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Learning journal

This section is the only dated update log for the public site.

I use it to document progress without needing every update to become a full guide.

What belongs here

Short entries work best for:

  • new services I deployed
  • architecture changes
  • mistakes worth remembering
  • security improvements
  • things I want to revisit later

If I want to record that something changed, this is the place.

Suggested entry structure

# YYYY-MM-DD - Short title

## Goal
What I was trying to do.

## Change
What I actually changed.

## What I learned
What mattered, surprised me, or broke.

## Follow-up
What I still want to improve next.

Update habits I want to keep

  • write while the context is still fresh
  • keep entries short and honest
  • record the reason for a change, not just the command
  • add links back to the main guide pages when a journal note becomes repeatable knowledge

Good rule of thumb

If a note helps only me today, it can stay a journal entry.

If it would help me or someone else repeat the work later, it probably deserves to be promoted into a guide page.