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Docs? Ask The Sphinx

If you need to generate docs for your Python projects, try Sphinx.

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Why Good Developers Don’t Document

I don’t document because I know what I’m doing. Seriously. I sit down in front of the computer and beautiful code flows out of my fingertips. No idea how I do it. It’s like digesting for me. It just...

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Useful documentation

Documentation is one of the last unconquered areas in software development. The tools tend to get better but the documentation … well, let’s say it could be better. Why? Part of the problem is that the...

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Thoughts on documentation

Software developers believe that documentation is just another way to say code is buggy. The reasoning is like this: If the code was easy to understand and/or did what you expected, then why document...

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New Approach to Documentation

Documentation usually has these three attributes: It’s incomplete, outdated and plain wrong. That doesn’t apply to every bit of information in your documentation but it you can be sure the statement...

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If You Want Them to RTFM, Make a Better FM

If you’re interested in the conflicts between software and documentation, Alex Lagarde wrote a great post about that: Intent Discovery – Part 1 : the intents behind softwares. It explains what the...

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TNBT: Documentation Sucks

Documentation is the unloved step-mother of software development: Nobody likes it. On the writing side, documentation is either considered a waste of time: I could write code in that time It won’t be...

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