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skydhash04/24/20251 replyview on HN

The documentation are for answering your questions, it’s not a puzzle to be solved. Using the reference docs assumes that you already have an understanding about the thing that is being documented and you’re looking for specificity or details. If not, the correct move is to go through a book, a tutorial, or the user guide. Aka the introductory materials.


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sayamqazi04/25/2025

There are UI kits that have lots and lots of elements and then each element has lots and lots of properties to tweak. I have to either guess the correct term or go through dozens of exmaples for the desired behavior. AI has saved me a lot of time in this regard. It is basically a "full text search" but far better than whatever the docs websites have built in.