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We have all had the experience of walking into a room and forgetting why we went in the first place. Recent work from door scientists suggests memory takes context into account, dumping short-term items when the setting changes<\/a>, like when one walks from one room into another.<\/p>\n Likewise, when doing project work, I often forget why I bothered to ssh to some machine or other. The solution I found was to put some ASCII art into the MOTD, giving an instant reminder of the machine’s identity. Furthermore, different classes of pictures can be used to identify different functions: animals<\/a> for one project, aircraft <\/a>for web servers, boats<\/a> for databases, etc.<\/p>\n J<\/span>oin us next week when we take a look at how to migrate from web applications to open finger.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We have all had the experience of walking into a room and forgetting why we went in the first place. Recent work from door scientists suggests memory takes context into account, dumping short-term items when the setting changes, like when…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-various"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pmcgovern.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pmcgovern.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pmcgovern.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pmcgovern.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pmcgovern.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pmcgovern.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pmcgovern.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pmcgovern.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pmcgovern.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nI know, I know, we should all stop making snowflake servers<\/a>, and treat them like food, not pets<\/a>. But when juggling multiple projects for multiple clients, you are going to end up doing work in situ<\/em>, and you are going to forget where you are and why you are there in the first place.<\/span><\/p>\n