--- title: "Documenting the manual: how curiosity and robotic arms led to a career in open source" url: https://daily.dev/posts/documenting-the-manual-how-curiosity-and-robotic-arms-led-to-a-career-in-open-source-67dz9jylk source_url: http://opensource.googleblog.com/2026/06/documenting-the-manual-how-curiosity-and-robotic-arms-led-to-a-career-in-open-source.html type: article source: "Google Open Source Blog" published: 2026-06-22T19:49:25.866Z updated: 2026-06-22T20:33:55.049Z tags: ["google", "linux"] reading_time: 3 upvotes: 0 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Documenting the manual: how curiosity and robotic arms led to a career in open source **[Google Open Source Blog](https://daily.dev/sources/googleoss)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Alejandro Colomar's path to maintaining Linux Kernel man-pages began when he needed nanosecond-precision socket timestamps for a robotic arm project and found the relevant kernel feature undocumented. Rather than moving on, he wrote a patch — 120 lines of commit message for 25 lines of docs — and never stopped. Google sponsors his ongoing work on the Linux man-pages project, viewing open source maintenance as a core responsibility for any organization that depends on the ecosystem. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [linux/Documentation/process/coding-assistants.rst at master · torvalds/linux](https://daily.dev/posts/linux-documentation-process-coding-assistants-rst-at-master-torvalds-linux-1rglxfc72) · Hacker News · 1 upvotes · 1 comments --- Tags: [#google](https://daily.dev/tags/google), [#linux](https://daily.dev/tags/linux) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/documenting-the-manual-how-curiosity-and-robotic-arms-led-to-a-career-in-open-source-67dz9jylk)