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A compromise solution would be linking to a glossary or introductory material if someone is generally versed but not in a particular subject, we get a lot of, say, pure math people on here who find software engineering interesting.

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you'd still have to draw a line at some point which terms you'd explain as otherwise your article only consist of glossary information.

i'm pretty sure the term offline-first wouldn't have met the cutoff point, as its _really_ well known from my experience.

I wrote so much things and posted it on HN over the years. There is just no way to make everyone happy, someone always complains that some infos are missing or too much.

I now leave things out that can be googled and are already known by "most" readers.

This has drastically improved my writing too. It's ok to target a specific group of people when writing. Writing for the lowest common denominator hurts everyone sometimes - it might be too high level for beginners, but too much background info for experts.

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