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A friend who ran a mildly popular dev tool (4k+ stars) kept really stellar docs, and his process of updating them was to sit down with a bottle of whiskey every
by patcon 1y ago
A friend who ran a mildly popular dev tool (4k+ stars) kept really stellar docs, and his process of updating them was to sit down with a bottle of whiskey every few months, and doing a marathon doc-writing session. the brand voice would come from him being a funny human and getting a little tipsy.
I suspect his silly and fun-sounding "kinda drunk" brand voice was what set them apart from all the other boring dev tools in the space.
- golergka 1y agoAh, the Ballmer peak.
- Y_Y 1y agoSee also: Stephen King, Oscar Wilde, William Wordsworth.
- throwaway328 1y agoHunter S Thompson, James Joyce, Charles Bukowski, John Fante, Knut Hamsun, ...
- achenet 1y ago"write drunk, proofread sober" - Ernest Hemingway
- Y_Y 1y agoComment drunk, revise never! https://quoteinvestigator.com/2016/09/21/write-drunk/ https://quoteinvestigator.com/2016/09/21/write-drunk/ Looks like it was Peter de Vries, but the hallmark of a good quip is shambolic attribution.