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An Engineer's Field Guide to Great Technical Writing

The Stack Overflow Podcast

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Tech Writing Advice: Write to Your Users

One of the things i've run into with developers writing for other developers is that they often have a expert blindness, and that they are so good at something that they can't get the beginner mind. So i think there's two approaches. One is ampathy, just understand your your user. And another approach is writing style. Once you start writing to your users it becomes a lot clearer to them what value they're getting out of your content. It solves your problem by doing that's how you can solve that wot work around it.

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