Show Notes
This week Steve gives the deep dive into the reason and the how for documentation. It's an essential thing in any IT environment, it doesn't get nearly enough love so we shine a spotlight on it.
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00:45 Intro
Sound effects
RPG Web UI
Never Winter Nights
Kansas City
Steve and traveling
09:18 News Wire
GTK 4.24 - gnome.org
Shotwell 33 - gnome.org
Agama Installer 24 - github.io
Cosmic v1.8 https://www.phoronix.com/news/COSMIC-Epoch-1.8
Debian 13.7 Trixie - debian.org
MocaccinoOS 26.09 - mocaccino.org
DietPi 10.7 - dietpi.com
KaOS 2026.09 - kaosx.us
Ubuntu 24.04.5 - phoronix.com
Sandbox Challenge - securityweek.com
Lunar Exploration Model - ibm.com
CUDA-Q Expands - nvidia.com
10:30 Documentation
Document "why" something was done
Assumption and argument
What needs to be documented
Reproducer - Blow it away and set it up again
Document everything
Why do people resist documenting
Executive vs Technical Summaries
Tribal knowledge
Styles of documentation
White papers
CMA
What should you NOT document
Process of documenting
Where do you document
Wiki.js
Markdown
Steve's container documentation
Steve's GitHub
Steve's Red Hat profile
Hackaday
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