Note Taking in Runtime Configuration

How I Use Runtime Configuration Files as a Substitute for Notes

How many developers have a notepad chock full of technical notes that they know they’ll need later? And how quickly does it fill up? And how often do you review it and clean out the old information?

Mine used to be full of things like IP addresses, command snippets, command output, URLs, and even some JSON. While the approach I’m going to outline doesn’t fix all these problems, it should fix many of them.