> but once the results started being for ridiculous articles (or similar), rather than the actual documentation I started using bookmarks. Which was sort of why I was curious.
Still works for me. When I search for "Angular signal documentation" I get to the right place (They just changed domain for the brand new version, but .. yeah) That said I also use an ad blocker.
Currently google still works for me.
> If you have the time I’d love to see an example of some random person on the internet giving you a better introduction into using a language library than the documentation itself. Don’t think I’ve ever seen that.
Can't remember a good example right now. Most recent trouble that I search for was the good old classic of centering a div in CSS :) I think I used a mixture of this side [1] and an LLM ( Github co pilot)
Uh, now I found a small example. When I want to know how to sort a stream in java.
When I search for "java 17 stream" go to the official documentation and search for sort I get: [2] more or less it just says "Stream<T> sorted(Comparator<? super T> comparator)"
But when I google "java stream sort" and the first stack overflow contains a great example: [3] or a bit short answer on the same page [4]
Those code examples just work better for my brain :)
Thanks for sharing. I guess Google is still king for some things. Most official documentations I work with are good on their own, I think the C# (really .Net in general) is perhaps the hardest to traverse. But that is mostly because there is so much of it for so many versions, and here a search engine typically doesn’t do much better than their own search.
I use LLMs, almost exclusively as fancy auto-complete because I’ve never had a computation result from them that wasn’t wrong. I think I would frankly ask one before I use Google though. I used ChatGPT for a recipe the other day. For baking very basic bread which I sort of know how to do, or at least well enough to spot a terrible recipe even though I can’t do it without one. The three results I clicked on Google were worse than the chat bot, though to be fair, two of them were just advertisements and probably written by an LLM.
Still works for me. When I search for "Angular signal documentation" I get to the right place (They just changed domain for the brand new version, but .. yeah) That said I also use an ad blocker.
Currently google still works for me.
> If you have the time I’d love to see an example of some random person on the internet giving you a better introduction into using a language library than the documentation itself. Don’t think I’ve ever seen that.
Can't remember a good example right now. Most recent trouble that I search for was the good old classic of centering a div in CSS :) I think I used a mixture of this side [1] and an LLM ( Github co pilot)
Uh, now I found a small example. When I want to know how to sort a stream in java. When I search for "java 17 stream" go to the official documentation and search for sort I get: [2] more or less it just says "Stream<T> sorted(Comparator<? super T> comparator)"
But when I google "java stream sort" and the first stack overflow contains a great example: [3] or a bit short answer on the same page [4] Those code examples just work better for my brain :)
[1] https://www.w3schools.com/csS/css_align.asp [2] https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/17/docs/api/java.base... [3] https://stackoverflow.com/a/53183266 [4] https://stackoverflow.com/a/40518343