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POSIX-1.2017, man7, where Ubuntu man pages are online and other distro manual pages, macOS man page differences, understanding shell built-ins vs commands, etc.
by andrewmcwatters 5y ago
POSIX-1.2017, man7, where Ubuntu man pages are online and other distro manual pages, macOS man page differences, understanding shell built-ins vs commands, etc.
Yeah. I don’t think I have ever once seen a blog article point to primary sources. MDN, for example for web developers, not a primary source.
Sometimes I wonder if people ever ask themselves how people answering questions on Stack Overflow or people writing Medium articles found out what they’re teaching to others.
People are too afraid of reading documentation.
- ezequiel-garzon 5y agoMDN, for example for web developers, not a primary source. I’m used to visiting the HTML standard, I think it’s quite friendly considering how much it has grown… CSS2 was still doable for me, but I find the current mesh of CSS standards completely impenetrable at this point. And with JavaScript plus the DOM… yeah, I’ll take MDN as almost primary, an authoritative encyclopedia for web development.
- rmahan 5y agoI gave an hour presentation on the basics of CSS to my department as a junior. Other asked how I learned it so quickly and where from. I just read MDN and W3 for like a month while making slides, then played around for a bit with all I learned on an example app. No one had taken the time to do that before I guess?