Craftsmen should know how to use their tools. I usually follow this sort of motto. But sometimes, you stop somewhere half-way, or 80% of the way. Bad habits stick instead of the “canonical” way to use the tool. The meme example of it would be using search bar to look up “google.com”, then opening the first link, and using that for your actual search. It is, however, hard to get rid of some of those bad habits, even when you know that there is a better way™️.

This post is something in the middle between a cheat sheet and a confession about things I know are useful, but for some reason keep forgetting about, and usually resort to doing the equivalent in a bad way. My hope that by writing this I can finally push myself to stick to the better solutions instead.