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> Whitespace is key for technical documentation but can also be used to great effect in blog posts, emails, and elsewhere. It’s hard for people to read long par
by dijksterhuis 3y ago
> Whitespace is key for technical documentation but can also be used to great effect in blog posts, emails, and elsewhere. It’s hard for people to read long paragraphs, especially on a computer screen. They will zone out.
100%. The explanation (?) I first heard which helped me 'get' this whitespace principle was along the lines of
> Have you reached a page in a book with no paragraph breaks and thought 'oh no'?
- avg_dev 3y agoYou know, I kind of feel this way about code too. Sometimes people don’t put in a lot of blank lines to break things up and I find that a little harder to read and a bit more intimidating than reading with a few blank lines between concepts/actions. In fact, I was thinking after I read the article, maybe many of these principles apply to writing maintainable code too.