Welcome to the Code Nive podcast.

We talk to people on their coding journey in hopes of helping you on yours.

I'm your host, Ron, and today we're talking about documentation with Eddie Hinkle, lead front-end engineer at Glass Door, and host of the Web Joy podcast.

You know, in my mind, when I think about documentation, I think about explaining how things function and explaining how you engage with it.

Eddie talks about what documentation means in the context of development, why good documentation is so important, and how gaining good documentation skills early on

can give you an edge in your career. After this.

Thanks for being here. It's my pleasure. Thanks for being here.

It's my pleasure.

Thanks for having me on.

So Eddie, you have a very robust resume of a bunch of different software engineering roles at different companies.

And you've been the lead front and software engineer at Glass Door for the past year.

Tell us where your coding journey

began. So I actually got into coding when I was pretty young. I'm actually pretty much all self-taught.

And I really got into coding because I was on a message board with some friends and, you know, the company that was maintaining it got tired of that expense. And so they said, hey, we're shutting down, you know, these message boards. And so we needed somewhere to go to talk online. And so I realized, well, the only way we can do that is if like I set up a place for us to go.

So I kind of said,

hey,

let me figure out this web stuff.

And I'd put up random like HTML pages,

but nothing interactive,

you know,

nothing major.

Very cool.

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