--- title: We All Register This | daily.dev description: A humorous anecdote about the poor state of hardware datasheets in embedded development, contrasting bad software documentation with worse chip datasheets that... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/we-all-register-this-hv1hsrhgw twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: We All Register This | daily.dev og:description: A humorous anecdote about the poor state of hardware datasheets in embedded development, contrasting bad software documentation with worse chip datasheets that... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/we-all-register-this-hv1hsrhgw og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/hV1HsRHGW.png og:image:alt: We All Register This og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: 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. # We All Register This **[The Daily WTF](https://daily.dev/sources/thedailywtf)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A humorous anecdote about the poor state of hardware datasheets in embedded development, contrasting bad software documentation with worse chip datasheets that mislabel pins, omit registers, and can even lead to hardware damage. The piece centers on a real example from a reader named Jarek: a chip register literally named 'SUFFER' (Super User Fantastic Feature Enable Register) found in a datasheet. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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