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This morning I’m returning to work on some code that I haven’t touched for a few months, and I’ve been rather dreading getting back to it. I’ve forgotten all the details; never knew many of them anyway. I was working with someone else on this, and so have to get my head around their work [...]
[Keywords: documentation, Donald Knuth, javadoc, Literate Programming] [No comments] [Permanent link]
The documenting of how we live, where we live, what we do — that’s what I’m interested in. And it’s a waste of time, really, in that it doesn’t contribute to any of those things (oh, of course that’s simplifying it too much; oh well). It’s also necessary to live, to be of the world, [...]
[Keywords: community, dichotomy, documentation, Making, modernity, recording, wikis] [No comments] [Permanent link]
