Not the author, but usually when writing step-by-step stuff like this I alternate between short bursts of messing around and then going back to write down what

Not the author, but usually when writing step-by-step stuff like this I alternate between short bursts of messing around and then going back to write down what I just learned. So I'll fiddle for 10-15 minutes, occasionally pausing to write small notes and important details down (like the CLI commands I used to achieve some particular result), but only after I achieve some significant amount of progress will I go back and write about what I just did in more verbose language.