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I keep wanting to do this but at the end of the day I'm usually too mentally drained to even *gasp* document what I did.

Totally get that. You could try dictation, that always helps me when I’m drained

Waldek Mastykarz

@wldk.nl

That’s a great idea. Over the years I’ve been writing paying attention to images, etc. The problem is, that for a new post to be consistent with everything else, means spending a significant amount of time, which isn’t always an option. Might need to reconsider 🤔

Use an LLM for anything tedious and repetitive, it helps a ton. You can easily give it enough examples to mimic your style and just edit it.

Waldek Mastykarz

@wldk.nl

mrmartincowen.bsky.social

Writing isn’t typically the issue for me. In fact, I love to write. It’s everything else around it like properly cropped and right images that’s taking up the time. Recently I had a look at posts from Matt Mullenweg and DHH that got me thinking about doing it differently

@mrmartincowen.bsky.social

Notes relevant to each ticket in a Notepad++ plain text file (doesn’t get lost on a restart even if not saved) with a [LESSON] tag when there’s a transferable lesson learned, all in one folder to easily search later.

ralph b

@the-rook.bsky.social

I'm not writing a blog post about how Capybara somehow reads your CSS when matching things in the DOM so if you're searching for "Body" (and it is "Body" in the DOM) it doesn't find it because you uppercased it with CSS. I don't have time to write about that. I'm crying about it.

Maybe it will be cathartic, like talking to a coding therapist

Robert Dean

@deanrl.bsky.social

This is great advice. Something similar that I do is jot down notes during meetings, because that helps reinforce my memory and makes it easier to recall.

Paul Truong

@paultruong.dev

Plus you get a nice little blog post which keeps your site looking up to date

Exactly! 😎 And you can always update/expand them later

Rodney Littles, II

@rlittlesii.bsky.social

This is the reason I started my blog. How I accomplish it. I open an MD file the second I run into any resistance while effecting a task. When I am done, I commit it. I have more unpublished than published, but I have documented a lot of weird things, and silly mistakes!

That’s a great idea!

Thanks Sam for the reminder, I should follow this advice more.