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I really enjoyed this but at the same time find it completely perplexing - I can't place where the author is coming from - they are either really good at explai

I really enjoyed this but at the same time find it completely perplexing - I can't place where the author is coming from - they are either really good at explaining things from the point of view of someone who knows almost nothing about this stuff or they genuinely started this without knowing most of it. I'm not sure which would be more impressive.

chickenzzzzu 2y ago
Neither is required to be true. Rather, this reads as a person who genuinely hopes for you to understand what they are attempting to teach you. Often times, technical documentation is written because the author desires to sound smart, not actually help you achieve whatever the topic at hand may be.
throwaway290 2y ago
We could have some words for this paradoxical phenomenon. I suggest "humility" and "patience":) Maybe even "kindness"
mirawelner 2y ago
Haha I think the latter assumption is more correct. I really know next to nothing about web design. I do data science and machine learning, which is quite different really. I started this project as a Freshman in undergrad and it was originally on WordPress. I have been gradually itterating over it for the past few years and now I'm 2 years out of college. I just have issues and then fix them and learn via that proccess. So for example when my router was hacked I installed fail2ban, when a friend told me my mobile view was terrible I read about CSS, I have just been working on it gradually but I have never worked in webdev. Just today, a commenter here suggested I implement an RSS feed so I had to look up how to do that and now I have an RSS feed! I'm just learning things on the fly. I'm glad you find it impressive, I just find it as being the lazy way to learn.