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api-reference
- Aug 5, 2026 The Contract Elements a Function Reference Entry Has to State A signature fixes argument types and little else. Preconditions, ownership, failure modes, and concurrency guarantees are separate obligations that the reference entry has to record explicitly. software engineering
- Jul 17, 2025 What an API Doc Generator Can Recover From Source Alone Parsing and runtime introspection produce different documentation from the same code. Which one a toolchain uses decides what it can see, what it silently omits, and what it can never know. software engineering
- May 5, 2024 Detecting Drift Between Reference Material and the Code It Describes Documentation goes stale one claim at a time. Separating checkable claims from judgement calls shows which kinds of drift a build can catch and which only review can. software engineering
- Feb 7, 2024 Stable Error Codes as Documentation Identifiers Human-readable messages change with wording and locale. A code that never changes, is never reused, and is documented once is what lets callers and support engineers agree on which failure occurred. software engineering