Writing
2026 (4)
Oct 13
Practitioner Authority
Oct 9
Ask for what you want
Sep 2
A contrarian view about writing with AI
Jan 9
Influencers lack consistency
2025 (9)
Oct 20
Holding an article makes it better
Oct 17
Thoughts on writing and talent
Sep 4
Articles I published in August 2025
Jul 31
This is how I write
Jun 3
An essay is a cleaned up train of thought
Apr 6
Reading vs. writing
Mar 19
Medium stopped supporting new API integrations
Mar 6
Local, open-source tools to review:
Docmost: collaborative wiki and documentation, Notion replacement. Plane: project management, Trello …
Jan 10
Found at “Writing as Transformation” on 2025-01-10 10:58:12 +01:00. the written word can be remembered only exactly; if a written line is …
2024 (8)
Aug 20
Found at “Seth’s Blog” on 2024-08-20 15:58:51 +02:00. If the writing you’re doing doesn’t need to be in an idiosyncratic voice, take your …
Jul 1
Found at “The simple way to get better at business writing | Seth’s Blog” on 2024-07-01 12:24:52 +02:00. Don’t do business writing.
Jun 21
Found at “Pluralistic: Against Lore (27 May 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow” on 2024-06-21 23:47:46 +02:00. writing is …
Jun 12
Found at “Did we give up before AI arrived? | Seth’s Blog” on 2024-06-12 15:21:09 +02:00. The system that pushed us to turn our writing …
May 2
The API Changelog Magazine 0.1.0
May 2
Magazines aren’t dying
Mar 3
Found at “The Beautiful Mess | John Cutler | Substack” on 2024-03-03 16:10:51 +01:00. The thought process was not put in writing or …
Jan 3
Found at “Writing Books Remains a Tough Way to Make a Living” on 2024-01-03 16:14:20 +01:00. in 2022, (published authors) median gross …
2023 (13)
Dec 22
Found at “ZeroWriter | Hackaday.io” on 2023-12-22 11:43:43 +01:00. a portable writing computer that houses a 40% keyboard, e-ink display …
Dec 15
After ~100,000 words that translate to ~250 pages, I’m done with the writing of “Building an API Product.” The next steps …
Oct 24
Found at “Writerside - a new technical writing environment from JetBrains.” on 2023-10-24 11:21:28 +02:00. Use a single authoring …
Sep 26
Audience
The audience needs to be specific.
Sep 24
Found at “rberenguelPiWrite: Use your Kindle Paperwhite as a writing device” on 2023-09-24 19:24:17 +02:00. Have you ever wanted to use …
Aug 26
Start before you feel ready. Stop before you feel done.
Aug 14
Found at “AddyOsmani.com - Write about what you learn. It pushes you to understand topics better.” on 2023-08-14 17:26:43 +02:00. Writing …
Jun 24
Found at “Common Bugs in Writing” on 2023-06-24 16:02:08 +02:00. Like almost all rules, there are cases where breaking them is a good idea …
Jun 16
I miss the time when O’Reilly used to have blogs that you could contribute to as an author. It was a sort of social network dedicated …
Jun 16
Writing before writing
Writing is like running. Before running, you warm up. You get your muscles wired up and ready to do that occasional 5K. Or, you prepare …
May 30
Found at “Textcasting” on 2023-05-30 12:00:15 +02:00. We’re at a good moment where there is no dominant feed reader or microblogging …
Feb 3
Found at “6 Steps to Writing Companion Pieces To Reach New Audiences for Your Forthcoming Book - Writer’s Digest” on 2023-02-03 16:01:11. …
Jan 9
Found at “The Ultimate Guide to Writing Online - David Perell” on 2023-01-09 17:29:25. The game of online writing rewards people who …
2022 (14)
Dec 22
Found at “jgmdjot: A light markup language” on 2022-12-22 16:19:25. Djot is a light markup syntax. It derives most of its features from …
Nov 6
Found at “Clear Writing Means Clear Thinking Means…” on 2022-11-06 18:52:48. If you are a manager, you constantly face the problem of …
Oct 28
Found at “Why is Markdown popular? - Russell Beattie’s Notes” on 2022-10-28 10:09:22. I truly loathe Markdown. Truly. But given the …
May 27
Found at “Passo unopostsfirst-steps-with-the-vale-prose-linter” on 2022-05-27 15:20:32. Vale is one of the most popular prose linters in …
May 19
Found at “Creating files on GitHub | The GitHub Blog” on 2022-05-19 15:41:53. you can create new files directly on GitHub in any of your …
May 12
Found at “Markdoc | A powerful, flexible, Markdown-based authoring framework” on 2022-05-12 10:51:17. From personal blogs to massive …
Apr 6
Found at “Semantic Linefeeds” on 2022-04-06 16:39:37. By starting a new line at the end of each sentence, and splitting sentences …
Mar 2
Found at “Stephen’s Web ~ How to Write Articles and Essays Quickly and Expertly ~ Stephen Downes” on 2022-03-02 12:19:23. Begin by writing …
Mar 2
Found at “Write plain text files | Derek Sivers” on 2022-03-02 10:21:31. I write almost everything important in my life: thoughts, plans, …
Feb 23
Found at “Reality+” on 2022-02-23 15:35:28. What is reality, anyway? How can we lead a good life? Is there a god? How do we know …
Feb 16
Found at “Web Writing for Many Interest Levels | e-gineer by @nathanwallace” on 2022-02-16 22:12:02. Clear, usable content is easily …
Feb 11
Found at “Documentation System” on 2022-02-11 15:13:56. There is a secret that needs to be understood in order to write good software …
Feb 2
Found at “The Importance of Story-Telling in Software Engineering | by Carlos Arguelles | Geek Culture | Medium” on 2022-02-02 15:32:18. …
Jan 21
Found at “The Memex Method. When your commonplace book is a public… | by Cory Doctorow | Medium” on 2022-01-21 23:00:08. There’s another …