I’m looking for work again! Anyone hiring out there? I am a content writer, I have written jokes for podcasts, technical writer, copywriter. Help! #jobs #tech #technicalwriter #forhire

Dear #developers (and #productmanagement that enables this) - if you're too lazy to remove a dead or unfinished feature that is *visible* to the user... and got QA to ignore/bless it....

Don't. TAKE IT OUT. HIDE with a registry flag. DO ANYTHING don't just leave it fucking sitting there.

- Sincerely, the #technicalwriter who has to put "Oh this button right here? Ignore that it doesn't do anything" in the help/manual/marketing material.

It looks like shit and it makes us look like morons.

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Tangential to the super popular LLM-related discussion w/Turtle Island social the other day?

Me standing up to defend the human rights of other women on the globe implies the one thing I definitely am NOT is "antisemitic".

Disagree? OK --

Go get a Technical Writer job w/a Fortune 500 co that has more than 50 years of Industry experience solving very large complex problems, technically;

Next, achieve 4 promotions in 3.5 years to land yourself into one of the toughest groups to get into at this very old, very well-respected employer. Much, much harder to break into than MIT, Harvard or Stanford.

Now get oodles of praise and recommends helping a literal Machine Language team of humans update and integrate their compiler into a C++-based math library while co-authoring papers on ML and designing the search-enabled UI

Got it? Okay, NOW we are on the same level when it comes to talking LLM-level context and semantics.

Need an extra BONUS CHALLENGE? Do this as a woman with indigenous ancestry.

Am not backing down on that #Fediblock recommend posted on #SDF for anyone who throws that trollish and untranslatable word in reaction to being offended by a #logical smart woman!

Every debate that involves trolls I've had w/folks on the Fediverse has been about specific words that CANNOT be translated because they are not precise.

Someone being technically precise offending you is YOUR problem, not theirs.

#TechnicalWriter #LLM #AI #NotYourCardboardSignGirl
#SobrietyAdvice

#introduction (en version)

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hi, I'm void (they/them), admin of this instance
- adult, white, mostly able-bodied, #neurodivergent, #vegan, #ADHD, #depression, #trans, #NonBinary
- I support #intersectional, anti-racist, anti-ableistic, anti-capitalistic #feminism, #LGBTQIA+ rights, and left-progressive thinking.
- #Minecraft, #Anime
- #streamer, #artist, #TechnicalWriter
- I'm hilariously unfunny

https://voided.ee/

@failedLyndonLaRouchite I use Beyond Compare for *source* comparison. As a #technicalwriter I author in #DITA which is an xml specialization; nice because I can use the same toolchains and repos as my dev teams.

And BC *can* diff PDFs almost as well as Acrobat (in some cases better), so long as you're ok with it having scraped all the text out of it to do so. Which may or may not be what you want, but in that case, y not just diff the source.

I am not 100% sure why I love being a tech writer. When I tell my journo and writer friends what I do their eyes glaze over and they subtly hint it's the most boring/terrifying job they've heard of.
But I think I love it because I am a #PKM, #Tech and #ContentManagement freak. Meaning, I have OCD tendencies when it comes to words and I had a secret desire to be a coder but never went all the way.
Which makes me oddly suited for the role

I'll gift my #WriteTheDocs conference ticket to an indigenous woman who is aspiring to become a paid technical writer in her field of choice. .... "If I get that ONE job I'd really like."

I'll promise to not turn my attendance at the #TechnicalWriter conference into a recruitment for uncompensated "volunteer" writers as long as I don't have to do a fundraiser for anything. I'll be the advocate for YOU. .... "If I get that OTHER job I really want."

I had a peek of what retired life might be like... and I don't want it yet. My brain, heart, health all suffer when I'm isolated from statisticians and their interesting data streams.

Was at a postal service mailing place the other day, and they measure in "ounces" and it just baffled me. I thought my "forever" stamps would be fine and dandy for the letters. Nope. I'm like... wtf is an ounce? I thought that was for liquids... Didn't I write some "TO METRIC SYSTEM" Conversion CODE for this? (And I did, will share it soon)

I had to tell the lady that I didn't get it in the only way I knew how: "I studied science. I don't understand modern American measuring systems."

In other interesting news THOUSANDS of people marched yesterday in Minnesota for #MMIP #MMIW #MMIWG. My Internet was down so I missed the live stream (was so sad)

NDN Collective has some vids on the Public Interent of Paid Reporters (YouTube).

I have not looked who else is reporting, but I sure hope they are getting paid well.

#Introduction

I'm just a guy with a lot of hobbies - #brewing, growing stuff, making #vinegar, collecting #AncientCoins, #photography, #boardgames, #ComputerGames, and much more.

I need a new hobby like I need a new hole in the head, but I am also powerless to resist when a new hobby strikes. Such is life.

I work as a #TechnicalWriter at a Danish software company. I have three clever and independent children who shout at me a lot, and a wife who doesn't. We live a happy normie-life in suburbia.

Back in the before-times I studied #linguistics at #AarhusUniversity. I think about #AncientRome and #AncientGreece probably every hour or so.

How does one go about being a #TechnicalWriter ?

Every Engineer is also a #technicalwriter, and Google offers free online training resources to learn to write clearly!
This is cross-promoting Google's Oct 4 free virtual online class.
https://www.meetup.com/continuous-documentation-regulars/events/296445228

I'm a recently retired technical writer, which I was for a long time as a freelance and contractor, working for over 80 clients.

My background is in #chemistry, which I taught and researched at postdoctoral level, with a later postgraduate degree in computing.

Topics I am interested in: #Shropshire #Shrewsbury #technicalwriter #brexit #climate #science #computingscience #IT #geology #philosophyofscience #nudism #naturism #bisexual #humanism

Heya! This is my #introduction

Living in the Ruhr region #ruhrgebiet, in the very West of #germany.

I work as a #TechnicalWriter and create/edit instruction manuals.

I enjoy my workouts in the #gym and since I live #carfree, #cycling is a regular thing. I like the entire topic of #mobility, with #transit, #trains, #urbanism, and #maps. #Sustainability is relevant, I'm a #vegetarian since 2005.

But then I love #tech, and #smarthome stuff, enjoy #languages, and #politics too.

Yesterday, I wrote code in Swift, Kotlin, C++, and JS. Today, I got to play with three different operating systems, SSH, MongoDB Enterprise, and a bunch of mongod/mongosh stuff.

Have I mentioned lately that I love being a #TechnicalWriter ? My job is literally to learn stuff and play with things so I can save other people time and make it easier for them to do their jobs.

I’m so glad I stumbled into a career that is such a happy place for me.

Hi all. I joined Mastodon in November of 2022, during the first major exodus from the Bird Site. I never really introduced myself, though, so here is my #Introduction:

I am a technical writer by vocation and a photographer by avocation. I am a reformed Catholic (aka "an atheist"). I used to be a right-leaning independent, but the right has moved so far to the right that I guess I'm a leftist, now.

Oh: And I live in the Midwestern United States. And while this old man really doesn't know his way around the fediverse, I'm doing the best that I can.

That covers the basics, I think. Glad to see the renewed interest in Mastodon, and I'm looking forward to interacting with y'all!