Technical writing Memes

Finding a CS book is like dating - there are plenty of options, but the perfect match is rare. First, you're just happy to find one that's not completely terrible. Then you discover it actually explains concepts with clarity instead of academic word salad. But when the author uses YOUR tech stack? That's like finding out your date also loves that obscure indie band you're obsessed with. And the final boss level? The author sprinkles in genuinely funny jokes between explaining binary trees. That red-hot explosion of joy is the exact face every developer makes when discovering their new programming bible doesn't read like it was written by a compiler.

Developer: "Tea bags are so intuitive they don't need instructions." End user: *dunks entire tea bag, wrapper and all, into hot water* And that's why we write documentation for even the most "obvious" features. Users will find ways to break your software that you couldn't imagine in your worst fever dreams. The line between intuitive and incomprehensible is thinner than your project deadline.

When the PM says "make sure your documentation is thorough," and you take it literally. Nothing says developer energy like documenting the painfully obvious while completely ignoring the complex parts of your codebase. "How to use this API? Figure it out yourself. How to open a pizza box? Let me write you a dissertation." Ten years in the industry and I've yet to see documentation that isn't either stating the absolute obvious or so cryptic it might as well be written in hieroglyphics. The middle ground simply doesn't exist in our universe.

Writing documentation is such a heroic act that you need medical attention afterward. That single sentence probably took 4 hours, 3 existential crises, and the sacrifice of whatever will to live you had left. The worst part? Your colleagues will still ask "but what does this function actually do?" next week. Documentation: the only task where doing 1% feels like running a marathon.

Ah yes, technical documentation at its finest - a LEGO diagram with arrows pointing to... somewhere? The irony of senior devs saying "just read the docs" when the docs themselves are a cryptic puzzle that requires three PhDs and a decoder ring to understand. It's like being told the treasure map is super clear, but it's actually written in invisible ink and you need to stand on your head at midnight during a full moon to see it. Documentation authors seem to think we're all psychic and can magically fill in the 47 missing steps between "import library" and "congratulations on your functioning application!"

Oh the IRONY! 😂 Asking engineers to write concise documentation is like asking a cat to fetch your mail! The person's face says it all - pure "are you kidding me?" energy! Engineers would rather write 10,000 lines of code than 10 lines explaining what it does. Documentation? That's just a mythical creature like the debugging unicorn that magically fixes your code! Every tech lead who's begged for updated docs feels this in their SOUL right now. Meanwhile, engineers are already mentally drafting a 47-page explanation of why they can't write a 1-page summary!