Today was Week One of the #OvercommittedBookClub for the book Writing for Developers! This week we read Chapters 1 + 2 We are adding the discussion questions as replies here in case you would also like to participate. Feel free to participate even if you haven't read the book!

📚 Want to learn how to write for developers? Join us TODAY at 9AM PT to discuss chapters 1-2 of "Writing for Developers" Haven't read it yet? No problem! Come anyway. It might be just the push you need to finally write that post you've been putting off ✍️ Everyone's welcome! discord.gg/4enG8EQaMr

Next up in our 2025 recaps... here’s how some of our favorite bloggers responded to the question: “What has been the most surprising impact of blogging?” writethatblog.substack.com/p/the-impact...

Do you write blog posts, documentation, or anything for software engineers? Do you want to? Join us for the Writing for Developers book club with @overcommitted.dev, officially kicking off now! 🚀 Chapters 1+2 now, first discussion Friday. Join us in Discord to chat about it: discord.gg/d9gZyYuqKd

Writing for Developers with @sarna.dev → starting a blog when your company doesn't have one → why co-authoring a book is actually easier than solo → breaking "write a book" into "write extended blog posts" overcommitted.dev/ep-38-writin...

Why write engineering blogs? Here’s how some of our favorite bloggers responded to the question “Why did you start blogging and why do you continue?” writethatblog.substack.com/p/why-write-...

Piotr's latest picks for writethat.blog... Imgur geo-blocked the UK, so I geo-unblocked my entire network // Oscar Molnar Assert in production // @dominiktornow.bsky.social Intel is listening, don't waste your shot // Brendan Gregg

We will soon be kicking off our next book club, Writing for Developers! If you write blogs or newsletters for developers (or want to), you should join the book club! Come hang out in Discord and drop a link to your blog in the comments! discord.gg/d9gZyYuqKd

For our latest tech blogger interview, we’re featuring Preston Thorpe. writethatblog.substack.com/p/preston-th...

New podcast: A fun chat on writing engineering blogs, with @glaubercosta.bsky.social and @sarna.dev

New interview: @aaronfrancis.com on technical blogging. It’s short, sharp, and spot on. No excuses, give it a read. 🙂 writethatblog.substack.com/p/aaron-fran...

@sarna.dev's latest picks for writethat.blog … - Inside vLLM: anatomy of a high-throughput LLM inference system: Aleksa Gordić - Big O: @samwho.dev - Optimizing our way through Metroid: Will Wilson (@antithesis.com) - Without the futex, it's futile: h4x0r

Our latest tech blogger interview features “long-time performance geek” @tanelpoder.com. He just hit 18 years of blogging, and that deep experience really comes across in his thoughtful responses. writethatblog.substack.com/p/tanel-pode...

Piotr’s latest picks for http://writethat.blog… - We rewrote large parts of our API in Go using AI - @avi.im, @tur.so - Reservoir sampling - @samwho.dev - End the obsession with servers - @technosophos.bsky.social, @fermyon.com

A peek into @glaubercosta.bsky.social's path from reluctant writer to writing-obsessed co-founder -- and his writing tips for others writethatblog.substack.com/p/glauber-co...

Piotr’s latest picks for writethat.blog… - How a 20-year-old bug in GTA San Andreas surfaced… - @cookieplmonster.bsky.social - Things Zig comptime won’t do- matklad - Torn write detection and protection - @alexmillerdb.bsky.social - Turso Cloud goes diskless- @glaubercosta.bsky.social, @tur.so

Next up in our tech blogger spotlight project: a peek at what’s behind @fasterthanli.me 's hot — and hilarious — takes on Rust, Linux, Go… writethatblog.substack.com/p/fasterthan...

I've added on my website a section on my personal book recommendations: teivah.dev/books/

Next up in our tech blogger spotlight project: philosopher / Helm co-creator /serial book author / Fermyon co-founder Matt Butcher ( @technosophos.bsky.social ) writethatblog.substack.com/p/matt-butch...

In case you just want to bury yourself in engineering blogs today...here are Piotr's latest picks for writethat.blog - Choosing languages- @steveklabnik.com - Why Fastdoom is fast- @fabinou.bsky.social - War story: the hardest bug I ever debugged- @bitlog.com ...

I recently finished reading "Writing For Developers" by @cynthiadunlop.bsky.social and @sarna.dev. Honestly, it was a fantastic read. Even if I started getting more and more experience in writing, I learned so much from that book! Highly recommended! www.manning.com/books/writin...

It's more than fair to say that blogging has been transformative to my career trajectory. I had the pleasure to reflect on this recently in an interview by @cynthiadunlop.bsky.social. No excuses, write that blog 🤓!

Featured on writethat.blog ... - Recommended Reading for Developers by Jeff Atwood - Primer: core concepts in electronic circuits by @lcamtuf.coredump.cx - When Imperfect Systems are Good, Actually: Bluesky's Lossy Timelines by @jaz.bsky.social

“There are very few things in life that I am prouder of than the body of writing I have developed over the past 10 years.” - @charity.wtf. Read why writing is so important to her, how she tackles tough topics, and her advice for other tech bloggers. writethatblog.substack.com/p/charity-ma...

The Monster Scale Summit agenda features many great authors like @martin.kleppmann.com @chris.blue @gwenshap.bsky.social @dominiktornow.bsky.social @cynthiadunlop.bsky.social @penberg.org @sarna.dev @squarecog.bsky.social. Check out a preview of their books here > www.scylladb.com/2025/02/18/s...

Thanks to Writing for Developers, I finally finished a blog post draft that I procrastinated on for a month. I kept finding excuses not to write it, but in the end, it wasn’t as hard as I thought. Now I know these excuses aren't valid after all. Happy Friday 💙 #tgif

Reading Ch 1 of Writing for Developers

Last month on writethat.blog ... * SQL Plan Execution FlameGraphs with Loop and Row Counts by @tanelpoder.com * An Explosion of Rransitive Dependencies by @eatonphil.bsky.social - Comparing 13 Rust Crates for Extracting Text from HTML by @emschwartz.me

Writing for developers is pretty much how I made my living — with breaks of various durations — from 1980 through 2023. I learned how to do it on the job, by trial & error — lots of error. If only this book had existed back when I was muddling in the dark! Don't do it my way. Get the book!

Finally -- Amazon has the books. Paperbacks are shipping now in the US, February in India, and... eventually... in Europe. Kindle editions are available for download globally.

Found this policy (via @cynthiadunlop.bsky.social) from Sun Microsystems on engineers writing technical blogs about their work at Sun from 2004. I feel like it’s as relevant today as it was then. www.tbray.org/ongoing/When...

Look what just arrived! This is a fantastic book that is going to be relevant for a long, long time. By @cynthiadunlop.bsky.social and Piotr Sarna.

I snagged a digital copy of Writing for Developers for @eatonphil.bsky.social’s book club. I’m giving “tech book on a kindle” a try for this one.

2 chapters into "Writing for developers: Blogs that get read" book, It already changed me. Now whenever I see myself scanning hackernews, my background brain is like - this post is of "Rewrite in X pattern", this post is of "Lessons Learned pattern"...etc. Nice chapter on "Blog post patterns".

An attempt to blogify the recent Oxide and Friends "Technical Blogging" show with @bcantrill.bsky.social, @tbray.org, @will-snow.bsky.social and @ahl.bsky.social writethatblog.substack.com/p/bryan-cant...

Got a 50% off coupon for you, friends! 50% off this excellent book by @cynthiadunlop.bsky.social "Writing for Developers" Use code HMdunlop, for hanselminutes.com listeners! and blog more! with foreward by @bcantrill.bsky.social ! (afterward by moi!)

- The fascinating security model of dark web marketplaces - @boehs.org

- Nobody Gets Fired for Picking JSON, but Maybe They Should? - Miguel Young de la Sota - Introducing Limbo: A complete rewrite of SQLite in Rust - @penberg.org, @glaubercosta.bsky.social, @tur.so - You Are Already Using Wasm In Production @technosophos.bsky.social, @fermyon.com

Last month on writethat.blog… - @ericlippert.com on Technical Blogging” - A simple ELF - Anders Sundman - The RAM myth - Alisa Sireneva - “Rules" that terminal programs follow - @b0rk.jvns.ca - Raspberry Pi boosts Pi 5 performance... @jeffgeerling.comwritethat.blog?year=2024&mo...12

ML Books I'll Be Reading in 2025 📚 1. "AI Engineering: Building Applications with Foundation Models" (Huyen, 2024): amzn.to/4gtQgJo We’ll probably read it in the study group "AI from Scratch."

Next up in our tech blogger series: @antirez.bsky.social on why blogging is fundamental for successful projects, his writing process, and AI in writing writethatblog.substack.com/p/antirez-on...

Btw a book on just this topic, coming out tomorrow. I'm also quoted in one of the examples. www.manning.com/books/writin...

Thank you @cynthiadunlop.bsky.social for the awesome holiday gift! 🎁 💝

omg my copy arrived did a skim and this book is a serious goldmine any developer, technical founder, engineering manager should read

The book that @sarna.dev and I co-authored on writing engineering blog posts is now published. And it’s flanked by the best imaginable “bookends”: a foreword by @bcantrill.bsky.social and an afterword by @scott.hanselman.com! Details and Amazon/Manning links at bit.ly/3AVPWn9.

Last month on Write that blog! … - “Zero Disk Architecture” by @avi.im - “Blogging Through the Decades” by @bcantrill.bsky.social - “Revisiting the Outbox Pattern” by @gunnarmorling.dev (@decodable.co) - “Userland Disk I/O” by @alexmillerdb.bsky.social writethat.blog?year=2024&mo...

Extremely surreal seeing my name in a book (github.com/scynthiadunl...). Thanks so much @cynthiadunlop.bsky.social for including me and reaching out to let me know!

Off to the printing press...

On Monday's Oxide and Friends, @ahl.bsky.social and I are going to be joined by Piotr Sarna and @cynthiadunlop.bsky.social to talk about technical blogging -- and their forthcoming book, Writing for Developers. Join us, at a Europe-friendly (ish?) time: noon Pacific. discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?e...