On: How often do people copy and paste from Stack Over...

[sdan]

I stopped relying SO and started relying heavily on https://grep.app and Github search. Most of the time the code actually works and there's good references on how to structure things.

[kornish → sdan]

If you like grep, you'll probably really like Sourcegraph, which I believe has most of GitHub indexed and supports some useful operators: https://sourcegraph.com/search

[saagarjha → kornish]

It will also download repos for you if you point them at it.

[fullsend → sdan]

I’m finding GitHub files and blog posts dedicated directly to my topic more and more, even relatively minor questions or function syntax.