I need to sit down and study MCP seriously now.

The first episode of AI & Docs' podcast is live! idratherbewriting.com/blog/podcast...

Gonna get it in a few days and will probably wear it at Write the Docs.

I think of Aikido when AI + docs worries surface. Aikido as in "don't block the attack, use it to disarm your opponent". Which, in our case, could be "Create guidelines to better generate docs using AI instead of forbidding its usage or avoiding the question". Bit realpolitik? You betcha.

The first episode of AI & Docs' podcast is live! idratherbewriting.com/blog/podcast...

@tomjoht.bsky.social and I just recorded our first podcast. More news very soon! :)

Two strategies to succeed when AI seems to be eroding jobs around you, by @tomjoht.bsky.social idratherbewriting.com/blog/strateg...

So I'm watching Pørni these days (Pernille, www.imdb.com/es-es/title/...). As a consequence, I started reading about the Norwegian language. It's so messed up (Bokmål vs Nynorsk, intelligibility with Swedish and Danish, dialects) and fascinating that I might as well give it a go.

Claude is the best utility of 1989. It requires a hard disk, but it's totally worth it when compared with GPT/2 Warp or Turbo Gemini.

Oh, Asciinema 3.0 is out! blog.asciinema.org/post/three-p...

And if I fail this one, hopefully I'll fail it well. :-D

Stuck in your career? Fabrizio Ferri-Benedetti from Write the Docs Berlin shares his professional journey and struggles with surviving failure. Get strategies to find purpose and intentionally direct your writing life as he shares his field guide for taking ownership of your career. buff.ly/m8zenWk

had the urge to do this since the moment i saw this post! #pixelart

You might have read Annie Mueller's post poking fun at developers’ tutorials. It puts a finger on “documentation theater”, a state where docs are performative and not addressing a need nor caring about it. Read my thoughs on this here: passo.uno/documentatio...

"Your voice has this wonderful way of being both analytical and slightly subversive" Claude, you're a charmer.

I want to write a post about "Documentation theatre", that is, when docs are performative and not really addressing a need nor caring about it.

For some mysterious reason, my brain clicked in a certain way this morning and I've been speaking with a British accent the whole day.

Good old propagation processes. It's the networking equivalent of "have you tried turning it on and off"?

This was a fun and interesting read that got to the Hacker News frontpage yesterday. anniemueller.com/posts/how-i-...

Successfully helped a friend get rid of a malicious Chrome policy just by providing instructions. My IT supports skills haven't withered after all these years.

I wonder if the distinction between junior and senior profiles in tech hiring is any useful. "Senior" in what, exactly? In using a specific stack? In getting burned out at other places and watching time pass? What seems to define seniority is perhaps the willingness to take on more responsibility.

I sense a certain disdain towards experimenting with AI tools among technical writers. Or tools in general.

I speak the four languages I know every day at work. In a multinational company, this helps more than you'd imagine.

The way I deal with inflexible, unreasonable, offended people is this: I apologize profusely, then seek a way forward, even if that means parking your pride. There's no point in clashing against immature behavior if there is indeed a way forward.

I'd like all LLM coding sessions to end with a message like this:

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Just purchased a highly sophisticated piece of multimedia equipment...

"Fabri, how do you release docs?" "I first add three to four new features to the tool, then I edit the actual docs to use those" "Oh man"

Using a Python script, I downloaded the last 200 posts from /r/technicalwriting and asked Claude to analyze the main worries and sentiments. As most of us have gone, are going, or will go through some of these doubts at some point, I’ll try to provide my own answers here. passo.uno/tech-writing...

Using a Python script, I downloaded the last 200 posts from /r/technicalwriting and asked Claude to analyze the main worries and sentiments. As most of us have gone, are going, or will go through some of these doubts at some point, I’ll try to provide my own answers here. passo.uno/tech-writing...

Informed optimism, courage, and looking at problems straight in the eye seem to be out of fashion these days. "The best way out is always through.", Robert Frost once wrote. Perhaps I'm too innocent. :)

Quiet cracking is the “persistent feeling of workplace unhappiness that leads to disengagement, poor performance, and an increased desire to quit” leaddev.com/culture/quie...

I find /r/technicalwriting to be quite depressing overall. I'm tempted to write a post just to answer some of the stuff I happen to read when browing it casually.

Matter-of-factly is my new favorite adverb.

Hey docs friends! Come hear my talk at Write The Docs: Berlin. It’s going to be a vulnerable, and hopefully helpful, talk about transitioning into a leadership position.

Upvote and comment if you like this proposal. github.com/google-gemin...

Enjoyed this! Sarah describing starting a Yoga class by first giving ppl a chance to connect w their bodies (Is it an evening class? Rainy? Have they been inside/sitting all day?) reminds me how UNcentered many are when they arrive in docs... yet we can't start every page with, "Stop! Breathe!" 😅

There, I added CO2 generation to my local fork of Gemini CLI, in the session summary. I wonder if they would accept a PR...

Through Gemini and Claude I calculated that my usage of LLMs may be averaging around 500kg of CO2 per year, which is the same output of a one-way car trip between NY and LA. To compensate for that, I should plant around 20 to 30 trees, so I've just done that through FairTree.

Here we go again... #claude

I'm having trouble spotting typos when reviewing docs in a hurry and I wonder if it's my mind racing too fast or my eyes needing a new pair of glasses. Or perhaps my brain doesn't care about typos anymore.

Disrupt, listen, amend, repeat.

There, I removed analytics from my blog. I don't need to know how many visits my posts got. I don't want to know. My blog is not a product.

But of course.

Is there a more powerful form of enfranchisement for users than owning their manuals? Read on: passo.uno/docs-contrib...

New post: Contributing a verse: When users become documentation authors passo.uno/docs-contrib...

Could barely contain myself when I saw this

Just got access to this state-of-the-art SLM (small language model), in its Italian incarnation. It's basically my age.

Just got access to this state-of-the-art SLM (small language model), in its Italian incarnation. It's basically my age.