Documentation

I opened the integration guide to fix a minor typo and realized the steps didn’t work anymore. Nothing dramatic, just drift. A renamed flag here, a new default there, a missing permission no one remembered to mention. The words were still pretty. The reality had moved on. That’s the quiet failure of static docs, they age in place while the system keeps walking. So we tried something obvious we had somehow avoided: make the docs run. ...

“Why does it do that?” She was seven, sitting next to me, asking about a box on my screen labeled /getUserSettings. I was halfway through writing documentation for it, and instead of brushing her off, I tried to answer, out loud, like a bedtime story. “Well, this little box lets other parts of the app ask, ‘What does this user like?’ And it answers with things like language, theme, and notification preferences.” ...