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"Your voice must be heard. Inside of your work, you need key stakeholders and teams to know what it is that you do and the value you bring to product development. Your docs are vital infrastructure, but folks won’t realize that until it’s too late. Unless, of course, you become an ambassador of your craft and start making yourself heard and present everywhere. One of the first things I did when I joined a startup was sending an email to the team telling them what I did. It became my first post.

Outside of work, this task is equally important, because tech writing has a depth issue. You must develop a sense of pride in technical communication as a vital discipline. Don’t shy away from intellectual engagement and contribute to the field by sharing your own thoughts, theories, and errors. Some career ladders label that as “thought leadership”. It’s really about showing up and owning the conversation around what we do and why it matters, moving beyond praxis to noesis."

https://passo.uno/how-to-grow-senior-tech-writer/

#TechnicalWriting #TechnicalWriter #TechnicalCommunication #LifeLongLearning #SoftwareDocumentation #DocsAsInfrastructure

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"Let me be blunt.

If your startup offers APIs and you don’t have a portal, you’re lighting developer acquisition money on fire. 💵 🧯🚒

Here’s what a good portal actually does:

Shortens time-to-value: faster POCs, faster adoption.

Reduces support tickets: devs can find what they need.

Builds trust: your API feels stable, documented, and ready.

Increases conversion: when docs show how easy it is to integrate, not just tell.

Still sending PDF onboarding packets to partners?

C’mon, boo. 🥲"

https://www.quetzalliwrites.com/newsletters/developer-portals-dev-friendly-or-dev-frustrating

#DevPortals #DeveloperPortals #APIs #API #APIDocumentation #TechnicalWriter #TechnicalCommunication

Technical writer role at Nava

https://jobs.lever.co/nava/d4b02af9-5271-4690-991b-c36cc3dbaf79

#CivicTech #PublicInterestTech #GetFediHired #Jobs #TechnicalWriter

I’m looking for work again! Anyone hiring out there? I am a content writer, I have written jokes for podcasts, technical writer, copywriter. Help! #jobs #tech #technicalwriter #forhire

IT'S HERE! The PR Focus public beta is finally open. If you:

- Are a #developer who makes or reviews PRs, or is assigned work in GitHub
- Are a #DocsAsCode technical writer who makes or reviews PRs, or is assigned work in GitHub
- Are a #TechnicalWriter, team lead, project manager, or work at an agency or consulting firm where you need to keep track of PRs across repos as the source of truth for your work

PR Focus might be helpful to you!

Join the TestFlight here: https://testflight.apple.com/join/PmdjrF6U

Dear #developers (and #productmanagement that enables this) - if you're too lazy to remove a dead or unfinished feature that is *visible* to the user... and got QA to ignore/bless it....

Don't. TAKE IT OUT. HIDE with a registry flag. DO ANYTHING don't just leave it fucking sitting there.

- Sincerely, the #technicalwriter who has to put "Oh this button right here? Ignore that it doesn't do anything" in the help/manual/marketing material.

It looks like shit and it makes us look like morons.

Are you a technical author, editor or translator, within an academic, technical, consulting or publishing environment, and looking for a new role where your input makes a difference?

Join GÉANT and support a range of internal and external projects!

📍 Amsterdam, Netherlands or Cambridge, UK
👉https://jobs.geant.org/vacancies/91/technical-author-technical-writer.html

#Jobs #Vacancies #Hiring #TechnicalAuthor #TechnicalWriter #editor #Publishing #editing #proofreading #technicalwriting #technicalauthoring #techautor #techauthors

Tangential to the super popular LLM-related discussion w/Turtle Island social the other day?

Me standing up to defend the human rights of other women on the globe implies the one thing I definitely am NOT is "antisemitic".

Disagree? OK --

🔲 Go get a Technical Writer job w/a Fortune 500 co that has more than 50 years of Industry experience solving very large complex problems, technically;

🔲 Next, achieve 4 promotions in 3.5 years to land yourself into one of the toughest groups to get into at this very old, very well-respected employer. Much, much harder to break into than MIT, Harvard or Stanford.

🔲 Now get oodles of praise and recommends helping a literal Machine Language team of humans update and integrate their compiler into a C++-based math library while co-authoring papers on ML and designing the search-enabled UI

✔️ Got it? Okay, NOW we are on the same level when it comes to talking LLM-level context and semantics.

🔲 Need an extra BONUS CHALLENGE? Do this as a woman with indigenous ancestry.

Am not backing down on that #Fediblock recommend posted on #SDF for anyone who throws that trollish and untranslatable word in reaction to being offended by a #logical smart woman!

Every debate that involves trolls I've had w/folks on the Fediverse has been about specific words that CANNOT be translated because they are not precise.

Someone being technically precise offending you is YOUR problem, not theirs.

#TechnicalWriter #LLM #AI #NotYourCardboardSignGirl
#SobrietyAdvice

#introduction (de version)

CN Bild: Blickkontakt

hi, ich bin void (dey/denen), Admin dieser Instanz
- weiß, #neurodivergent, #vegan, #ADHS, #depression, #trans, #NichtBinär
- Ich unterstütze #intersektionellen, antirassistischen, anti-ableistischen, antikapitalistischen #Feminismus, #LGBTQIA+ und links-progressives Denken :progressprideheart:
- #Minecraft, #Anime
- #Streaming, #Kunst, #TechnicalWriter
- Ich bin unglaublich unlustig

https://voided.ee/

#introduction (en version)

CN image: eye contact

hi, I'm void (they/them), admin of this instance
- adult, white, mostly able-bodied, #neurodivergent, #vegan, #ADHD, #depression, #trans, #NonBinary
- I support #intersectional, anti-racist, anti-ableistic, anti-capitalistic #feminism, #LGBTQIA+ rights, and left-progressive thinking. :progressprideheart:
- #Minecraft, #Anime
- #streamer, #artist, #TechnicalWriter
- I'm hilariously unfunny

https://voided.ee/

@failedLyndonLaRouchite I use Beyond Compare for *source* comparison. As a #technicalwriter I author in #DITA which is an xml specialization; nice because I can use the same toolchains and repos as my dev teams.

And BC *can* diff PDFs almost as well as Acrobat (in some cases better), so long as you're ok with it having scraped all the text out of it to do so. Which may or may not be what you want, but in that case, y not just diff the source.

I am not 100% sure why I love being a tech writer. When I tell my journo and writer friends what I do their eyes glaze over and they subtly hint it's the most boring/terrifying job they've heard of.
But I think I love it because I am a #PKM, #Tech and #ContentManagement freak. Meaning, I have OCD tendencies when it comes to words and I had a secret desire to be a coder but never went all the way.
Which makes me oddly suited for the role 😆

#TechnicalWriter

I have been working in tech for the past 30 years, most (90%) of that time as a contractor (front-end developer, then #TechnicalWriter ).

I can count the number of paid vacations (at least 4+ consecutive paid days off) I've taken on one hand.

I'm sofa king tired.

I'm ready for a career break. When I do take it, it will be six months minimum.

When I return to the workforce, I will probably NOT be going back into tech.

#WomenInTech

#Introduction

I'm just a guy with a lot of hobbies - #brewing, growing stuff, making #vinegar, collecting #AncientCoins, #photography, #boardgames, #ComputerGames, and much more.

I need a new hobby like I need a new hole in the head, but I am also powerless to resist when a new hobby strikes. Such is life.

I work as a #TechnicalWriter at a Danish software company. I have three clever and independent children who shout at me a lot, and a wife who doesn't. We live a happy normie-life in suburbia.

Back in the before-times I studied #linguistics at #AarhusUniversity. I think about #AncientRome and #AncientGreece probably every hour or so.

Are you a #TechnicalWriter transitioning into #APIDocumentation, or another person tasked with documenting an API or SDK?

Mark Wentowski (the "docs geek") is building a course for you to learn how to do it and master this craft!

Check out the website for updates: https://docsgeek.io/course-signup/

#TechnicalAuthor #TechnicalWriter
'Technical communicators are modern practitioners of #rhetoric. We study recurring information patterns in areas like software documentation, technical instructions, reports, and more. Our job is fitting content to the expected discourse for optimal communication, comprehension, and usability'
https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/what-is-diataxis-documentation-framework

Every Engineer is also a #technicalwriter, and Google offers free online training resources to learn to write clearly!
This is cross-promoting Google's Oct 4 free virtual online class.
https://www.meetup.com/continuous-documentation-regulars/events/296445228

J'ai changé ma bio parce que j'ai changé de travail et que je suis ok pour en parler maintenant (même si ça reste un sujet pas extrêmement fascinant).

J'ai commencé une licence pro d'un an en rédaction technique. C'est hyper dense mais les cours sont intéressants.

#RedacteurTechnique
#TechnicalWriter