Marc

@mdiluz@mastodon.gamedev.place

A reminder that "For sale: baby shoes, never worn" isn't the shortest horror story ever written, it's actually "Specifies a tri-state Boolean value" written by the esteemed author Microsoft .NET Documentation.

March 13, 2026 at 11:09:54 AM

I just need a third reply here to say how much I appreciate the sheer simplicity and insanity of this documentation page - almost every single word provided ask more questions than it answers

I... don't like that. Dislike. Heavily dislike.

one can dislike art, but that doesn't stop it being art.

Whenever I seem MS's docs I'm happy I'm not programming for Windows (at least not with MS's tech). They should really get a clue from e.g. Qt how to make decent docs (although there are some rough parts even there...)

My gateway into AI was using Claude to try to figure out MS's XML configuration files for their now deprecated Azure B2C identity provider. Their documentation is really bad.

claude.ai/share/97c73874-6981-

claude.ai

MsoTriState enum in Microsoft.Office.Core

Shared via Claude, an AI assistant from Anthropic

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