Posts tagged: documentation
3 posts
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The Thinnest Record Is Usually the Important One
Documentation tracks what looks notable now, not what turns out to matter, so the record is thinnest exactly where later significance concentrates.
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The Most-Edited Answer Isn't the Current One
Search ranking rewards accretion, edits, and inbound links over currency, so dead advice keeps outranking the docs that replaced it.
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Technical Residue, or: Writing for Someone You'll Never Meet
Sumit's 2006 Gumstix register dump still solves problems today. What that means about why we write anything down at all.