Lines Of Code Vs. Instructions: The Great Translation

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Technical documentation writers discovered decades ago that slapping cute animals on diagrams makes complex systems 47% less soul-crushing to learn. The Apache Web Server documentation figured this out early—why show boring boxes when you can have a literal dog delivering responses? Meanwhile, other docs are out here with flowcharts that look like they were designed by someone who thinks "visual appeal" means using a slightly different shade of beige. The O'Reilly publishing empire basically built their brand on this principle. Nothing says "I understand TCP/IP networking" quite like a book with a random camel on the cover. The animals don't even need to be thematically relevant—just throw a mongoose on there and suddenly people are willing to read 800 pages about database optimization. It's the tech equivalent of putting googly eyes on vegetables to make kids eat them, except we're all allegedly adults with CS degrees.

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Content Aaron Patterson V tenderlove V I like to add and f any time I submit online forms because I know that some developer is going to see it and wonder if they have a bug 1:21 AM Apr 20, 2016 Echofon 3.8K Retweets 5.4K Likes