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Semi-related story of mine: 1. Stumble upon some specific problem with a web framework we use. 2. Jump straight to stackoverflow. 3. Sbd had a similar issue,
by snicky 7y ago
Semi-related story of mine:
1. Stumble upon some specific problem with a web framework we use.
2. Jump straight to stackoverflow.
3. Sbd had a similar issue, nice.
4. Sbd wrote a very concise answer, nice too.
5. There's my nickname under the answer. Oh, wait...
- grogenaut 7y agoI'm getting the statement about once a quarter at work of: Yeah I found this bug and I worked through it, did a bunch of googling or internal searching found a similar issue and welp it was a ticket from you (me) 2 years ago.
- eitland 7y agoWhich is why I am trying to get better at what I used to to: writing down and sharing problems I saw.
- gambiting 7y agoI'm sad that I cannot share my experiences the same way :-( 99% of my "interesting" bugs are almost all Xbox One/PS4 related, so I can't write a blog post about "how I found out that Sony's implementation of file read is not compatible with regular stdio" - it's hugely interesting but this stuff is NDA'd to such an extent that I wouldn't risk writing openly about it - but I'd love to.
- appleflaxen 7y ago.
- sbov 7y agoI have a giant dev file (well, 2 really: 1 for personal, 1 for work) that I use as a scratchpad. Anything I work on goes there. Makes it easy to find things. Monthly I pull out useful things into notes about that topic. Run into a weird problem with spring framework? Copy out the relevant info into springframework.md.
- pfranz 7y agoIt drives me nuts when you find a forum post and they never reported back. Or it's a terse "I figured it out." I try really hard not to do that for internal or public forums. The odds are better than you think that you'll stumble on the same topic a few years from now.
- rags2riches 7y agoWisdom of the Ancients https://xkcd.com/979/ https://xkcd.com/979/
- grogenaut 7y agoI try to at least move the problem forward. However does anyone have a way they make sure to close those things out and circle back? I mean other than just doing it? On internal tools I do do that but that's a smaller number. Worse is stuff like car and fridge repair. I have no idea what forum I find qqs on.
- z3t4 7y agoOr it say "Google it" and thats how you ended up there.
- behnamoh 7y agoI've found a good way to do that is running a personal blog. In fact, I write as if the audience of my blog will be myself in the future. It's nice to help out others who face the same problem tho.
- chinhodado 7y agoIt's a recurring theme with me, though a bit different where my name is under step 3, and I only realized that when I tried to upvote the question and couldn't.
- HeyLaughingBoy 7y agoTHANK YOU!!! I really thought this only happened to me :-)
- james_s_tayler 7y agoHave experienced this too. Haha.
- harel 7y agoHeh, that happened to me too... I loved it.
- Buge 7y agoDoes "Sbd" stand for something, or is that your username?
- taatparya 7y agoSomebody
- PunksATawnyFill 7y agoUh, OK. Never seen that before. "Sby" would've made way more sense. Or heaven forbid we use one more character to make the nearly obvious "sbdy."
- deleted 7y ago[deleted]
- hollerith 7y agoThe abbreviation "sth" occurs here a lot, probably because of people who learned English with the help of dictionaries that use "sth" as an abbreviation for "something". I suspect "sbd" also comes from the same source.
- hyperpallium 7y agoSO is my notebook.
- collinmanderson 7y agoThis. Why create my own silo of documentation when I can just put the answer where I'm likely going to find it (Stack Overflow).