequently consult my own book about linux admin, because I have no memory of how to use things like parted and lv-extend
I've got a 200 page google doc called JT-cookbooks. It's just a bunch of weird disorganized invocations. It's become a first reference for lots of my coworkers.
Writing down things that work matters more than any management types would believe.
For multiple jobs, I had a "tips and tricks" text file, open in "vi": all the time.
The number of times I grepped that to remember a command line or pattern is amazing
@pseudonym @johntimaeus @randomgeek My "Notes" file is extremely important to my environment. One keystroke appends the current cut buffer to it. Another opens it in my favorite editor in an xterm. I can send text to it via xmpp from my phone.
Etc.
Creating a new notes file with its own command takes 5 seconds.
@davefischer @johntimaeus @randomgeek
Ooo. I like this
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