The Awesome Power of Well-Documented Code

When an open-source project becomes a hit, it’s often due to crisply written docs

Clive Thompson
Better Programming
Published in
5 min readDec 13, 2022

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A stack of books — colored green, aquamarine, blue, red, grey and yellow.
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Okay nerds, this one’s for you.

Back when I was researching my book Coders, I talked to a lot of folks who ran very successful open-source projects.

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I write 2X a week on tech, science, culture — and how those collide. Writer at NYT mag/Wired; author, “Coders”. @clive@saturation.social clive@clivethompson.net