Memos
A memo is not a reference. A reference is complete and you read into it; a memo carries one technique and is meant to be absorbed and then ignored. That difference decides the whole layout — fewer items, larger, with the thing you actually do made the biggest object on the page.
The memos here are the first chords on guitar and ukulele, coffee ratios by brewing method, the matcha drinks, converting imperial units in your head, the flexbox properties, and where a change is sitting in Git.
They are for the wall directly in front of you — beside the instrument, over the kettle, next to the screen. Not for a shelf.
CSS FLEXBOX
main axis and cross axis · which property belongs to which
GIT WORKING AREAS
four areas · the command that moves code between them
THE SELECT STATEMENT
8 clauses in the order you write them — and the order they take effect in
HOW MUCH COFFEE TO WATER
six methods · weight, grind, time
MATCHA DRINKS
six proportions · grams, millilitres, degrees
WINE TEMPERATURE
neither from the fridge nor from the room — not one of them
THE HAMBURGER
the ratios of the mince and the five steps that decide the result
NEAPOLITAN PIZZA DOUGH
four ingredients in the proportions written into an EU regulation
POUND CAKE
four equal weights — a recipe whose name is its ratio
THE CLOCK FACE
two hands, twelve numbers — how to read the time
BARRE CHORDS
two shapes, twelve chords each
THE ELECTRIC GUITAR PICKUP
one coil or two · six builds · where it sits along the string, and how high above it