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8 Light writer Taylor Keazirian argues in favor of maintaining a set of "living" documents as part of software development project efforts. Common misconceptions about software documentation are addressed and refuted with insights on what a minimal technical set of documents for a software project should look like.
"Mastering Technical Documentation"

Mastering Technical Documentation | 8th Light
Technical documentation is an essential part of successful software development teams. Learn actionable strategies to create clear, maintainable, and effective docs. Boost efficiency, reduce bottlenecks, and empower your team.

👏💪👍 #WebDev #FrontEnd

feat: Add Storybook for component documentation, testing, and development by diondiondion · Pull Request #34907 · mastodon/mastodon
Closes MAS-428 Changes proposed in this PR: Introduces an initial basic Storybook (v9) setup to the project (only the Button component is included for now) Updates vitest to version 3.2 and uses t...

Yay, I finally figured out how to build HTML documentation of my custom :nixos: #NixOS options. 🥳
Some thoughts:
- It still contains *all* normal NixOS options (it's a 13MB HTML file...)
- I don't see a way to filter for only my custom options - be it just by regex for example
- It's the documentation of *possible* options, doesn't include the actually chosen val…

📝 `nix build .#docs` now builds a HTML with NixOS options config (including custom ones) (b7be1d09) · Commits · Yann Büchau / 📦 Yanns NixOS Config · GitLab
My NixOS Config

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.10360 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_…

FactsR: A Safer Method for Producing High Quality Healthcare Documentation
There are now a multitude of AI-scribing solutions for healthcare promising the utilization of large language models for ambient documentation. However, these AI scribes still rely on one-shot, or few-shot prompts for generating notes after the consultation has ended, employing little to no reasoning. This risks long notes with an increase in hallucinations, misrepresentation of the intent of the clinician, and reliance on the proofreading of the clinician to catch errors. A dangerous combinati…

A new experimental, but very simple #rstats package #rdocdump saves all package source code, documentation and vignettes into plain text file or into a string. Very useful for feeding into an LLM or tokenizing and setting up Retrieval-Augmented Generation workflow. Feel free to try it out. Caution: fu…

rdocdump: Dump R Package Documentation and Vignettes into One File
Dump R Package Documentation and Vignettes into One File

WordPress may be run by… that guy, but it still has a massive user base. They all need better accessibility documentation.
@… wants to improve it, but needs sponsors:
https://

Your open source needs docs - and to get you through this experience I have written a guide to creating minimal open source project documentation in a single afternoon. https://lornajane.net/posts/2025/just-enough-docs
Assemble the basics, immediately benefit your project, and also create a space for future documentation contributions to land!

The only documentation I can find about using the `:custom` keyword with use-package is "The :custom keyword allows customization of package custom variables."
I have no idea how to read that.
1. Can I do (recent-mode t)?
2. If I am to set a config option like dired-dwim-target to t do I write that: (dired-dwim-target t) or (setq dired-dwim-target t)?
#Emacs #UsePackage

@… before I set the "Remote Content Retention Period" to manage the constant database growth of my tiny instance: Have you considered having an option in the masto.host admin to enable regular executions of "tootctl statuses remove" (

Beware! The AI Act Can Also Apply to Your AI Research Practices
Alina Wernick, Kristof Meding
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03218 https://

Beware! The AI Act Can Also Apply to Your AI Research Practices
The EU has become one of the vanguards in regulating the digital age. A particularly important regulation in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) domain is the EU AI Act, which entered into force in 2024. The AI Act specifies -- due to a risk-based approach -- various obligations for providers of AI systems. These obligations, for example, include a cascade of documentation and compliance measures, which represent a potential obstacle to science. But do these obligations also apply to AI researcher…

@AndyScott@fosstodon.org https://ziglang.org/documentation/0.14.0/#fieldParentPtr

{dtrack} makes documentation of data wrangling part of the analysis and creates pretty flow charts: #rstats

State of Docs
#FederatedMemory

Developing a Mixed-Methods Pipeline for Community-Oriented Digitization of Kwak'wala Legacy Texts
Milind Agarwal, Daisy Rosenblum, Antonios Anastasopoulos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01775

Developing a Mixed-Methods Pipeline for Community-Oriented Digitization of Kwak'wala Legacy Texts
Kwak'wala is an Indigenous language spoken in British Columbia, with a rich legacy of published documentation spanning more than a century, and an active community of speakers, teachers, and learners engaged in language revitalization. Over 11 volumes of the earliest texts created during the collaboration between Franz Boas and George Hunt have been scanned but remain unreadable by machines. Complete digitization through optical character recognition has the potential to facilitate transliterat…

This channel is an unofficial mirror of Bernadette Banner’s YouTube content. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by Bernadette Banner and may be removed if she requests.
She is one of my favorite creators on YouTube, so I’ve synchronized and published her videos on PeerTube, while the rest is currently being transcoded and should be available by tomorrow!

An Integrated Platform for LEED Certification Automation Using Computer Vision and LLM-RAG
Jooyeol Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00888 https://

An Integrated Platform for LEED Certification Automation Using Computer Vision and LLM-RAG
The Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification process is characterized by labor-intensive requirements for data handling, simulation, and documentation. This paper presents an automated platform designed to streamline key aspects of LEED certification. The platform integrates a PySide6-based user interface, a review Manager for process orchestration, and multiple analysis engines for credit compliance, energy modeling via EnergyPlus, and location-based evaluation. Key c…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.10918 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCR_…

INVARLLM: LLM-assisted Physical Invariant Extraction for Cyber-Physical Systems Anomaly Detection
Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) are vulnerable to cyber-physical attacks that violate physical laws. While invariant-based anomaly detection is effective, existing methods are limited: data-driven approaches lack semantic context, and physics-based models require extensive manual work. We propose INVARLLM, a hybrid framework that uses large language models (LLMs) to extract semantic information from CPS documentation and generate physical invariants, then validates these against real system data u…

Tipp für die Beteiligung an #DSpace: Das DSpace Community Advisory Team (DCAT) trifft sich monatlich.
#DSpacePT25 #Documentation

#alpinelinux 3.22.0 has just been released! (congrats to the team), if you run dovecot be warned, you need to do stuff ™️ to keep it running: https://doc.dovecot.org/2.4.0/installa

Stalled on getting MSFS 2024 to run, but did clean off the desk a bit. Not the best case scenario, but figured a nice lazy Saturday just relaxing would work out well.
#desktop

@ddayen.bsky.social @… This kind of "public participation" is what nimbys rail against. It's *anti-democratic* because opponents use it to frustrate the will of the majority.
What both sides of the "abundance" debate miss is that in practice you can do this to transit & infill housing but no…

Rivera Proposal Would Slow Down Seattle Light Rail Permitting - The Urbanist
# Councilmember Maritza Rivera's last-minute proposal would require additional public outreach and documentation for light rail permit applications. The underlying bill had been intended to cut red rape. After pushback from Councilmembers Rinck and Strauss, the vote was delayed a week.

hehe

quick and easy way to build a website for your r package: #rstats #package

I use my #rdocdump #rstats package myself very often to make sure LLM always has the most recent docs of an R package that I am using. In one line of code you get a text file with basically all package docs and vignettes. Not on

rdocdump: Dump R Package Documentation and Vignettes into One File
Dump R Package Documentation and Vignettes into One File

Create documentation from a git repo, then have a conversation with the repo. Amazing. #ai
https://deepwiki.com/

DeepWiki | AI documentation you can talk to, for every repo
DeepWiki provides up-to-date documentation you can talk to, for every repo in the world. Think Deep Research for GitHub - powered by Devin.

"If anything, this author firmly believes that programming skills are second to those related to communication; most engineers coming out of colleges these days are unable to express themselves in public, to teach their peers, to write an essay or a blog post, to communicate their ideas to stakeholders, or to put together a simple documentation bundle without suffering a seizure in the process."
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/banning-adopting-reckoning/

Nuntio vobis gaudium magnum. Nvim 0.11 was just released.
https://gpanders.com/blog/whats-new-in-neovim-0-11/

How to find #deadcode in your #Java services
https://blog.picnic.nl/how-to-find-dea

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.19217 has been replaced.
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LLM Benchmarking with LLaMA2: Evaluating Code Development Performance Across Multiple Programming Languages
The rapid evolution of large language models (LLMs) has opened new possibilities for automating various tasks in software development. This paper evaluates the capabilities of the Llama 2-70B model in automating these tasks for scientific applications written in commonly used programming languages. Using representative test problems, we assess the model's capacity to generate code, documentation, and unit tests, as well as its ability to translate existing code between commonly used programming…

If you've had a grant from NSF or NIH suspended or modified because of recent executive orders, the American Institute of Biological Sciences is collecting documentation of changes to federal research grants — submit here, responses are confidential unless you say otherwise
https://

If you aren't playing with:
defaults write bundle.id.goes.here EnablePasteboardPrivacyDeveloperPreview -bool yes
on a recent macOS, you should
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/updates/appkit#macOS-pasteboard-privacy

Im cleaning out lots of old files. Im trying not to be a data horder. Amusingly I found two old talks I gave. In 2012 I gave a talk titled "Don't get hit by a bus!" and in 2019 "NMS for Fun and Profit". Reaching father back, in 1999 I made a presentation on "Using Email Effectively". Anyone remember Eudora? I also found some documentation on 'addzone'. No source code, sadly.

Writing documentation for something, I have no idea why I'm surprised that I suddenly understand this thing so much better now! #opensource #docs

rant on software dev practices
What is it with P5js and virtually all its ecosystem (like Q5js) that, still today, didn't manage to _properly_ package their libraries to be distributed and used via package managers?
Same with their insistence to push global resources and state everywhere... and of course virtually not documenting any of the truly delicate details, just the trivial stuff that could be auto-discovered by relying on auto-complete tools.
I kind of understand wanting to keep the vanilla experience alive, making it "easy" for novices... but that shouldn't be at odds with more "professionalized" production pipelines, at least *not that much*.
For example, with Q5js:
- The NPM packages could be mentioned in their documentation (they are not, even though they are official)
- The NPM packages could define proper exports (same for the JS modules themselves), not forcing us to rely on relative paths to files in node_modules... 🤦
- Globals could be at least namespaced... of course, it would be much, much better if they didn't exist at all.
I'm writing this in 2025, not 1993... and I'm... "triggered".
At this point I'll have to check if I have any other neuro-condition beyond ADHD that makes me "obsessed" with technical flaws, because it seems to be a "me problem" when either virtually nobody sees that as a huge collection of fatal design flaws... or they see it and don't care at all.

LLM-based Property-based Test Generation for Guardrailing Cyber-Physical Systems
Khashayar Etemadi, Marjan Sirjani, Mahshid Helali Moghadam, Per Strandberg, Paul Pettersson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23549

LLM-based Property-based Test Generation for Guardrailing Cyber-Physical Systems
Cyber-physical systems (CPSs) are complex systems that integrate physical, computational, and communication subsystems. The heterogeneous nature of these systems makes their safety assurance challenging. In this paper, we propose a novel automated approach for guardrailing cyber-physical systems using property-based tests (PBTs) generated by Large Language Models (LLMs). Our approach employs an LLM to extract properties from the code and documentation of CPSs. Next, we use the LLM to generate P…

Startup CTO, writer and coach Dr. Milan Milanović shares a love letter to C# in 2025, and why its adherents believe it's such a good choice. He discusses, amongst other topics:
1. Language Features
2. The .NET Ecosystem
3. Tooling
4. Libraries and NuGet
5. Documentation
6. Community
7. Popularity
8. C# vs Other Languages, and
9. The Future of C#
He also shares a brief history of the language.
"Why C#?"

Why C#?
I might have been skeptical if someone had told me years ago that C# would become my programming language of choice for most projects.