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@frankel@mastodon.top
2025-12-03 09:30:08

When #Documentation Lies: Detecting Drift Between Code and Reality
hackernoon.com/when-documentat

When Documentation Lies: Detecting Drift Between Code and Reality | HackerNoon
Discovering the problem of outdated documentation and considering modern tools to works with it

@cyrevolt@mastodon.social
2026-02-10 07:56:35

The most frustrating part of contributing to software #documentation is when the reviewer does not understand the improvement and asks for elaboration a dozen times and you keep explaining it over and over again. 🧘
And then states that they are lacking resources for reviews, but still find the time to meticulously explain how they do not see a benefit and thus hold back.

@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe
2025-12-04 05:49:22

For shell examples in documents such as the FreeBSD Handbook:
― the copy icon is bugged.
It wrongly includes the command prompt.
#FreeBSD #documentation

@datascience@genomic.social
2026-02-09 11:00:00

{annotater}: Annotate package load calls, so we can have an idea of the overall purpose of the libraries we’re loading: #rstats

Annotate Package Load Calls
Provides non-invasive annotation of package load calls such as \code{library()}, \code{p_load()}, and \code{require()} so that we can have an idea of what the packages we are loading are meant for.

@kctipton@mas.to
2026-01-31 21:19:32

How to Film ICE | WIRED #ice #documentation

How to Film ICE
Filming federal agents in public is legal, but avoiding a dangerous—even deadly—confrontation isn’t guaranteed. Here’s how to record ICE and CBP agents as safely as possible and have an impact.

@cyrevolt@mastodon.social
2026-02-05 12:44:38

Happy to contribute to #Cilium (#documentation).
Good tools deserve good docs. ✨
github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/

docs: add policy language chapter headline by orangecms · Pull Request #44204 · cilium/cilium
Up until now, the page title had been 'Layer 3 Examples', which is a section headline and confusing, since it is among other examples. Please ensure your pull request adheres to the followi...

@smurthys@hachyderm.io
2026-01-05 19:17:35

Found this unnecessary (but I'm sure unintentional) gendering in W3C's TDMRep docs repo:
Submitted an issue: 🤞
#W3C #documentation #GitHub #gendering #technology #equality #fairness