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by epwr 1743 days ago
I'm very much someone who needs to write things to understand them.

Trying to figure out some new API that gives gross error messages and has zero useful documentation? I start writing down what I _think_ things do.

This helps me find patterns, but also helps me say "there's no way that is what this does. No one would write a function for that, it must do something else."