A tech founder reflects on using Twitter for technical discourse, product development, and personal motivation, while acknowledging its addictive nature.
Explores the distinction between informal 'notes' for quick sharing and formal 'blogs' for polished writing in tech content creation.
A developer argues for writing blog posts about the messy, real-world problem-solving process, not just polished 'happy path' tutorials.
Argues that politeness markers like 'please' weaken technical documentation and should be replaced with direct, actionable instructions.
Introducing nbsanity, a free service that instantly transforms public GitHub Jupyter notebooks into polished, customizable web pages using Quarto.
A guide on how to selectively disable Vale prose linting for specific sections within AsciiDoc documents, explaining two methods and common pitfalls.
Tips for writing effective content for developers, covering the AIDA formula, developer voice, and being genuinely useful.
Strategies for building an audience as a technical writer, focusing on authentic engagement and consistent content creation.
A personal story about non-code contributions to Mautic during Hacktoberfest 2024, focusing on content writing and community collaboration.
A summary of key takeaways from Google's Technical Writing One online workshop, covering audience analysis, writing style, and documentation tips.
A developer discovers and explores Djot, a stricter, feature-rich alternative to Markdown created by John MacFarlane.
A developer argues that embracing confusion leads to deeper technical understanding and valuable blog content.
A software engineer reflects on a decade of writing and self-publishing Python programming books, sharing lessons learned and sales milestones.
Explains the importance of clear documentation in open source projects, covering types, benefits for users and contributors, and how it builds community bridges.
An analysis of the financial realities of writing technical books, covering royalty models, potential earnings, and publishing strategies.
An analysis of key qualities that define excellent non-corporate technical blogs, including tackling complex topics and showing working code.
A developer shares their positive experience attending free in-person workshops by Frontend Masters and discusses the platform's new publication, Boost.
A developer outlines the consistent five-part format for their upcoming technical project tutorials, including Introduction, Materials, kBits, Details, and Wrap-Up.
Introducing 'kBits', a new format for sharing concise, single-topic technical learnings and insights alongside project tutorials.
A software developer shares key writing lessons learned while authoring a book, applying principles like KISS from software development to improve clarity.
