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🔵🔴🟡 To those who fired or didn't hire tech writers because of AI
by Fabrizio Ferri-Benedetti
@theletterf.bsky.social @remoquete

#techwriter #AI

https://passo.uno/letter-those-who-fired-tech-writers-ai/

Yellow text with red shadow: To those who fired or didn't hire tech writers because of AI.
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Tell me you haven't talked to a real live tech writer on a time scale of decades without telling me.

https://kibbler.dev/blog/turn-your-codebase-into-a-knowledge-base

#TechnicalWriting #docs #documentation #writeTheDocs #techWriter

I fortunately have one colleague left (after another left), but we work in separate hours and I actually understand how this isolation feels. To compensate, I work with friends during the day and make a point to go to the physical office. I wonder how is it gonna be like in the future.

I told my friend when discussing this that in the future the need for a big team of writers may be reduced; writers will still be needed but they may be managing AI junior writers instead.

"A study published in the Journal of Applied Psychology (and analyzed by Marlynn Wei in Psychology Today) found that the more employees collaborated with AI, the more they felt “socially deprived” and lonely. The studies say that AI lacks the social cues (“facial expressions, eye contact, body postures, and gestures”) that we humans have been biologically wired for. Absent these social cues, we feel a void. "
https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/isolation-loneliness-worsens-with-ai#:~:text=.%20A%20study%20published,feel%20a%20void.

#TechWriting #TechWriter #Writing

Work is 1/2 hour getting coffee to get the dopamine you need to start work, 1 hour of trying to start, 30 min of actual work, 1 hour of resting from actual work, 2 minutes of seeing Jira notifications and emails and saying fuck it and another hour of trying to get back to work.

Rinse repeat

#Tech #techwriter

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Apple announced major updates across iOS, iPadOS, & more at WWDC 25 — but which ones actually matter?

I’ve rounded up my Top 10 Favorite Announcements, from background tasks to Workout Buddies, here’s what stood out.

📖 Read the post: https://jswordsmith.com/my-top-10-favorite-announcements-from-wwdc-25/

#WWDC25 #AppleUpdates #iPadOS26 #ProductivityTools #AppleEcosystem #TechWriter

WWDC 25 didn’t drop one big surprise—just a lot of solid upgrades.
From smarter workouts to better multitasking on iPad, here are the 10 features I’m most excited about (and how they’ll actually affect my daily life).

Read it here: https://jswordsmith.com/my-top-10-favorite-announcements-from-wwdc-25/

#WWDC25 #AppleEvent #iPadOS26 #watchOS26 #MacOSSequoia #TechWriter #JSwordsmith

The last segment of my working life was doing technical writing for software companies in #SiliconValley. Understanding the software was easy, I had been a programmer for a long time before becoming a #techWriter.

The hard part was trying to put things into terms my audience would 'get' and I really admire people who can do that.
That’s why I devour everything @Daojoan sends out.

She got me to #Vivaldi and #Joplin and helped me see that privacy and software freedom is more than #LibreOffice and #ProtonMail.
Go read her stuff. You won’t be disappointed.

@nixCraft The #techwriter is always the last to know.

Ok serious question to #Jira users. I find using it throughout the day strains and exhausts my brain due to the numerous links, UI features. And when I switch from one tab to another, especially to a Jira page, I suddenly forget what I am supposed to do on the Jira page. How do you all manage this??

Or is it just me??

#Tech #techwriter #softwareengineering #software

Public utilities are the target of many #cyber #attacks. I’m researching for a new article. Drop a link if you have some good intel. TIA
#cybersecurity #publicutilities #techwriter #writingCyber

Writing code is like plain ol writing, except that if you forget that one comma there will be hell to pay.

#programming #tech #techwriter

Gah! at Microsoft documentation not matching what incantations and sacrifices you must do to print a document as booklet.

Neither their Mac or Windows docs were accurate. And why both would want to print *4* pages per side by default on the booklet setting, I have no idea. 2 pages per side wasn't even an option.

Add to that, the UI and options (Office 365) are frustratingly different across both platforms.

Puzzled out a proof-print by doing the booklet layout with my printer options, not Word. With a great many curses.

#TechWriter

When people say #technicalwriting is stress free, we mean this.

We are just used to the roasting.

#techwriter #tech

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When I set an alarm on my phone, the app displays a warning (see below).

The warning cannot be dismissed, but covers part of the app.

At first, this vague warning undermined my trust in the app:
• Will the alarm alert me
at the right time?
• How will the "experience"
be "degraded"?
• How to decide: should I
switch off Battery Saver?

Was this #warning text tested with any users?

#content #TechComm #TechWriter #ContentDesign #UX #UserExperience #UI #UR #user #research #UserResearch