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[–] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago (2 children)

What a moron.

My company hired me specifically to help get everything from the only guy who knows the system documented.

Well, that's how it started, at least.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago

I've tried to make documentation, it got nuked while I was away, now I hide it all in the source code as doxygen mark-up.

I'm now the "expert" on doxygen.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I need a documenter!

I have a head full of stuff that hasn't had time to be documented, and being a single point of knowledge isn't job security, it's a major risk.

My code gets documented. But so much infrastructure is just held in my head as senior SysAdmin. Wherever possible I just have a ride-along "up-skilling" (works like a RAID mirror for my brain).