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Steve Dunn
Personal blog · dunnhq.com/postsprogramming
Steve Dunn's personal blog at dunnhq.com covers programming. Since 2021, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for its documentation quadrants post, which sets out a four-quadrant model for documentation. One commenter cites it to clarify a point about that model; the other comment is about internal documentation tools.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
This is Steve Dunn's personal blog. I occasionally write about software development. Posts Anatomy of the .NET dictionary 19 Sep 2024 Prefer...
Most-linked posts?
- /posts/2023/documentation-quadrants/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-04-11
What Hacker News says?
Possibly the gp means the four quadrants (two axes)?: https://dunnhq.com/posts/2023/documentation-quadrants/
Comment linking /posts/2023/documentation-quadrants/
on “It's hard to write code for computers, but it's harder to write code for humans”Submitted Prefer test-doubles over mocking frameworks as a story · 2 points
HN discussionFor internal documentation, I go for a mix of: - in-code comments with links to more in-depth resources - a documentation directory in some projects and modules that contains markdown - a Notion internal wiki maintained by all the developers Making documentation easy to navigate, clean to read, and able to communicate depends more on the people writing the documentation than the tool. A plain text file can be great…
Comment linking /posts/2023/documentation-quadrants/
on “Ask HN: Best tools for creating user and developer documentation for web apps?”Submitted Anatomy of a .NET App as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Solid. Is it still relevant? as a story · 1 points
HN discussion