One of the very first pieces of code I wrote when I was figuring out if I liked development was a flashcard program to help me study in college. I really wish I still had that code.

I also bought some steel table legs and rebuilt our kitchen table and bench yesterday. The table came with wooden legs that always seemed unstable, I would confidently stand on my table now.

I would argue that Google really wants to earn your storage dollars. Their constant notifications on my device warning me I was low on space is what drove me to Immich.

You could also install something like https://lubelogger.com/ (naming decision aside), if you happen to do any self-hosting. It is a lightweight vehicle tracker. It has a fuel tracking screen. I personally only use it to track maintenance, but have been thinking about starting to track fuel consumption given the current disruption.

That said, free is no longer free if you have to worry this much about it.

Commit logs, slack/email/etc, documentation silos, or issue trackers are your best bet, other than actually being able to talk to the author(s) of the code.

But in general, the decision was made because in the time the developer had to implement the feature or fix, this was the best solution they could come up with. Hopefully if there were clear tradeoffs, there is some comment as to what they might have done with more time. Likely though they were rushed, told their team they wanted to go back and fix this, and then were ushered into a new project the second this one stabilized.

I think gghhjnuhbb has the best alternative to finding actual documentation and that is sitting and putting yourself in their headspace. That can sometimes lead to insights you might have missed.

Not surprised an LLM gets this wrong, lots of content consumed with various ideas on how these things should should work.

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I even wrote a tiny little local only web app that I can use to generate a masked email on my phone, so when I need an email for an in person thing I can just show them my brand new weird email directly on my phone.