https://aneeshsathe.com/tags/documentation/Recent content in Documentation on Aneesh SatheHugoen-usThu, 17 Jul 2025 06:35:42 +0000https://aneeshsathe.com/a-good-dictionary/Thu, 17 Jul 2025 06:35:42 +0000https://aneeshsathe.com/a-good-dictionary/<p>Yesterday <a href="https://aneeshsathe.com/divine-documentation/">I wrote</a> about good documentation opening doors to options you didn’t realize you had. In the book <em>On Writing Well</em> Zinsser mentions how one of his key tools is the dictionary. That got me curious about the limitations about the dictionaries available to us. This is not just about the dictionary on the bookshelf but the ones that we have in-context access to. The ones on our computer and phones.</p>https://aneeshsathe.com/divine-documentation/Wed, 16 Jul 2025 05:20:46 +0000https://aneeshsathe.com/divine-documentation/<p>Dad was about my age when he said that reading the manual was better than hypothesis driven button pressing. For teenage me, that took too long. Sure, I may have crashed a computer or two but following my gut got me there. Of course my gut isn&rsquo;t <em>that</em> smart. In the decades preceding, devices had converged on a common pattern language of buttons. Once learned, the standard grammar of action would reliably deliver me to my destination.</p>