Keeping notes while learning stuff (so they don't get lost)
Also here is a log with more general rants/insights : dev-gotchas also see stuff i used to post on twitter
These notes are best viewed in vim, where I wrote them - the intention is that it should be viewed in fixed font with the text wrapping on. (one option would be to do markdown; the problem is that it is often non-trivial to convert to markdown as symbols like underscore have special meaning in markdown)
Writing down notes while reading something helps me with the learning
- it forces me to to sum it up into a more concise form by formulating the main points into a concise format.
- Keeping notes allows to look through the stuff when i actually need it.
maybe learning is just a process that sums up information into a more concise format (learning might be a kind of lossy compression designed to adjust information for a limited human memory and limited attention span) ...