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I was my most effective when I had a bunch of cheat sheets taped up in my workspace.

by dec0dedab0de 18d ago

pards 17d ago
Hot-desking killed this practice. I now get desk anxiety on my in-office days
- asdfman123 17d ago
  Have an AI agent compile the cheat sheets into a searchable website hosted on Github for your own personal reference.
  - justonenote 17d ago
    and hook up a Bluetooth sensor so when you walk into the office it prints them off in individual sticky notes and assigns one of the humanoid robots to collect them and stick them on the monitor or cubicle walls of your chosen work desk. what a time to be alive.
  - UnfitFootprint 17d ago
    The printed copy lets you build a spatial association with the command. You are more likely to be able to look up and have your eyes settle roughly where it is than write a query on a custom site. I think for a digital solution to come close you need it permanently present on a nth monitor
- sublinear 17d ago
  I am young enough that my entire career has been markdown files, screenshots, and photos on my phone. I (a)sync everywhere by pushing git lfs commits to my home server. Seems like overkill until it saves my ass. It continues to do so almost half a decade into all the LLM hype. It hits the sweet spot between simplicity, convenience, reliability, and precision. People strongly underestimate how good the git life can be, especially with all the blogspam on here trying to dethrone it lately.
  - guenthert 17d ago
    > I (a)sync everywhere by pushing git lfs commits to my home server. Don't let IT hear that unless you work on FOSS.
    - sublinear 17d ago
      That's a funny (bad faith) angle you took it. I thought were talking about personal cheat sheets for general programming and tools, not work and proprietary stuff. The alternative and typical options that nobody bats an eye at for doing this kind of thing (3rd-party big tech cloud) are much worse from a data hygiene perspective. If you're going to be that distrustful of personal phone usage by employees, you're running a prison instead of a workplace and replacing all thought with pointless checklists. That slippery slope never ends. From your perspective, the best security posture is for employees to return to the office without any personal belongings so we can be extra super secure? It's too bad we can't erase their memories while we're at it since being a programmer is knowledge work.
    - mitxela 16d ago
      Don't tell any authority that you are doing a thing, unless you have a good reason to tell them. It cannot possibly help you, it can only result in them telling you you can't do the thing any more. And don't talk to police as a suspect. (I'm not sure if the rule still applies if you are the one reporting a crime)
zem 17d ago
reminds me of the time when you got strips of fn key binding cheat sheets for various popular software packages like lotus 123 and wordperfect, and keyboards came with a space to hold them.

I was my most effective when I had a bunch of cheat sheets taped up in my workspace.

pards 17d ago

Hot-desking killed this practice. I now get desk anxiety on my in-office days

asdfman123 17d ago
Have an AI agent compile the cheat sheets into a searchable website hosted on Github for your own personal reference.
- justonenote 17d ago
  and hook up a Bluetooth sensor so when you walk into the office it prints them off in individual sticky notes and assigns one of the humanoid robots to collect them and stick them on the monitor or cubicle walls of your chosen work desk. what a time to be alive.
- UnfitFootprint 17d ago
  The printed copy lets you build a spatial association with the command. You are more likely to be able to look up and have your eyes settle roughly where it is than write a query on a custom site. I think for a digital solution to come close you need it permanently present on a nth monitor
sublinear 17d ago
I am young enough that my entire career has been markdown files, screenshots, and photos on my phone. I (a)sync everywhere by pushing git lfs commits to my home server. Seems like overkill until it saves my ass. It continues to do so almost half a decade into all the LLM hype. It hits the sweet spot between simplicity, convenience, reliability, and precision. People strongly underestimate how good the git life can be, especially with all the blogspam on here trying to dethrone it lately.
- guenthert 17d ago
  > I (a)sync everywhere by pushing git lfs commits to my home server. Don't let IT hear that unless you work on FOSS.
  - sublinear 17d ago
    That's a funny (bad faith) angle you took it. I thought were talking about personal cheat sheets for general programming and tools, not work and proprietary stuff. The alternative and typical options that nobody bats an eye at for doing this kind of thing (3rd-party big tech cloud) are much worse from a data hygiene perspective. If you're going to be that distrustful of personal phone usage by employees, you're running a prison instead of a workplace and replacing all thought with pointless checklists. That slippery slope never ends. From your perspective, the best security posture is for employees to return to the office without any personal belongings so we can be extra super secure? It's too bad we can't erase their memories while we're at it since being a programmer is knowledge work.
  - mitxela 16d ago
    Don't tell any authority that you are doing a thing, unless you have a good reason to tell them. It cannot possibly help you, it can only result in them telling you you can't do the thing any more. And don't talk to police as a suspect. (I'm not sure if the rule still applies if you are the one reporting a crime)

zem 17d ago

reminds me of the time when you got strips of fn key binding cheat sheets for various popular software packages like lotus 123 and wordperfect, and keyboards came with a space to hold them.