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This is a fantastic article on all-around technical writing tips by @teivah.dev, author of 100 Go Mistakes… Pointed and practical lessons learned from the intense “writing a book” bootcamp experience. www.thecoder.cafe/p/10-technic...

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If you missed (or want to revisit) @gwenshap.bsky.social's 🔥 P99 CONF keynote "High Performance on a Low Budget," here's your chance. thenewstack.io/high-perform... via @thenewstack.io

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Dishonest charts are coming from all directions, and they're only going to hit harder. Unless we push back. So, an interactive guide: Defense Against Dishonest Charts flowingdata.com/projects/dis...

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Had a great time chatting w Jeff Atwood about tech blogging! We knew he was a legendary blogger, but turns out he's a genuine super-nice guy too. writethatblog.substack.com/p/jeff-atwoo...

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Jeff Atwood on why blogging still matters – and the backstory on his recent announcement (eight separate $1M donations to nonprofit groups) writethatblog.substack.com/p/jeff-atwoo...

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Book club time!

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[email protected]'s interactive blog posts are amazing and addictive. He graciously shared a detailed introspection on his blogging approach. Have a read! writethatblog.substack.com/p/sam-rose-o...

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Building Bluesky: a Distributed Social Network (Real-World Engineering Challenges) A fantastic longread about building bluesky, replacing components, i.e. replacing Postgres with ScyllaDB, but more interestingly also the use of sqlite.

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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

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Good uses of AI for writing...

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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".

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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...

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Thinking of reading “Writing for Developers: Blogs That Get Read?” Discuss it with @eatonphil.bsky.social's (virtual + async) book club, starting February 8. Join the community and get a 50% book discount at eatonphil.com/2025-writing...

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Excellent @oxide.computer and friends podcast about technical blogging. Make sure you give it a listen—there's some great history and nostalgia in there from @tbray.org and @will-snow.bsky.social, and a ton of great practical advice too. oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/tec...

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About 200 signed up for the Writing for Developers book club. :) I hope you join. Should be a fun read. eatonphil.com/2025-writing...

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Working on my Monster Scale talk about how we scale Postgres to millions of tenants at @thenile.dev. The more I think about scaling, the more it looks like there is just one way to scale a data system: Divide and conquer. The rest is implementation details.

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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!)

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Taking a break from purely technical books in the Software Internals Book Club, we're going to read Writing for Developers next. We will be joined by both authors, Piotr and Cynthia. I've given the book a skim and it seems like a great fit for developers, managers, founders.

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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...

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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."

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Tech blogging can make an impact -- exhibit A, featuring Jeff Atwood blog.codinghorror.com/stay-gold-am...

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Scale demands partitioning and reliability demands replication More in my session The Mechanics of Scale at Monster Scale, March 11+12, 2025, hosted by @scylladb.com bsky.app/profile/domi...

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