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FWIW, journaling has been useful to me. I've run into bugs and thought, "I know I hit something just like this before. Oh wait, let me look through my debug jou

by vitd 10y ago

FWIW, journaling has been useful to me. I've run into bugs and thought, "I know I hit something just like this before. Oh wait, let me look through my debug journal and see if there's something in there!" And often there is. It saves me having to do web searches or guess and use hunches. I can always fall back on those things if it's something I haven't seen before or is manifesting in a different way. I'd go even further and say that I've often wasted time chasing down a hunch that was completely wrong.

jondubois 10y ago
This has happened to me several times as well (encountering a problem which I felt like I had encountered before on a specific project). It's a good memory exercise to try to remember when was the last time I hit that bug. At the beginning, I wasn't very good (and I couldn't remember the solution of the earlier problem - a journal would have been handy at that point) but after doing this for a while, now I almost always remember the solution to various regressions I encounter.