Read the Docs

July 23,2024

last update: 2024-11-19

Failing to read the documentation and understanding the code underneath is the bane of all software bugs and I’ve guilty of it on multiple counts

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. - Albert Einstein

I’ll record the times when I did not read the documentation/code enough and went chasing random bugs.

• Not reading Maelstrom documentation and attempting to solve the problem without understanding the system itself.
• Chasing my tail round and round when setting up containers in fly.io and ending up taking 5 hours for something that I could’ve done in 10 minutes if I read the documentation properly.