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An Engineer's Field Guide to Great Technical Writing

The Stack Overflow Podcast

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The Human Element of Technical Writing

I find that people with journalism backgrounds or research backgrounds tend to excel rea well in technical writing. Sometimes it's people build a feature, nd you're like, who's going to use this? And the persons like, i don't know, i just thought it was really neat to build this feature. But i would write that differently than funding a flag. There are thousands of users who need to have this feature right now. I rarely write any more, but o the fact that i can sit down and just say, like, just speak geek to me. Just word vomit on me, all your thoughts about this particular feature, and i will take it and write it for our

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