Mastodawn

🤔 Ah, the predictable existential dread of tech writers: "The Future is Lies," yawn! 🤥 If only they spent as much time understanding machine learning as they do splitting their prose into endless sections. 📚 Spoiler alert: The future of this article is just more paragraphs. 😴
https://aphyr.com/posts/420-the-future-of-everything-is-lies-i-guess-where-do-we-go-from-here #techwriters #existentialdread #machinelearning #futureofwriting #articlecritique #HackerNews #ngated

The Future of Everything is Lies, I Guess: Where Do We Go From Here?

Alvin Ashcraft 🐿️Mar 23

I'd Rather Be Writing Podcast - Will tech writers survive AI? Perspectives from two professors, Nupoor Ranade and Jeremy Merritt

https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/will-tech-writers-survive-ai-academics-nupoor-jeremy

#podcast #writing #docs #techwriters #ai #trends

Will tech writers survive AI? Perspectives from two professors, Nupoor Ranade and Jeremy Merritt

In this podcast, I chat with two professors — Nupoor Ranade (Carnegie Mellon) and Jeremy Merritt (James Madison University) — about how AI is reshaping the technical writing profession from the academic side. We discuss dropping enrollments, misconceptions about what tech writers do, historical parallels to past disruptions, agentic AI and organizational restructuring, the cyborg model of human-machine collaboration, and how academics and practitioners can bridge the divide to solve real problems together.

I’d Rather Be Writing Blog and API doc course

Hacker News Jan 15

Tech Writers Are About to Become Obsolete

https://kibbler.dev/blog/turn-your-codebase-into-a-knowledge-base

#HackerNews #TechWriters #Obsolete #FutureOfWriting #KnowledgeBase #CodebaseInnovation

Tech Writers Are About to Become Obsolete

AI can now read your codebase and generate documentation, FAQs, and troubleshooting guides that stay accurate. The technical writing profession is about to change forever.

Franck Nijhof Sep 28, 2025

Ever wanted to work on open source full-time? Come join me at the @openhomefoundation; we’ve got 5 new roles on @homeassistant.

👩‍💼 Program Manager
🐍 Python Engineers
✍️ Technical Writers

🌍 Remote. Open source, every day.
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#HomeAssistant #OpenSource #Jobs #OpenSource #Hiring #Python #TechWriters

Talk to Me About Tech Aug 14, 2024

#TechWriters, this one is for you. Introducing the "English Programming Language", brought to you by a cheeky #dev on #GitHub.

https://buff.ly/4dFu8tB

#OpenSource #FOSS #DevHumor

GitHub - theletterf/english-lang: The English Programming Language

The English Programming Language. Contribute to theletterf/english-lang development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub

masukomi Aug 14, 2024

TIL that #MongoDB (or at least Mongoid) has "demongoize methods on container objects"

The docs reference this jira ticket (⁉️) that uses that word a lot, BUT NEVER DEFINES IT

https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/MONGOID-2951

Dear #techwriters please don't use jargon words without defining them.

If you don't know what the word means (very understandable) then go beat an engineer over the head with a trout until they define it. If they can't scold them and send them to bed without cookies.

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masukomi Jan 29, 2024

#TechWriters matter

Discord is NOT documentation

Lukas R.Jan 4, 2024

Where are the #Developers?
Where are the #TechWriters?
Where are the people in #DevRel?
Where are the folks working witt #APIs?

I would love to connect with more of you here in the Fediverse.

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Director of Magic Dec 15, 2023

@vanessawynn Thanks! ❤️ If #TechWriters are anything, they're resilient. 🪳

Karen Mardahl Sep 26, 2023

I’m inspired by what @RellyAB just shared with us at #TCUK23 - about cultivating stubborn hope as #techwriters or #uxwriters. Her gardening analogies work for me, especially about the ownership, where I see some saying “it’s not mine, mate”. Even owning “an inch” can empower us writers! #techwriting #techcomm #techcomms