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[–] astrsk@fedia.io 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The older I get, the less time passes between starting a new project and reading the readme / manpages for a library.

[–] leisesprecher@feddit.org 7 points 6 days ago

I find it extremely frustrating how weirdly wrong-density much documentation is. It's extremely detailed in all the wrong places and often lacks examples for common use cases.

I learned a while ago that news articles are supposed to have increasing levels of detail from top to bottom. Each paragraph adds a bit more context, but the general picture should be contained in the first one. Hardly any documentation follows that pattern.