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Can't help but feel that you're barking up a somewhat nonexistent tree here. This project is for interfacing with the deprecated Spotify CarThing. If you don't
by Etheryte 2y ago
Can't help but feel that you're barking up a somewhat nonexistent tree here. This project is for interfacing with the deprecated Spotify CarThing. If you don't know about it, you're very likely not their target audience, so I think it's pretty fine if you don't get it. If you do know what the CarThing is, the readme intro covers what this project does pretty well.
In similar vein, you wouldn't expect a Javascript library readme to start by explaining what Javascript is or what a software library is, but if you didn't know those things, you would feel equally lost.
- treflop 2y agoA repo on GitHub linked from HN wouldn’t need to explain JS. But it should explain CarThing. Idk. Even in Jira tickets, I write a short background section to bring everyone up to speed. I like when everyone gets a chance to be on the same page.
- Etheryte 2y agoIt's a common misnomer to think HN is just software developers, there's people here from all sorts of varied backgrounds. Similarly, CarThing has had posts about it on HN countless times [0], many users here will know what it is. Complaining about it feels pretty moot, especially when it would've taken less time to look it up than to comment about it. [0] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=carthing&sort=byPopularity&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...