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> Whitespace is key for technical documentation but can also be used to great effect in blog posts, emails, and elsewhere. It’s hard for people to read long paragraphs, especially on a computer screen. They will zone out.

100%. The explanation (?) I first heard which helped me 'get' this whitespace principle was along the lines of

> Have you reached a page in a book with no paragraph breaks and thought 'oh no'?

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You know, I kind of feel this way about code too. Sometimes people don’t put in a lot of blank lines to break things up and I find that a little harder to read and a bit more intimidating than reading with a few blank lines between concepts/actions. In fact, I was thinking after I read the article, maybe many of these principles apply to writing maintainable code too.

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