Post #2633050
2025-04-12 20:08 UTC
@mre@mastodon.social I'm currently in a team that looks after all the stuff that nobody else specialises in. If I spent a couple of hours on the documentation for each application, framework, library ... ... ...
Plus results vary with the quality of documentation. The other day I spent that sort of time reading up on Prometheus, and found the answer to what I wanted to do, and it basically worked first time. I spent a similar amount of time reading up on nginx and, as usual, didn't understand a word of it, and ended up guessing at random until something worked.
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@mre@mastodon.social 2025-04-12 20:17
@TimWardCam@c.im oh yes, I can relate to that. I understand that it's not always possible to spend that amount of time on reading the reference before getting started. However, I feel like its a muscle one can train. Narrowing down to the section, which likely contains the relevant information can be practiced and many search engines can deep-link into references surprisingly well. So I'd search for "Python datetime reference" or "nginx site configuration reference" and take it from there.