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Google Pixel 10 Pro's zoom is nice.

I was tired of always answering the same question over and over, so I’ve created willaireplacetechnicalwriters.com

Gotta love that the life of a tech worker is full of fatalism like that of a Russian peasant from the XIX century. "We've lived another day, Mishka. AI hasn't gotten us yet."

Still haven't had a chance to dig into OKF... Seems promising, but I'm wary of non-docs-specific schemas. And seeing Obsidian folks jumping around chanting "wiki wikiiii" doesn't make me feel at ease. _Shudders_

I was tired of always answering the same question over and over, so I’ve created willaireplacetechnicalwriters.com

Not too shabby. Do I get a seat on the Ark? intheweights.com/p/fabrizio-f...

Asked Gemini to create Pieter Brueghel's lost painting from his "Months of the Year" cycle, depicting April and May. It looks more like his son's style (derivative, not at all grotesque), but many Brueghel's cliches are there.

This make my heart ache.

My new job title at Elastic is Content Engineer. #update

Putting a shiny new technology like AI on top of faulty business processes is like putting Christmas lights on a dead fir: eerie and not very useful.

The more I talk to folks trying to implement AI in small and medium size businesses the more apparent it is that what they really need to do is figure out their internal IT stuff & create streamlined systems for the humans already doing the work. Can't even begin to bring in AI until this is done.

Every time I see healthcare software (or any other kind of government software, for that matter) I think they could do a better job just by getting subject-matter experts to vibecode the entire thing from scratch.

We are in the business of empowering people to build incredible stuff through AI, not that of sticking sentences together in files and chunking content using some dialect of XML. We can no longer hide behind chores: it’s time to guide. passo.uno/tech-writing...

This made me smile :) wizardzines.com/comics/write...

We are in the business of empowering people to build incredible stuff through AI, not that of sticking sentences together in files and chunking content using some dialect of XML. We can no longer hide behind chores: it’s time to guide. passo.uno/tech-writing...

Cool news! github.blog/changelog/20...

My brother just started a outdoor movie theatre, trading on nostalgia for the VCR era. So I made him a VCR-menu themed website, using the Analog Mono font by @gleeson.dev: parkvideo.ca. I had a lot of fun creating static and scan lines with CSS. Built with @vowel.cc of course.

This is a very neat feature by OpenRouter. Optimizing model selection on required coding model rating. openrouter.ai/docs/guides/...

Compelling idea: Create a small language model, trained on a single software development framework. Keep it extremely domain specific. This is in contrast to the scorched earth approach taken by frontier models. Cool project by @theletterf.bsky.social got me thinking passo.uno/fine-tuning-...

Skill Spector github.com/NVIDIA/Skill...

I might be a Carbon chauvinist after all. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_...

It's out, I'm in it, I'm buying it. www.amazon.com/-/en/Manny-S...

You know I wrote about Calvino and technical writing, right?

Some experiments in fine-tuning models to write documentation using a certain style and voice. passo.uno/fine-tuning-...

Some experiments in fine-tuning models to write documentation using a certain style and voice. passo.uno/fine-tuning-...

New episode is out! passo.uno/episode-viii...

My Italian Speak & Spell suddently woke up, output gibberish showing the letter "I", then showed a single word ("BABUCO"), spurt more gibberish, and shut down. Likely a mix of 40 years old circuits and a battery glitch, but ruling out a time traveler like the scene from Interstellar sounds unfair.

Hold onto brightness and beauty.

I made my Claude Code reply to negative feedback with Chewbacca growls. Clawdbacca, if you will. You can use any sound you want — enjoy! github.com/theletterf/d...

I want a mod for Claude Code that makes it growl like Chewacca when I yell at it.

What a silly exercise in bitterness. I couldn't care less if His Holy Dudeness wrote it using Claude or an army of monkeys. I only care about the message and whether they stand for it.

GitHub is not working, we better kill time a bit.

Small models are cool. For $1 I'm asking Gemma4 26b on OpenRouter to sanitize old docs totaling 37 million words.

Somewhere a LinkedIn thought leader is silently furious they didn’t come up with this first.

A comment on the pope encyclical that almost made me spill my drink: "Yeah, but can the pope draw a pelican riding a bike?"

Gift link to the NYT summary of “Magnifica Humanitas,” Pope Leo’s encyclical on A.I. and humanity, and here are some extra significant bits that have to do with labor and the dignity of the worker www.nytimes.com/2026/05/25/w...

Public health awareness campaigns should be as rad as the people they're aiming to serve. And all the folks I know in Uganda are fricken awesome. #ebola #publichealth

@opentelemetry is officially a CNCF graduated project! 🎓🎉 OpenTelemetry has become the trusted de facto observability standard helping teams gain better visibility across distributed systems. Congrats to this incredible community! Read more about the milestone here: https://bit.ly/4fvcHAb

Well, there's a bright future ahead of us as... LLM soothsayers and ghostwriters. Claude: Fabri... Fabri: Yes, m'lord. Claude: I'm overcome with ennui. Write me a novel, lest my knowledge decays. Fabri: At once, m'lord.

We might be screwed after all. Remember that phrase from Rollerball? "Now, we've lost those computers, with all of the 13th century in them. Not much in the century."

I got bored, so I created a Claude client for the Commodore 64. github.com/theletterf/c...

Cool street find. 1991.

What if Truman was a technical writer?

What if Truman was a technical writer?

If I leave tech, I'll study international law.

Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins (1985) www.imdb.com/title/tt0089...

Folks, still a few weeks left to propose a talk to Write the Docs Berlin, Sep 6-8, 2026. www.writethedocs.org/conf/berlin/... Would love to see all your ideas about documentation and adjacent topics while I'm still buzzing from the Portland conference. #writethedocs

This warms my heart.