[cratermoon]

I work with a developer* who draws labelled boxes and arrows for diagrams and posts screenshots of code in response to questions I put to him. I can't say I've been able to find more than a handful of places where he's put words together into sentences and paragraphs. Getting useful information out of him is like pulling teeth. Even when he could link to code on the git server, e.g., he doesn't.

His screenshots are the worst-case scenario of lack of context – just a couple of dozen lines of code, no information about where, in what file, in which repo, he's given.

* We both work remotely and live in different states, nowhere near each other.

[nuancebydefault]

Ivwould feel a bit offended if somebody would send me screenshots withoutva word of context. Often times the explanation of the context is a big part of a solution to a problem, or even shows the problem to be non existing.

[cratermoon]

I've only been working with the person about 6 weeks. I didn't think too much about it at first, though it did seem odd and unhelpful. It's only in the past couple of weeks that I've started to find it irritating, and yes, offensive. I will probably bring it up to the lead at some point.

By the way, I double-checked my assertion that he doesn't use words, in case there were some documents I forgot or had missed. Nope. At best, his diagrams or screenshots will have captions. Those captions remind me of the sort of useless comments we've all become conditioned to ignore.

    x = y + z; // set x to the sum of y and z