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Create a folder on your computer or get a sturdy box made of good cardboard with a lid. Name the folder “Process”. Write the word “Process” on the box. While working, occasionally take photos or screenshots of what you are doing showing your workspace, the computer desktop, the desk with pencils and papers and cables everywhere, the wall or piece of string with notes. Show the messy process of creating something. Typ…
I really regret not archiving my projects as a kid. I didn't care to save much of anything back then so they got lost to various HDD crashes and migrations to other systems. I started programming at 11 and don't have anything I made before I was 19. Mostly video games in C++ and small PHP projects I did for money in high school. It's fun looking back at what I have so I really wish I had the stuff from way back in th…
It is ok. Sometimes the memory is better than the reality. How good do you think your code really was?
When I start working on a new feature for a project I create a PR on GitHub and document my research and then the implementation with screenshots.
I also have a text file on my computer where I write a few lines everyday about what I'm doing. From time to time I send it to myself by email.
It's relatively simple and low effort but has proven to be very helpful many times.
I really regret not archiving my projects as a kid. I didn't care to save much of anything back then so they got lost to various HDD crashes and migrations to other systems. I started programming at 11 and don't have anything I made before I was 19. Mostly video games in C++ and small PHP projects I did for money in high school. It's fun looking back at what I have so I really wish I had the stuff from way back in th…
It took a while to find them back on the internet thanks to various archiving folks!
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> Practice writing down notes on a piece of paper in the dark > Thank yourself later, in years to come I only found out about this many decades after it happened, but on the occasion of my grandfather's 60th birthday, way back in 1980-ish, my mother presented with him a large bound empty notebook labelled with his name, and explained that the purpose of the gift was that he was to start making notes about his life. I…
Thank you for this idea. I’ve given notebooks to my mom to encourage her to write, but don’t think I ever wrote her name on the cover. The next one will have it. Also, consider recording a conversation between you and your loved one with the voice recorder on your phone. I have one brief recording of my dad’s voice in an old VHS tape that I burned to DVD and copied to the computer, and that’s it. Memories. Often the…
I back up all of my videos and pictures to iCloud, OneDrive, Google Photos and Amazon Drive (pictures only).
As far as my own writing, my wife and I are what I call “hybrid digital nomads and snowbirders”. I have a blog over at micro.blog where I write about our journey.
Create a folder on your computer or get a sturdy box made of good cardboard with a lid. Name the folder “Process”. Write the word “Process” on the box. While working, occasionally take photos or screenshots of what you are doing showing your workspace, the computer desktop, the desk with pencils and papers and cables everywhere, the wall or piece of string with notes. Show the messy process of creating something. Typ…
The past isn't always a fun place to go visit, even if it's not traumatic. Who you were and who you are are different people, and getting dragged back to that old self can feel suffocating rather then fun.
Strictly technical records? Great. Everything? Even if you want to keep it, you may find you don't like revisiting it. I have zip files which exist because I don't quite want to destroy old records entirely, but I certainly don't want to actually scroll into photos from 10 years ago.
The encryption software can be discontinued, or change over time and be backwards incompatible.
I once created a simple counter [1]. I used it to remind me of eating every two hours. I thought to myself "it's a good counter, I'll show it to people" then posted it on HN. People were like "that is just a counter, why are you showing us that?" So i kind of stop sharing everything, haha. But my GitHub used to be a replica of my projects folder, i would upload everything. I don't do that as much now a days. 1 - http…
Years ago I bought a Clevo-based laptop from a brazilian manufacturer, reverse engineered the keyboard LEDs and wrote a Linux user space driver for it. I just published it on GitHub and forgot about it, assuming no one would ever care. One day I opened my email and discovered I somehow had users and someone even built a GUI around my little program. I was actually a little embarrassed that someone had posted an issue asking me how to use the thing and I didn't even see it.
I mentioned another Linux project here in comments, someone submitted it and I got to engage with the community about it. Recently someone submitted another project of mine, a programming language, without me talking about it. Seriously made my day when I opened HN and saw my project on the front page. Couldn't even believe it at first.
It takes a certain boldness to put oneself out there. I'm always ready for negativity and criticism. Still, the results can be very nice.