What should you leave behind for your successors?

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Assume that you're a sole developer leaving a job. What kind of information/material, outside of the code itself, should you create and leave behind for your replacement?

An obvious answer is "whatever you would want at a new job" for sure, but it's been a while since I started a new job, and I forget what the most important things that I needed were back then.

I'm thinking:

accounts/passwords
location of equpiment

What else?

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