Why I Write Down What Went Wrong at Home
An automation dimmed the bathroom lights while somebody was still in the shower. The repair was small. Writing down what happened is what keeps future me from learning the same lesson in the dark.
Writing
What broke, what I built, and what I’m still learning.
Newest first. The useful failures tend to age well.
The Work Was Recorded. The Reasons Were Not.
Git history showed what changed and forgot every wrong turn that explained why. The missing reasoning was still sitting in old coding transcripts, unreadable until something turned it into notes.
I Stopped Opening Analytics Dashboards
The data existed, but seeing it required remembering to visit ten quiet dashboards. I replaced the ritual with one morning email and then learned that the email itself could run stale code without complaint.