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 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.
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.
A developer shares motivations for writing and offers advice on how to write effectively for a technical audience, including recommended resources.
Author shares how following curiosity in writing and tech led to writing a machine learning book, promotions, and career growth.
A manager discusses the critical role of clear writing in tech leadership, from specs to feedback, and the need to adapt style.
A technical guide on customizing the visual styles of admonitions (notes, warnings, etc.) in AsciiDoc documents, particularly for PDF output.
A guide to writing and publishing books using the AsciiDoc markup language and a starter GitHub template.
A guide on writing effective RFCs (Request for Comments) for engineers to improve communication and technical planning within teams.
Discusses the importance of user-centric thinking in software engineering and how RFCs can prevent common pitfalls like building the wrong thing or over-engineering.
A tech writer discusses the importance of giving and receiving corrections kindly within the web development community.
