The manual is probably outdated either way
Beat me to it.
What’s the meme for when the documentation is two years out of date?
Or when the documentation IS up to date… but the last 4 versions of the docs are still online and look exactly like the new version with no obvious sign of which version they are? (Looking at you, Microsoft)
I mean, thats how i learned to use a computer, was moms so the manual was gone by the time i used it anyway.
The funniest thing to me is that any good manual would just say “DO NOT USE SOCKS AND FLIP FLOPS SIMULTANEOUSLY”
what if i want to embarrass my nieces and nephews
Finger-pulls and 'remember when…'s
Then you pick up the manual:
To use, start using. If you get an error, try again
Reconfabulate the tridepodictaphone by nabulizing the fromgulan with kreevus. If stufingus brawes, then hyfangle the natriuminutaur.
Basic 17th year psycoders can do this.
that does look less painful than reading documentation
then documentation instructs it must be used for spanking
Man page me daddy.
Hold on… Is it
flipflop -throw -f=10 -t=bor is itflipflop -throw 10 -f -b? The docs show both work for setting the force to 10 and target to buttocks
Did real people really wear slips with socks?
If its cold yea sure
That’s vibe coding.
Now I get AI to summarize the documentation.
I enjoy it more to figure out on my own. Kinda like disassembling stuff to see how it works and then put it back together. Reading the manual is like copying answers
And thereby learning more about what the program can do then the original dev even knew it could.
This is a weird picture of that important process though.
Then you look back at your notes a couple years later and you’re like “I still don’t understand wtf I did it that way”.
It works, DON’T TOUCH IT.
Then the doc is so complicated that you spend hours reading stuff just to understand if the page is actually related or not. Then at some point you get bored try something randomly and it works.
WTF is going on in panel 2? Did they cut a hole in the sock?
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Joke’s on you, the docs don’t exist or are so outdated that they don’t even compile
Looking at you Microsoft.
The documentation is usually dog shit.
The corporate culture does not allow appropriate time for the documentation as it is considered something that cost money without a quantifiable gain.
It permeates in the FOSS space as well since writing good documentation is a skill and it is not fostered in corporations. So devs start great projects with terrible documentation.
One way to contribute to FOSS is to improve bad documentation. You are correct, of course, and lazy devs write bad code if they do not cultivate good documentation - imho.
Then they don’t learn the skill for themselves lmao, can’t win
Does anyone know of any good resources on writing good documentation? It’s a thing I’m weirdly passionate about and absolutely want to get better at for my own sanity and for others as well if I can contribute.
But it seems like it’s a very under discussed subject…
Veronica Explains has a really good video talking about how much of a dead skill it is now from the standards it used to be.
