Anti-Patterns in Software Blogging
Some excellent writing advice from Michael Lynch.
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Key points
- Michael warns against "meandering intros", misjudging your reader's existing knowledge, assuming they'll read your previous posts, and excessive formality.
- (In a Lobste.rs comment Michael clarifies that "My rule of thumb is that my article should still make sense to the reader even if they don't click any links".
- Beginner software bloggers suffer from a mass delusion that you have to write in a stiff, overly formal way for people to take you seriously [...]
- With so many developers delegating their writing to AI, software blogging is becoming bland and homogenous.
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- [1]Anti-Patterns in Software BloggingSimon Willison's Weblog · Oct 7, 02:53 PM
Some excellent writing advice from Michael Lynch.
Michael warns against "meandering intros", misjudging your reader's existing knowledge, assuming they'll read your previous posts, and excessive formality.
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