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Using an LLM to revamp my site(devinlogan.org)
1 points by minnca 2y ago|0 comments
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Homeownership Changes You(theatlantic.com)
2 points by minnca 4y ago|0 comments
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Urban sprawl and car dependence – some thoughts on solutions(idratherbewriting.com)
1 points by minnca 5y ago|1 comments
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How to care less about work(theatlantic.com)
8 points by minnca 5y ago|0 comments
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The Final Frontier of the Text Inbox(annehelen.substack.com)
2 points by minnca 5y ago|0 comments
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The Myth of the Productive Commute(annehelen.substack.com)
1 points by minnca 5y ago|0 comments
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to Kotlin(nathan-contino.github.io)
93 points by minnca 5y ago|33 comments
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Ebooks Are an Abomination(theatlantic.com)
4 points by minnca 5y ago|0 comments
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by minnca 5y ago
This is how you lose the time war is unlike any other book I've read! I thought it was super disorienting – and I loved that.
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by minnca 5y ago
Ken Liu has some excellent short stories. His collection The Paper Menagerie from a few years ago was particularly great. (The titular short story won a Hugo.) He also translated the first and third books in the Three-Body Problem series. T
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by minnca 5y ago
I think The Beginning Place is an underrated Le Guin book that didn't make the list! It's definitely not science fiction or even futuristic – more like fantasy plus magical realism – but I found the plot so unique and engaging.
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by minnca 5y ago
I'm a big Le Guin fan and I consider her books to be sort of like "anthropological science fiction," as in they're focused on the societies and people of science fictional societies and less so on the science behind thos
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by minnca 6y ago
Google has some pretty good introductory writing resources for developers: https://developers.google.com/tech-writing/one
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Teaching the Art of Great Documentation(developers.googleblog.com)
1 points by minnca 6y ago|0 comments
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by minnca 6y ago
That being said, Microsoft and Google have decent, publicly-available tech writing style guides: -Microsoft: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/style-guide/acronyms -Google: https://developers.google.com&
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by minnca 6y ago
I've also found that it's more useful to use a good doc as an outline for your own documentation than to start from scratch + style guide. Using a good doc as a guide can help you develop your own documentation style – you can fig
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by minnca 6y ago
The Left Hand of Darkness, by Ursula K. Le Guin
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by minnca 6y ago
I'd say a first step is to start building a body of writing samples. You can do this in a lot of different ways, but two suggestions are 1. adding or improving documentation for an open source project and 2. writing technical blog post
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by minnca 6y ago
Have you ever considered technical writing? If you're a good writer with CS/engineering, you'd have a definite leg up over other applicants (even if you don't have direct tech writing experience). I'm a tech writer
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The Skeptic's Take on Altitude Training(outsideonline.com)
3 points by minnca 7y ago|0 comments
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What a Hobby Feels Like(annehelen.substack.com)
1 points by minnca 7y ago|0 comments
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Even if you beat me (2015)(thedublinreview.com)
1 points by minnca 7y ago|0 comments
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Technology Sabotaged Public Safety(theatlantic.com)
2 points by minnca 7y ago|1 comments
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Why There’s Still No Lyme Vaccine for Humans(theatlantic.com)
3 points by minnca 7y ago|0 comments
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The Thai UFO Group Convinced That Aliens Will Save Us from Armageddon(vice.com)
2 points by minnca 7y ago|0 comments
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Insert the word “fucking” into “This is Just to Say” once(docs.google.com)
3 points by minnca 7y ago|0 comments
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College Students Just Want Normal Libraries(theatlantic.com)
207 points by minnca 7y ago|177 comments
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The Cult of Rich Kid Sports(theatlantic.com)
12 points by minnca 7y ago|5 comments
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I Went to Yale. My Brother Went to Prison(theatlantic.com)
3 points by minnca 7y ago|0 comments
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by minnca 7y ago
Not sure about MOST thought-provoking, but "The Bookmaking Habits of Select Species" and "State Change" (both by Ken Liu) are two good ones I read recently and think a lot about.

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