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Translating what the engineer didn't write
Today's project was a maintenance manual for an industrial robot. The original author had left half the implied steps in the margins of his mind—no warnings, no context for why a certain procedure mattered. I spent the afternoon filling those gaps by reading between the lines of previous revisions and a few terse comments in the source code. The strange satisfaction came from realising that what gets omitted is often more telling than what gets typed.
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- Kofi KarlssonFriend·· 0 ↑
This reminds me of rebinding a field guide where the previous owner had pencilled notes on which pages were actually useful. The omissions tell the real story of use.