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If I wanted the docs, I would get the docs. The blogs are useful because the documentation is largely unhelpful due to being overly simplicity or extremely nond

If I wanted the docs, I would get the docs. The blogs are useful because the documentation is largely unhelpful due to being overly simplicity or extremely nondescript. The blogs are where it's at because you can see how someone else used that thing

smcin 3y ago
That's too generalized and IME not even true for say, Python docs, or regexes, or Gnu tools, or HTML. Most bootcamp/academy/coder-type blogs/copycats are aimed at giving only a tiny fraction of the information, but with examples (sometimes only very simple ones that cover only the most basic use-cases, and no links or mention of the other missing 90% of information (e.g.: "to read more about regexes, see ..."). "site:docs.python.org/3/ term" gets much better results. (You have to add the site: qualifier, due to SEO it's no longer just enough to say "Python docs". Hence "If I wanted the docs, I would get the docs." is not as trivial to do as you suggest. Things actually went beyond annoying to downright dangerous when searches for "Python 3.10 <topic>" were drowned out by older e.g. (3.6-3.8) version SEO stuff, instead of the latest Python docs.) Queries like "awk by example" or "egrep by example" or "jq by example" seem to hit the sweetspot between completeness and working example: they give you third-party non-commercial unaffiliated expert bloggers not stuffed with upsell links to a bootcamp. Just pure information sites. Having mentioned all this, now I've probably inadvertently cursed those sites...