I tend to understand more from reading others code than documentation.

Documentation should give you the big picture easier.

Some bad docs may make you feel like that. Good docs often times won't make you read code and get a headache.

I have reverse engineered some circuit boards. It is kind of fun to see what kind of tricks people do with electronics.

I think its fun to read other people's code, but sometimes their tricks are really fucked up.

ahmm.... some of the code I have seen helped me understand f**k all.

Quality code however.. totally agree!

I'm weaseling, but "it depends".

Sometimes if the documentation is abstract or hard to map to a use case, i start looking for examples instead.

Conversely I've made some terrible implementations based on examples where I realized I could delete an embarrassing amount of cargo cult bloat after spending 5 minutes skimming over the docs.

Wish you were here to understand this code I was staring at today.

Like casting bones on the ground and trying to read the future from them

@TrevorTheRat have you tried turning the calcium off and on again?