I know that picture is a QR code, I can even scan it, but I just can’t stop thinking it’s one of those magic eye pictures.

Okay, Yahoo and AskJeeves didn’t have anything useful. Let’s try this Google thing.

This. I used to also keep a notebook with me and jot down the commands I used often. Eventually I learned other ways to jolt my memory and learned to use man. As time went by I used my notebook less and less.

It’s a little hard to iterate and think when you’re adding to a complicated codebase you might not have worked with in several months, or even just a portion of a project that’s seemed stable for a long time. In that scenario, debuggers are able to shorten the getting up to speed process by quite a bit.