Workflow

Zeal and Dash for Reading Developer Documentation

There is that workflow where a developer 1) encounters a problem, 2) googles the problem and 3) opens links until they find something they can copy-paste to solve the problem. I'm not the first one to discuss this. The pattern has been identified in the past, and it has been named The Stack Overflow Antipattern. Knowing how to use a search-engine to solve a problem is an essential skill for any knowledge worker in 2022. And despite its name, the Stack Overflow Antipattern is quite powerful.