Slightly off topic, I once asked Scott Hanselman how long it takes for him to make articles like that, full of description and images in a way that pulls you into the text.

He told me that around 2 hours.

I guess that this is only true once you have a lot of practice and clearly knows what you are doing. When I write (not often) it can take a whole lot more to finish something like that.

I'm curious now as to how long it took by the author to complete the article especially to recover images and GIFs from old/previous stuff.

This one took roughly a full work day. I'm a slow writer, and had to record a few new gifs and Inkscape up the camera diagrams.

A big help is realising what might be good in an article, and take short videos as you go along.

> I love these lengthy write-ups

I wish there would be a site which collects such detailed technical writeups. There is just so much good stuff out there which is impossible to find again through Google.

This sounds like exactly the sort of thing which I would love to see as a "Show HN" site but lack the skills or time to do so.

I wish these problems could be solved with welding :)

http://www.pixelprospector.com/the-big-list-of-postmortems/ Or http://www.pixelprospector.com/the-big-list-of-game-design/

Might interest you