Tag: opinion
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Documentation
Documentation is a last resort. Few people want to read a document, and fewer still want to write it. I think the appropriate attitude towards documentation is to have a little of it as possible. First, try to not write documentation In an ideal world, we don’t need any documentation because everyone already knows everything.…
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Why I like plain text email
Firstly, this isn’t an attempt at conversion. It’s here becaue I keep getting asked why I tend to send and prefer to read mail in plain text. I don’t really mind what you send mail in, so long as you accept that I’m not near an html-capable mail reader very often and if there’s no…
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Why I use Linux
This is one of those things that’s always difficult to explain. The bits of Linux that I miss on other platforms are not things that you immediately see as being of particular importance. The best example of this is the freedom – why would I care that I’m free to do as I please with…