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Believe it or not, I enjoy writing documentation. I imagine it as a competition between myself and an adversary with an uncooperative attitude, one who's prepa
by maw 3y ago
Believe it or not, I enjoy writing documentation.
I imagine it as a competition between myself and an adversary with an uncooperative attitude, one who's prepared to act smarter, dumber, better informed and more ignorant than I am in order to to find gaps, inaccuracies, or ambiguities in the docs I write.
It doesn't hurt that it improves my understanding of whatever it is that I'm documenting -- and where it could be improved.
- mbork_pl 3y agoThis. I also like writing, but I love your description of technical writing as a (sort of) competition. Thanks!
- Tao3300 3y agoI write docs with my most terrifyingly dangerous adversary in mind: Future Me. His forgetfulness and capacity for ignorant destruction are unparalleled, at least that's what Past Me says.