A lot of my searches are for errors, using Google I can find answers like "yes package X version 3 will give 6that error on node 10 so fiddle around with version until you get it working since the package maintainer did not backport the fix".

Or I can find similar issues reported and open bug reports with my issue so I know that is not only me with this problem.

Sometimes I forget how to do something in the correct/efficient way, things I only do one time a year at most.