read the god damn docs!!!!


today, both at work and in a personal project, I got over issues I was stuck on for a few days/weeks by..... looking at the documentation

it happens to me quite a lot - I either forget about the documentation or it's just so obvious I think I don't need it

then when I'm still stuck on the issue I try rawdogging it with intuition alone which doesn't get me very far

this is a reminder for me to both be more humble about my abilities and remember that documentation exists for a reason and to use it if it's there

update:

I'm making an exception to the no update rule because this is hilarious

I was just told the solution to all of my postgres databases being seemingly wiped

it was because I updated system.stateVersion on my server which the docs specifically tell you not to do

so silly... 💔