Dan's Notes

Hello! You have stumbled upon Dan's Notes. For the past 15 years, I've been a somewhat obsessive note-taker. Any time I work on a new project or with new technology or stumble across something interesting, I like to job down notes. I blame my bad memory for this habit. I work with way too many technologies that all have way too many details and idiosyncracies to keep everything in my head. For that reason, I write down the things that I'll likely forget which have the potential to be useful later. Also, I find that writing things down and organizing my thoughts helps me remember more.

Mainly, I keep notes in my company's wiki tool, but I steel so many notes and how-to guides from the internet, that I feel bad not putting my own lessons learned out there. I also wonder what would happen if I ever left this company. How many hundreds of pages of technical notes and how-to guides would I be leaving behind? Anyway, this is my attempt to publish those notes in a way that not only guarantees better preservation of them over time, but also makes them useful to others beside myself. Enjoy!

Sections

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