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Pragmatic methods for writing blogs, articles, and other technical pieces that stand out from the crowd!
Do you want to connect with your community, share your state-of-the-art achievements, and help your peers benefit from your hard-fought lessons learned? Do you want to get the kind of attention that expands your career? Master the art of writing engineering blog posts and articles! This comprehensive guide shows you how to create content your fellow developers will love to read and share.
Writing for Developers is full of the practical tips, tricks, and techniques you need to translate the ideas floating around your head into content that’s clear and compelling, including how to:
- Pinpoint topics that make intriguing posts
- Apply popular blog post design patterns
- Rapidly plan, draft, and optimize blog posts
- Make your content clearer and more convincing to technical readers
- Tap AI for revision while avoiding misuses and abuses
- Increase the impact of all your technical communications
Whether you’re brand new to writing, or a seasoned hand who wants more attention for your work, Writing for Developers will help ensure your writing resonates with readers. This isn’t a generic writing guide—from start to finish, the book is laser-focused on technical topics, writers, and audiences. Authors Piotr Sarna and Cynthia Dunlop combine their differing perspectives as an engineer and professional writer to help you write compelling works. You’ll learn through detailed examples, methodical strategies, and a “punk rock DIY attitude!”
A well-crafted technical article can spark a new idea, demystify a technology, expand your perspective, or save you from going down a disastrous path. Even if you don’t consider yourself a “good writer,” you can make a difference by sharing insights and advancing the community. This practical guide shows you how to create blogs, articles, and other content your fellow developers will want to read and share.
Writing for Developers introduces seven popular patterns for modern engineering blogs—such as “The Bug Hunt,” “We Rewrote It in X,” and “How We Built It”—and helps you match these patterns with your ideas. This book covers the entire writing process, from brainstorming, planning, and revising, to promoting your blog in ways that build reputation and generate further opportunities.
What’s Inside
- Rapidly plan, draft, and review your content
- Build on popular blog post design patterns
- Support your writing with AI
- Increase the impact of all your communications
Table of Contents
Part 1. Fundamentals
Chapter 1. Why write
Chapter 1. Why write: A personal perspective
Chapter 1. Excuses for not writing
Chapter 1. The path forward
Chapter 1. Summary
Chapter 2. What to write
Chapter 2. Topics, topics, everywhere
Chapter 2. Increasing your trigger exposure
Chapter 2. Summary
Chapter 3. Captivating readers
Chapter 3. Critical characteristics
Chapter 3. Examples
Chapter 3. Summary
Part 2. Nailing the writing process
Chapter 4. Creating your working draft
Chapter 4. Essential prep
Chapter 4. Optional warmup
Chapter 4. Writing time
Chapter 4. PretendPiotr’s first attempt at the example blog post
Chapter 4. Filling in gaps
Chapter 4. If you do nothing else
Chapter 4. Summary
Chapter 5. Optimizing your draft
Chapter 5. Core (facts, focus, flow)
Chapter 5. Clarity
Chapter 5. Components
Chapter 5. Consumability
Chapter 5. If you do nothing else
Chapter 5. Summary
Chapter 6. Getting feedback
Chapter 6. Comparing writing review with code review
Chapter 6. Selecting your reviewer(s)
Chapter 6. Deciding when to start
Chapter 6. Preparing your reviewers
Chapter 6. Responding to reviewer comments
Chapter 6. Special steps for special cases
Chapter 6. If you do nothing else
Chapter 6. Summary
Chapter 7. Ship it
Chapter 7. Read through the core content one final time
Chapter 7. Preview in place
Chapter 7. Manage metadata
Chapter 7. If you do nothing else
Chapter 7. Summary
Part 3. Applying blog post patterns
Chapter 8. The “Bug Hunt” pattern
Chapter 8. Audience
Chapter 8. Examples of “Bug Hunt” blog posts
Chapter 8. Characteristics
Chapter 8. Dos and don’ts
Chapter 8. Summary
Chapter 9. The “Rewrote It in X” pattern
Chapter 9. Audience
Chapter 9. Examples of “We Rewrote It in X” blog posts
Chapter 9. Characteristics
Chapter 9. Dos and don’ts
Chapter 9. Summary
Chapter 10. The “How We Built It” pattern
Chapter 10. Audience
Chapter 10. Examples of “How We Built It” blog posts
Chapter 10. Characteristics
Chapter 10. Dos and don’ts
Chapter 10. Summary
Chapter 11. The “Lessons Learned” pattern
Chapter 11. Audience
Chapter 11. Examples of “Lessons Learned” blog posts
Chapter 11. Characteristics
Chapter 11. Dos don’ts
Chapter 11. Summary
Chapter 12. The “Thoughts on Trends” pattern
Chapter 12. Audience
Chapter 12. Examples of “Thoughts on Trends” blog posts
Chapter 12. Characteristics
Chapter 12. Dos don’ts
Chapter 12. Summary
Chapter 13. The “Non-markety Product Perspectives” pattern
Chapter 13. Audience
Chapter 13. Examples of “Non-markety Product Perspectives” blog posts
Chapter 13. Characteristics
Chapter 13. Dos don’ts
Chapter 13. Summary
Chapter 14. The “Benchmarks and Test Results” pattern
Chapter 14. Audience
Chapter 14. Examples of “Benchmarks and Test Results” blog posts
Chapter 14. Characteristics
Chapter 14. Dos don’ts
Chapter 14. Summary
Part 4. Promotion, adaptation, and expansion
Chapter 15. Getting attention
Chapter 15. Sharing across social and virtual communities
Chapter 15. Publishing in selective tech publications
Chapter 15. Syndicating simulacra
Chapter 15. Guest blogging
Chapter 15. Participating in podcasts and livestreams
Chapter 15. Sharing at conferences
Chapter 15. Measuring the effects
Chapter 15. Summary
Chapter 16. From blog post to conference talk
Chapter 16. Identifying and evaluating opportunities
Chapter 16. Submitting your proposal
Chapter 16. Converting your blog post to a talk
Chapter 16. Promoting the talk
Chapter 16. Rehearsing
Chapter 16. Delivering
Chapter 16. Following up
Chapter 16. Summary
Chapter 17. So you want to write a book
Chapter 17. Why not?
Chapter 17. Alternatives to consider
Chapter 17. Publishing considerations
Chapter 17. Navigating the proposal process
Chapter 17. Go forth and write
Chapter 17. Summary
Appendix A. Publishing and writing resources
Appendix A. Selective tech publications
Appendix A. Book publishers
Appendix A. Writing and editing tools
Appendix A. Visualization tools
Appendix A. Code display tools
Appendix B. AI uses and abuses
Appendix B. Checking grammar
Appendix B. Getting fast feedback on your rough draft
Appendix B. Visualizing
Appendix B. Writing
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