Devhints - TL;DR for Developer Documentation (Interview)

Rico Sta. Cruz joined us to talk about his project Devhints (cheatsheets for developers). There are more than 365 cheatsheets you can contribute to and it’s open source. We talked about the design, technical implementation, community, alternate interfaces like the command line. We also talked about RSJS, RSCSS, and Docpress.

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Featuring:

• Rico Sta. Cruz – GitHub, X
• Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

“You have to sell what it is you’re building in your documentation. It’s not just describing what it is and how to use it. It’s about telling interesting stories.” - Rico Sta. Cruz

• Thanks to kzap for suggesting this show
• Devhints reminds us of cheat from @defunkt
• We talked about rsjs and rscss
• Huge thanks to @chris48s and everyone else for their contributions and support of our transcripts
• Docpress

• Building a Modern Web UI by Rico Sta. Cruz at CSSConf.Asia 2014
• The modular future of CSS by Rico Sta. Cruz at Manila.js
• RSCSS: Writing CSS without losing your sanity

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!