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I spend lots of time reading and reviewing docs and I must say it's a daily reminder on how much empathy is missing in this world. Not a lot of people try to ma
by touisteur 5y ago
I spend lots of time reading and reviewing docs and I must say it's a daily reminder on how much empathy is missing in this world. Not a lot of people try to make the thing readable in any other sense than just spouting things on paper.
I often draw a parrallel with code, where once the unit tests pass, let's ship. Dear colleague, would you mind just editing yourself for your future reader or maintainer or future self. You're not that good that your first draft is enough. Edit until it's fairly understandable. Remove the hacks, reorder the text, remove all the TBD/TBC/TODO...