The number of times I’ve spent hours trying to figure out some obscure issue only to stumble upon a multiple-years-old stackoverflow post of myself asking the same question isn’t that high, but definitely higher than I’d like to admit.
I started keeping an informal “changelog” for my PC, because I was burnt out on reinstalling my OS every few months. I can be a bit patchy at actually updating it, but when I do, it’s so refreshing to ask “why the hell did I install $software ?” and then to check my logs and find that I installed it while trying to solve $problem, but that it didn’t work and I ended up solving the problem a different way, but forgot to remove $software. It’s so nice to not be scared of breaking stuff when I’ve forgotten why I did things a certain way.
It’s even more fun when that someone is you and you have no useful recollection of the ordeal.
The number of times I’ve spent hours trying to figure out some obscure issue only to stumble upon a multiple-years-old stackoverflow post of myself asking the same question isn’t that high, but definitely higher than I’d like to admit.
I started keeping an informal “changelog” for my PC, because I was burnt out on reinstalling my OS every few months. I can be a bit patchy at actually updating it, but when I do, it’s so refreshing to ask “why the hell did I install $software ?” and then to check my logs and find that I installed it while trying to solve $problem, but that it didn’t work and I ended up solving the problem a different way, but forgot to remove $software. It’s so nice to not be scared of breaking stuff when I’ve forgotten why I did things a certain way.