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Keeping Personal Cheat Sheets as a Software Engineer

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Re: Keeping Personal Cheat Sheets as a Software Engineer

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Post by DaveChild »

japhyr wrote: post #2

If you like this idea, you might want to check out Cheatography - it's a tool for creating stylish cheat sheets. I used it a little when it was first announced, but haven't kept up with it. It's a great idea, and the developer was really friendly when I was checking it out. http://www.cheatography.com/

Cheatography is awesome, and the developer who built it is really cool and talented and handsome and me. :)

Thanks for mentioning Cheatography. It's a bit of a labour of love, and I wish I had more time to put into it.

Re: Keeping Personal Cheat Sheets as a Software Engineer

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Post by pestaa »

zwischenzug wrote: post #6

I have a git repo with work notes in. It all goes in there: root@osboxes:/space/git/work/notes# ls | head 7z abs-guide algorithms anacron angularjs ansible ant apache2 apt_and_dpkg 300 folders and counting...

How do you manage this repository? Have auto-commits, auto-pushing, auto-anything?

Re: Keeping Personal Cheat Sheets as a Software Engineer

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Post by mpicker0 »

zwischenzug wrote: post #6

I have a git repo with work notes in. It all goes in there: root@osboxes:/space/git/work/notes# ls | head 7z abs-guide algorithms anacron angularjs ansible ant apache2 apt_and_dpkg 300 folders and counting...

I use "cheat" to help with less-used options for *NIX commands, probably similar to what you're doing. You create a separate "cheat sheet" for each command (7z, ant, etc.) and then "cheat 7z" dumps it to the console so you can cut-and-paste what you need.

https://github.com/chrisallenlane/cheat

Re: Keeping Personal Cheat Sheets as a Software Engineer

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Post by zwischenzug »

pestaa wrote: post #12
zwischenzug wrote: post #6

I have a git repo with work notes in. It all goes in there: root@osboxes:/space/git/work/notes# ls | head 7z abs-guide algorithms anacron angularjs ansible ant apache2 apt_and_dpkg 300 folders and counting...

How do you manage this repository? Have auto-commits, auto-pushing, auto-anything?

I have automation around the downloading of pdfs that interest me and the production of man pages to pdfs. Gradually I'm developing conventions around format and so on, but it's pretty idiosyncratic, as you can imagine.

Re: Keeping Personal Cheat Sheets as a Software Engineer

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Post by zwischenzug »

mpicker0 wrote: post #13
zwischenzug wrote: post #6

I have a git repo with work notes in. It all goes in there: root@osboxes:/space/git/work/notes# ls | head 7z abs-guide algorithms anacron angularjs ansible ant apache2 apt_and_dpkg 300 folders and counting...

I use "cheat" to help with less-used options for *NIX commands, probably similar to what you're doing. You create a separate "cheat sheet" for each command (7z, ant, etc.) and then "cheat 7z" dumps it to the console so you can cut-and-paste what you need. https://github.com/chrisallenlane/cheat

So far I've relied on grep, but I like that idea and will likely implement it.

Re: Keeping Personal Cheat Sheets as a Software Engineer

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Post by abc_lisper »

DaveChild wrote: post #11
japhyr wrote: post #2

If you like this idea, you might want to check out Cheatography - it's a tool for creating stylish cheat sheets. I used it a little when it was first announced, but haven't kept up with it. It's a great idea, and the developer was really friendly when I was checking it out. http://www.cheatography.com/

Cheatography is awesome, and the developer who built it is really cool and talented and handsome and me. :) Thanks for mentioning Cheatography. It's a bit of a labour of love, and I wish I had more time to put into it.

Hey Dave. Thank you :)

Re: Keeping Personal Cheat Sheets as a Software Engineer

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Post by fit2rule »

Not quite the same, but similar: Print-to-PDF. I've been doing this instead of bookmarks for years now, and as a result have a huge library of local PDF's, usable offline, for all kinds of technologies that I'm interested in/use regularly. With a few key searches I can find all the docs on luarocks, or mysql FAQ's, etc. - I find this a great way to have searchable local documentation for the moments I need to look things up. Its not quite a cheat sheet, but having my own local searchable PDF archive for all the technical howto/tutorial-style HN articles of interest over the years has been invaluable.
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