when I'm writing programming tutorials (like implement-dns.wizardzines.com) sometimes I intentionally introduce things with slightly "bad" abstractions because

a) I'm just not great at writing abstractions
b) I feel like coming up with a better abstraction than I did is kind of fun and a great way for people to understand the code better and make it their own

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We have various ways to indicate emphasis in text, but we don't seem a generally understood way to indicate uncertainty/slight inaccuracy/... If we had such, would you think that using it to point out knowingly-incomplete abstractions were useful or maybe too noisy?

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