Increasingly YouTube has become a source of reference material, for me at least.
Rather than looking for (say) videos of dogs on skateboards, it's my first port of call for questions like 'how do I dissemble this device?'
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I see people advocating for writing a FAQ, but I really struggle to write one from scratch.
The best FAQs are written as a response to, well, frequent questions.
How do you populate the initial FAQ?
Claude asked me a question today: was I looking for an Emacs plugin (because I was talking about elisp) or a Rust program (because I have configured Rust preferences)?
I'm really impressed, it's rare to see LLMs ask follow-up questions.
(I wanted Emacs in this case.)
I'm amused (and kinda surprised) to learn that shells have their own equivalent of blink tags, a blink escape code! https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17439482/how-to-make-a-text-blink-in-shell-script
Seems equally annoying, I can't see a good use for it.