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.
TWO-CAMERA SPEAKER SETUP
the lighting triangle and where each of the 2 cameras stands · the floor plan from above
THREE-CAMERA SPEAKER SETUP
the lighting triangle and where each of the 3 cameras stands · the floor plan from above
THE SELECT STATEMENT
8 clauses in the order you write them — and the order they take effect in
THE CONDITIONS OF TRAP
FIVE conditions from the standard — EXIT and four signals — and three extensions a conformant shell refuses
THE UMASK
The file mode creation mask: the nine bits it clears, five arguments that name opposite things — and why umask 022 is not chmod 755
WORD EXPANSION
Four steps in a fixed order — and only two of them can change how many fields reach the command
COCKTAIL FORMULAS
five templates by ratio, not fixed recipes — millilitres straight from the official IBA recipes
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
BABY-LED WEANING
cutting fruit and vegetables so a baby can feed itself: the shape, the size limit and what is never served
THE BOILED EGG
soft, medium and hard: the minutes on the timer — and the degrees at which the white and the yolk set
THE HAMBURGER
the ratios of the mince and the five steps that decide the result
CAST IRON SKILLET
seasoning in 6 steps and everyday care — after the official Lodge instructions
FIRST FINGER FOODS
the size, the softness and the shape of a piece for a baby who feeds themselves, by the NHS guidance
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
SOURDOUGH BREAD
the timeline, hydration and grams — per King Arthur Baking’s Naturally Leavened Sourdough Bread
TABLE SERVICE
which side each thing arrives from, in what order the table is served, and what the hand may touch
BARBELL MATHS
the IWF colour code and the plate count: from target weight to each side of the bar, no calculator
THE CLOCK FACE
two hands, twelve numbers — how to read the time
DIVISIBILITY TESTS
what to read in a written number instead of dividing it: the tail, the digit sum and composite divisors
THE DOOMSDAY RULE
the weekday of any date in the Gregorian calendar, worked out in the head in three steps
THE RULE OF 72
the time it takes steady growth to double: the division you can do in your head, how far it misses and why the divisor is what it is