diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index 012e3b5e..7f25e87a 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -1,48 +1,58 @@
 # Contributing
 
 Issues and pull requests are more than welcome.
+  
 
-**dev install**
+### Development Environment Setup
 
-```bash
-git clone https://github.com/stac-utils/stac-fastapi.git
-cd stac-fastapi
-python -m pip install -e stac_fastapi/api[dev]
+To install the classes in your local Python env, run:
+
+```shell
+pip install -e 'stac_fastapi/elasticsearch[dev]'
+```
+
+or
+
+```shell
+pip install -e 'stac_fastapi/opensearch[dev]'
 ```
 
-**pre-commit**
+### Pre-commit
 
-This repo is set to use `pre-commit` to run *ruff*, *pydocstring* and mypy when committing new code.
+Install [pre-commit](https://pre-commit.com/#install).
 
-```bash
+Prior to commit, run:
+
+```shell
 pre-commit install
-```
+pre-commit run --all-files
+```   
 
-### Docs
+### Testing
 
-```bash
-git clone https://github.com/stac-utils/stac-fastapi.git
-cd stac-fastapi
-python pip install -e stac_fastapi/api["docs"]
+```shell
+make test
 ```
+Test against OpenSearch only
 
-Hot-reloading docs:
-
-```bash
-$ mkdocs serve -f docs/mkdocs.yml
+```shell
+make test-opensearch
 ```
 
-To manually deploy docs (note you should never need to do this because GitHub
-Actions deploys automatically for new commits.):
+Test against Elasticsearch only
+
+```shell
+make test-elasticsearch
+```  
 
-```bash
-Create API documentations
-$ pdocs as_markdown \
-  --output_dir docs/src/api/ \
-  --exclude_source \
-  --overwrite \
-  stac_fastapi.opensearch
+### Docs
 
-# deploy
-$ mkdocs gh-deploy -f docs/mkdocs.yml
-```
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+```shell
+make docs
+```
+
+Hot-reloading docs locally:
+
+```shell
+mkdocs serve -f docs/mkdocs.yml
+```
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index d88ae058..878ae587 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -36,32 +36,8 @@ pip install stac_fastapi.opensearch
 
 #### For changes, see the [Changelog](CHANGELOG.md)
 
-
-## Development Environment Setup
-
-To install the classes in your local Python env, run:
-
-```shell
-pip install -e 'stac_fastapi/elasticsearch[dev]'
-```
-
-or
-
-```shell
-pip install -e 'stac_fastapi/opensearch[dev]'
-```
-
-
-### Pre-commit
-
-Install [pre-commit](https://pre-commit.com/#install).
-
-Prior to commit, run:
-
-```shell
-pre-commit run --all-files
-```
-
+#### Development notes: [Contributing](CONTRIBUTING.md)   
+    
 ## Build Elasticsearh API backend
 
 ```shell
@@ -135,22 +111,6 @@ Options:
 python3 data_loader.py --base-url http://localhost:8080
 ```  
 
-## Testing
-
-```shell
-make test
-```
-Test against OpenSearch only
-
-```shell
-make test-opensearch
-```
-
-Test against Elasticsearch only
-
-```shell
-make test-elasticsearch
-```  
 
 ## Elasticsearch Mappings
 
diff --git a/docs/src/tips-and-tricks.md b/docs/src/tips-and-tricks.md
index 587afe52..27919e5c 100644
--- a/docs/src/tips-and-tricks.md
+++ b/docs/src/tips-and-tricks.md
@@ -1,33 +1,3 @@
 # Tips and Tricks
 
-This page contains a few 'tips and tricks' for getting **stac-fastapi** working in various situations.
-
-## Get stac-fastapi working with CORS
-
-CORS (Cross-Origin Resource Sharing) support may be required to use stac-fastapi in certain situations.
-For example, if you are running [stac-browser](https://github.com/radiantearth/stac-browser) to browse the STAC catalog created by **stac-fastapi**, then you will need to enable CORS support.
-To do this, edit your backend's `app.py` and add the following import:
-
-```python
-from fastapi.middleware.cors import CORSMiddleware
-```
-
-and then edit the `api = StacApi(...` call to add the following parameter:
-
-```python
-middlewares=[lambda app: CORSMiddleware(app, allow_origins=["*"])]
-```
-
-If needed, you can edit the `allow_origins` parameter to only allow CORS requests from specific origins.
-
-## Enable the Context extension
-
-The Context STAC extension provides information on the number of items matched and returned from a STAC search.
-This is required by various other STAC-related tools, such as the pystac command-line client.
-To enable the extension, edit your backend's `app.py` and add the following import:
-
-```python
-from stac_fastapi.extensions.core.context import ContextExtension
-```
-
-and then edit the `api = StacApi(...` call to add `ContextExtension()` to the list given as the `extensions` parameter.
\ No newline at end of file
+This page contains a few 'tips and tricks' for working with **sfeos**.